WTF is wrong with me?

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Same here. Little stuff that catches me off-guard and corny music, but not the big stuff.

I read something about "autistic shutdown" that seemed vaguely related to this.
I meant to get back to it and figure it out. Thanks for the reminder.

You're not alone digger1! Gad, I felt like a freak at times, for this very reason, and asked that very question! However, like some others, wierd crap does stir a tender spot in the stony heart of mine. It's said that males are forced to suppress their emotion at times, well all I gotta say is that some times I feel nothing to get worked up about, and wish I could have an emotion to suppress...

This was not the case on two occasions where I was nearly fired however, at which I pretty much collapsed... Also, the time I was basically kicked out of highschool. Oy, when they come, they sure do pour...

I do this sometimes. And then I'll have weird bouts of uncontrollable expressed emotion. Like when I found out my friend Clause was going to Iraq. I hardly know her, but last night I woke up crying about it. But when there is an immediate crisis or some other thing that I'm supposed to express emotion with, sometimes it's not there at all.

hey man, Im in the same boat as you. I cant help but cry reflecting on a moment, but during that moment, its unlikely a tear will be shed. I didnt cry one drop when my father died. I saw my mother drop to her knees saying Im sorry, you're too late, and nothing came out. My brother and mother had me in thier arms and they were the only ones crying. I cry now cause I couldnt cry then. its just one of those things we have to deal with that no one will understand other than us.

You know, we don't all have to be moved by the same things. Emotional response is personal. Does everyone like the same music? The same movies?

And the essence of like and dislike is emotional response.

What's wrong with you?

Nothing.

ok so you perhaps did not cry, but what you did was that you started a thread on wrongplanet about it.
atleast that counts for something.

Don't feel bad. I didn't cry when my daughter was born, either, and I was the one giving birth to her. Only thing I felt at the time she came out was, "Whew, I'm glad THAT part's over." I didn't cry at the end of the movie 'Ol' Yeller,' whereas my husband bawled like a baby over it. I cried at the end of 'Titanic,' though, but have no idea why. I see those commercials with the starving children in Africa or South America and though I want to drag out my check book and send money (which I have many times), the images don't make me cry. On the other hand, there's an ASPCA commercial coming on every now and then featuring all these maimed/abandoned/abused dogs and cats who need homes or money to feed them, and I'm crying like crazy - right before I get out the checkbook. I can't stand to see anyone in pain, but animals really get to me.

Maybe expressing emotion through tears/crying only happens to you when you see people or characters doing something that you really identify with on a subconscious level, like seeing the person in the wheelchair being helped by a Burger King employee (simple human kindness). The other examples you mentioned were of people being cruel to each other, which may horrify you, but not necessarily make you cry.

I do the same thing. My emotions never make sense.

Crying is for little stuff. Cute or sentimental or a little bit sad.

Depression or shutting down or getting angry or serious/rational, or getting off your butt and actually doing something... that's for the big stuff.