Inability or difficulty crying?

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Sometimes I cry when I "should" and sometimes I don't. I can't hardly sing a sad CW song for crying, but when friends and family tell me their woes, I'm dry-eyed. I only cried a little when my mom died--one of those short burst types--and I was holding her hand and whispering prayers to her when she drew her last breath. If anything would make someone weep for hours, you think that would.

Like others here, movies will make me cry and it is a relief. In the weeks while my mom was failing, I'd watch 'Grey's Anatomy' and that'd get me weeping and able to release the grief. I could feel the pressure of the grief, but it wouldn't come out on its own, so I manipulated it. Works. =)

This is the most common type of crying I do... call it frustration tears. I want so badly to be liked and I try so hard and still I fail. Oh, for pete's sake, I'm getting all choked up now.

So, though I cry, my triggers aren't the same as the NTs. And I don't think I cry nearly as often as your average NT woman.

Oh well, big whoop. I'm grateful I don't have their histrionics over broken fingernails, thank-you very much.

Do NT women cry over broken fingernails, gosh I had better donate sperm to a bank considering before mating the standard procedure is to "get to know" the mate, I can't see myself spending too long with an organism that cries so much and probably wants emotional help as most people do when they cry.

As a child, i never ever cried, doesnt matter the situation, i didnt cry, as an adult i still dont cry like i should but def can cry now

Some do, especially before a big date. Others just get really witchie.

Beware the emotional female... because she doesn't expect to emote alone.... she expects you to empathize, sympathize, share her pain... run, run for your lives!! !

I rarely ever cry, but sometimes my eyes can often water, but that's different.

Last time I "cried" was in September, and that wasn't really me crying, but me being close to crying.

Awww, I like you tons, DonkeyBuster! And you didn't even hafta try!

Always your pal,

-- Vip
<<hugz>>

I am not sure my life is at threat but I am still slightly worried for their sanity.

I can't cry i do not see the point in crying.

nope never cry, just dont know how to

Aw, thanks VA, you're a sweetie And back at you.

Movies make me cry a lot.

But RL situations dont, not even when my dad passed away, couldnt =/.

rarely cry.
Cry with rage in melt downs as a child.

Cry a bit more than i did as a child. But not like other women in 12 step programs who I know.
I am stony around others' emotions.

Coincidentally , i did cry on Saturday. for maybe ten seconds. I cried about having an ASD. I was diagnosed months ago and found out i had aspergers last year. The feeling around this arrived on saturday morning. I process emotions like that looooong after the even.extremely delayed emotional reactions. this is how it has always been.

when my father nearly died, most of my sibling sisters were crying. I was stony faced and had no feeling about it and couldn't really grasp the emotions they were experiencing.

I have always lived with this kind of disconnection. just the way it is for me.

I can't really cry, for whatever reason. Even when I'm alone, and it would be a huge release for me, I just can't do it. I cried when my grandfather died, but that was the first time I'd cried in years.

I've only cried once in my adult life. I said something particularly offensive to my girlfriend and earned a slap. Our argument mainly consisted of her telling me how sorry she felt for me. I thought that I blew a great relationship. Then, I got an unfamiliar sensation: my eyes started to burn and the tears flowed. As for what I was feeling emotionally, I don't know: I have alexithymia. I can only guess based on the situation. At that time, I had no idea I was an Aspie. According to her, I was self-centered and rude. It didn't stop her from having an affair with me.

i used to, quite a lot. around age 12, it just stopped. it's not what i need to do to appear normal, which i think is key to my chances of being happy ever. so it doesn't happen.

OMG, that is SO ME, Vipera! *hugs*

I was literally showed more tears with Sniper Wolf's death (from MGS1) then with 3 of my grandparents' deaths and an aunt's death combined, which was nil.

I mean, it's not that I don't love my family...I guess it's because I logically realize that no one lives forever, and that they at least they died peacefully.