A coworker asked me today if I was an empath and I had no idea what that was. I asked her to explain and it was basically “someone who knows what other people are going through.” It’s way off from what I assumed it meant (I thought she said “are you in N-PATH” and I assumed it was a certification program lol). But isn’t this just someone with empathy?
Most people feel empathy. And there is no way of knowing whether your sense of empathy is weaker or stronger than another person’s sense of empathy. So empaths are just assuming that they feel more empathy than most other people even though there’s no way of knowing that. They have never been another person so they don’t have any way of knowing how much empathy the other person feels.
which is ironic enough to be funny