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Telepathy and emotions question

Joanna44

Does anyone else feel other people's thoughts and emotions?

I get this all the time. It doesn't mean I know exactly what they're thinking. It's the emotions I get, mostly in the form of physical sensations but also, a bit less strongly than the physical feelings, as emotions.

I am autistic.

I've read about forms of hyper empathy and I think it might be that. I've had a lot of chances by now to gather evidence that it's really happening e.g. from my partner and my sister. I know things about what's happening with them and especially how they're feeling, with a precision that I couldn't know otherwise. They don't have to be physically with me, at all, for me to feel what they're going through.

I think contributes a lot to why I find being around other people too much quite exhausting, and having too many people in my life. Animals and nature are less draining and in fact generally have a relaxing feel, though I often pick up on anxiety or even fear from dogs e.g. on the bus or whatever.

Interested to hear if anyone else gets this. 

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  • Yes, I feel others thought and emotions.  And like on the other thread the word empathy comes to mind.  I wonder if you might be selling short how much subliminal information the mind receives and how much pattern recognition it can make in its' deductions? The bit that confounds me regularly is when the person claims that's not what they are thinking or feeling if one is "rude enough" to point it out...  Either I get it really wrong sometimes or denial isn't just a river in Egypt :-)  Tricky thing is that maybe the neurotypical brain does all sorts of subconscious social analysis and automatically lines up a socially acceptable biased response quicker than my (for one) autistic brain does.  So social collusion in inaccurate representation of the facts sometimes is more likely in neurotypicals than autistic in my experience.  Hehe, I would say that tho' wouldn't I - and maybe you feel you knew i was already likely to say it!  All the best :-)

  • in reply to Phased

    Pattern recognition could well be the key to all that we describe as empathy in this context at least. Rapid recovery subconsciously of pre existing experiences and memories (could be someone else from our past made us feel the same or gave off the same impression/aura) creating a profile to try match the current circumstance. The tricky bit is if you are able to pull this information as newly acquired without much life experience of others. However I have people watched a long time, sometimes they don’t need to speak to much for you to judge their being, what people do is always more important than what they say.

  • in reply to Autismman

    Hm... I meant, literally. Not metaphorically... I *literally* feel others' feelings, especially when they're strong enough & connected with me.

    From your reply, I think there was a misunderstanding & you took what I said as metaphorically, perhaps?

    As I mentioned, the person doesn't have to be physically with me. They can be even on another continent. Slight smile

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  • in reply to Autismman

    Hm... I meant, literally. Not metaphorically... I *literally* feel others' feelings, especially when they're strong enough & connected with me.

    From your reply, I think there was a misunderstanding & you took what I said as metaphorically, perhaps?

    As I mentioned, the person doesn't have to be physically with me. They can be even on another continent. Slight smile

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