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“Dad used to say my greatest gift was I could get inside the skin of another human. That I could feel what nobody else could. The body knows a great deal. I have the miraculous ability to know more than one body. Compassion was the most important thing one can learn. If someone hurt us all we needed was empathy and forgiveness would be easy.”

“But on this, I would not be broken. I had a magic power that wasn’t magic. I felt what other people felt and I knew what lived in those touches and how it was mostly sweetness. You didn’t touch sweetly unless you were good.”

“Why did she keep bringing us here to keep witnessing the absolute worst in people? Bc she was trying to break me. To make me admit that she was right. That people for the most part were irredeemable. And that if I didn’t toughen up, I’d become one of the people in those stands telling a judge what had been done to me…”

“But then who said love does not exist in the nature of all things.”

“We are all hard wired for empathy. Although at times it can be exhausting.”

“We are hardwired for empathy. Although it can be exhausting.”

“My brain recreated the sensory experience of all creatures. If I see it, I feel and for just a moment, I am them. We are one. Their pain or pleasure is my own. It can seem like magic.. we are hard wired for empathy. The constant stream of empathy is exhausting.”

“I am unlike most people. I move through life in a different way, with an entirely unique sense of touch. Before I knew its name, I knew this. To make sense of this, it is called a neurological condition, mirror-touch synesthesia” MTS is a rare often genetic neurological condition where individuals feel tactile sensations- such as touch, pressure or pain - on their own body when observing others being touched)