MariaHobbit wrote: Sometimes I read an empath's board (because their techniques for dealing with crowds are useful to me) and I often see requests from people for someone to do a "reading" for them from a supplied picture. So many of the people on that board take that right in stride and post the impressions they get and the the problems they sense and give advice accordingly- but all I see is a face. Nothing at all comes to me. It's like ink blots. Show me an ink blot, and I see........... an inkblot 99% of the time.
In person, if I'm around someone who is upset, I feel pressure pushing against me. If they are in pain, and they are someone I'm connected to- I can feel their pain. Actual emotions, though, don't make sense to me in that context.
I'm beginning to think I'm an empath with Aspergers. I'm wired to feel emotional energy- but it doesn't make any kind of sense to me. Except the sympathy pains, of course. And those are kind of annoying.
I don't even understand my own emotions some of the time. Yesterday a song on the radio made me cry, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out why. It was a song about a guy remembering how much fun he had learning to drive, and how much he was looking forward to teaching his daughters how to drive, and how someday they'll look back and remember how much fun they had learning to drive.
You wouldn't think that would be a tear jerker, but it was. I confuse myself.
I think you and I differ in the empathy aspect, I'm usually too empathitic. If anyone around me is crying...turn on the water works, said commericals make me cry (the ASPCA one makes me a bawling idiot). I've always picked up on peoples emotions, and ink blots are like a creative mine field for me (I can see an ink blot and see butterflies, moths, ect.) I can read peoples emotions even by the tone in their voices. When I was younger I could calm my uncles horses down, he always said I was a horse whisperer, I always thought it was easy to see the horse was upset and needed reassurance.