What emotions do you not experience?

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I was looking at one of the websites detailed in the 'executive dysfunction' post and I happened upon the author's comments on emotion and what they themselves do not experience. For myself, it is romantic love and sadness.

How about everyone else?

Nothing but happiness. I'll admit that I do feel anger occasionally, but it doesn't happen often. I think part of the problem is that if I feel something, I do not acknowledge that I feel it or don't know what I feel.

I'm only really bothered when something illogical happens that I cannot predict or understand because it makes no sense.

I guess I have all the basic emotions, I just have problems understanding other peoples emotions.

I don't really know how to do this listening thing, although I think I feign it well. I also don't get why people enjoy social stuff with no specific aim, like sitting or standing in a bar for hours chatting. What they get out of it is beyond me. It bores me senseless.

I seem to have fairly low levels of the 'competitive' emotions, like resentment and envy, that sort of thing.

One of my friends used to suggest that I might have forgotten how to feel emotions. Funny though because I don't remember recalling a time in my life where I did feel emotions. It never felt quite at home with me to feel some of those emotions. I always remember how my mom would read about something horrible happening in the news--she loved to tell us stuff from it, and no matter how much emotion she might have told the story with, it never bothered me much. I didn't have nightmares about them, and never really thought to make a big deal out of those things either. I sometimes didn't expect certain people to react so strongly towards something--or I knew they would react, but not as strongly as I expected.

I don't seem to feel pure anger, mostly frustration.

I feel all emotions, just not when I should...

Same here...

I honestly could not tell you what emotions I do NOT experience, but I can give the list of things I do experience, or think I do. It's a wee list, lol.

frustration
confusion
contentedness
amusement
silly

lol, I don't even know whether or not the last 2 are technically considered emotions, but these are always the things that come up when asked to explain what I am feeling about a particular situation.

Same here.

I experience far too many.
It gets way on top of me sometimes...
hmm there must be a few I rarely or don't experience... I'm rarely 'content'. I'm sorry lol that's not very relevent...

Generally, I am content (not sure if that qualifies as an emotion). Not a lot
of super-happy, not a lot of super-sad/upset, just middle-of-the-road (is this
what folks on anti-depression meds feel like?).

My NT wife often informs me that I don't have emotions; I remind
her that I have them, and acknowledge them inside, but I tend not
to express them as readily as most. If bad stuff happens, I say, "okay,
now what?"; if it's good stuff, the reaction is, "that's nice."

I dont know if I feel love.

Could not of put it better myself. I often wonder why people fuss so much, and pain now thats one of the best ones, everybody else seems to feel it for me and fuss...

Do not get me wrong I do feel emotion, but not like the NT's can feel real sad for no reason and happy and silly another time, but find have to continually control my emotions to keep the NT's happy..

At times wish I could feel real love, well what I mean is how the NT's seem too. Or is it just all hyped up to be some think its not, but at times I do feel an emotional void, like a dark little sad world that I'm trapped!

But its not all dark and there are wonderful happy moments in my own space, in my own way. But do feel sad at times, that I have had to grow up and my emotions have been crushed time and time again by the NT world, as wrong when really they are just the real (different) me.

I'm fine without the feelings of love though. It's too irrational for my own tastes, and may make me make bad decisions, so I'm fine without it. But people say it feels really great. A short pleasant feeling is not worth the trouble if it cannot be controlled.

I miscarried twins when I was about four months along. I didn't feel any grief about the fetuses dying but I was so embarrassed by the outpouring of sympathy I received. Then I discovered that normally women usually feel grief when they miscarry.