Hyperempathetic people: do you gush often?

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Do other hyperempathetic people gush about things, either positively or negatively, when a period of especially high empathy is triggered? I know I do.

sorry, what does gush mean?

I "gush" over cute things, like my pets, all the time. That's about it though.

I am hyperempathetic but am not very verbose about it. Oftentimes strong emotions leave me at a loss for words.

I'm a big time gusher.

Usually had a very strong urge to. Just likely would choose not to act too much on it.

Seriously.

Had I've not been this sensitive, my expressions and words would've usually be more economical...

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Today I got all choked up telling a stranger in the grocery store line about a touching TV commercial. (Yes, the commercial was relevant to our discussion, but probably unnecessary - that's how some of us roll, right?) When my friends talk about a past hurt, I am often more emotional about it than they are. Similarly if my youngest child is crying, my 9yo ASD-like daughter will start crying harder than him (or she runs away). If I am feeling something very strongly (coworker returns to work after death of partner) I will turn into the stereotypical ASD flat affect to get through it (and send a compassionate email later). I can't watch the news.

My ASD-like mom is an interesting study in this. She was and is empathic, however she spent most of her life suppressing it and just recently she's open to it. She didn't know how to regulate her emotions and had lots of life challenges so solved it by avoidance. She yelled at and blamed her children to stop us from expressing any negative feelings (so she wouldn't feel them strongly). It was horrible. Now in her late 70s, she's allowing herself to face feelings --- she says she cries all the time now. Personally, I much prefer her increased crying to the alternative.

My gushing is probably directly proportional to my stress or trauma levels. At age 40 there is a lot. Apparently at my mom's age 70 that much more.

I watch a lot of animal rescue videos on YouTube, I find aminals easier to empathize with. Anyway, one of the videos that was suggested to me by YouTube seemed off, it was a rescue of a drowning kitten. Then I watched the next video on that channel, that showed apparently the same kitten being nursed to health after supposedly being struck by a car on a road. The latter showed the kitten dragging its hind legs along the side of the road. Then I went to the comments, sure enough, it's a fake animal rescue channel. The sick f**k tortures those poor animals for views and clicks. I tried reporting it to YouTube, but apparently, they only care about sensitive social issues now, and this animal torture did not fit into any of their categories for reporting.

I never gush; I just cry.
I never have the words to explain why I'm crying.

Mostly internally. Tears I quickly and as nonchalantly 'as in an itch' scratch away. I often have the sensation quite painfully of a tiny 'knife' slowly glide/slice down from the back of my throat, down to my heart, it stabs, then all down through my belly and leave with a flick through the scrotum. It happen when I see pain an sorrow, accidents, hurt, emotional disstress. I'm sorry if this offends but it is how it feels and where.

I also cant see soap (intrigue) and videos of pranking people or heated argumentation, cant be around people that has loud voice due to excessive alcohol consumption and a lot of other things, even sexy females looking at me (I orient myself as simple male). It all saturates different parts of my internal makeup, trigging me to run away. Sometimes my personal comfort space is 10 meters (30 feet). I tend to not look people in the eyes to avoid saturation.

On the outside I'm ugly as normal, calm, inside can flow like a river or roar as a fire-tornado.

I'm not sure if this is what you asked about, it did make me think about this, thus I did tell it.