emotional reaction to unfairness

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Does anyone else have an extreme emotional reaction to unfairness? For example, I can't watch movies where someone is getting "framed" because it is too upsetting.

It feels like it's related to the aspect of myself that I think of as Aspie. So I'm just wondering.

Anyone relate?

That bothers me, too. I have to change the channel.

Things that I perceive as "unfair" anger me greatly. Unfairness is one of the things that actually makes me properly mad.

Yes, totally.

Glad to know others experience this. If the injustice is part of a social situation, my extreme reaction messes with my social skills and sometimes I say things that I regret later as being too belligerent.

Not just being framed.

But also being blamed for things out of one's control, having things out of reach/invalided of urgency/obstructed because prejudice/being poor/not knowing any better/sheer dumb luck, and the whole idea that there's simply nothing can be done despite all the effort done.

It's also not limited to social injustices, but how it could be in the first place.



I studied my reaction at least once.

It is very provoking.
The indignant feeling -- sensing the helplessness, the irritation towards ignorance and thoughts of what should have been had not been the case.

But I can handle it.

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Thanks for sharing your experiences! Yesterday my daughter was accused of cheating (and I know for sure she didn't)...the teacher said that 3 coding projects were identical, and since nobody would confess, he had to write up all three of the kids. This struck me as so unfair; I was shaking with outrage!

It got me all riled up to the point that I forgot all of my carefully self-taught "communicating with teachers" skills and wrote a very angry email that probably made things worse. Then I wrote another letter apologizing for the angry tone of the first one.

My daughter is ASD too, and she avoids eye contact and acts very serious and quiet. I think maybe people misinterpret that as sullenness.

Hopefully my social mistake won't hurt her chances for justice. But I've already decided I'm going to fight this and not give up. This would look bad on her high school transcript and is not fair at all since it was either a computer glitch or another student stole my daughter's work while she was in the restroom (she takes frequent long bathroom breaks because of her GI issues.)

Perceived injustice is a huge issue for me. In any shape or form it gets my blood boiling. Although real-life examples bother me significantly more than fictional ones.

"life" is not always fair

For example, some five year olds get cancer and drop dead. They didn't do anything wrong and cancer is the punishment

Sometimes defendants get sent to jail when they were not guilty

Racism sexism homophobic fat phobia ableism classism

Disease disability

Poverty

Personality

I'm also the same way. I can't watch movies like that. I also have to change the channel.

Movies are just entertainment