I doubt any of my followers/fans/catfishing specops stalkers realize how intricate my antipathy to social media actually is. I am not, by nature, an anti-social person. I earned my aversion the hard way.
Connecting almost always leaves me cold. And yet, this algid response has its genesis in a conscious choice. I am much too easily moved by the emotions of others. I feel their feels without even wanting to. It's strongest for people I am closest to -- my husband and my daughters -- but it can happen with almost anyone. It's not reliable, but it's real; by which I mean it gives me statistically unlikely results even though I don't believe in any explanation for it.
I'm an empath. Which is not to say I'm a nice person. One of the (obviously not clinical) tests I perform is to focus my attention on another human in a public place. Someone I can see, who cannot see me. I focus my rage and fear at them. More often than not, I make them uneasy.
Deeply unethical if you think about it, yes?
I'm a broken being. Sure, all of us are. Sanity -- peace -- is an illusion people share. The main difference between me and Them has always been that I never shared it.
Increasingly, as America collapses, humans are shifting towards my perspective.
I don't know how to deal with this.
Connecting almost always leaves me cold. And yet, this algid response has its genesis in a conscious choice. I am much too easily moved by the emotions of others. I feel their feels without even wanting to. It's strongest for people I am closest to -- my husband and my daughters -- but it can happen with almost anyone. It's not reliable, but it's real; by which I mean it gives me statistically unlikely results even though I don't believe in any explanation for it.
I'm an empath. Which is not to say I'm a nice person. One of the (obviously not clinical) tests I perform is to focus my attention on another human in a public place. Someone I can see, who cannot see me. I focus my rage and fear at them. More often than not, I make them uneasy.
Deeply unethical if you think about it, yes?
I'm a broken being. Sure, all of us are. Sanity -- peace -- is an illusion people share. The main difference between me and Them has always been that I never shared it.
Increasingly, as America collapses, humans are shifting towards my perspective.
I don't know how to deal with this.
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