Emotional problems and autism!!

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i take 1200 mg of lithium carbonate to keep my "cyclic mood disorder" under control. also, according to my martial arts instructor, i have very good control of my emotions.

i f***ing hate being pitied, i hate displaying/talking about my negative (and sometimes positive) emotions with anyone but my mother, my psychiatrist, and wrongplanet.com if i can help it. i trust few, if any.....

I don't know if I experience more emotion than "normal" people or if it's just that my emotions interfere more with my functioning and productivity. I really have trouble doing much of anything when I'm not in the right frame of mind.

There seems to be a trend:
1. Pleasant emotions associated with interests. (with success in interests?)
2. Extreme negative displays of emotion when logic is breached ie
- barriers are erected (conciously or unconciously) against our pursuits
- character is attacked
- expectations denied
- reasoning patterns or information we are certain of is counter-argued
- Overstimulation plus [confusing, unexpected or too much] input from another being.
3. Situations that typically overwhelm NTs are met with logic and solution-oriented patterns.
4. Self doubt (self imposed or by another) is the hardest emotional thing Aspies deal with.

Anyone think I'm right? Anyone think I'm wrong? Anyone think I missed anything?
*Feel free to be brutal - I won't get emotional over a two minute post

I cry over a lot of things, such as going to a sleepover, bullying, stereotypes, war, racism, and other things. I've cried because I saw a man dance at a quincinera, once, and it was on a TV show, and I've screamed because a fly leg touched me, or becaues someone poked me on the back lightly (in which my class, made up of mostly mischevious, pernicious, virulent, delinquent boys, torture me to no end). My mom says I'm overly sensitive about things, which is true, as I cry easily, laugh easily (not as easily as crying), anger easily, get jealous easily, get scared easily, and get feel most of my emotions either stronger or weaker than most.

I'm also an INFP and an HSP, which makes me more sensitive than normal.

i turn red and get teary when i hear tommy dorsey play "i'm getting sentimental over you" or hear glenn miller play "moonlight serenade. those songs were each man's signature tune.