Do you get emotional over things that you really shouldnt?

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About two days after I got diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, my Mum realizing I was feeling pretty down decided to buy a copy of the movie "A Monster Calls" with Liam Neeson, Sigourney Weaver and Felicity Jones (realising I was a big fan of her and her movies)

She asked me if I wanted to watch it with her one evening and I agreed to it
I'm going into spoilers now, so if you wish to see this movie...spoilers ahead

When that happened, I absolutely lost it...I started crying uncontrollably. I hugged my Mum for a good 5 mins...I apologized for not being nicer to her when I was younger and whatever difficulties the autism I had caused. Granted my Mum's response was "None of the bad stuff that happened matters to me anymore" and so forth....dang

Has anyone else had a similar experience with a movie or something really minor?

Well I get pretty angry about willfully ignorant posts about climate change on facebook.....like no getting extra cold weather where you live does not disprove global warming, just proves these idiots have never looked up what global warming or climate change even is.

News f*****g flash, global warming includes freakishly cold tempatures in regions it doesn't normally occur and more common severe weather which I'd think any idiot could see we are getting a bit more severe weather than normal in a lot of regions. Like record cold tempatures on the east coast, and yet here in Colorado, its a bit unusually warm for a winter...we've had maybe 3 snows this entire winter.

Or when that mean cardassian guy talks to his daughter and she gets shot or whatever, that part was hard to watch to and I was just beginning to really like her as a character.

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I've cried over an episode of the Simpsons... I've cried over an episode of Star Trek... I don't dare watch anything that's a real weepie. So the answer's yes.
I think these things are connecting to something deep inside yourself rather than the sadness of what you are actually watching. Maybe I need (more) therapy.

I almost cried on the episode of DS9 where the dominion took away Odos shape shifter ability, like they totally took his identity away seemed quite the nasty punishment.

Or the one where the captian gets stuck in this other dimension and his son lives out his life and ends up killing himself to hopefully bring time back to where it was which luckily works...but yeah it was hard not to cry for that episode.

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In the movie AI when the kid was being abandoned by his mom I lost it big time. About the only time that's happened over a movie.

Yeah, if I go to the movies, I have to take a pack of tissues with me.
And IRL the worst thing is seeing innocent animals suffer. But to me that's something that one should get emotional over, and people who don't are heartless monsters

Why do you think that happened?

I agree, and I'm pretty certain in my case that alexithymia is partly to blame. I have a very hard time identifying and communicating my emotions, and it seems that having an external prompt quite often leads to a "eureka" moment where what I'm feeling suddenly become more clear to me, or I make the connection between what I'm feeling and what was the cause of it.

I think also, that after decades of living undiagnosed and desperately trying to "pass", I've conditioned myself to never show strong emotions in front of other people in case they get a glimpse of the "autistic me" behind the mask. Episodes of the Simpsons regularly used to make me cry back when I had a TV and a job. It would often be the first thing on TV after getting home from a stressful day at work and would often push me over the edge into tears. The loneliness of living behind my mask without real emotional contact would become overpowering in contrast with the end of each show when the characters resolved their crazy problems and showed how much they really cared about each other.

Yes and that's what started the bullying in the first place.

I'm pretty detached even when it comes to movies or TV shows.

I watched Disney/Pixar's Inside Out for the first time on Saturday and found a few parts more tear-jerking than I thought would be, which is kind of odd because I didn't cry when Mufasah died, or even when Bambi's mother died.

But I did really enjoy the movie, and now that I'd finally got around to seeing it I was able to create a household based on the emotions in The Sims 4. Actually, that may have been my main reason for watching it. I plan to watch Zootopia next.