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15 Nov 2014, 4:55 pm

Some shows everyone's life is miserable and they fight constantly. When you're highly empathetic it can get to a person sometimes.



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15 Nov 2014, 4:59 pm

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You're expected to bear the pressures of responsibility, or the emotional burdens, of all the characters in these stories, whether fictional or real. The same goes for musical lyrics. That's probably tens or hundreds of people.

What's left for yourself, or your own special interests?

Sometimes, I find myself, feeling uncomfortable and don't do anything about it. The room is stuffy, but I don't open a window. It's chilly, but I don't close the window. The rattling of a vent slowly unnerves me.

I think that media can be a source of stress, which is under our conscious control, yet sometimes we don't seize the initiative.


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Are you saying that there is good reason as to why I am the way I am? Do you mean that the reason I have this struggle cause I am so literal and I empathize with everything?


That's what I mean to say.

I find myself saying stuff like this, all the time.

I know we have physical needs, but consider special interests to be a kind of news, fwiw.

It would be theoretically possible to use electronic media, without becoming demotivated and neglecting myself, although I haven't mastered that fine art, to be honest.



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15 Nov 2014, 5:06 pm

friedmacguffins wrote:
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You're expected to bear the pressures of responsibility, or the emotional burdens, of all the characters in these stories, whether fictional or real. The same goes for musical lyrics. That's probably tens or hundreds of people.

What's left for yourself, or your own special interests?

Sometimes, I find myself, feeling uncomfortable and don't do anything about it. The room is stuffy, but I don't open a window. It's chilly, but I don't close the window. The rattling of a vent slowly unnerves me.

I think that media can be a source of stress, which is under our conscious control, yet sometimes we don't seize the initiative.


campboy92 wrote:
Are you saying that there is good reason as to why I am the way I am? Do you mean that the reason I have this struggle cause I am so literal and I empathize with everything?


That's what I mean to say.

I find myself saying stuff like this, all the time.

I know we have physical needs, but consider special interests to be a kind of news, fwiw.

It would be theoretically possible to use electronic media, without becoming demotivated and neglecting myself, although I haven't mastered that fine art, to be honest.


Why is there this whole perception that people on the spectrum can't have empathy, when my life is dominated by it?



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15 Nov 2014, 5:14 pm

Transyl wrote:
Some shows everyone's life is miserable and they fight constantly. When you're highly empathetic it can get to a person sometimes.


Yes



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15 Nov 2014, 5:42 pm

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Why is there this whole perception that people on the spectrum can't have empathy, when my life is dominated by it?


They want you to show empathy and not just be overwhelmed by it, internally.

Some, but not all people, are primarily concerned with outward appearances.

Somewhere, there is a happy medium, between shallow and introverted, where you have feelings, but things get done.



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15 Nov 2014, 5:48 pm

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campboy92 wrote:
Why is there this whole perception that people on the spectrum can't have empathy, when my life is dominated by it?


They want you to show empathy and not just be overwhelmed by it, internally.

Some, but not all people, are primarily concerned with outward appearances.

Somewhere, there is a happy medium, between shallow and introverted, where you have feelings, but things get done.


I get what you mean. i do both.



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15 Nov 2014, 5:53 pm

To be perfectly fair, I don't.

I should be taking a mental break to work on that.



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15 Nov 2014, 6:05 pm

friedmacguffins wrote:
To be perfectly fair, I don't.

I should be taking a mental break to work on that.

True.



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16 Nov 2014, 2:24 am

I do have meltdowns, and get overstimulated once in a while. That goes without saying really, how ever sometimes when I have had enough, and the rush of input doesn't stop, and I know it will not, like some kind of treacherous abuse, there is like a switch, or a trigger. I become much more aware. My senses get very keen. I get very focused. My feelings, and emotions get put to the curb, and it is go time! When it comes to my special interests, I can be ustoppable. It must be the fight, in fight or flight.

I have had quite a bunch of moments like that in many different ways. Some eye of the tiger stuff I guess. Very primeval, predatorial behavior I think.



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16 Nov 2014, 2:33 am

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I do have meltdowns, and get overstimulated once in a while. That goes without saying really, how ever sometimes when I have had enough, and the rush of input doesn't stop, and I know it will not, like some kind of treacherous abuse, there is like a switch, or a trigger. I become much more aware. My senses get very keen. I get very focused. My feelings, and emotions get put to the curb, and it is go time! When it comes to my special interests, I can be ustoppable. It must be the fight, in fight or flight.

I have had quite a bunch of moments like that in many different ways. Some eye of the tiger stuff I guess. Very primeval, predatorial behavior I think.


i RELATE somuch.