Would you describe yourself as an Empathetic person?

[Still-alive]

You can easily relate to what others are feeling? Would that be one accurate descriptor of your personality?

Yes I am an empathetic person

Just a tad, not much

No im not all that empathetic

I have no empathy whatsoever

[Nmalinova]

Yes and in my case it's actually counterproductive/an undesirable trait! I can somehow feel immediately how another person is feeling and somehow feel the pain (it's very awkward to describe sorry). However, too much of something is never good... it leads to being naive and wanting to help everybody, making you emotionally vulnerable, very easy to trick and benefit from and a pushover at work! Unfortunately still trying to learn the lesson because the worst is you STILL keep thinking everyone is good and everyone deserves @#+% amount of chances to change 😂

[Dazed0N0Confused]

If I see a homeless person and I have money, I stop to give them what I can. Last time I did it I was in NC visiting family and there was a homeless man with a sign at a busy intersection, his sign was so old and dirty you could barely read it. I was in the middle most lane with my family, I still hopped out while the light was red to give him a few dollars. The two other cars next to me, and the few behind me, just looked at me. I don't know, nor do I care, what he did with the money after it left my hands, but he was so grateful.

[Anonymous]

Sometimes i really feel peoples emotions. For example just after coming into visual contact and close proximity with a cute girl that stares at me, that i find sexually desirable, i know that i have these lusting feelings over her, but then i start feeling like another type of energy trying to attach to mine, i start feeling hot and a bit breathless. It seems to me like i can sort of feel her sexual desire over me. It's somewhat strange but exciting at the same time.

[MCheetah]

Just a tad, not much. I'm a misanthrope and generally hate humanity, but I always wish for better than the current humanity we have now, and work towards trying to make it a reality through my own actions.

[TOTEMPLASTER]

Empathy means to understand the situation and emotions of another person.
My 'empathy' is issued or withheld based on an evaluation of the circumstances that led to the need for such. Self-inflicted misery caused by overwrought narcissism or stupidity gets a cold shoulder as opposed to outside sources that rain misfortune on an innocent demand my support and assistance where possible. Nobody should be left to swim in a shark tank or a social cesspool without aid.

[DrunkAss]

I seem to be like a contradiction of sorts. I can be laughing at the most insensitive jokes at the party but I'll be the first to break away from the group and try talking to someone looking all lonely in the corner and welcoming them to the party while leaving my friends all confused (and not to pick up girls -- I do that to lonely-looking guys too).

[DrunkAss]

I can empathize with people who are clearly suffering... even convicted serial killers. And I've given over $4,000 at once to homeless people on a whim (rushed to ATM when I saw a homeless man in Tokyo with purple feet covered in blisters and no shoes). But not so much people who aren't suffering *that* much. I see someone complaining about how they someone got a food order wrong and I can't empathize -- can't even sympathize -- much. I just see them as spoiled brats.

[DrunkAss]

[...] about how [someone] got a food order wrong [...]

[DrunkAss]

And of course, if I see someone trip or something and fall, I'll be the first one rushing to help them... even if people point and laugh. Meanwhile, though, I see feminists complaining that air conditioning levels in offices are sexist and I think, "what a bunch of spoiled crybabies."

[DrunkAss]

Actually, it might be empathy that makes me hate spoiled brats so much... since I used to be a spoiled brat as a kid, and I don't like myself that way as a kid. So I see someone acting like that as an adult and I can project myself in their shoes... and hate their actions -- just as I hated my own as a child.

[purplepoppy]

I've empathy for those who fall foul of things outside their control but not for people whose misfortune is their own making.

[Luv2BRealExotic13]

I am. I’ve been told I am. It’s kind of hard to believe but my friends think I give really sound compassionate advice.

[DizzyDesii]

Nah my body goes numb if i feel uncomfortable from what theyre going through. But thats about the most i can relate

[genericname85]

yes. but i am definitely able to disconnect my emotions to pinpoint arbitrary ideological "empathy" that's utilized for propaganda. like PC culture, BLM or Feminism.

[Vetis]

I have a strong desire to do what others want me to do, to feel what is proper. But I do not really mind killing someone; i'm not sure if it's because i'm just "over" with life or if it's because i'm legitimately psychopathic.

[SphynxUK]

I am yes.
Would I say it’s a big part of my personality? No. It’s just part of it.

[iseekpinetrees]

Sometimes. If I haven't lived through the same shit or similar I can't sympathize

[Flower7]

Yes, definitely. If anything, I'm TOO empathetic. Sometimes, that's not a fun thing to be.

[EssenceOfLight]

"You can easily relate to what others are feeling?"
yes
"Would that be one accurate descriptor of your personality?"
no

[Still-alive]

So you are empathetic but you wouldn’t describe yourself as that?

[EssenceOfLight]

Yes. Feeling into another person isn't projecting a reflection of myself on this person.

[Josh4206]

Towards almost everyone, no. Towards my girlfriend, yeah

[ThePolishKnight37]

I am to the extent I can feel their pain. What is worse is when there is nothing I can do too help.

[Dinosaursandanime65]

It’s easier to understand. I’m a fat slob with a mouth to fill. (That’s what she said). Not actually... I think I have a wee tad of empathy.

[msc545]

I have a little too much of it (to the point of literally feeling other people's pain), but it is very useful in my profession.

[CapitalismFailed]

I'm not very empathetic at all. That's probably why I'm such a jerk.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

It always depends on the situation. I can be but i can be cruel too if they really deserve it

[Aiko_E_Lara]

Also because i had been taken advantage of and a sociopath almost ruin my life and i decided i had enough of it. I have to build a wall for myself

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Yes. I'm no sweet holy angel, but I'm no cold hearted devil neither.

[OddBeMe]

I am such an empath that I wall it off and become slightly sociopathic in everyday life.

[Account]

I don't talk about that.

[Still-alive]

Why not?

[Anonymous]

I honestly don't have any idea what it feels like. It seems so pesky.

[bobalife]

Very much so, it can be bittersweet though.

[Egirl28]

Yes I am sometimes to a fault!!

[psychoticanimaIIover]

I feel nothing. That includes empathy.

[IAMNathanael]

I really try to be but I think I fail at it.

[Browneye57]

Not so much. The realm of WOMAN.

[tartaarsaus]

I like to think so but probably flawed at it

[MadBoy]

I am, almost to a fault.

[legalboxers]

I got a big heart.. does that count?

[courtney06]

Yes very much so

[Sia_nee]

Depends

[Still-alive]

on what?

[SpiderManFan2002]

I’d say I am🤷🏾‍♀️

[Agape93]

Kinda sorta

[guywho]

Nope

[douride2]

Only a little.