“Empath” is a colloquial rather than clinical term, but it is useful. For people who grew up in an abusive household with unsafe parents, being hyper-attuned to their parent’s emotions was an important survival skill, as being able to make yourself scarce at appropriate times can save you a beating. People give off all sorts of cues to their emotional state, including facial microexpressions, vocal tonality, body language, etc., and children raised in these environments have honed their ability to inutit emotional states from scant external cues, usually without realizing that they’re even doing it. Unfortunately, most tend to disregard the “gut” feeling they get when doing it, because their abuse profile also typically includes emotional invalidation, which has taught them that their emotions are “wrong”. So the cruel irony is that most “Empaths” don’t trust their intuition, and tend to associate with abusive people like their parents, which feels comfortably like “home”.

Wait, the woman in the picture is only 36!?! She looks like a 50 year old trying to recapture her glory days with botched plastic surgery. She has serious Mar-a-Lago Face.

In fair-skinned people, sun damage can cause a lot of photo aging if they don’t use sunscreen. My guess is that he didn’t use a lot of sunscreen. Also, facial fat and loose skin on the neck really make you look older. McDowell is fairly lean, but you can tell that Hall is carrying some excess weight.

He’s 57. Is this what the average man looks like at 57? I’m 59 and easily look a decade younger than him. My guess is that the hard life of an ex-celebrity has aged him prematurely.

‘slaps roof’