Looks like my father was a psychopath, not being able to tell apart "tears of happniess" cry from "manipulative crybaby" cry.Looks like I would not be able to handle growing up in his house anyway.

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Anonymage 10/09/25 (Thu) 12:52:56 No.303408

Looks like my father was a psychopath, not being able to tell apart "tears of happniess" cry from "manipulative crybaby" cry.

Looks like I would not be able to handle growing up in his house anyway.

Anonymage 10/09/25 (Thu) 13:21:06 No.303409

>>303408
Although, come to think of it, I should not really blame a person initially born with psychopathy in this very "I don't *feel* what do you mean" sense. And my father *may be this very kind of person* - unironically not being sensitive, thus "dumb" in terms of emotional intelligence.

Anonymage 10/10/25 (Fri) 05:27:26 No.303427

Don't psychopaths have cognitive empathy? They understand what's going on - they just don't care. What they're missing is affective empathy.

Anonymage 10/10/25 (Fri) 08:02:43 No.303430

>>303427
>Don't psychopaths have cognitive empathy?

Cognitive… empathy? Sounds like a name for an empathy substitute (in the same sense as "soy milk" is "milk")

>They understand what's going on - they just don't care. What they're missing is affective empathy.

Smart mathy person (and a 6'3" absolute unit of a bloke), yeah, but when it comes to *feelings*, he's a massive "I don't care" meathead. He's blind to the *vibe* of relief or such. So every time I sigh in relief he reall has to ask me "WHY are you SIGHING?!?!"

He has the life experience to process regular, normal" emotions, but he is completely blind to serious dramatic moments of a small fella's life. Therefore, every time I have a strong emotion - and don't have the COMPOSURE to mask it… one more SNAFU moment happens.

>What they're missing is affective empathy.
Every time he said something important and I was all like "phew! Thanks!" he would only start asking WHY I just made this funny noise of gasp/sigh in relief.

Anonymage 10/10/25 (Fri) 08:24:26 No.303431

>>303430
You have to remember 10% of the population has alexithymia or is mind blind in other words they have no theory of mind and cannot comprehend other people have thoughts and feelings as well.

Anonymage 10/10/25 (Fri) 12:27:54 No.303436

>>303431
>You have to remember 10% of the population has alexithymia

Ah. Thanks. Truly, I needed that information.

Anonymage 10/30/25 (Thu) 13:26:25 No.303822

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>>303431
the severity of this alexi-something varies though