Sympathy for objects but not humans

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I apologise to my computer sometimes and smile at cars as if they have personalities and feelings. Am I crazy or is this normal? I've been like that all my life.

Not normal for NTs but normal for us! I'm ridiculous with my attachment to things over people, I really am. And yes, I sometimes have sympathy for inanimate objects, like I'll feel sorry for a teddy bear in a store because nobody is buying him and he must be lonely. I know it's not alive but I still feel sorry for it!!

I um.....talk to my clarinet and piano sometimes....

I don't talk to my car (unless it won't start then I tell it a few choice words lol!) but it has a name (Billy) and it's hard to think about selling it. Sometimes I'm more afraid something will happen to one of my possessions than I am of a person, which is kinda bad I guess.

when i was younger and had a teddy bear i would never leave him by himself as though someone were out to get him...
over the years i find myself in an aploogy with more bugs than anything nowadays....

i see people yell and scream at little bity bugs who are probably more scared to have some huge living thing standing over it pointing and screaming... when i cannot make it in time to capture the poor creature and set it free somewhere else before the hanging comitte sentences it to death i apoligize to the bug and say a quick prayer to let it know that someone cared....i do that for anything i see actually that is dead...roadkill, funeral, winsheild wiper, you name it...i feel as long as a life is recognized and remembered by someone it was worthy of living...i hope for someone to do that for me when i go as well....

hmm......sorry, i think i strayed from the subject

I tell my car i am sorry when i dont change its fluids like i should

i talk to my flags all the time and say sorry to them if they got knocked on the floor

I remember once my mum bought me a Buzz Lightyear from the Disney Store in Manchester, and he was in the bag upside down, so I remember worrying that he wasn't the right way up because it would be uncomfortable and the blood would rush to his head. I don't think I even knew what I was talking about though.
I always have to apologise to things though, it can be annoying.

I definitely have this. I think of pretty much all inanimate objects as though they have a personality of some kind and get upset when other people treat things badly.

It can make it difficult for me to do things like change to a new mobile phone because I am scared that I will upset the other phone.

I also get frustrated that other people don't understand.

I also find that things such as computers and mobile phones are much more logical and rational entities than the average NT human!

When I was in grade two I had an old golden bracelet which I called snakey. I carried it with me EVERYWHERE. One day I lost it. I was SO upset by this that I got EVERYONE in my class do go out and find it. I didn't give a DAMN what we were doing in class or who was doing what, I wanted my snakey.

I also had a stick when I was six, reseted some horrible angst poetry on how letting go was going to wound me to the very pit of my soul, forever tarnished and broken without thee stick! Yeah.. I got over it just as quickly but oh, it was agonizing at first.

I talk to everything, objects, aminals.

And than people look at you strange when you're talking to a rock and you're like, "what?" and don't get it.

I'm sure if people could here the conversations with them in my head they'd be a little weirded out.

I'm a bit like this. I talk to my car, whose name is Noosha I always say thankyou to her when I get out after a journey! I usually say thankyou to the band/artist I was listening to in the car for singing to me on my journey as well!!

I am far more moved by the plight of animals than that of humans, generally. Sometimes my lack of concern for other people (other than those I have a particular connection with) makes me feel guilty, but not for long.

I don't talk to "things" anymore, but it does bug me with my parenting, sometimes when my kids hurt themselves or are in pain, I just can't comfort them. Their screaming litterally drives me away! Not all the time, but sometimes. If my husband is not home, I tend to suck it up and do the right thing, but when he is home, he is the one who "deals with it".

Now, I play with them all the time, talk to them, bring them to 100 different places routinely that other parents in my neighbourhood can't be "bothered" with. If my older son is having trouble at school with teachers or peers, I am right there inraged and taking care of "business". But, if he has food poisoning and is moaning and crying about that, or my younger one hits his head (non seriously) and cries, I just can't "deal" unless I absolutely have to.

It is like I have empathy, but it just "short circuits" at times...