Inside out helping recognise emotions

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I was wondering if any other autists felt a resonance with the Inside Out films as the first one was one of my favourite Pixar films for the premise alone which I thought was genius and also the soundtrack for me was a big reason I loved it but after seeing and rewatching Inside out 2 I began to realise that the reason I think I love the films so much is because they give a physical and literal expression of feelings and emotions which can often be abstract especially the emotions of the second film like anxiety and to a lesser extent envy. My theory of mind skills as a marker for autism would’ve been quite bad when I was diagnosed as a child but as I got older they’re much better to the point where I feel I may feel too much empathy often which is a whole other issue: I digress, but does any other autist feel the same about the inside out films? Like they taught you more about empathy? I think media in general that I resonate with certain ones more extreme because they embody such concepts that I as an autistic person can’t easily conceptualise or articulate or even recognise. Made me think maybe that’s why so many autistics are engrossed in media as their special interests and why many even exhibit traits or behaviours from characters they like to embody - slightly tangential but interesting nonetheless.

If it helps people then that's good.

I've started considering a theory that many of the aspects related to trauma, like amnesia, false memories, lack of empathy or avoiding guilt etc.. are self defence mechanisms we humans have evolved to have to protect ourselves, so maybe they shouldn't always necessarily be considered always bad.

At the dawn of time an ancient woman could leave her baby next to a rock and it would be eaten by a tiger in front of her.

Its likely if you was a woman or teenage girl you would have been possibly raped & pregnant all the time. Ancient men would have had to fight off rival tribes and would have seen friends & family wiped out all the time until it was there turn.

Ancient life was quite horrible a human`s worst nightmare so evolution developed for us a lot of physiological defence mechanisms to cope with that.

Survival meant we needed a way to carry on.

A whole industry likes to pathologize that and make money out of it through counselling, drugs etc..

Not saying mental illness isn't real rather its probably a balance.

I believe in a Stoic, self sufficient mindset personally rather than giving in too much to emotions, but I'm sure others think differently.

I don't have the same sentiments over media.

Never found any that makes me feel seen, makes me feel 'expressed', or that anything give me something new to conceptualize over is very rare.

My case is somehow different; due to my sensory and cognitive profile.

My main source of poor ToM is more like the lack of internal and external self regulation, no room outside the need to regulate and process anything internal.
I'm only speaking for myself.

And the only reason I got enough comprehension of a lot of abstract concepts is my nonverbal strengths and forcedly processed too sensitive interoception which includes affective empathy...

... But little room for verbalization and rational thought because it's spent over dysregulation. And the same type of "egocentrism" one can find when dealing with chronic illness.

And a good portion of autistics are alexithymic, in which whose emotional profile struggles with the identifying the internal sensational and emotional abstracts and less concrete concepts and practically many things to do with internal matters.

They're pseudo stoic because they're not embracing and processing the internal storms of emotions; more like they have a greater ability to ignore it because it's not something they'd be sensitive over the subtle things internal and it's not on purpose.

Complete opposite of my profile; and wanting the inverse. In turn, I understand too many concepts about humans in which I see in everyone and not wanting to do with it.

I want the ability to ignore emotions above else, because I'm so tired of it.
Since I'm forced to keep feeling it, I'd get different sentiments, views and relationships over it.

Thus my perspective with inside out is very different.
First movie -- I see it as limited.
Second movie? I still see it as limited. "Not enough".

I can come up with several interpretations of each, but I don't exactly have the capacity to verbalize most of that.

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