I wasn’t sure where to put this so it is here. I have noticed over the years that I can feel what other people are feeling but when I feel them I do not understand why they feel this way. As an example, my sister gets angry sometimes and it feels like little waves of her anger come off her and I know she is angry but I will not understand why she is reacting that way. It annoys me that she is angry and making me angry because if I were her I wouldn’t even be angry in the first place and she is causing me problems. Is there such a thing as feeling emotions but not understanding them? It’s not a bother for me in a great sense but it is a small annoyance that I feel these floating emotions and am constantly confused by them. I have Schizoid Personality Disorder and know that people with that have trouble with empathy if that helps. To help with these unwanted feelings I usually just avoid social interaction whenever I can and it does work.
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Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
~Abraham Lincoln.
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