The double empathy problem feels extreme, it feels deep; it is what I have been describing with my peers as DEEP (Double Empathy Extreme Problem).
The DEEP (DOUBLE EMPATHY EXTREME PROBLEM) arises from feelings of disconnect; not only from cultural, sexual, political, religious, neurodivergent, or any other cross-section of differences but also through embodiment, or lack thereof. The double empathy gap is non-linear; it is deep, multidimensional, rhizomatic, and holographic (Mirra, 2023). DEEP could be a huge contributing factor that leads to burnout and ill health. The DEEP gap can break people at their core, leaving them fragmented, disconnected, disoriented and disembodied, feeling like they’re in a void space.
The Double Empathy Problem is DEEP | by MoreRealms | Jun, 2024 | Medium
As an autistic person, I do not see or feel a boundary between myself and my environment; I feel a deep attunement to the space around me. However, I also feel a deep disconnect with the majority of society and the pressures of feeling I need to conform to dominant social norms that have always left me on the edge and feeling separate. I experience the Double Empathy Gap (Milton, 2012) at a painfully extreme deep intensity. The double empathy problem creates a gap of disconnect experienced between people due to misunderstood shared lived experiences. It is “a breakdown in reciprocity and mutual understanding that can happen between people with very differing ways of experiencing the world.”
I feel that as a society, we are at risk of becoming more disembodied. In many ways, we are losing our primordial affinity with nature and drifting further from coherence, harmony, and the humanised ecology of care that we need. The double empathy problem feels extreme, it feels deep; it is what I have been describing as DEEP (Double Empathy Extreme Problem (Edgar, 2024).
The DEEP (Double Empathy Extreme Problem arises from feelings of disconnect, not only from cultural, sexual, political, religious, neurodivergent, or any other cross-section of differences but also through embodiment, or lack thereof. The double empathy gap is non-linear; it is deep, multidimensional, rhizomatic, and holographic (Mirra, 2023). DEEP could be a huge contributing factor that leads to burnout and ill health. The DEEP gap can break people at their core, leaving them fragmented, disconnected, disoriented and disembodied, feeling like they’re in a void space.
Quantum Neuro-Holographic Thoughts from a Liminal Space | by MoreRealms | Medium
