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Bradleigh
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03 Jun 2008, 9:22 am

Maybe some of us are Impaths.


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03 Jun 2008, 9:33 am

Bradleigh wrote:
Maybe some of us are Impaths.

Empaths?
Not me.
I can't tell you squat about someone's emotions, even if I'd ended up walking and talking like them.

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03 Jun 2008, 9:44 am

yes but maybe the reason we cant understand emotions is as we are Aspergians and only have other abilities.


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03 Jun 2008, 11:18 am

its called soul bonding



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04 Jun 2008, 8:01 am

Microban wrote:
Maeotian wrote:
Sometimes, it seems, when I see a person I know, or if I see or hear anything associated with anyone who has a secure presence in my life, I sometimes go through what I like to call "Personality Echolalia". I really don't know what to make of it. Its almost like I forget that Im in my own body and I jump into someone else's. I kind of also start to talk like them and express their temperament. The term is a bit of a misnomer: I don't really take on their personality, like their preferences and all, but I sort of "copy" them, or at least their external side. These spells don't usually last too long, their duration can be from a few minutes to half an hour, and when they are over, I just "come back into myself" and everything is fine. As to how they are triggered, Im not sure, most times it is when I hear or read a person's name, or enter a place in which I regularly see that person. And I don't just "swap bodies" with anyone; it is usually a person that I make contact with on a regular basis.

Im sorry if I still don't sound clear to you, but this is the best that I can really explain these occurrences.

This happens frequently with friends. :?


What is being described here is, I believe, not what happens when a group of people who know each other well, over time, develop common vocabulary, mannerisms and references - as is easy to tell when you meet two people from such a group or observe such a group, meet up, as an outsider.
In these circumstances there is a completely integrated group identity at work, developed over time, due to mutual respect and 'normal' processes of sharing.
What I understand here is not integrated, and involuntary. It's not copying in the sense of seeing and liking and repeating, it occurs, for me, as I am just expressing myself and in the moment of speech I am observing myself using the voice/manner/face of another. This peculiar feeling can then last a while leaving me unwilling to speak to save myself the embarrassment of discovery.

What is really key, for me, is this uncomfortable feeling of another's facial muscle pattern taking over my control of my own face and vocal chords.
It is a very physical sensation.

It is not like doing an impression either, or playing a character, which I am very good at, it is entirely involuntary and other. The experience of witnessing myself do it as I do it is key.