It makes people come off as having zero empathy to my problems and just disregarding me. I also lowkey think we could be just the inverse of lead poisoning. Like lead removes their empathy but the aggressor wins and calls the more caring one diseased. I feel like I moved as a kid to an area with high lead poisoning and thought most people around me are awful and can’t put my finger on it. Like culturally lacking empathy significantly beyond what I was used to.

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One way I like to put it is this: sure everyone struggles with it. If you and I both step in a very muddy bog we’re both stuck and have to step out carefully. But my boots are perpetually stuck behind a “character locked” screen and there’s no helpful walkthroughs so I have to do it on my own. Also is it really a swamp? Or is it a bog? This knowledge is essential to retrieving my boots and I can’t figure out or explain why, but I know it’s necessary to get my boots. And then overwhelm sets in

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