very few emotions?

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I am very unemotional, and my family actually pokes fun at me for it. I mean, i feel depression when criticized, and happiness, etc. But like, during a sad part of a movie, I will not cry, or even feel sadness, and I get joked at by my family because of it. My brother sometimes jokes about my "emo-ness"

I mean, here on the message forums I do seem to have emotions, but I am able to steal lines, and emotions from television, and incorporate them into my text. I do the same thing when I talk to myself. I seem to be more of a comedian sometimes in my typing... yeah... I watch ellen as well...

Offline I am less emotional, I can be happy-go-lucky, but mostly quiet and reserved, depending on whether or not I am watching TV... I usually hate talking, unless I am talking about science. Than I cannot shut up.

anyone else relate? (if people can even understand what I just typed... I am horrid at making understandable sentences... I failed my 8 page research paper in 11th grade because of my poor sentence structure...)

I can definitely relate. I dont feel I have appropriate reactions to movies and other situations. I have a positive attitude about things but am not very emotional. Science talk is my favorite!

I am somewhat emotional but I feel I don't show my emotion to others much.

I tend to wear my motions on me sleeve, especially when angry or irritated. I mask depression pretty easily.

I do actually have lots of emotions, and I show them too. I even tell people how I'm feeling. Yesterday I felt stressed out about things, and when I got to my friend's house I said, ''I just feel so stressed.'' She made a drink and we sat down on the settee and talked about it, which made me feel better.

I don't know what I'd do if I had nobody to tell share my emotions with.

I seem not to really have many positive emotions, either I am depressed, angry, numb...or maybe mildly content. Maybe that is from being depressed so long my brain did not develop the capacity to experiance a lot of positve emotions, but I cannot say for sure.

At least part of it's that we have our _own_ emotions, that we don't mirror others' emotions very easily, maybe especially with something like your sad movie, where our cues for what the actors are feeling are limited to sight (of their faces, and it's not much of our whole field of vision) and sound (their voices, and maybe sad music background). (Also depends on just how good at acting the actors are!) That leaves us smell, touch, and taste that aren't affected at all. In the Real World, with other people, we don't even get as many cues or do as much mirroring as NTs do -- someone was talking about mirror cells in our brains that, when someone smiles at us, we tend to smile back at them, and the very feel of the smile on our own faces makes us feel happier. It was said in whatever (maybe here, maybe some of the reading I was doing, I don't remember), that Aspies don't have as many of those mirror cells, or connections, as NTs do.

I know movies, television, don't affect me very strongly, except one kind, the scary horror movies, and the gross shots of autopsies and dead bodies in pieces, etc, that shows like CSI seem to specialize in. Those affect me much too strongly, may give me nightmares. I've learned to be careful what I watch. There's one image I saw on television about ten years ago that has stuck with me and still pops up at unwary moments.

I feel emotions pretty strongly, but sometimes they take a while to kick in. This confuses people. It confuses me... sometimes it takes so long that I can't even figure out what triggered them to start with.

I know I feel emotions, but I've been told repeatedly lately that I don't express them very much. I also tend to feel like I'm emotionally "neutral" until I reach a certain threshold. Not that I go from neutral to pure emotion, but it can make it hard to work out why I'm feeling a particular emotion when the trigger seemed pretty mild. And it's not that I don't feel emotions, but I don't really express them. I am more likely to say something is "funny" than I am to laugh at it, for example.

Actually, when describing my childhood, my mother said I never expressed emotion.

In another thread recently, I left a brief description of this, but someone reinterpreted what I was saying into, "flip out for no reason." The truth is, I hardly ever get anywhere near flipping out at anyone emotionally. The last few times I even came close to this, I had pretty good reasons for it (like, say, having someone post a list of lies about me while accusing me of lying - but that was close to a year ago). Usually what prompts extreme reactions has more to do with sensory overload - like trying to find clothes that fit and going to the dressing room in a loud, brightly lit, crowded store.

I feel this way too. I have even been told I don't express myself well. I can feel them like stress, anger, embarrassment, sad, mad, but I have been told I don't express it well. I can yell too and cry. My husband says that is only when I ever express them is when I have anxiety or have meltdowns. I can say this pisses me off, its too stressful. I used to think I could express them fine but it was my shrink that pointed out to me that I had troubles with my own emotions and feelings. Every time I expressed them, he said those were just thoughts, not feelings. But honestly I don't see how that is an impairment.

I also often feel I don't have any emotional attachments or feel anything about stuff. But yet I can feel sad when I see a building getting ripped down and also upset because I hate it when cities take away history. But I also block them out too because I hate feeling this way.


I have cried at movies but that has always been an embarrassment for me. Movies have stressed me out too like if a character is going to make it or not or or if someone is going to get killed or not. But I have learned to not let movies get to me like that.

When I was younger I often was being told that I always look sad when I wasn't which got on my nerves at times. Then I tried to better my emotional expression and I was being told that my reactions look highly exaggerated and unnatural. So I stopped and nowadays... I've been often told that I don't express emotions neither in my voice nor in my face so people can't tell what I'm thinking. I only seem to express extreme emotions with great intensity.... that's the few times where it's noticeable to others.
I don't know why that is. I think I have emotions but it is apparently not enough to "think", you have to "feel" in a way that takes your emotions turn on the outside for everybody to see.

I have two primary emotional states: flat and anxious.

The more vibrant emotions, such as joy and sadness and even anger, are almost novelties.