Funny Feeling [Litterbox Comics]

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The lions actually wearing clothes is a nice detail

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Wtf. Children experience empathy from when they first develop the ability to understand what is happening around them. They aren't unfeeling psychopaths, they might be idiots that don't understand what they are doing is impacting others, but they don't suddenly grow a conscience and feel empathy. This is bad parenting to even consider thinking that way. You are probably a psychopath if you see your child as a psychopath, one that shouldn't have a child.

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This didn't start happening for me until I started HRT. The first time this happened (unconsciously mirroring the emotions of a character), I suddenly realized why people like reading romance novels. If you can vicariously actually feel like you're falling in love with somebody, why the hell would you not want to?

Previously I had enjoyed stories, but plot-driven stuff like mysteries and heist movies, or idea-driven stuff like hard science fiction.

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No.

Children below a certain age are completely incapable of understanding simplified and abstracted relationships that are not their own. Escpecially not when its in the shape of animated 2D characters on a screen. Death is something you dont even start conceptualizing until like 4 years old.

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I'm autistic. I didn't actually understand empathy until 4th grade.

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Me:

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I just realized the artist has made meme templates featuring these characters available for free on their web site. Neat!

Meme Templates - Litterbox Comics

A collection of Litterbox Comics meme templates and response GIFs

Litterbox Comics (www.litterboxcomics.com)

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Fun fact: my mom says that I would always laugh at this scene when I was little.

...No, I haven't been institutionalized. Why do you ask?

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If there's one thing I've learned from posting comic strips it's that humor is very subjective. Everything is funny to someone!

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Heh heh heh!

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When Lion King came out, my best friend at the time and I were taken to see it in the cinema. We were quite young.
We were asked to leave because this scene made us cry too loudly.

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I call bullshit.

My daughter was 3 when she was watching me play Final Fantasy 4. Cid jumped out of the airship and blew himself up.

She screamed turn it off and ran out of the room. We found her crying in the corner of the room and her mum asked what happened. In between sobbing she choked out “… Cid…” and that was all she could say until she calmed down.

That’s just one example. Plenty of other times she’s just covered her eyes and said she doesn’t want to watch anymore if people are arguing on screen, or a death is involved.

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So you don't think it just may have been scary? Kids get scared early on, but being able to imagine what other people are feeling, and therefore feeling that too (empathy) comes later

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Oh look, a calm, measured, reasonable comment on the internet.

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Also, everyone develops differently. Its possible that 3 year old did understand the situation, but its also possible they didn't. Everyone develops different things at different rates and that's OK.

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my mom didn't want me watching Lion King because she was worried I was gonna get scared of like the hyenas and scar.

which is completely acceptable because I was very easily scared. For example Darth Maul and the dementors from Harry potter made me condemn the series because I was terrified of every seeing them again

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Are you likely to run into hyenas on the regular?

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not at all. I'm just a scaredy cat