I really don't understand about Theory of Mind

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Strange isn't it?

hence your autism. lol. i realize your post backing that is more invovled, but i just started cracking up with that title. sorry. pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

I can't seem to comfortably predict how someone will react to something I say, even family members. It causes me a lot of anxiety, since I really don't want to upset anyone. Sometimes it renders me mute.

I don't understand the question.

I don't think I have ever cried when happy. That had always confused me. As a child I used to think why someone was sad and I couldn't get the concept they were not sad but I learned that crying means sad. Now I can tell just by looking at the scenario. If a mother cries after having her healthy baby, she is happy. If a mother cries when her baby is sick after giving birth, she is sad.

I once cried upon realizing I was in love. But it was when I realized it, not after the fact. I'm suspecting now that she cried immediately after the scene, because she was starting to have the feeling while it was being made and held in the tears until it was done. Then she let them out. That would make sense.

I think the earlier post distinguishing sympathy from empathy was very good. I can figure something out and care, but I don't always know what I'm seeing in the first place. Sometimes I figure it out correctly, and sometimes I don't. Also, I often feel others don't know what they're seeing when I'm thinking or feeling something. I get misunderstood. So, I must give different signals sometimes from what others might expect to see. So, it goes both ways. In fact, the very fact that I might express myself differently might have something to do with why I misunderstand others.