Feeling "auras"

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I am an empath too. I have been thinking alot about people who 'give off' as a way of coping and wonder what they name for them is, 'expathic'? Because I have always found those people can zone on in me, and start trying to 'shed' their negative energy (it doesn't work that way). I think that is probably why alot of people perceived as weak (aspies/hfa people included, with introverts, hsp's, empaths, psychics, whatever ) tend to get picked on and bullied, because of the tics of expathic people. I just became aware of this...I think it is because culturally if we are victims we are taught to look at ourselves and our own behavior and learn 'assertiveness' and other self-defensive traits, as if we are the ones with the defect. Society doesn't seem to value deep intuitive perception at all. Instead of dissecting the bullies and blowhards, who are actually more defective. I have found the energy of the 'doubting thomases' when it comes to this topic to be pretty rank, across the board, just flat, dull, no one I want to know, really. And it's annoying how threatened they are by this topic that they have a seeming need to oppress it.

alana:

I know what you mean. I used to be a target for overbearing people, because they picked up on the fact that I'm capable of actually listening. Maybe they read it from my general demeanor.

After each of these "sessions", I'd feel worse and they'd feel better.

Now I'm better at protecting myself against "acquaintances" and various semi-strangers, but its still hard to do with actual relatives, members of extended family. They start off as if they're trying to help ME, so I keep the door open, and then they start pooping on my life.

I have that. That's why I don't typically have a problem with faking empathy, because I do have it, I just feel it differently. I can usually instantly know when someone is OKAY and when someone is NOT OKAY, so I am able to keep away from the "not okay" people.

I can often "feel" the emotions in a room even though I can never figure out where it's coming from. I think it's a cross between my sensory sensitivity mixed in with my body-language-reading deficits, my limbic system is reacting to the non-verbal signals but those singnals they are not reaching my higher brain centers.

IMO seeing actual auras around people is almost certainly a kind of synesthesia.