My video blog about having Aspergers

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jtmrb-FxwA[/youtube]

I have a hard time feeling sorry for people I know more than random people I don't. I would definitely sacrifice one family member to save 100 people.

Same with the constant thinking. I cannot ever stop thinking. My mind is constantly running, even when I'm sleeping.

I'm a cat person too. I want to like dogs, but it's kind of difficult.

"Not really concerned with what other people think." Yup, that sounds like me.

And by the way you seemed to have good social skills (but who am I to judge that ), and I lol'd at the "neurotypical s***"

Don't have time to watch now, but I've subscribed to your channel.

Hey, just got around to watching this and I can relate to pretty much everything you've said.

I'm not sure if it's true that Aspies don't cry at funerals because doing so is a social conformity thing. Because if that's true, then it would be easy for anyone to just start crying on mental command. One has to feel the sadness in order to cry, I would think. My hypothesis as to why it's difficult for Aspies to cry at funerals is because we often see everything in life as separate stimuli, with everything that goes on at funerals included. Because of the commotion of funerals, our mind cannot get into the emotional state required for us to cry. As a kid, I burst out laughing at the funeral of my grandfather. A week later, I was sitting in my room alone and thinking back to my times with my grandfather. After perseverating on these thoughts for a while, I worked myself up into a state where I burst out crying. If there was someone beside me or any other attention-catching stimuli around me, my mind would be completely absorbed by them. Hence, it would not be able to focus inward on more complex emotions such as grief.

I, too, was far more emotional as a kid. Everything was much more intense back then because it wasn't as conceptualized into abstract concepts as it is now.

I also think a lot and my thoughts tend to get stuck in repetitive loops. I don't have OCD, though. I think it's just part of my Asperger's.