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skyewalker

Updated 1y ago

Lack of Empathy: Why Don't I Care When Someone Dies?

what does it mean if i don’t care at all when someone dies? people close to me, people i don’t know…. doesn’t matter how they died either. i have 0 emotion about it. i don’t think i just “grieve silently”… after they die i just occasionally reflect on the memories but i genuinely do not care that they’re dead i do care about the people in my life and i think i do love people, but when they die i don’t care or feel any remorse. i feel remorse for animals though and i get sad when animals die. i am confused

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Katharina

I’m curious what the comments will be because I found this to be true for myself too. My grandpa just died. I haven’t cried. I’m sad. I wrote a song for him. But like otherwise it’s normal. But when I think of my pet dying I’m a wreck.

skyewalker

this is exactly what happened to me!! ive had other relatives die too, but recently it was my grandma who died. i was very close to her and spent most summers living with her, but when she died i didnt cry at all. i even saw her body before they took her, and i had no emotion

ThunderBeetle

I totally feel this. I have no idea why either. You are definitely not alone.

gummybearit

I attribute my responses to ASD plus trauma. I didn't cry when my dog passed as a kid, but my siblings were crying immediately. I definitely feel the weight of humans passing, but I don't cry at funerals mostly. My emotional processing is delayed, so usually it hits at a later date and I do cry just ends up not around all the people. Maybe it's a masking thing at the gathering, plus the trauma of being told I'm too emotional in general because of unexpected meltdowns in public, at school.

skyewalker

well my brother has autism, but i don’t think i have it

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