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?
I always used it in this sense back when I was a teenager, but now I think the term "Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria" is more appropriate, at least for myself.