Intensity of emotional response, numbing of muscles?

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Hello all!,

I have been lurking on this forum for some time, but this is my first post.
Furthermore, I've been editing this opening paragraph for so long that I just need to be blunt (first post and all!):

I find some of my emotional responses to be irrationally intense, the most bizarre of which is that I experience a numbing of a very specific muscle when I see specific situations of physical pain in other people - a sort of "affective" empathy muscle if you will. Does anyone here experience this? or relate to it at all?

I ask this question here because I remember SBC writing in his book that some studies have shown that some autistic people, while struggling with cognitive empathy, might have an increased affective emapthy (I don't want to contribute to the "sourceless" internet so I tried looking it up, but couldn't find the passage in question at this time, but it is somewhere in the first half of the book)

Anyways, thanks for reading!

EDIT: Just realized I posted in the wrong section.

OK first of all, welcome to WP
that said
people here, are a lot less concerned with how you write, more interested in what you write it. So you can relax a bit.

I'm not sure I understand your muscle issues fully. I did find the siteminds and hearts helpful with understanding the chemical side of asperger reactions to problems helpful.
The muscle rigidity, ability to ignore pain (numbing), issues with the ability to think clearly during certain times. I think the MP4 d/load was called emotionable management or something similar. It explains the chemical side of our emotions very clearly .

Again, welcome to Wrong Planet
Bill