Inanimate Object Empathy Disorder (IOED) is an armchair-psychological designation for people who experience extreme amounts of empathy for inanimate objects -- specifically objects that depict living things that appear damaged or distressed.
IOED describes someone who experiences legitimate feelings towards objects that appear as if they deserve sympathy, support, and even help as if they were animate beings. However, because these objects are not actually living beings, these impulses to care for, help, and support are misplaced. Hence the disorder designation.
If someone if your life continually says things like "awwwww.... that poor x" where x is more often than not a stuffed animal with a missing ear or a tear in its fabric, then that person in your life suffers from IOED.
IOED describes someone who experiences legitimate feelings towards objects that appear as if they deserve sympathy, support, and even help as if they were animate beings. However, because these objects are not actually living beings, these impulses to care for, help, and support are misplaced. Hence the disorder designation.
If someone if your life continually says things like "awwwww.... that poor x" where x is more often than not a stuffed animal with a missing ear or a tear in its fabric, then that person in your life suffers from IOED.
Using the term Inanimate Object Empathy Disorder (IOED) in context: Because my wife has IOED, when she found 2 stuffed animals on the road, disheveled, she felt a burning desire to "save" them and "nurse them back to health" in our home. Now, thanks to her IOED, we have a new shelf in our family room with "recovering" stuffed animals on it that fill her heart with joy every day.
by NewPOV January 22, 2025
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Hym "Hey! I have no empathy or sympathy either! Good thing they need me for the AI and people like having alive kids! Hey, did your former employees press charges from sexual battery yet? Because they should do that."
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Get the Empathy mug.When a writer publishes a book/series and actually interprets the book like a reader while they were proof-reading and ends up empathizing with their own characters. Getting invested in their own story.
Person 1: I just finished proof reading my novel
Person 2: Ooh cool! Found any errors?
Person 1: I was too distracted, I ended up skipping over the errors because I got invested in the plot.
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Person 1: exactly!!
Person 2: wow, so you got Post-Written Empathy the whole time?
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Get the Post-Written Empathy mug.Yeah, you imagining what that cripple and that whore theoretically felt and then trying to make me feel that, is not empathy. It's (what they felt) completely imaginary to you.
Hym "And what good is your supposed empathy when it feels like I have a golfball in my brains and I can barely lift 50 pounds or stand up from a crouching position without getting lightheaded? This is why it's better to just murder your kids and then kill myself than deal with you. And I fully advocate that people murder as many kids as they can in the wake of my death if you leave me to die here. This is a perpetual slew of you going 'Oh... Well, I guess he was right... But it doesn't matter because wrong-think.' And that is why death threats ISN'T too far. Your life needs to be EXACTLY AS AT RISK AS MINE, UNTIL MINE IS NOT and then YOU need to live a life commensurate with YOUR output and I need to live a life commensurate with MY output and then pieces of shit need for stay as far away from me as humanly possible of I will fucking kill you."
by Hym Iam May 4, 2025
Get the Empathy mug.A condition of empathy that is above hyper-empathy in some regards but not in others. A person with transfinite-empathy is able to feel any emotion, even if there is seemingly no connection between them and someone feeling that emotion. In this regard, it is above hyper-empathy. However, due to it not necessarily implying the ability to be high alert for negative emotions, it is not above it in all aspects. Depending on the cause, it may or may not still imply the ability to be fully connected and in tune with a person's emotions. A transfinite-empathic person does not need external stimuli to feel emotions and can feel emotions that the situation would not usually be able to evoke.
Origin: "Transfinite" (chosen due to it not being above "Hyper" in all regards but still above it in some) + Empathy.
Origin: "Transfinite" (chosen due to it not being above "Hyper" in all regards but still above it in some) + Empathy.
As someone with transfinite-empathy, I can feel whatever emotion my character would and be the best actor possible.
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Hym “No. It was self pity. Not because of the insult but because I am right. And he knows it. It was not empathy. And no. I don’t lose if I shoot your kids in the face. That’s how I can win. Damn... I was right about EVERYTHING. Every single utterance. That is wild. I’m the rightest man who has ever lived.”
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