What makes you cry?

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Child abuse

Anxiety and meltdowns

Some movies will make me cry.

In the past month: Anger. Also, a few times, I could not work out which emotion prompted it - it happened when I found something I had thought for over two decades had been lost, that has significant sentimental value for me. Once, it was due to hearing that an acquaintance I really like has been diagnosed with a terminal condition.

I don't cry very often, so the past month has been a bit unusual.

What makes me cry? If I write everything down what makes me cry, WP would probably be unloadable! So I will just write down a few things (even if they don't make me cry properly, they nearly do):-

...someone telling me off

...falling out with a friend

...not having my favourite bus-driver on my bus

...an animal dying

...a person dying

...someone killing an insect

...emotions (even positive ones can)

...certain music what remind me of childhood (under the age of 11)

...sad endings on films (''Granpa'' by Raymond Briggs is one example)

...thinking of someone's smiling face when me or someone else is moaning about them behind their back

...people who ruin my fragile state of mind

...thinking of a close relative who has Alzheimer's

There's probably loads more but I can't think of any more at the moment. No, hurting myself doesn't not make me cry - I grew out of that at 10 (although I did cry when I hurt myself as a child, but all kids do).

Well it wouldn't be specifically an Aspie thing to cry over broken friendships, loneliness and death, would it? Otherwise NTs wouldn't have any emotions! And it wouldn't be specifically an NT thing to cry over broken friendships, loneliness and death, because who's to say Aspies can't feel for these things too? So the answer is - it's a human thing to cry over these sorts of things.

People who have severe schizophrenia and end up being shunned by society
Some bad memories of my childhood
Bears being reared for having their bile extracted in China
Child prostitution
Women who have to look after very severely disabled children on their own, with no assistance, who end up killing themselves and their children in desperation
Countries with rape epidemics
Disabled people who live in ghettoes/council estates who get tormented by local youths and end up killing themselves in desperation
Drug addicts or prostitutes dying/being killed and no-one caring about them

i'm quite hard to get to cry normally, other then a pet or close family dying, there is only one thing that can move me enough to do that:
music, deep emotional music is what gets me going...

nothing makes me cry these days. ever since i lassowed my out of control diva emotions that is,

i cry easily..
when i see/read stories that involves babies or oldies..

I was bullied and teased a lot growing up. I learned to hide my tears, not let them see my weakness. Now in adulthood I rarely cry. When I do cry it comes out at unexpected times like the scene in the movie Iron Giant when it seemed the Giant was dead; Wow I could not stop crying just out of left field. Also I can not under any circumstance watch Old Yeller that movie will keep me crying for days.

When does happen usually don't see it coming and it's like I am looking at myself from a hovering position just amazed this salty discharge is draining from my eyes.

the mall on saturdays
going to the doctor
going to the dentist
needles
the thought of loseing my dog
getting in trouble

If I fall and bust my knee/leg/$var

If one of my brethren (cats) pass to
The Great Beyond.

The News

Country music

The way that people treat each other instead of getting to know and understand each other.

The state of today's world.

Hey, you took my quote.

i have stendahl's syndrome, so anything which manifests as extreme beauty, makes the waterworks work overtime. seeing examples of magnanimous human or animal behavior makes me weep, as does exceptionally beautiful music. sad songs, such as tim buckley's "once i was" also makes me tear up. i wept when i heard that song for the first time, in the soundtrack of the movie "dear america: letters home from vietnam." that was a SAD movie.

Self pity.

Not sure what specifically, but I will cry at some movies/TV shows. Like, I cried at the end of the show LOST. I also cried the end of 127 Hours. But I still haven't nailed down what specifically causes me to cry.

When people who were once my best friends refuse to speak to me. One of my friends won't even tell me what I did wrong to make her not want to talk to me anymore. All I get is silence, and I don't understand because I was always nice to her. My friends are the most important thing to me and I can't stand it when I lose a friend.