Embarrassment

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My friends and family comment about how I never, ever get embarrassed (which is pretty much true). Although, I feel extreme embarrassment for other people, whether it's someone I don't know in real life or someone on TV who isn't even real. Can anyone else relate to this? I've heard a few people say aspies sometimes experience empathy a different way than NTs or even experience too much empathy. I don't know if that's true or if either of those are the case here.

I have trouble watching many comedies because I become embarrassed for the clown at the center of it -- embarrassment that almost registers as physical pain.

Prime example: Homer Simpson

I don't get embarrassed much either. I do get embarrassed yes but things most people get embarrassed by I don't get embarrassed by.

I don't really feel embarrassed for other people. But I do feel anger for others. I even get feelings for characters too in movies and stories. Just certain things trigger me that make me angry so I feel angry about it but am I feeling angry for the person or character or just how things are?

Embarrassment comes rarely for me. It's probably not one of my more winning characteristics.

I imagine my own embarrassment. That is to say, I only feel embarrassed when I look back on something that I did and think "wait, was that a really dumb thing to do?"

I feel the embarrassment of others to the point of making me very uncomfortable. It's the hardest thing about taking the bus. So many people just don't know how to communicate to each other!! That and many people have a bad attitude (in my country).

I feel embarrassment. I have Social Phobia, and I fear humiliation and ridicule, so I'm actually more hypersensitive to embarrassment, which causes a lot of issues when being out in public. I also feel embarrassed for other people too, if something embarrassing happens to someone else I can feel their embarrassed feelings and I try not to look at them or at the situation because I know it's not very nice being in an embarrassing situation and everybody's staring at you. Even if people stare at me out of sympathy, I still would rather them to not look at all, unless somebody asks me if I'm all right or something. Otherwise, when I'm in an embarrassing situation, I like to be left well alone so that the embarrassing situation can be over quicker.

I feel some degree of embarrassment most of the time. I don't often feel embarrassed for other people but then I think I'm rarely aware when anyone else might have cause to be embarrassed. I can't stand seeing someone else be bullied and picked on, though.

I used to do this a lot when I was young, but over the years I've learned to take the lesson from the situation and let go of the mortification - for most things. There are still a few incidents I look back on and cringe, mainly those in which I hurt someone else's feelings.

okay I'm NT but I also feel embarassed for other people as well. It's to the point that it's hard for me to watch shows like "punked" or watch shows that do prank calling. Even though I know the joke will eventually be revealed I feel terrible for the person the joke is being played on. I want to watch and see how it plays out but I feel so awful about it I just turn the channel!

I don't think I've ever felt embarrassed. In situations where most people feel embarrassed, I feel fear or nothing at all. I have never blushed (and I'm pale so it would probably show up easily if I did).

I feel normal embarassment when it's about myself and painfully strong embarassment when watching other people. There's a lot of things I can't watch due to that, actually. For example, I had to stop watching Borat after 10 minutes because I was so incredibly embarassed for how he acted in the movie.

I'm capable of being embarrassed and have been before. My mother has also told me I don't get embarrassed. I guess I just don't get embarrassed about things most people would be embarrassed by.

I don't think I have ever felt embarrassed for other people. They're not me and I am not them so why would I be embarrassed about someone else doing something or something happening to them?

I never get embarrassed.
I get angry, sad, but never embarrassed, neither ashamed. They're just "emotions" I never feel, and because of that I don't really consider them "emotions".

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Stu

OMG I felt so embarrassed watching Borat too. And I felt very confused as well, because I can't work out whether the people in the film are aware that he's taking the mickey and don't realise he's acting or whether they are acting too. What he does is so extreme to what would go on IRL that you can't help but feel embarrassed because you can't believe he's actually doing those things in public (like getting on a bus naked with bondage straps on, and getting in a hotel lift with other people, completely naked).

As to feeling embarrassed generally, yes I do. Because I've always felt different, never fitted in, been bullied, been aware that others don't seem to accept me, it's made me painfully aware. That means that I do get embarrassed at making a fool of myself, of not wanting to do something that I know I'm not good at and would probably embarrass myself and I also do feel sorry for people that are in embarrassing situations. I think when we have been in that (or a similar) situation before ourselves, we can manage empathy because we relate. If it's a situation that I haven't been in before or it's not obvious why someone is embarrassed then I probably can't feel embarrassed for them.