Physical Empathy

Investigate mirror syneasthsia; the research of Jamie Ward rom the University of Sussex gives a lot on this. Try his book: the Frog who croaked  blue or his TED talk on you tube.

Syneasthsia can be independent of autism, but is often co-occuring.  It is a bonus or condition; however you want to look at it, which cross wires the senses. Some, like me get words and phonemes triggering colour perception, or spatial perception (I get that too), or like you the touch or ailment of another to themselves makes YOU feel it, although you are only seeing not touching it.

You are a syneaestete, sweetie. It's mostly a pleasurable thing, but can greater pre-dispose us to anxiety. And this, for you, looks to be hard wringing into your empathy. You might be interested in signing up to the University of Sussex research project. They send me online quizzes and stuff now and again to help their research. 

Certainly, their FAQ pages might be helpful.

Dawn said:

spatial perception

that's me, it makes it supper easy to forget unused words, extremely difficult to remember names, but the other side of the medal is, writing triggers visual images in my head, be that plain text, math, or music equations, so things like superimposition of two mathematical functions, e.g. 2 planes is clear without making its 2D representation to figure out crossing point/lines,

I jokingly say to my sister that English isn’t my 1st language it’s this “mental texture” that I convert into English. Like words have different textures and properties that I can almost feel in my minds eye. Sometimes I can confuse words if they have similar properties even if it might seem non-sensical to someone else. I call it their anatomic structure lol I have all these wacky expressions. Metaphors and wordplay are 2nd nature to me because of the way I think. I wouldn’t swap this for the world, it’s one of the things that keeps me going, I wish I could telepathically show it to others because it’s extremely hard to describe. Playing Pokémon when you can almost taste the texture of all the stats and graphics is just something else :)

Kind of like tools at your disposal. Some things I experience voluntarily but others I can kind of use like mental tools too. I kind of see them as passive and active. Like when I listen to music It won’t be long before I see the sounds and this movement in my minds eye but then I also have some flexibility to add my own it’s really weird lol.

they are ready to be used

they can be anything

anything = conceptualisation

from something as small as decription of a word to a definition of an engine designing processes

they are ready to be used

they can be anything

anything = conceptualisation

from something as small as decription of a word to a definition of an engine designing processes

Kind of like tools at your disposal. Some things I experience voluntarily but others I can kind of use like mental tools too. I kind of see them as passive and active. Like when I listen to music It won’t be long before I see the sounds and this movement in my minds eye but then I also have some flexibility to add my own it’s really weird lol.