• over_clox@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    This is a rare skill? I thought this was more or less normal across all people. Damn, maybe I’m the naïve person here… 🤔

    Your last statement really has me thinking right now, like does anyone else even understand empathy, love and care, even across disabilities and even species anymore?

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      1 hour ago

      If you’d assume practically everyone (say, 95 % of people) are able to do something, and it turns out only 60 % can, then that already counts as shockingly rare. So, even though more than half of people can do something, and the ones who cannot are a minority, it can still be “shockingly rare” that people actually can do it.

      In this case I’d guess it’s entirely possible that only a third or a quarter of people are able to reasonably read the body language as told here. But, @theneverfox@pawb.social can give a better estimate of this than I can, I believe.

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      16 hours ago

      Yep, shockingly rare. So much I can’t explain it to others… They look at me like I’m talking witchcraft lol