Do you ever cry for "no reason"?

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Sometimes, when I think about certain things, I cry. For example, I was thinking about the shelter dogs on TV, and I cried about it, as I did a few months ago, only involving a teenager with a tumor remembering all the happy moments in India before she died...does that ever happen?

I think those are very valid reasons, to cry. I also cry over stuff like that.

What you gave was a reason. But to answer your question: yes.

I usually don't just spontaneously start crying. Sometimes, thinking about sad scenes from movies or tragic events in history can make me tear up.

Yes, I do. Over just about anything, If it's worth it.

although i am six foot three and 260 lbs and hardly look the part, I find myself tearing up at the drop of a hat. Besides being a mark for all types of tearjerker situations, I'll often find myself tearing up out of frustration and embarrasment, especially when I have a particularly hard time interacting with somebody and I feel like I'm coming off as some sort of jerk

No; there are always causes, I just don't always understand what they are.

Being marooned on a planet where you don't belong and are constantly treated as a freak and an outcast is plenty of reason to cry.

I think its pretty damned stoic of me that I'm not bawling like a baby all the time.

OOOH yes. May I share the tragedy of the "Happy Potato"?

There was one farm stand in the town I grew up in, and my parents would go there occasionally. When the separated, my dad brought us there to buy some produce to take home to my mother. On the wall in the back of the stand was the happy potato. It was a potato dressed like a person (different from Mr. Potato head) and smiling. I really liked that potato. I pondered him for a few minutes and became hysterical because the potato was happy and I was sad. For the next two years, all I had to do was imagine that smiling potato and I would burst into tears. People would ask me why I was crying. And I would tell them "Because of the Happy Potato!". It was the most honest answer I could give. Of course no one had any clue what I was talking about....

The tragedy of the happy potato. I love it. I have no happy potato but I know how you feel all the same

Yes, I do. For no reason at all i'll feel depressed and about to burst into tears - and everything in my life could be going good.

Ditto...I once went to pieces over a stuffed animal that I had been really attached to and I still get a little choked up thinking of poor "Rusty" and how I'd loved him (literally) to pieces. He had a sad doggy expression that matched how I felt inside, and, well...need to stop thinking about it.

There's always a reason. It may just be a reason that's not the same reason that NTs cry, that's all.

Yep. I don't' know if they count as 'meltdowns' but that's what I call them now (before the best names I had for them were 'crying jag' or 'fit/crying fit'). I think crying about nothing could be related to being stressed out if that makes sense. But there have been times when I'll just start crying and I'll think to myself 'why are you crying? There's no reason to. You weren't even thinking anything sad.' or similar things. But I cry really easily, a trait I hate. It's really annoying when it's triggered by something someone said and what they said isn't something most people(ie normal people I infer) would cry about. But I cry when watching sappy old T.V. shows or reading books. The only time I've seen someone cry over a book was in the first Never Ending Story movie so I doubt it's an extremely common thing. (Many of the books I read are usually meant for children/people about ten or more years younger than me).

I've always been ashamed of my meltdowns(best word I have for them). Sure my mother explained that it's normal for girls to cry for no reason. They started I think around puberty or at least we talked about them in a puberty context. I think that was after I came home from school upset over having forgotten my gloves I had meant to take with me because my science class was going to do frog dissections that day.
(Story removed so as not to derail the topic over much).
But even taking that into account I'm sure I cry more when upset than is usual. As I've gotten older I don't cry as much but I think that's because I switched to home schooling (after 9th grade) and graduated some years ago.

I will be taking classes at the of this month but I'll be going slow and the first class is only twice a week so that shouldn't be as bad as every weekday.

Almost never. I used to when I was younger, but as I got older, I realized that it did no good, so I just do not cry anymore. It may make you feel better, but will not help your situation, so it is a waste of time.

I cry all the time...when I was little, I'd watch a TV commercial and cry...still remember it til this day and I was about 3-4yrs old...freaky...hmmm...

My son? He loves to sing...has a beautiful voice...he'll start singing and cry...sigh...He can cry at the drop of a hat, although he is mostly a very happy boy...

My "I believe" AS mother and uncle, they NEVER cry...it seems they hardly cry...like at funerals and stuff...hmmm