Discovered in 2021, they’re the most cunning of the dark triads as they have the cognitive empathy that narcissists and psychopaths lack and this makes them the most manipulative and destructive individuals you could meet.

  • @rottingleaf
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    15 days ago

    The other guy answered you.

    There’s empathy like “theory of mind” to understand others, and there’s empathy like “compassion”. It’s not hard to see that these are completely different things.

    • @idiomaddict
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      25 days ago

      I also replied to them that that’s not the current understanding. Autistic people are able to demonstrate both types of empathy with other autistic people, and neither autistic nor allistic people can do it as well with each other. There are just way more allistic people, so we used to think the empathy disconnect was one-sided.

      • @rottingleaf
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        15 days ago

        OK, that was often true in my experience, but not always.