Follow Your Passion: A Seamless Tumblr Journey
Well... I think I see myself in Gou a lot? I watched every episode at once (lol) and he grew a lot, from "we shouldn't help a bulbasaur" to helping Cubone to apologizing to an egg. I still couldn't understand the concept of "low empathy" but being able to understand he was wrong and changing, try to understand others couldn't bee seen as learning empathy?
Was looking around the tv tropes page for Journeys and it's kinda sad how biased against Gou it reads. The kid makes a mistake one that the anime clearly sees it as a mistake and something he has to work on but for some he is a monster that abuses his pokemon
I just skimmed it, and…wow.
It’s not as bad as I was expecting, but it definitely has shades of demonizing him for struggling with empathy.
Let me make this clear: HAVING LOW EMPATHY DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE A BAD PERSON.
Empathy is not the same thing as compassion.
Empathy is not the same thing as sympathy.
Empathy is the ability to put yourselves in others’ shoes and understand the viewpoints/emotions.
God, can’t they just admit they hate neurodivergent people and go?