compassion

Compassion is, to simplify, the desire to help another or others.  

For more on this, see:  

• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compassion(“sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it”);  
• https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/compassion;  
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Compassion&oldid=1360632557 (“a social emotion that motivates people to go out of their way to relieve the physical, mental, or emotional pains of others and themselves. Compassion is sensitivity to the emotional aspects of the suffering of others. When based on notions such as fairness, justice, and interdependence, it may be considered partially rational in nature”);  

I will also add here that empathy, which features in the movie “Disclosure Day”, is the understanding of others’ emotions/states of being/effects of their experiences which enables compassion.  

For more on this, see:  

• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/empathy;  
• https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-empathy-2795562;  
• https://www.verywellmind.com/compassion-vs-empathy-what-s-the-difference-7494906(“Empathy is about understanding and feeling what others feel from their perspective. Compassion involves a desire to help and take action for someone in need. Compassion leads to action, while empathy can sometimes be emotionally draining.”);  
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/empathy;  
• https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/empathy/;  
• https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/empathy;  
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Empathy&oldid=1366523002.  

Also see: 

• https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2014/04/agape.html  

Also note the following:  

Autists (and most neurodivergent people) feel and express empathy, but in ways that are different to the ways neurotypical people do. This difference, often described as “the double empathy problem” ** , means each group tends to empathise in ways that are comprehensible within each group, but not to the other (this can be more pronounced if the neurodivergent person is experiencing a sensory overload or a meltdown – remembering my thinking that the multiple extra synaptic connections conveying sensations multiple times). As neurotypical people predominate, this can result in an incorrect, but predominating view, that autists lack empathy.  

 ** See https://reframingautism.org.au/miltons-double-empathy-problem-a-summary-for-non-academics/,  https://www.simplypsychology.org/autism-double-empathy-problem.html,  and  https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/professional-practice/double-empathy    

 

 

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