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19 Nov 2012, 1:26 am

So many things make me burst into tears... beautiful things, sad things, lovely things... tonight on the news I saw Obama meeting Aung San Suu Kyi and I cracked... so wonderful.

I havent been to the movies for many years because of this ... losing it.


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19 Nov 2012, 6:44 am

I cry at movies consistently. I'm apathetic toward the real world. I wasn't always, but being underemotional is a much more effective social strategy than being overemotional.



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19 Nov 2012, 6:53 am

We signed up for our daughter to receive a free video e-mail from Santa. I was very emotional just listening to him talking about the things we'd typed into the website about her.


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19 Nov 2012, 7:47 am

Oddly enough I have just realised that I am over emotional but don't know how to control it so avoid emotions and keep a cap on them as i would fall apart and tear up at the slightest thing.. its like a tap I don't want to turn on.. I fel its weak to show emotion....

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19 Nov 2012, 7:53 am

I can certainly relate to the emotional disparity between reality and fiction. I have difficulty with emotional connections, even to close family and cant honestly say I felt emotional at my grandad's funeral for example but I am a 30 year old man and films can quite often make me tear up if I am not careful and let myself become engrossed in a heavy sad scene.


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19 Nov 2012, 12:15 pm

But are you "Crazy" -you know- about feeling so lonely?


And do you go... walking after midnight?

Sorry.

Cant see the phrase "I Fall to Pieces" without thinking of Patsy Cline.

I do cry in some movies.



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19 Nov 2012, 1:12 pm

I'm having a Patsy Cline moment with the title of this thread :wink:

I was watching Long Island Medium and some parents had lost their little girl who had a genetic disorder. As they were talking about it and showing emotion, I really didn't feel anything. But when they showed a picture of here where she was obviously not well but she was smiling a beautiful little spirit through the pain, I just lost it. Suffering kills me.



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19 Nov 2012, 1:21 pm

tall-p wrote:
So many things make me burst into tears... beautiful things, sad things, lovely things... tonight on the news I saw Obama meeting Aung San Suu Kyi and I cracked... so wonderful.

I havent been to the movies for many years because of this ... losing it.


I have this. It's called emotional dysregulation and it's part of AS, although not everyone with AS necessarily has it.


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