Extreme emotion theory of Autism?

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I have never had that thing in the article where it says that there is a "big rush of emotions from people at once too fast to process". I have read some posts from people on this board and I think that quite a few aspies do actually have this.

Me myself was always oblivious to others emotions. It is sort of like the volume of emotions coming from others is almost muted. I can see people having intense emotions around me and remain unaffected by it. In fact I find it interesting and am curious when it is happening.

I think there are quite a few types of Aspergers. I am a very empathetic person and very sympathetic but I actually had to read books to make sense of the emotional side of the world as it was never obvious to me. I think I understand enough now.

I lack empathy as part of my autism.

Different cause, same effect. I have Empathy, insofar as people can have empathy without telepathy (Vulcan mind melds make things sooo much easier) if people bother to tell me what's bothering them.

Then you've got to count in societal effects... girls are freer to be emotional, possibly leading to an increase in autism diagnosis's in boys?

There's a thread on this in the news section, under 'radical new theory on Autism'. Could a moderator please merge the two?

For me its to much emotion to deal with the simple issues of day to day life I find I am often overwhelmed by my feelings as I am unable to contain them and openly express even the smallest thought anyone else like that?

Emotion/reasoning isn't a left/right brain, it's the amygdala vs the frontal lobe. I'm left handed, by the way.

I'm noticing that this thread has been dead for three years before coming to life. But anyway the theory is quite interesting. I didn't know it until now. There's another thread about it, and an interview, here, just a few months ago: http://www.wrongplanet.net/article419.html

Indeed, for me it makes enough sense. I never felt that I had any lack of feeling, but just the opposite: an overcharge. And this overcharge happens in every life's aspect: either from the sensory point of view, either for the empathic point of view, and even from the annalitical point of view: my mind processes every detail around me, everywhere, every time.