Disgust

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A very long time I didn't understand disgust.
I couldn't spot the difference in the faces between fear and disgust, eventhough I'm not that bad in interpreting emotions in faces correctly, but disgust was just an emotion I nevery truely understood.
I didn't even know, that most people have more disgust than me.
I still don't understand how you can have disgust in social situations, for me it is something what has to do with food only.

But now, being in puberty I have more disgust than usually, not too much, just more like other people it is more coming to me, that understanding what this emotion actually is.

What for experiences do you have with disgust and why do some people feel disgust in social situations?
Why is this emotion improtant anyway? I mean, why do we have it?

I think NTs feels disgust at many more levels than AS people do.

Personally I understand why NTs may be disgusted if I were to return to a dinner table and submitting a mission status report on my visit to the toilet where I went number two. I too would also be somewhat disgusted by that. The same thing goes for farting in a social setting.

However where I (and possibly most AS people) differ from NTs, is what a subject fall on something which I find facinating like a good blunt force trauma. I've been in a conversation where their even by NT standard was a direct link to progressing the conversation towards blood, but as soon as I did bring it up they were immediately disgusted. What I've noticed overall is that you should definitely stay away from bodily fluids of any sort.

All of us have certain values that we believe in. Some of those values were those values our parents raised us with that we elected to retain. Some are others that we acquired over time. It's all in our personal make-up. I was raised in a liberal athiest family. Yet I became a God-fearing arch-conservative. How does one explain that? Rebellion? I think not. It's simply that I was wired differently. That's all. And I'm not that rebellious, or I woudn't have made it in the service as well as I did.

All of us have our perceptions and as time goes on and we grow into adulthood, we become more passionate about our beliefs. As such, some things remain okay but other things become repugnant. My first experience with disgust happened when I was a boy. I saw a Vietnam War protester spit on a soldier returning home from the war. I was disgusted not only with the act, but the protester. I then went to the protester and spat on him, telling him that I was spitting on him because he spat on the soldier. The protester said he didn't deserve to be spat on. I said that he did deserve it. I told him I may only be 5 years old, but I'm smart enough to know that the soldier didn't have a choice in going. The protester shrugged and said that he never thought of it that way. I then told the protester that he ought to get a shave, a haircut, and a bath. I told him that it was disgusting that he looked like a bearded girl. He laughed, said I'd be like him too, when I grew up, and then went to join his friends. My parents scolded me for my behavior. That disgusted me even more.

Fast-forwarding to today, the very sight of my parents disgust me. It's because of their hypocracy. I haven't spoken to them since 1997, and have no regrets. That's just the way life is.

Longshanks

I experience disgust in the form of being incapable of doing anything right, exhausting all logical solutions. Anyone that doesn't think they've ever felt disgust; watch a show like Nancy Grace or Dateline and I'll bet you'll feel something, anger if anything

I feel disgusted easily, but not by things NTs feel disgusted by. For example, someone biting their nails triggers no disgust reaction in me whatsoever. However, if I see a person with long nails, that disgusts me to no end. If they have nail polish on, it's OK. Or if they are neatly filed. But I just can't stand looking at long fingernails.

One weird little quirk I have is that I am disgusted by words. The word "pu**", disgusts me a lot for example, so does the word a**h*le. I think it's because I see a literal version of the word.

Also, I can't look at other people's injuries, except for some reason, bite marks, but cuts really gross me. I am also grossed out by brains.

For some reason, passing gas in a social situation isn't disgusting to me at all. I know that it "should" be, but if someone does it, it doesn't really bother me. However, people going "Ew! Who passed gas?" grosses me out. This is unrelated but the word "f*rt", is banned in my house.