I think the point of this is you can’t know how they feel, only assume. Empaths assume and then trust their assumption so much they believe it to be fact.
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pyrflie@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Isn’t this the point of empathy? Connecting and knowing how someone feels.
settoloki@lemmy.one 4 weeks ago
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
to believe it to be fact
Where does this part come from?
settoloki@lemmy.one 4 weeks ago
Well you can’t know how somebody else feels. You can take your best guess. But there is no way to actually know, without asking them. Empaths think they know how somebody feels and to them it’s a fact that this person must feel that way, In actuality they could be completely way off because what they are doing is imagining how the other person feels based on how they would feel in the same situation, which might not be true of the other person. So even though they have empathy, they are not an empath, such things can’t exist without the ability to mind read, and there’s no proof that anybody can do that.
Bezier@suppo.fi 4 weeks ago
realitista@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Have you never met one of these self proclaimed “empaths” who are so busy telling you how you feel that they forget to actually listen to you telling them how you feel? I sure have met a few in my day.