Do you guys ever cry?

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Hardly ever. And if I ever get the slightest urge, I can hold it back. I don't even remember the last time I've cried. I think there's at least a yearly interval. Partly it's because I don't wanna be a public embarrassment, but I think it's more that I don't want to show weakness, since I hold it back even when alone.

Then again, I don't get the urge very often.

I only ever cry when I'm frustrated.

Only every other day @___@

Sure have. When my emotions get on top of me, either by a woman or if I'm discussing something really difficult about my past. I've reguarly broken down in tears during counselling sessions.

I rarely do that, after a few ridiculous things has happened to me which you DO NOT want to know

I know this sounds weird, but I never actually cry tears when it comes to problems in my life. I may get sad, but I don't get tears. I can actually "control" my tears, and crying actually feels good when you have nothing to be sad about. Sometiimes while I sleep I like to make myself cry tears because it gives my body a pleasant feeling. Maybe I'm slightly Masochistic?

However I never actually show real tears when I'm really upset, I just kind of shut everything out.

Very rarely, I cried for the first time last week in 2 years.

Routinely, mostly right before I go to bed.

I don't cry that often, but I did cry either earlier this week or a week ago. I think it was over something stupid like my lack of being able to find clothes I like in plus sizes and for cheap.

I do cry. I can cry. It's hard to let tears spill sometimes. I have to force myself to cry. Or sometimes I feel tears unexpectantly, all by itself. And it usually lasts for a short period of time.

Last time I cried was the day my dog had to be put down. I didn't cry at all when it happened, but a couple hours later I sat down to eat lunch and automatically turned to shoo her out of the kitchen. Then all of a sudden it hit me.

Before that, I had a funny "last time I cried" story. It was after a party, I was very drunk, and I didn't feel like going to bed (amazingly). So I turned on the TV, started flipping channels, and saw the very beginning of Forrest Gump playing on HBO. I love that movie, so I decided to watch it. Half of that movie made me crack up (like the "Have you ever been with a girl" exchange) and half of it made me cry (like "I gotta find Bubba!! !").

I'll admit it, I cry a LOT.

Sometimes I'm perfectly OK one minute and crying the next. And sometimes I don't even know why I'm crying. It's quite scary to be honest. I really really wish I didn't cry so much

Lol, I know this is a bit pathetic but my when my mom and I argue she says hurtful things that makes me cry sometimes.

Sometimes Lifetime movies induce some crying too. Gosh, I watch too much of those drama movies.

I hadn't cried since I was a little kid. I'd get really sad, especially when friends died and stuff, but never cried.

Since I've been on WrongPlanet, I cry twice a day, sometimes more. I cry when I read some sad posts, and I cry when I read heroic posts by parents who want advice on their 3 year old. I cry when I tell my partner what I've read.

OK, so this aspie thing is new to me, and I've been going through a lot of re-evaluating, and I'm recognized myself in so many peoples' experiences, so that's not too surprising.

What's weird is that I seem to be having a direct, reflex empathic reaction, instead a cognitive one, so something in my brain is reacting differently. I think my empathic circuity has always been there, but it's wired to respond to my own kind. I've read in Attwood, and experienced in my own life, that when two compatible aspies are together, the communication can be natural and fluid, with turn-taking and genuine and spontaneous concern for each other. The need for translation is gone, and the barriers are dropped.

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I also have what you call a reflex empathic reaction. Although reading people's experience don't make me cry as easy as if say I watch a sad/touching movie with an AS character (good music makes a BIG DIFFERENCE). Also LGBT movies make me cry example being Boys Don't Cry.