How do you feel most of the time?

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Hopefully this first poll isn't baseless or nonsensical.

Regarding ASD's, I feel like I'm usually more emotionally unstable and pessimistic because of unequal demands in different areas of my life by different people constantly. Interest don't seem to line up with society that often, and people like to make unjust or unnecessary criticism. This is at least true in my case. Just out of curiosity, how would you describe your prevailing mood? Do you feel like crap constantly or would you consider yourself to be more optimistic. What makes you feel a certain way and is the "neutral" good or boring in your definition?

I'm mostly just trying to figure out if my two theories make sense, that people will pool near the middle neutral area or the community is almost equally divided between the extremes.

I would say that I'm happy about 5 minutes or perhaps 10 out of the entire day and the rest I'm struggling with the reality of my Autistic situation.

I'm in my forties now and I was only diagnosed 4 months ago so I'm still trying to get a grip on this new reality. I came to the conclusion only yesterday that happiness may continue to elude me and at this point I'm simply trying to manage the many shades of grey that my misery is. Most of the time the only thing I have to look forward to is a long hot shower and going to sleep which is the only time I really find any peace.

I learned to numb myself a while ago so typically I'm just content and move one day by day. I still have more downs than ups, but that's life. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Same. I try to stay away from situations that bring me down, I'll settle for being numb any day. Being happy is so rare in my life.

I don't like feeling numb. At those times, i feel like I am ignoring something or not really experiencing life. But usually I am sad and depressed anyway these days.

I suppose I'm okay for most of the time, but do have sad and miserable moments pretty often, too. I don't know if I have them more, less or as much as an average person, but my personal guess would be that I have them a bit more than that. I am occasionally happy, too, like when I'm reading a really good book or something, but those are fleeting moments. When it comes to my own emotions, I don't think I have a state that could be called neutral.

I seem to mostly feel down and lonely. Usually I feel best few hours after waking up especially if it's sunny weather but towards night I get more tired and unhappy. Interacting with people I like or exercising outside may brighten me for a while. Then there's sometimes intense feelings of kind of magical joy which may come to me in nature/outside or listening music, or the intense feeling of joy simultaneously with feeling like world is just too fragile and I am tearing inside and can't really cope with living here.

These days, my prevailing feeling is "apathy.'

Positively average.

I answered "neutral/depends"

Generally I am pretty neutral, certainly not in a negative way though. It used to fluctuate a lot, for now it seems really stable.

Neutral most of the time. I have suffered with bouts of depression following burn-outs, but even then, upwellings of negative emotion tend to be brief episodes, and I'll just be pretty vacant and dissociated the rest of the time. My autism does seem to come with a big dollop of alexithymia, so my impression might be biased by often not knowing what emotion I'm feeling rather than knowing I'm not feeling one (hope that makes sense!)

For the most part, I feel content.

I usually feel disconnected.

I have dysthymia, so apparently I have a low level depression. But I also have alexithymia... So basically I feel a normal meh, to okay today sucks for some reason.

I feel okay most of the time. I wouldn't say I'm a super-happy person all the time, but I don't feel depressed too often anymore.

I feel like I want to be a virgin again....then make sure I find the "right girl" this time.