Comments on: Empathy or Sympathy?

By: Author@Inspire99

Author@Inspire99 — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 11:25:42 +0000

In reply to brenna.

Hi Breanna, fair point – I do appreciate that the piece doesn’t do enough justice for autism. It is a very different situation and a condition which we don’t know much about to communicate through this post. Thoroughly appreciate your point on this.

By: brenna

brenna — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 22:00:45 +0000

empathy is not a choice
and people with autism do feel emathy
they just cant comunicate with it we feel conectoin
some of us even understand
its like looking at a papper were u know the ansers
but u are unsure
so we tend to questoin are understanding

By: Vidhya Rao

Vidhya Rao — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 04:21:00 +0000

Sometimes I unknowingly mix the feelings for the two. Nice post Vidya. Like how you have shown the distinction between the two. I also love how Kokila has described it in Hindi. Never really gave a thought to the translation.

By: Kokila Gupta

Kokila Gupta — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 07:58:00 +0000

In reply to Vidyashree Nagaraju. Its better to be good with life Vidya then any other thing... and i am sure you are a winner that way :) And as for referring my thoughts to Vinay ! sympathy alone will do :) :P

By: Vidyashree Nagaraju

Vidyashree Nagaraju — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 08:20:00 +0000

In reply to Kokila Gupta. Thank you Kokila for sharing the meaning of empathy and symathy in English.. I am not that good with my Hindi :D Ha Ha we offer both empathy and sympathy and the choice is totally yours :D

By: Vidyashree Nagaraju

Vidyashree Nagaraju — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 08:17:00 +0000

In reply to Alok Vats. Thank you Alok :) That's a very nice point Alok, The other person knows whats empathy and sympathy for him and he is the one who decides the empathetic and sympathetic. I agree sometimes our empathy looks like sympathy to the other.

By: Kokila Gupta

Kokila Gupta — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 07:49:00 +0000

In reply to Alok Vats.

Good post… Vinay, I think that people empathize if they are sensitive meaning, if you put yourself in a similar situation then only you can connect and talk/react sense….when perceived from and as other being, you are only too glad that you avoided the misfortune and feels/shows pity….. Empathy is sahanubhuti in hindi that is sah=similar , anubhuti = feeling… so feeling the same and experiencing your pain as mine’s … while sympathy is karuna , feeling of pity.
PS. Apologies again for barging in here… I need empathy and sympathy both :(

By: Alok Vats

Alok Vats — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 05:31:00 +0000

Well Vinay, truly a heart touching post once again. I do feel that if I am doing something, then it is the other person who need to judge if it is empathy or sympathy from my end to that person. Let me give you an example, in my case you can judge if I am a person who shows empathy or sympathy to anyone else, but not me. Because I would always feel that I am showing empathy, while in reality it can be an example of sympathy as well. :)

Anyways nicely written post Vinay.