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NOT Epilepsy Related, Just Curious. Has Anyone Experienced Mirror-Touch Synesthesia ?

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Hewitt, MN

So if you see a person get hurt or injured a area of their body, by you witnessing it or just seeing it on a movie or tv show and you can mentally feel the pain. I found out, that 2% of of us in the U.S. have this ability.

I experience this a lot . I would see someone not watching where they are going and they would walk into the wall or something and let’s say their head got the worst of it. I would feel the mental sensation and I would even place my hand over my head and say, ouch! One time I… read more

June 1, 2021 (edited)
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A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I am really sensative to sadness. When someone loses someone or if there is a really sad moment in a moment in a movie. I use to flinch in movies when women would get hit but I found out that that was victimization. Sadness is Empathy. I am really honest with my feelings and that is not always a good thing. Bottling things up is never good for people with Epilepsy because it causes stress. It is finding a constructive way to deal with it.

June 11, 2021
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

What about reading books and getting to gory scene or action films me personally I’d scrunch my face up I done that reading a jack reacher novel or hiding and peeking out between hands watching films and tv shows x x

June 2, 2021
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I never heard of it x x

June 1, 2021
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

apparently im stupid when im asked to remember 100 things and when I say I don't remember I'm lying no way. Serious family torture not ok

July 12, 2021
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I hadn't heard of that but I do believe I've experienced it

June 16, 2021

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