Can you confidently identify what emotion you feel?

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Like, if you were feeling envious, could you say "oh, I was feeling envious that time." I really can't tell sometimes, I have to settle for something that might be that or I'll just feel that I'm feeling more than 1 feeling at the same time (yay redundancy).

But yeah, I think I'm the only one that does this...

Alot of times I have to think about it; so it is really hard for me most of the time.

Rarely if ever

PISSED

Some emotions don't have names. Sometimes the best you can hope for is a rough approximation of what you actually feel.

The English language is limited in some ways. There may be words in other languages for emotions that aren't in English, and vice versa.

Usually, but that has not always been the case.

It is spotty. Then because my ability to identify an emotion is spotty, I tend to doubt my accuracy each time. My belief is that there is far more to AS emotional issues than an inability to sense the emotions of those NTs around us. I know that in my case I seem to lack a total emotional fluency in all aspects: receipt, internal procession, and transmission.
Further, I note that aat 53 I am a bit less limited than I was 30 years ago. I consider the matter to be dynamic. That I am quite literally "retarder" emotionally. Let me explain: by ret*d I mean that I still progress, but that i am progreassionally behind the NTs in this regard.

It's often difficult for me to tell why I'm angry or upset, but I can usually explain my other emotions.

I have that problem sometimes. I often feel "confused" about my own emotions. Sometimes I can't work out if I feel depressed or just bored...

If the emotion is intense it is easier to indentify.

As a novelist and a reader I have understood my emotions but the cause of panic I don't know how that starts.

Most of the time it's guesswork, unless it's fear, anger or indifference.

Easy as cake. I don't go into denial about my emotions and pretend I'm not experiencing a negative emotion if I clearly am. To me, my emotional state is just another sensory input like sight, smell, touch, hearing, taste, body orientation, pressure, etc.

It's either the confused/angry/sad mixture that has no name, or it isn't. Life is easy.

Seriously, I have problems with subtlety, both in reading other people, and myself. Unless something is quite obvious, and it is being shown, I'm clueless, so I go to the confused/angry/sad mix...

Same here. Sometimes I think I'm angry but I actually start crying, so I just guess that I was either both angry and sad at the same time or just so frustrated to the point that I'm crying. And sometimes my face gets really hot spontaneously like I'm angry or embarrassed, but I don't think I feel angry at all..

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I wonder how much harder people have it even though they have AS just like me..