Hanna L. Glapion

Leading Autism Organizations Release Joint Statement on Upholding Scientific Integrity and Supporting the Autism Community - Autistic Self Advocacy Network April 17, 2025, Washington, D.C. – As national organizations dedicated to advancing the well-being of Autistic individuals, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Autism Society of America, Autism Speaks, The Arc of the United States, Autistic Women and Non-Binary Network, Autistic People of Color Fund, and partners across the disability and…

The Autism Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) and Autism Speaks making a joint statement in agreement is pretty crazy. You have to fail in extraordinary ways to make things like this happen.

autisticadvocacy.org/2025/04/lead...

When multiple people in your linage gets murdered in a small community this far back it gets amplified and the effect is massive over generations. It's been a lot to sit with.

This now makes for 3/4 great grandparent trees barely escaping being killed in the Great Wrath - considering the 4th is from the Torne Valley it's pretty safe to say all 4 survived it without finding evidence of specific attacks survived (yet).

The effect on my 7th-9th generation tree for my two grandparent's lines from this affected area are absolutely devastating - both because of the direct blood loss, but also the loss of what otherwise would have been ancestors.

My 9th great grandparents, 8th great grandfather, a 7th great uncle and his wife - all slaughtered, and burned.

I lost additional 7-9th great grandparents, and uncles. The two youngest being 8 and 12.

My 8th great grandmother had already died a year prior to the attack, her son was likely away, his wife to be was present and survived, so they lived and could have my 6th great grandma two years later, her husband to be was only 3 years old at the time of the attack and likely spared because of it.

"The beginning of science is the recognition that the simplest phenomena of ordinary life raise quite serious problems: Why are they as they are, instead of some different way?"
—Noam Chomsky

Ever thought about that, huh?

Mystery solved!

I, prev, have found refugees from Finland, escaping the Great Wrath. And now, while investigating a tree collapse I realize that several of my ancestors were slaughtered, and burned, by Cossacks - so of course there's a tree collapse - they wiped out a significant chunk of the male population.

Eleanor hasn't sat with elders listing, and comparing, relational trees for overlapping branches - big hearts and minds.

Who is connected to whom?
What role do they have?
What's their impact?

Empathy, and especially empathetic skill, requires differentiation.

Sympathy is caring, aligning with etc - it's not a skill, though, obviously can be refined in terms of ethics, alignment, preference etc. 6/6

Being an "emotional sponge," reactively taking on other's emotions, isn't empathy - in babies and young children it's an empathy precursor, but it's not developed empathy. This kind of emotional trigger/overwhelm *can* be due to trauma in an adult - but, again, it isn’t what Empathy is. 5/6

and therefore experience, another's experience/feeling. To skillfully do that it requires self-knowledge and differentiation. 4/6

I go by the definition that Empathy is a neutral skill that normally does come with care, but is not synonymous to it. I view Empathy as partially synonymous to understanding - but with emotional and somatic empathy it requires an ability to simulate, 3/6

There are multiple ways Empathy and Sympathy gets used, and they're sometimes colloquially used synonymously but I saw someone call Empathy a trauma response, and Sympathy a skill you build up - this is a complete distortion of the concepts, and is pathologizing Empathy. 2/6

I've, again, seen people mix up what Empathy vs Sympathy is and I'm very concerned about this trend because major shifts in meaning of words tend to correspond to a change in culture. 1/6

Positive intergroup contact reduces prejudice. However, the strength of intergroup contact effects is typically weaker for members of minority as compared to majority groups. Research on perceived outgroup entitativity (i.e., the extent to which an aggregate of people is perceived as a unified whole) has shown that minority group members perceive the majority outgroup as less entitative, while majority group members perceive the outgroup minority as comparatively more entitative. Moreover, there is evidence that people generalize the effects of intergroup contact from a single outgroup member to the outgroup as a whole more strongly when they perceive outgroups as more (versus less) entitative. We integrate these different lines of research and propose that the difference in the strength of intergroup contact effects between numerical majorities and minorities may be explained, in part, by differences in perceived outgroup entitativity. We conducted two preregistered experiments using a minimal group paradigm (N1 = 347, N2 = 396) in which we manipulated numerical majority-minority group status (Study 1 and 2) as well as outgroup entitativity (Study 2). In Study 2, we applied a parallel design combining measurement of the mediation and manipulation of the mediator to provide stronger evidence for a causal process. The results were in line with our hypotheses: perceived outgroup entitativity mediated the differential effect of intergroup contact for numerical majority versus minority groups. Implications for future research are discussed, including the need to investigate whether entitativity explains differences in intergroup contact effects among various real-life groups.

Positive intergroup contact reduces prejudice against minority groups more than it does against majority groups. Why?

New research suggests it may be because minority group members are seen as being more interchangeable with one another.

Neji et al. (2025): doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

Empathy is a skill, and it's kind of like with height: you're born with a capacity that's either stunted or optimized based on the environment.

Empathy=Understanding

"The sin of Understanding" is a nonsense statement.

2 Corinthians 11 (LSB)
14 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is not surprising if his ministers also disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.

Jesus consistently models and teaches empathy.

If in doubt: Luke 10:25-37 a man asks for clarifications on this highest commandment in Matt 22:37-40, who is your neighbor? The answer is everyone is your neighbor, including your enimies: you are to show them mercy.

Matt 22 (NKJV)
37“‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

If you are arguing against empathy, no matter the context, you are on the wrong side.

Satan is the antithesis of Christ, sowing division, hatred, and chaos to counteract Jesus' message of love, reconciliation, and self-sacrifice.

Anyone telling you empathy & compassion are sins is not a messenger of God.

A lack of empathy isn't virtuous, divine, or Godly—it's a deficit.

Being IN love is being mutually responsible for eachother by choice.

Love is responsibility and action; not a feeling—it, however, also feels really good to be loving, and to be loved.

It should instead serve as a reminder of you needing your power, because there are a whole lot of not-loving people in the world. And also remind you that people that accumulate, and position themselves for, power for power's sake aren't safe people.

The image is a picture of Charlie Chaplin, in black and white, peaking around the corner of a building or wall. On the wall, he's peaking around the corner of there's a Charlie Chaplin quote that reads, "You need power only when you want to do something harmful, otherwise love is enough to get everything done."

If you're an Agreeable person, you understand sentiments like this Charlie Chaplin quote—you don't need to tell yourself this, you don't need to avoid gaining power to ensure you don't accidentally harm others by failing to be all light and love.