Helpful or impractical? What do you think of emotion cards? #autism #autistic #adhd

[lisa_wistfulone]

My therapist is autistic herself, and it was incredibly helpful that she taught me subtleties like eyebrows, head tilt, openness of hand gestures, when it came to recognizing if someone is playfully teasing me. I can recognize a lot of emotions if I have context, but always ALWAYS took teasing seriously, even from people I know extremely well.

[m_axyn]

exactly. just because someones not crying doesnt mean their not sad.

[Cats.and.sadness]

"Another spider?!" girl same 😭😭


(Edit: I love bugs!!
I luv spiders but the thought of them crawling on me makes me want to cry !
So they creep me out a bit when they're close to me.
Practice empathy there is nothing wrong with being afraid of a bug but there is something wrong with judging an innocent fear)

[moonrose]

The amount of times I thought someone was sad or angry, but really is just tired

[latifx]

My son is autistic. One if the things I do for him is simply tell him what Im feeling, so that he can connect my facial features with my words.
I tell him when Im happy, sad, angry exc.
My husband is also autistic and I believe this is one aspect that has made our 10 year marriage so manageable. He himself also says that working at a fast food restaurant helped him understand others emotions more clearly.

[thatonepossum]

I once went over a set of those emotion cards with my therapist to see how good I was at reading facial expressions (this is post autism diagnosis). I nailed most of them, but not because I’m good at reading facial expressions (I’m actually wrong a LOT irl). The cards were just so _exaggerated_, and I draw a _lot_ of cartoon people, so I’m very familiar with exaggerated expressions. And besides, it doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to tell that a person making this face: 😱 is surprised. 😅

[randallradke]

Dont forget emotions displayed from atypical staring or pauses

[sbcwmas]

"Another spider?!" That's a mood

[KFoxtheGreat]

Reading fiction has helped me so much with this

[maryguokas]

I think part of this is that the therapy was made for children where they don't hide emotions as well and don't have words for more minute recognition. I think this is people falling back on well this is what we have as opposed to realizing kids and adults are different.

[bapaul]

Thank you for this. As a therapist, this is an amazing insight for many of the practitioners who do not establish real world context. Appreciate you and your videos.

[burkhardstackelberg]

I don't remember ever having problems with the big emotions to recognize, but as soon as people start to hide one emotion behind another face and still want to be emotionally understood, or when emotional expression gets subtle and mixed, I still tend to misread people or miss important clues. The idea of training on moving pictures feels absolutely helpful. Maybe it still is a way to improve my abilities there.

[raeorion]

See this is cool because I do this with my kids, when we watch movies when there is really subtle emotion or nonverbal communication in a powerful scene I will often posit when we're together and ask what they thought about it, what they think those different people are feeling, why they think those people are feeling that and it's interesting because I get very different feedback from my kids in different situations and when we all talked about it together they thoroughly enjoy it and seem to really understand different kinds of emotional situations better with better empathy and recognition 💕

[parakeetgirl]

Well said! I struggle with subtle emotions a lot even though ive learned to recognize signs, theres always more work to do to find out what people*really* feel.

[allieuncharted]

The show ‘Lie to me’ helped me so much with this skill

[fugitive_]

I can ace a “what is this person feeling” test but im asking my fiance every 5 minutes if he’s mad at me😭😂

[orbismworldbuilding]

Recognizing my own emotions got easier when i realized/learned that they have physical sensations with them and that they mean something about a situation/have a "purpose". I don't know how to describe it better

[DelphineDenton]

Watching movies with good actors is a master class in recognizing emotions for me.

[jonathonhazelton]

Movies are great for this. "Little Women" is an amazing example of subtle and accurate emotions.

[Samuel-kuqb]

THEATRE!! I grew up watching a specific theatre group whose shows would be filmed and either aired on tv or later on YouTube. They always had one recurring character or a similar character, that is dumb/slow but kind hearted. When he didn’t understand something or got a saying wrong they would make it a joke but ultimately explain it. He missed the mark a lot but was also shown as someone who always came through in the end.
Learnt an insane amount of social skills from it: from how to understand sarcasm, to expressing and reading emotions. Later one of the group’s writers did a one-man standup show that taught me how to understand standup comedy!
(This show was written for older audiences, the standup show was literally named “best before” as it was about getting into old age. It wasn’t made to help kids, it just helped me. Though later on I was always told that my expressions were very exaggerated😂)