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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 676352" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Leafie (just finished watching one football game and it ended up wrong...ugh!) anyway...Empaths are very much feelers of the outside and others. I do care much about others, especially those who are at a disadvantage. This affects the causes I care about and the candidates I vote for (never conservative). But I'm much more inward and think and think and ruminate and figure things out and am very much in my own head. That does not mean I take good care of myself. I don't. I treat others better than I treat me, although i do overreact to others who treat me badly (that's not an empath). But really the only peeps who have repeatedly treated me badly are those in my FOO. But the part about being outward oriented just isn't me.</p><p></p><p>A lot of what an Empath is fits me, but that part doesn't. I am mostly an introvert/ambivert (both could fit...I like to be around people, but not too much and not in crowds) and I am a deep thinker. Therefore I could be in my own thoughts and miss somebody tripping altogether. If I saw, I'd jump up and offer assistance right away, but sometimes I'm just too into my own mind. But the part about instinctively feeling things...that does fit.</p><p>I have a friend from way back who also has a lot of innate insight, which we call "the sixth sense." We have spoken often about this sixth sense and have bantered about whether it's an asset to us or a curse. It would be so much easier to just take everything at face value and not see behind the innocent words...are you like that too?</p><p>I wish I had not read my mother's animosity toward me so early in my childhood. I wish I could have taken everything with less intensity. Oh, well.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for getting me to think yet again <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 676352, member: 1550"] Leafie (just finished watching one football game and it ended up wrong...ugh!) anyway...Empaths are very much feelers of the outside and others. I do care much about others, especially those who are at a disadvantage. This affects the causes I care about and the candidates I vote for (never conservative). But I'm much more inward and think and think and ruminate and figure things out and am very much in my own head. That does not mean I take good care of myself. I don't. I treat others better than I treat me, although i do overreact to others who treat me badly (that's not an empath). But really the only peeps who have repeatedly treated me badly are those in my FOO. But the part about being outward oriented just isn't me. A lot of what an Empath is fits me, but that part doesn't. I am mostly an introvert/ambivert (both could fit...I like to be around people, but not too much and not in crowds) and I am a deep thinker. Therefore I could be in my own thoughts and miss somebody tripping altogether. If I saw, I'd jump up and offer assistance right away, but sometimes I'm just too into my own mind. But the part about instinctively feeling things...that does fit. I have a friend from way back who also has a lot of innate insight, which we call "the sixth sense." We have spoken often about this sixth sense and have bantered about whether it's an asset to us or a curse. It would be so much easier to just take everything at face value and not see behind the innocent words...are you like that too? I wish I had not read my mother's animosity toward me so early in my childhood. I wish I could have taken everything with less intensity. Oh, well. Thanks for getting me to think yet again :) [/QUOTE]
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