Can sympathy be a point of access into empathy? Online, how do we perhaps create connections that are qualitatively different in the form of a "shared space" that leads to sympathy, that leads to empathy? To what extent do digital/online spaces hide experiences/identities/conditions of being (disability, race, gender, socio-economic status, etc) that are potential points of sympathy/empathy? Is that empowering, or not? Is the choice to "disclose" empowering, to what extent should a recipient have a say in whether the sympathetic/empathetic relation is formed?