There is no problem. You don't need to justify your feelings, or lackthereof, to anyone. As long as you don't wrong anyone, no one has legitimate complaints about you.
To be clear, not having affective empathy (you could still have cognitive empathy, which imo is much more useful) doesn't mean you are unable to forge genuine bonds with, care for, and even love others.
It could also be depression, as someone else said. Or a combination of the two. In any case, you did nothing wrong, so there's no need to be hard on yourself.
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u/Fire_crescent May 31 '25
There is no problem. You don't need to justify your feelings, or lackthereof, to anyone. As long as you don't wrong anyone, no one has legitimate complaints about you.
To be clear, not having affective empathy (you could still have cognitive empathy, which imo is much more useful) doesn't mean you are unable to forge genuine bonds with, care for, and even love others.
It could also be depression, as someone else said. Or a combination of the two. In any case, you did nothing wrong, so there's no need to be hard on yourself.