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
Get the Inanimate Object Empathy Disorder (IOED)mug. by -Myers.J September 8, 2025
Get the Empathymug. My son nigel is mentally disabled, but I still love him. I wish I never met his ugly father at the club
by mrs tosser October 19, 2025
Get the nigels mums empathymug. by Sograt October 23, 2025
Get the Suicidal empathymug. To naturally be aware of the emotional state of your fellow man, without necessarily
A trait that only the most upstanding suckers have.
The one thing everyone in this world plays on to take advantage of your natural care and concern for your fellow man.
A trait that more times than not, will get you screwed over because "Treat others as you would like to be treated" is no longer a standard in society.
A trait that only the most upstanding suckers have.
The one thing everyone in this world plays on to take advantage of your natural care and concern for your fellow man.
A trait that more times than not, will get you screwed over because "Treat others as you would like to be treated" is no longer a standard in society.
by YoU'REanEIGHt May 10, 2023
Get the Empathymug. Exactly, except YOU are a crippled talkshow host and I am not. Hey, I have an idea! Why not do an episode on why the AI works now when it didn't before? Oh! To keep the guy who did it from being more successful that you and it might implicate you in burying a story that would have prevented a school shooting? Wow! You're clearly the good one and he is the bad one.
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."
by Hym Iam February 27, 2025
Get the No Empathy or Sympathymug. by Xx0Salem0xX June 8, 2023
Get the Universal Empathymug.