Do you cry easily?

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Probably a topic like this somewhere on the board buried deep, but I didn't see it.

So i'm interested does anyone here cry easily or used to?

When I was a kid, I mean literally up until age 12 i'd cry and burst into tears over the smallest things.

I say age 12, because that time I got into a fight where another kid sucker punched the holy hell out of me.

After that I had resolved not to cry as much and now it is incredibly difficult for me to cry at all. As a result it feels as if some of my emotions aren't as in tune as they used to be.

So has anyone else ever cried easily?

I wish I didn't cry as easily as I do. I sometimes think emotion is annoying when other people are over emotional. Like if I am laughing I will start crying a little a lot of the time, my eyes even get a little puffy.

Nope, I don't even remember the last time I cried. Actually yes I do and I was drunk. I tend to cry a lot when I'm drunk and I cried when my ex broke up with me. Other than those things I usually don't cry too much. I've been known to cry when my job gets really stressful and I usually end up quitting.

The only thing that my make me tear up is something in a movie, other than that I have learned to fake cry when it seems that it is the proper NT thing to do.

Don't know why movies do it to me when real life doesn't but just another quirk

Not easily at all for me....it usually takes at least a week of all kinds of stress and unpleasantness and something really frustrating to set me off. Even then its more likely I will react in anger as in maybe go outside beat the crap out of a wall or something or I might just have an anxiety attack.......and be convinced of things like 'I'll never get a job if I can't even set up my cell phone voice mailbox' (when if recording my greeting myself was to frusterating I could have just went with the boring one with the mechanical voice) and that everyone's being a jerk or thinks I'm stupid for losing my cool no matter how much they persist they aren't judging me for it.... then when its all over I'm like 'wow why did something so stupid set me off in the first place.'


There are times when I am feeling really down or upset and would like to cry to let it out, I've even tried drinking and listening to music that makes me sad in an attempt to make it happen and that has about a 50% success rate.

Depends on the situation for me. Just last Thursday I was heading home from a get together & I was feeling really good about life in general. Out of the blue, there was a dog lying in my traffic lane. I swerved to avoid him & went back to the scene. Now I went from being very happy to crying immediately. I got the dog out of the street, & back to his owner, where she was crying hysterically which made me cry more. Just found out the dog didn't survive, so that was rough too.

Anything can set me off if it resonates with me emotionally. I seldom cry when I am in pain (more likely to say some pretty choice words actually). This is especially true if there are witnesses. Also there have been times where I had little or no reaction to hearing about someone else's pain or misfortune. So something has to touch me to get an emotional response. Lyrics can do it, something nostalgic can touch me deeply, even a commercial. I guess I'm mostly a softy.

I've only done it years and years apart each time, all for various reasons. Having witnessed animal cruelty, some stressful arguments, and feeling like there was no way out of a bleak and hopeless existence. I'm sure as a kid I used to do it a lot more for being upset over not getting what I wanted and stuff like that, but now I know it's really useless for me to do even when in private.

EDIT: Whoops, double post. Sorry.

Usually I can't cry, not even when I'm sad. When I'm sad, I tell people that I feel sad, and I often tell them I need them to take my word for it. But every now and then I'll cry (usually related to the death of a pet, occasionally related to the death of a human), and usually then it's like an explosive kind of crying that I can't stop, and it makes it hard to breathe. I can't talk at all when I cry, which is super-frustrating because I can't talk about what's wrong. There doesn't seem to be an in-between. Lately I've been trying to cry when I feel sad, and if I try really hard (and only if I'm genuinely feeling sad) I can tear up, which is new for me. But there's still this huge gap between feeling my eyes getting a little wet and completely bawling. My psychiatrist says that's common among people on the spectrum. (A previous psychiatrist told me that taking anti-depressants can make it harder to cry, and these days I take 60 mg of Paxil daily.) I wish I could cry more because I've always felt much better afterward.

I very seldom cry. I think the last time was about 8 years ago during a panic attack. Even as a child I very seldom cried.

I cry easily. I always have, but I cry for different reasons now than when I was a child. When I was a child I cried over less serious things, boo-boos, not getting my way, etc. But as I matured I cry mostly out of extreme frustration, empathy/sympathy, or depression. I do cry a lot and the things I cry over are small sometimes, like a song. I am overly empathetic.

I ry very easily and over little things others most likely do not react at all too. almost all things sad or emotional or a scene, or situation i cry easy but haveing gotten older i dont care who sees me crying. I cry very easily because of frustrations but i also vowed to never be 'cold' if i can so i try to not be the granite statue many see. i can cry with no expression other then tears

Sometimes when it seems like there is something I should cry about, I can't. Funerals, etc., and people think I'm cold but it isn't that, it is just that I can't relate to why I should cry.
Recently a terrible theft occurred to me, but I can't cry.
Does anyone else have this or am I the only one.

Not all the time, before I would be easily upset but not really that much nowadays.

Oh yeah, definitely as a kid I would cry very easily. It could be the simplest little thing, like a simple argument within a group of friends or the usual bullying and it would set me off. My parents always scolded me to stop being so "oversensitive," and I could never really understand why such little things, particularly in group settings, would turn on the water works. These days, I can't say I experience many strong emotions that would make me cry, even when the circumstances call for it. I had to recall every image of my past misery to force myself to cry at a loved one's funeral. I guess that is a complete 180 from before. Not oversensitive, but what then?

Not normally but when I go long periods with out sleep, very low blood sugar, and post grand mal seizure I can cry with very little provocation.