I Am Not An Emotionless Robot #shorts #autism

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[mr.cynical]

Steinbeck once wrote "No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself." That was the best summation I found to simply convey that I can only really see in others what I have in myself. I may not feel as others feel, but I can guess at an approximate equivalent by inducing an amalgam of emotional responses from memory and mingling them together to generate the circumstantial nuance of the thing I'm supposed to empathize with.

[SaraHinata]

Some people are surprised when my son is able to identify and describe other children's emotions. Little did they know I've been describing the emotions of the cartoons/videos my son watches since he was around 2 years old.

You see, emotions in real life are triggered in reaction to something else. A child cries _for a reason_, whether it's because they fell down or they want their mother, there's always _something_ that precedes that emotion. Instead, children are usually shown an inert picture of someone expressing an emotion without a _why_ attached to it and then they are told _"this is happy, this is sad, this is angry, etc"_

A couple of times, very spontaneously, my son actually _cried_ in some scenes I had described many times before. I make sure to cover *_complex_* emotions too, like nostalgia, horror and trauma. Also it's important to describe the emotions _they_ are feeling in the moment as well. Like when he cried I told him what he was feeling was _empathy_, because he understood the character's emotion.

My son was diagnosed autistic/adhd earlier this year at almost 4 years old.

[sophya]

I often feel like a very emotional robot 🤖

[chipchippie]

I know I can't really diagnose myself but when I found your channel I realized that I too might be autistic. I have a awful lot of the coping mechanisms that you mention. Thank you for coming to YouTube and addressing this topic!

[glennflorence]

OMG TY THATS WHAT I CAN TELL ONE OF MY SUPERVISORS, YOU ARE FANTASTIC...

[originalvonster]

Thank you. I find that it’s easiest to identify emotions and empathy in other autistic people. I struggle with NT and make the wrong assumptions sometimes or miss it. It’s quite offensive to me that I keep reading that autism is a lack of empathy. To me autistic people do express empathy etc. I think the problem is lack of communication / understanding / education in medical circles.

[offmetasounds]

In childhood: “Stop being so sensitive! Crying so easily is causing kids to bully you!”
In adulthood: “What do you mean you don’t know how you’re feeling?”

[amandamandamands]

Yep it can take me hours/days quite often to work out what was happing that I had a reaction to. I remember telling my case manager about my week and her response would always be that you told me what happened, can you tell me what you were feeling. I would always be confused and not know how to reply.
This was in response to me having had a week with a lot of emotional ups and downs.

[Orycal]

Thank you! THIS is what I have been explaining to certain family members that it sometimes feels as if they don't want to understand our son's thought process. I understand that it might also be in how I try to explain it as well. Thank you so so much!

[sirgalah]

my councellor asked me to tell her how I felt.. I couldnt describe it.. It got to the point where I felt i was on the edge if a meltdown.. I felt like I was getting angry because i couldn't describe how I felt.. Was she taunting me to get an emotional response?

[NotGully]

"Sweetie can you grab my schitzophrenia medication" -👵