how many aspies are highly sensitive?

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i feel more than most woman, many conversations let me feel that the persons are cold inside.

How many aspies consider themselve highly senitive?

How to differentiate between a just highly sensitive person and an autistic one?

thanks,
anton

I feel this way too. I think a lot of people see me as being unemotional, but if anything I'm really overemotional.

I think one of the things people misunderstand about me the most is this. I never REACT emotionally. I FEEL things more deeply than most NTs, however.
If I am upset, I say, "This upsets me. I am upset."
This is met with utter dismissal or disbelief.
Because if I was "actually upset" I would move my face around and cry.
Stupid people.
*humph*

If something upsets me to the point of hysteria, you're just going to get muteness, groaning, curling up in a ball, and rocking/hand-squeezing/hand-rubbing.
This gets the response from others of "she is crazy and probably mentally ret*d."

Neither of these is accurate. Oh, well.

Also, things that I care about are different than what other people care about, I think. My reactions are never what people are expecting. This vexes me.

Yeah, pretty much, especially when I was a kid. I never felt like too much emotional insulation or flatness was my problem (except when depressed).

But from the outside I don't come off that way at all. Among other things that's made getting help for depression really difficult as I never look "that bad" (in the ways that people want to see in order to believe you). (Maybe being male is helpful there, in other ways, though -- looking unemotional isn't something you get criticized for too much.)

The "intense world" theory always made a lot of sense to me.

OTOH, for serious emergencies my emotional response seems to go into "delay mode" which is often useful. I'm always good in situations where others are freaking out or are too stunned to function. OTOOH, an overly crowded store can make me feel nuts.

Ha! Many people have said that I am the person they'd want around in an emergency because they say I never "freak out".
*these are people who have never been with me in a Wal Mart.

People see me as cold and non emotional; however, they also see me as over emotional. I come off pretty "bleh" but I am very emotional when it comes to some things. Like shopping in walmart 2 days before Christmas!

I'm also a Highly Sensitive Person.

Some internet quiz says I'm a "highly sensitive person" and I relate to a lot of the description, but I'm not sure if that means anything.

I am not emotionally demonstrative, but I typically do feel a lot of emotion (although not so much over the past few weeks, but that's another issue). I am more likely to openly mourn a pet's death than a relative's (although I do mourn the latter, but it feels different to me, I'm never really sure how to respond).

I do tend to be fairly calm and even decisive in emergencies, however, like my reaction is delayed until the immediate problem is over.

Like others, I'm rather sensitive. In the past, this was very obvious (I had a tendency to cry a lot as a child,) but this was obviously rather socially unacceptable.

I now don't outwardly show much emotion, but it doesn't make me any less sensitive :/

Tendency to over think things doesn't help.