Do you sense people's vibes/energy

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I know an aspie male in his early 40s who seems to have gut reactions to people, whether they are nice, mean, etc. He says he senses vibes and or energy and when their vibes shift, he can pick it up easily.

Do aspies actually feel their way into relationships with people, be they friendships or romances? Is it someone's vibe that attracts you rather than the things they say?

I definitely feel vibes for people and places.

Can you describe? Is it a sensation in your body? Do you feel warm if you are happy and cold if you are not, for example?

It's very hard to describe. The closest thing to feeling vibes is feeling emotions.

Feeling the emotions of others?

Sometimes. The hardest part is not being able to tell your emotions apart from other people's. This made it dating very confusing for me.

A lot of vibes don't have much to do with emotions. A lot of times when I feel bad vibes about people or places I often learn that they are in fact bad.

I often feel uneasy in indian burial grounds even though I never research indian burial grounds or even care. The thing is calling vibes good or bad is a gross oversimplification. There just isn't very many words to describe vibes. The only words I can think of are good, bad, sketchy and spiritual.

I can. I've even had meltdowns from it. Some people's vibes are just so overpoweringly toxic.

I don't know if I'd attribute anything supernatural to it, but this is largely how I see people, at least when it comes to who I don't like.

I was especially attuned to it as a child, when I hated adults talking sweetly to me in a very particular way that meant they were trying to get me to do something or talk about myself so that they could analyze me. Now I mostly have a visceral reaction to people who seem larger than life (unusually friendly, needing money and having a big sob story behind it, always needing my sympathy, etc), like they're pulling at me or trying to reach inside me.

I think to some extent picking up on "vibes" is normal human socialization. Others might just realize what's going on with more clarity.

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Sensing vibes is most aspie's greatest weakness

It's sorta hard to explain but I can pick up on other people's energy. For example there was this person at work that every time I passed him I felt very negative. This person really gave off bad energy. I feel everyone has this ability; we have all experienced this. Thoughts are energy.

Another example of this is: let's say you are walking down a dark street at night; you sense you are being followed, you decide to get the heck out of there. Nothing is spoken or said -it's you are picking up negative energy

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You bet!! Like another of today's threads on intuition, I think it stems from some kind of subconscious pattern recognition in most cases.

Yes, in fact it happened tonight. I got a vibe from a young (21) female and I was dead on once we started talking. Let's just say I had her pegged quite well. I also see phony salesmen a mile away and I was at a MLM sales pitch and was the only one who caught onto their games. They were quick to politely usher me out at the first opportunity!

Yes. I have a decent vibe-detection sense. There are friends/people in my life that I have a great connection with and always sense their "vibe." I also tend to be able to tell whether someone's good/bad etc based on their vibe/energy/aura - whatever you want to call it.

Kinda like this, yeah. It can be unpleasant. Though for me it also means that people have a very hard time hiding anything from me, as whatever I'm getting from them tends to say alot. It also helps with the "dont want eye contact" bit, since I dont need to look at someone for this to happen.

But yeah, it has it's bad moments. It can be overwhelming. It's one reason why I never, ever go to funerals. It's like walking into a wall of pain.

I definately get a lot of vibes from people. I do have so called "problems with Theory of Mind", but the reason for this is that NT's generally suppress their emotions and create superficial personas around other people, in order to seem "normal" and not "make a fool out of themselves".

This is normal for NT's, and therefore it's misleading to call it "fake", because most of the time it's all they know.

My problem with "Theory of Mind" is that I can't read these personas. What I can read though is what they are really feeling, even when they don't know it themselves. The reason I can know this when they don't is because I've read a lot of psychology and studied people a lot, so I've been able to confirm my suspicions many times.

I especially pick up negative energy. If someone doesn't like me, I will get chestpains, and if they're trying to lie to- or manipulate me/themselves, I will know it instantly, because what they're saying doesn't correspond with what they're feeling.

I feel what they feel.

Of course this makes it really difficult to communicate with NT's, because they don't want you to know what they are feeling, and that's kind of the only signals I get, except for verbal communication.

I'm surprised that so many aspies understand this concept.

I have no idea what people are talking about when they say they get "vibes"

I don't think I've ever felt that.