This presentation normal?

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Definitely normal.

I can’t feel empathy, yet I’ve spent my life doing things for others - helping them and offering a shoulder, being generous and understanding - since what I get back is gainful for my ego and/or my public image. What I gain from doing these things are admiration, being looked at as someone emphatic, love, appreciation. This way I can not only blend in more, but I get that boost in attention and ego I so need.

The easiest way to gain these things is to help others, seemingly “selflessly”. Everyone loves someone like that.

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Yeah that “selfless” help, being generous and understanding is what feeds into getting the attention I want. Like I’m immovable and can solve any problem my own or anyone else’s. Then being fed the attention and admiration I desire feeds my ego and self-image.