Anyone else tear up due to nostalgia

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Just watched an old Garfield clip which brought back memories of my childhood. With a few choice tugs at the heartstrings I dissolve into a weepy mess. I guess its remembering how innocent I was. How depression anxiety and addiction were strange alien concepts.

I am always so sad because of nostalgia and I'm only 14. I don't think I'm going down a very happy path.

Selectively, yes. Sometimes in the right mood it will get to me. Usually it is more of a comfort thing, and I don't have much of an emotional response, though.

That happens to me, too. I miss some of the good things (not really many) in the past. I think it's the reflection of how unhappy I am with my current life.

You guys are nostalgic for the world of 20 years ago, well the world I hanker for of 50 years ago was a paradise compared to 20 years ago, never mind today.

I do not miss my childhood and especially teen years. I do miss being in my 20's.

I miss a world where your every move and thought was not spied on.

I miss a world where if you were different people and society did not try to control you nearly as much. The "Sink" or "Swim" mentality then had it's bad points but it did mean you were left alone more and your work/ job candidacy was judged more on merit instead of personality and "politically correct"view.

Even nostalgia today is different. With you tube with the exception taking care of your bodily needs one can spend the whole day in the 80's if one wishes. With Wikipedia there is no more myths and innocent assumptions about "the good old days"

I have stendahl's syndrome which makes me weepy over all sorts of things.

Numbu4, I was the same way; I recall as a maybe 6, 7 year old tearing up at the Carters jingle thinking of the fact I'd be growing up and that growing up happens so fast.

I don't necessarily tear up but I get sentimental; what helps me is thinking about heaven and how, becasue I know Jesus as my Savior, I am certain I will somehow have all that great stuff back. I dedicated my stuffed animals to God asking Him to use them for whatever he needs and feel like my Heavenly mansion will have all sort of stuffed animals in it, a side yard that is like the playground I used to love, a back yard with a swingset, etc..

As for here on Earth, like some others I miss the world like it was 40 years ago, and I really just stay away from as much raunchy stuff as possible. I keep away from all the cursing, swearing, innuendo, etc., as much as I can, becasue that's the way I feel comfortable.

55 yo m here ... for many years i seemed to not think of my childhood dog ... then maybe ten fifteen years ago i allowed him to enter my mind .. wow it cut me up, the one thing that cld turn on the waterworks, sort of sad too, moving locations a few times, he connects with my first place i was born and lived to just under seven, moves again etc etc and after my dad died my mother put me into digs ie a boarding house (they chucked me out a year later) .... he wld live for a couple of years after that ... say 1979 ... and my wife actually met him ...

he must have wondered 'where is he' ... my mother is a first grade lump of s**t .....

dogs like children should stay in one place.

I tend to go on long flashbacks whenever I think of something from back in high school or earlier.

Yes, something I sit and cry about things I remember from the past.

Yes, very much so. Eventhough my school years were hell, I still sometimes long back to those days. The innocence, the feeling that everything was ahead of you and possible. The imagination - I could live in my own head quite happily.

I sometimes (not very often) get some kind of flashback in my head, just lasts for a second or so, of a feeling of bliss that I think is connected to nostalgia in some way. It's a feeling that everything suddenly makes sense. Anyone else experience that?

Yes I don't have Asperger's but I do get very sad watching for example disney films or anything that brings back childhood memories like land before time for example.

Also I was a lot happier before the age of 12 so when I think back to those times , how happy, popular, loved and outgoing i was then, makes me sad because I don't think I'll ever be completely like that again now with my social anxiety.

Not really.
I have the annoying tendancy to only remember the bad things that have happened in my life and I can tell you that that doesn't lead to a whole lot of nostalgia. On the contrary! Anger and sadness is more like it in my case.

One in a while all the anger comes out at once and than it's "freak out time" again.
Full meltdown mode.

listening to music, lately I've teared up listening to the prelude to act III of lohengrin.