Amy Marschall, Psy.D.Hyper-empathy can add to the already complex autistic experience.
What Is Hyper-Empathy?
Hyper-empathy is the term for someone being too in touch with the emotional state of other people.
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These diverged across 12 dimensions."
The Link Between Hyper Empathy and Trauma
Marschall also explains that hyper-empathy can be caused bytrauma.
This might lead to autistic people developing hyper-empathy as a protective response."
This is often due toalexithymiain addition to neurotypical standards that feelings must be spoken verbally to be understood.
For autistic people, it means that they may experience a mountain of emotions while appearing uncaring or unmoved.
It simply means that the common ways society handles things don’t always work well for you.
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