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Do you sometimes feel someone else's feelings instead of your own?
Yes, and it's confusing 31%  31%  [ 9 ]
Yes, but I can usually tell they don't belong to me 3%  3%  [ 1 ]
I don't know, feelings are usually too jumbled to tell 24%  24%  [ 7 ]
I don't feel much of anything 7%  7%  [ 2 ]
Maybe occasionally 21%  21%  [ 6 ]
No, I can understand others' emotions, but I'm not overtaken by them 10%  10%  [ 3 ]
No, I don't understand others' emotions, nor do I experience them 3%  3%  [ 1 ]
Total votes : 29

stassen
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18 Dec 2009, 6:21 pm

YES! As I am getting tot know myself, I'm finally figuring out that I'm hypersensitive to the environment, plants, animals, and especially, people.

I supposedly absorb peoples' emotions like a sponge, just passing on the street will do, and if i'm not careful, i could mistake that bad/good mood for my own.

I'm starting to learn that not everyone is like this. As with my other traits. But need to know that it's somewhat normal too, isn't it?



Spokane_Girl

18 Dec 2009, 6:35 pm

I have no idea. What kind of question is this? I remember this on the aspie quiz and I could never answer it because I don't understand it. I understand the question but it doesn't make any sense. I rarely feel people's feelings. I am not connected to my own that much, mostly to my thoughts.



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19 Dec 2009, 2:12 am

Woodfish wrote:
I think I do this a lot! And the (their!) emotion will remain with me for hours or even days .. :( don't like that. Normally lots of time and work before real me emerges again.


I do it too, although I am more aware of it now than I once was. It is like 'catching' a cold or flu and you are infected and sneezing or like being a guitar hung on a wall, every note on the stereo making the strings resound with 'empathy' I thrumm to what ever the vibe in the room is. I recognize the difference between how I think and how other's think, now, though and can shield myself from most seepage and leakage from people that have no idea they are radioactive with emotion..


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