Sympathy for objects but not humans

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I'm the same way! I get upset if I see a stuffed animal in the road. I feel bad for the stuffed animals at the thrift store because they were all given up. Sigh.

I still have sympathy for humans and animals, but I could bring myself to kill a pig or a dog but not another human.

I used to fight with my parents all the time about this. When a dish would break, my parents would simply scoop up the pieces and throw them away, while I found run off to my room and cry, sometime for hours. (Needless to say, I got spanked a lot for not having the "right" reaction.) I also had a stuffed dog that I loved very much, and my parents would always threaten to "take it to the city dump" if I didn't obey them.

Same thing with pets. I wanted a pet more than anything, while my parents were strongly anti-pet. I kept begging them to get one. One day they asked: "What's more important to you: a dog or your own family?" Not realizing this was a rhetorical question, due to my AS, I told them: "a dog". Next thing I knew, I got a hard spank, for not giving the "right" answer. But if you think about it, is it any wonder that I cared more about objects and animals than about people? I remember one time, when a therapist asked me to draw a picture of my family, and I freaked out so much, I almost ran out of the office (and being a bad at drawing didn't help either). However, I had no problem drawing a building and a tree, even though neither turned out well.

To this day, the word "family" has very negative associations for me. Reading Brave New World, where the institution of a family simple doesn't exist (too long to explain here, look up in the Cliff Notes), didn't disgust anywhere near as much as the book was intended to.

I talk to and give love pats to my truck - who is male, and named "Truck".

yeah I do feel bad if I thow something out-you know...it's hard-the only way I've ever happily gotten rid of things was giving them to good will-then I know they'll be enjoyed

Yes. I feel bad for things in trash cans yet don't feel anything for homeless people. For years my mom said it was as if I loved my stuffed animals more than my own family and I probably did. They may not be able to love back but my stuffed animals didn't rebuke me either. I have always been labled materilistic. If there was a tornado warning I would be more worried about protecting my toys than my family.

Oh yes, I have the same problem. I sometimes make back stories for cars in my neighborhood. For a while I told people that my car was dating another car in my old neighborhood, mostly because I thought the two cars would make a cute couple...

Right now I've been pondering/giving personalities to numbers... Not in a fun or quirky way. But serious thought. I have spent an entire work day, including hour commute, thinking what kind of personality the number 3 has, or the number 1. Of course I only go from 0-9 for numbers, because anything above that is just a combination of the numbers below it and so don't count...

Yes. When I was a child people could not throw out anything that had a picture of an animal or baby on it. I ruined several of my own birthdays because my mother would make elaborate cakes shaped like animals or that had drawings of people on them and I would become hysterical when the time came to cut them. This has diminished for me over time, but it still bothers me on and off. When I was expecting my son I bought a smiling elephant plush because I felt badly that it was there and no one loved it.

I cannot watch anything where an animal is killed even if it's implied. It stays with me for days.

Lately I have been depressed over people chopping down their very large trees and how the tree must have felt to be killed because it was annoying someone somehow.

I'm so happy to know it's not just me.

As a child I used to have more empathy for inanimate objects, animals, and even aliens (E.T.). than humans. But as I got older my empathy has transferred to people (I still feel for animals to though). I don't think I have AS, but lets say I'm not NT either.

The other day I had to download a song onto my MP3 called ''the Pineapple song''. I had to do it because otherwise I will feel sorry for pineapples.