Uncontrollable crying as a child... a form of meltdown?

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One of my most vivid recollections of being a kid was that I cried easily and often, and I couldn't do a thing about it. Being surprised by a loud noise, getting yelled at, someone being mean to me, and perhaps some other things, but that's typical of most kids, right? But what strikes me is the uncontrollableness aspect. So, what do you think? AS, or regular childhood crying fits?

I always thought it was me being tender hearted and too sensitive. Now I rarely cry. I am not going to cry now if someone says something mean to me or is ignorant or if someone didn't believe me.


I have noticed with aspies is either they are too emotional or not enough emotions.

I cried all the time as a kid. But then I had frequent panic attacks and was afraid of everything.

I'm a highly sensitive person and I always have been. I had to fake toughness around my bullies my entire life. It's been a real pain in the neck, pretending to be tough.

Sounds like AS-type meltdowns...which stems from an inability to regulate your emotions in reaction tom external events that you couldn't handle at the time (I.e. a loud sound)

That describes me to a T. I was always told I was "too sensitive" and would cry if anyone yelled at me (which was all the time) or when something upset me. It didn't help that I had an emotionally abusive mother who would get even angrier if I started crying. I couldn't control it until I got on anti-depressants when I was in my 20s. They sort of blunted me emotionally enough to stop being so sensitive to everything.

I was one of those kids. I mostly cried silently, but I did so often. Every once in a while I would get hysterical for seemly no reason. I still do that. It's still rare. Very difficult to calm down and just...breathe. That has mostly been either a panic attack reaction (normally I panic in silence) or an "i suck so much" reaction.

Edited: grammatical error. cannot stand.

Yes, especially towards the end of the day and afterward I would sleep really sound.

During the day however probably a similar reaction would lead me to extreme anger and breaking/throwing things.

Nowadays as an adult....i think because I have to repress a lot of that extreme anger and that leads to crying fits. (ashamed of this -.-)

Melt downs as a kid I didn't really feel guilty...i felt like I had been done wrong some how and now I had justice.

As an adult I am just ashamed of meltdowns, and shutdowns just shut me down.

It could be part of your brain mechanisms, but I'm no expert. If I knew what caued it with me, I'd stop my own crying myself. I have had uncontroled crying for no reason, just not that much.

It's not fun at all, because of another's ignorance. I've been punished once because of it. Three other times I was humiliated, because the other person wouldn't shut up, let it go, and leave me the alone! They wouldn't listen to me when I told them I couldn't help it, and that it was just happening for no reason.

Oh. I just thought about the meltdown part of it. Good point. It very well could be some form of meltdown. Yeah, parts of the body do force rest periods.

I remember I used to cry a lot when I was 7 or 8. When all the family came over, I used to cry and cry really intensely, instead of just enjoying playing with my cousins who were also children around my age. This didn't happen every time, but I still remember the times when it did happen. I really frown upon it now, and I feel angry with myself because you're only a child once, and to spend it crying instead of just playing with other children really makes me hate myself for it. Now I'm grown-up, I'll give anything to be an 8-year-old again, and give it a second chance.