Do you feel sorry for objects?

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All the posts so far are very familiar. I have always felt like this towards objects of all kinds, investing them with emotions and personalities, especially if they are humble things. But then, the more nonsensical a particular behaviour is, the more likely I am to adopt it. In fact this thread has just made me feel sad for my old iPad, which is all alone in the cupboard while I type this on my new one. As for cuddly toys ...

I wonder, why we do this.

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Empathy.

Yeah as a kid. Even furniture seemed to 'be alive'.

When I was 16, during an extreme cold snap in New York City, I felt really, really sorry for the puddles as they began to ice up. I felt sorry for them the previous autumn, too, when the winds were whipping.

I actually felt such empathy that I started to shiver myself.

This, possibly, is the first time I ever felt empathy for some entity other than myself.

Yes, I do.

Glad to know I'm not the only one.

So, aspies do not lack empathy. We are over-empathic.
Maybe the authorities are oversimplifying "empathy".

A few oddities with me,
The Christmas reindeer post reminded me that I usually eat the head of the chocolate bunny LAST every Easter.
I also save my name on my decorated birthday cakes for last, maybe in an effort to keep "Chris" around as long as I can?
Perhaps the wierdist one is that I'll use some of my superhero shirts and athletic jerseys as pillow cases and pretend I'm hugging some sort of macho man who will protect me during the nite while I'm sleeping wrapped around that pillow.

I used to talk (in my head) to a metal spike in the fence of my primary school playground, as I stood beside it at playtime. Never spoke to any of the other kids though......

Yes, I do. I feel sorry for objects as much as I do people, animals and even insects. The other day somebody killed a wasp and said that it was still moving when it dropped to the floor. I suddenly felt really sick and yelled at that person to put the wasp out of it's misery, because it must be suffering in pain. I don't like wasps, but I don't like seeing anything suffering.

Anyway, yes, I feel sorry for objects, and that includes food. For example, whenever a piece of pasta falls to the floor and I've got to throw it in the bin, I always take another pasta off the plate and throw that in the bin too, so that one bit of pasta won't be the only one that isn't getting eaten. But then I worry about the other pastas getting upset because they might not have wanted the second pasta I threw away to be the one being thrown away.
Also I feel sorry for something like Q-tips, like if I lift one Q-tip out of the pot and another one sort of lifts up with it, I always think that those two Q-tips are best friends or something and don't want to be separated, so I have to use both of them and throw them away at the same time.

Toy Story is a wonderful film (well, all three), but I think I get a lot of this object anxiety from Toy Story. You know how Woody, Slinky, Rex, Buzz and Hamm and some of the other toys really panic when one of the toys is going to be thrown away? That's how I think all objects are like.

I need therapy.

Sometimes I do.