Physical Empathy

Hello, I don’t experience this but I think it is called mirror touch synesthesia. This article may be useful:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/13a3affc-839d-4743-a5aa-738f9c8a6615

A lot of neurodivergent people experience a type of synesthesia, for example when I hear words or days of the week they have different colours and shapes.

Hello, I don’t experience this but I think it is called mirror touch synesthesia. This article may be useful:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/13a3affc-839d-4743-a5aa-738f9c8a6615

A lot of neurodivergent people experience a type of synesthesia, for example when I hear words or days of the week they have different colours and shapes.

Thanks for this article, I didn't know this phenomenon had a name.

When I see someone hurt I feel the same pain. For this reason I have never understood fighting sports like boxing or MMA, which for me are very unpleasant to watch and I avoid them.

I also never understood why people enjoy these "fail" videos where someone hurts themselves. They were very popular when I was a teenager. People seemed to find them funny, but I experience the physical pain of the person in the video, so it's unpleasant for me.

Hi there, yeah I’ve heard of synesthesia :) I didn’t realise this was a type of it however. I’ve more heard of what your talking about with words having colours, etc. I’ve been debating whether I have this type for a while now. I feel like everything kind of has a texture in my head if that makes sense lol (it’s really hard to explain) Like when I work stuff out or make a decision I feel all this weird stuff in my head and then I come to a conclusion.