Do you cry more easily than most people?

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Yes. Always been very sensitive. At school I would cry every day, over "little" things whether physical pain or emotional frustration. Sometimes even I didn´t know the reason why I was crying but it usually made me feel better. I still feel like crying a lot (reasons vary from having to move residence to breaking my mp3-player) but I have learned to control it (both ways - I can also cry whenever I want to, just by thinking something very emotional to me) and I rarely cry hysterically anymore, though whenever in need of comfort that is pretty much all I can do. There´s plenty of music that makes me want to cry, and I can´t watch pretty much anything on tv without getting tears in my eyes. I tend to get very sentimental.

I cry very easily, and am very sensitive. My feelings get hurt easy, or even when I am very angry I will cry. Frustration is probably the biggest. I also too cry when I see an animal suffer or someone hurt an animal, or seeing dead animals on the road. I will cry over an animal before I will cry over a person, unless it is someone very close to me. I feel guilty about that sometimes.

I cry very easily. Especially during films. I cry if they make me sad or happy but just about anything can set me off. I often cry when I see something of great beauty, like a picture, a bird in flight or the sun setting. Music also makes me cry for the same reason. If I haven't cried for a while I will actually watch a film to induce crying, I love the feeling and I find it incredibly cathartic.

I do get embarrased when I cry around people. I know most men are ashamed because it detracts from their macho image, but for me I just don't like being the centre of attention.

When I cry it is for a couple of minutes only (if I am around people, if I am home it can be longer since I don't try to control it).

But I look calm, except for the fact that there are tears streaming down my face. I sit there in the conversations (seems to happen mostly in conversations) listening. I can comment but rarely use energy to do so. Then I go in the bathroom, calm down and come out emotionally exhausted but able to continue work or whatever it is I was doing.

And I have a harder time controlling it if people try to comfort me. I think they have learned that since they don't anymore.

When I am upset about something specific I don't cry about it until I am home alone. When around people I say nothing about anything. I just listen but don't have the energy to participate.

Would you say it's common for Aspies to be deeply moved by fiction but not find major life-events all that emotional?

Yes, I cry because of sadness, because of happiness, and just because of anger or extreme frustration or stress.

I have always had a tendency to get really moved by things, and I cry at the drop of a hat. It's usually due to either frustration, discouragement, or stress. It is most likely to happen when in conflict with someone else, as people have their own minds and thoughts and I can't change them.

I don't cry very often, but when I do it's eather because of sensory overload, are because I get to stressed out about something.

I cry at everything. Unless it's like a sad film. Or in other words somebody elses problem. Sounds awfull, but if it's nothing to do with me I will just annalyze. It would be good if I could be more like that with myself rather than just breaking down. But no.