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04 Aug 2008, 3:55 am

I think your reaction was caused by great stress, our brain tries to forget it often to save the nerves from breaking down. I can't advise if it was due to AS; may be that time your brain just abstracted, I guess it's the AS feature. Anyway, it's very good that you are not broken yourself.



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04 Aug 2008, 8:21 am

arkityp wrote:
however, we tend to absorb more emotional damage because essentially, we are walking around in the dark and only able to deal with what we've learned through our night vision. it shouldn't be any wonder that we are blindsided when it comes to traumatic experiences.


I believe that is a very astute observation.


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04 Aug 2008, 11:25 am

Strange in so far as that I don't get traumatised from potentially traumatising events.

I mean, I have emotions, I know what I felt, I know what happened, I can give a lengthy talk about it, I can talk to the people involved, I spontaneously react normal to them or similar situations and I never had an issue or reacted atypically. It's neither on my mind, nor something that is far away, but the same as every other memory.

Connected to that are probably some others factors. Such as that nightmares are a normal and healthy part of being typically average but I have none. I call sad dreams my nightmares.

Normal people do learn from being hurt, too. I'll just cut myself again because I have the vegetable in my hand while I cut it. Or touch the toaster that's freakin hot. I'm absolutely intuitively resistant to such experiences.


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04 Aug 2008, 11:36 am

msinglynx wrote:
Aurore wrote:
Hi everyone.
I was wondering if my reaction was maybe due to AS, as in, my emotional memory is weaker than the other parts of my memory. Does anyone here have blunted emotional memory, or, if not, unusual responses to horrible personal trauma?


hehehe you asked my question but better.


Yeah, I found your post yesterday and thought it was awesome, we were thinking about the same thing.


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06 Aug 2008, 2:07 pm

I can definitely agree on having a blunted emotional response and memory. Trying to talk about how I feel is like trying to talk about what shade of blue the sky is to me. My brain is disconnected between logic and emotion to the point that I have learned to get by in terms of explaining both perspectives as clearly as I can. I think that the person with whom I've ever identified most was Spock from the original Star Trek. He's better at controlling meltdowns, though.