Emotion overload while watching embarassing scenes in movies

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i remember when i figured out that creators of cartoons ect actually add in humor where they're trying to make you (the viewer) believe the char has certain unpure intentions... and then the plot reveals beneign motives for the char.

i would always feel bad that i was thinking they were up to no good.... took a while to dawn on me that i was being LEAD towards that line of thinking

but yeah i tend to hide my face on ppl's shoulders if im watching something that embarasses me

I feel this way too. That is why I don't like those audition type Reality shows.

This whole topic is really interesting. Arbie mentioned not liking audition-type reality TV, and my totally-NT husband can't stand those, either. He gets really uncomfortable watching others get picked on or tricked, while I usually think it's hilarious. I think that these tendencies toward discomfort with certain topics may not be specifically aspie initially; they may be more related to upbringing and environment. However, aspies may end up taking those feelings to extremes, just because of the nature of AS. For example, if an aspie is brought up in an environment where sex is not discussed or has some taboo attached to it, then maybe they will be particularly vulnerable to taking that feeling to the extreme, and having a hard time getting free of it later. That would make sense, given that we're so literal and impressionable, especially as young children.

I don't feel such sensations. Perhaps I'm too used to watching movies (my dad is a movie producer and we both love movies). I think I'm one of those aspies who almost lack empathy and feelings. But I remember feeling an emotion once. It was an uncomfortable physical sensarion, in reaction to a movie scene.

I was watching a movie with the girl I love. Suddenly, two of the characters kissed, and I felt a painful sensation in my heart and it started beating really fast. Fortunately, she was a nurse, and gave me some medicine for my heart. It was really embarrassing for me, but not because of the scene itself; it was because she was there.

I get pretty uncomfortable with anything more than a quick simple kiss. A scene involving making out for more than a second or two gets me a bit jittery and anything heavier will usually cause me to avert my gaze or even leave the room. People in the room increase my uneasiness. I guess I would also describe the feeling I get as being self conscious.
I was raised in what I now consider a very old fashioned Christian upbringing. My parents don't overtly show physical affection much, though I was very aware of their love and the physical aspect that they share. I am even embarrassed to type about it.
I have always viewed TV and movies as exaggerated version of real life. So between what I saw at home (fairly private sharing of physical affection) and what TV shows (very graphic and overt) I never really grasped where the norm lies.

I get self conscious too when I'm watching a movie that gets really heavy, and ther'r others around me watching it.

It mostly comes from the fact that I don't know if I'm really supposed to be watching it, or staring or watching and thinking about something else or what. So I just don't watch it. Besides...things like that are supposed to be kept personal because they're considered sacred on some (most) levels. But my favorite study is theology (religion) in a very general way...so I would think that.

My mom says I used to try to beat up the TV if I saw Bugs Bunny wearing a dress or something like that.

Wow, I thought that I was the only one that experienced these feelings while watching TV/movies! I'm actually a little relieved that I'm not alone. I get embarrassed when I watch a love scene, and mortified to the point that I have to leave the room if it involves nudity. If my husband is watching with me I also get jealous if there's scenes of naked women. I know that seems extreme, but I can't help it. I have tried to control my emotional reactions to these things, but to no avail. I just try to not watch things that I know are going to cause these feelings.
Also, I was wondering if anyone else has a hard time watching things like action movies where everything is so overexagerated? While I'm watching movies like that all I can think is that everything that is happening, and the things that the actors are doing are physically impossible. It just seems so unrealistic that I can't even enjoy the movie without correcting the forensics of the actors, and the scenes in my head.

I used to get scared and hide from television shows when I knew someone was about to do a very wrong thing that the character couldn't know about because the viewer could see other scenes(I also could never quite get why the characters didn't know all that i saw). I skip certain scenes in novels like sex ones. I rarely read any sort of fiction or watch a film unless it is attached to something I am obsessed with and follows an appropriate formula, I do not like unpredictable surprises. I also dislike humor that takes advantage or mocks someone, I actually broke off one on my longish recent freindships because the friend didn't understand that those things bothered me(he would send me videos from youtube of stuff he found funny usually people being tricked or humiliated or frightened), that, and he told me to get rid of my cat.

Yeah i know excactly what you mean.
I can absolutely not stand those "too embarrasing" moments in movies.

My chest tightens during these kind of scenes. I blush and have to look away at some of the more extreme embarrasing scenes.