Emotions

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I have noticed that there seems to be several kinds of aspie around...those who feel very deeply but simply haven't the means to express it in words in real life etc, and those who do not have a great deal of emotion to start with and who truly are 99% logic based...which category do you fall into and how, if you are the former kind, do you deal with all the emotions inside?

I always feel that my emotions are lost in translation and imprisoned, which is why I have a great passion for sharing my music and my lyrics and poetry...but I cannot talk about them in person, and even in IM I find I stumble a lot. In that sense, I truly am two people because what is inside myself is rarely if ever seen by others on the outside.

I'm somewhere in between, I do have emotions, and I don't know how to express them, but they got somehow malformed along the way, coming at inappropriate times and burying me, or not coming at all, even when I know I should be feeling something, just leaving me...cold.

I'm both.

I have deep logic and deep emotion also.

Either is worthless alone.

I'm the former. As for dealing with them I have a few rutines.

1: Find an activity that is completely absorbing and takes my mind off of them. Usualy video games, but it can be a task I have put off like cleaning. (Internet surfing counts too)

2: Watch a show that makes me laugh realy hard. I like family guy, and colbert report.

3: Walk around the yard for a while (or some other action that makes me physicaly tired) I'm lucky enough to live on 4 acres.

4: Veg out and watch something boring or informative on Discovery chanel or National Geo. This often puts me to sleep which is just as well.

5: Turn on 24 hour news and do same as number 4.

6: Ice cream. Extreme fudge moosetracks, nuff said.

7: Compile a silly numbered list of activities on the internet.


If I know a person long enough I can express things to a certain degree, but certain issues are basicaly un-touchable. This is particularly true in "Real life".

I agree with Flagg. I feel like two people sometimes. There's this emotional side going off and doing its thing, and then there's this other side rationally calculating the situation and putting things in perspective. I think that's why we can act in stressful situations where others can't even function--we can separate our sides.

Of course, I find with certain emotions, I have to let them out sometime, or I'll get sick, get spacey, or those overpowering motins will come out inappropriately.

Rjaye.

Interesting. I once was entirely against my emotions - they were the dark uncontrollable side of me. Then, I learned to give in to them, and found that maybe they were better locked away. It was too late though, and I've learned to cope with them. Though most of the time, I don't seem to have them, I can pull them out to play with.

Good post. Really insightful.

I'm the deeply emotional and thoughful type. My emotions are overpowering and dominate my life. I find it hard to express how this is to anyone.

I was told by several psych that I am "out of touch with my emotions"....I will be crying but say(and believe)that I do not "feel" sad.I will be having a conversation about something I am interested in(psychology,philosophy,gender issues,politics,religion)and be told to "calm down","dont get so mad"...when I am feeling no such thing,just impassioned and interested in the conversation(kind of a high).

When they ask me how I feel about something.....I would most often say,"confussed,frustrated with someones lack of logic or laziness "....are those emotions?They certainly have a "feel" in my body.So my problem is sometimes putting a label on the emotion.

I was also "accused" of "over intellectualizing".(thats wrong?)I would break something down into it's components and try and figure out why it wasnt working and they seemed to resent this.I thought they were having "control issues".Isnt the purpose of therepy supposed to be "in-site".Evidently it's supposed to be ...."to feel".

Sometimes I feel someone else's pain so strongly it is like physical attack on my own body(like when I see a client in a wheelchair without a towel over them,obviously very cold and powerless............Or I hear a dog,where I work, howling and begging me for some attention...I know they are lonly,confussed why they have been deserted by their clan and unsure of what is going to happen to them....they transmit this to me and I am compelled to give them some physical comfort and attention even though I am not SUPPOSED to,because my manager says they could attack me while I am working over night alone(law suit).When I hear GW Bushes voice on the TV....I want to hunt him down and shoot him.Every time I am exposed to his self-righteousness and contempt for the truth.....I feel rage.Surely these count as emotioms.When I hear little snippets of the suffering in Darfur region and then ten minutes about movie stars on CNN....I become depressed.Are these emotions?


So,I am a bit confused by emotions.I seem to have stronger reactions to others emotions then most things in my own life.Before I went on anti-depressants,the above things would have me ruminating on suicide to escape the suffering I feel about the "state of humanity"....now,it mostly makes me mad to in-raged......progress.

When it comes to emotions? Well, I can be quite deep but, for most of the times I tend to be very quiet for reasons that in some ways I'd not wish to feel tormented for, there have been times when I've been most passionate about various things which sometimes, not always mind you led me to be looked at as being strange. I suppose this happens to relate to the fact, persons whom tend to be shallow don't like someone whom represents a depth of a deep lake emotion wise so, in many ways you don't see a great deal of posts from myself that are huge in length. Ah, that will change gradually over times as I become more familiar with others here since, I'm not no Darth Vader as such.

emotions annoy me. in social gatherings i find it very hard to express them because i cant hear what other people are talking about most of the time. what is most fustrating is that i cry when im angry which is the last thing i want to do in those situations.

I want to say that emotions are there in everyone in the same amount. I know that, though i have a reputation for being emotionless (among people who meet me), i feel as much emotion as anyone. I think that's because we are a less social people we just haven't evolved the ability to express emotions in the lively complex way that NTs do it.

Van Gogh once wrote - 'There is a blazing fire in the hearth of my soul - why is it that no one will come to sit down by it?'

But - i have met people who seem to have very little emotion - who give you the gut feeling that there really isn't much there. They don't even respond to touch. I think they're a different animal altogether.

The part of me the word sees is logical. I keep my emotions under very tight lock and key. When I'm emotional, I can't access the logical part of my brain and I can't really even talk about it. I have issues that I cannot bring myself to talk about. I seldom seek comfort from anyone. I'm very autistic emotionally.