Are you unaffected by emotions of others?

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I can feel for people in some situations but I'm not sure if I feel for people based on the emotions they are expressing. It's more like my feelings come from an intellectual understanding of what they are going through. When people have obvious displays of emotion I feel really detached from it. Anyone else feel the same way?

No. I claim my own emotions, and I expect everyone else to do the same for theirs.

I do not know how to react when someone starts to cry...then everyone starts to cry...and I am the only dry eyed person...

I ask...why?? Then they look at me like I'm a freak.

Yes. I claim my own emotions, and I expect everyone else to do the same for theirs.

Being in a situation where everyone's crying sounds horrific :S never happened to me, so maybe someone died... spontaneous mass crying doesn't seem likely otherwise

I don't know what to do when someone is feeling bad. It's not that I don't want them to feel better. Sometimes logic tells me something like 'go over and put your hand on their shoulder since that's what other people do' but since I'm coming to that conclusion from logic, it doesn't feel genuine and I often don't do it.

I'll give you an example. I wouldn't want to be in an environment where people thought they had to treat me special or I would just pick up my toys and leave. It's stressful and it builds resentment in others. I'm just an average dude. There isn't anything special about me.

Yes, I feel emotions strongly especially when i look into someones eyes and concentrate. And, if i see pain or hurt in their eyes often-times it's a signal they need a break from me and i need a break from them. And, ofcourse it depends on the person, Some people have a greater effect on me than others.

Kryptonite. I watch them(the ones who have a greater emotional effect on me) and then get away from them as fast as possible. LoL.

TheSunAlsoRises

*edited to say: the ones who have a greater emotional effect on me

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I'm very aware of them but I don't feel them or care.

Middle school grad party. Even the guys were bawling.

Sometimes I do. Like I won't even process the way they could be feeling. Emotions to me are more like an energy that I have to get away from before I am consumed.

In addition, I like to be left alone when I'm feeling bad, so it's hard to get used to treating others in a different manner than I want to be treated myself.

It is an intellectual understanding, but only if i can assign the feeling, e.g. if it refers to animals and nature, because except of the fact that i'm a biped and can read, write, and use a computer, my emotional spectrum is quite simple and not necessarily what i would consider human.

That is, i can understand straightforward feelings such as joy, grief, pain, anger and the like, but not the fear of losing one's reputation or fear of being alone, all those abstract and mixed matters, like jealousy and other ego games.

If I can perceive their emotions, I find them overwhelming and uncomfortable. Whether it's broadly perceived as a positive or a negative emotion, it often feels like their emotions are invading my awareness. This doesn't always happen. Sometimes if I am feeling a similar emotion at the same time, it's not as overloading or distressing. If I can sympathize with their situation, it may not be overloading, but sometimes it is anyway.

If I don't perceive their emotions, I don't feel anything.

Yes, expect for anger, which makes me feel some sort of fear.
I am able to feel for characters in movies etc. though (if they're sad), for some odd reason

Other peoples' emotions do not affect my own. As for 'feeling for a person', I can recognise that another person is suffering, but I have no emotional response to that observation (except sometimes curiosity if the source of that suffering is unusual or confusing or annoyance if that suffering is causing them to act in an annoying manner).

It seems like that I am aware of other people's emotions. But I am not affected by these. It is "their own thing". I want to understand how these emotions work and why these work in that way (one reason why I am interested in psychology). I can feel sometimes strong emotions but want to simply observe it and let it "pass by". I possibly concentrate on these and feel it as it is (I try this even with physical "feelings" such as pain, or with effect of colors, smells, ...). I think the emotions are needed to have a complete life, it is not good to suppress them (but not easy to do this all the time).