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 would say mine makes it easy to remember names, funnily enough. I’m quite good at remembering numbers and dates, I have a good long term memory because of the way my brain catalogues information and links things together. The last thing you said just went way over my head though lol.

I kind of had to explore this stuff out of a matter of life and death. I have ocd and it became so bad that I tried to overdose on tablets back in 2014. Then I had an epiphany the following summer where I realised I don’t actually have to do anything but this ran wild and ended up with me developing bipolar. 

I kind of had to explore this stuff out of a matter of life and death. I have ocd and it became so bad that I tried to overdose on tablets back in 2014. Then I had an epiphany the following summer where I realised I don’t actually have to do anything but this ran wild and ended up with me developing bipolar.