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MrMacPhisto
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 Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 4:53 pm Post subject: Can any of you turn of your emotions |
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I'm asking this because I went to a wedding today. It was very good but at one point I had to fight a Meltdown (Oh Dear). I managed by going for a walk. But back to the subject in hand. My ex was there first time I have seen her in two months and for reason I was able to turn off Emotions especially emotion I have towards her. In a way it is good we smiled at each other in passing a couple of times she was at the reception infact she was on the next table. And guess what I see her again tomorrow!.
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Sopho
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| I don't think I can. Other people on here have said they can though so some people can apparently. Mine just turn off themselves. Then I can't turn them back on again. |
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Tim_Tex
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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Usually, I can turn mine on and off like a faucet.
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frankwah
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Yes, I can turn my emotions off. It came in very handy during my adolescent years when extreme emotional pain was a regularity.
It pissed off one of my ex-girlfriends because when I dumped her, she and I would be talking on the phone. She would be crying and I would just be listening and talking with no emotion. Even though she was right there on the other end, in incredible pain, I was right there listening, fully cognizant and completely unbothered. I told her about it and I had a name for it. I called it "the switch," because I could turn it off and I could turn it on. It really angered her when I turned it off.
I always thought I developed control of "the switch" because of the pain I had gone through as a young adolescent. Maybe it has something to do with my AS.
Can you say anything more about your switch? |
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Xenon
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With me the question is not whether I can turn them off -- I can. The question is, can I turn them on again? And the answer is "not usually, no"...
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Mitch8817
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No, but they take longer than normal to get fired up.
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hartzofspace
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Yes, and I shut down quickly when somebody else is getting extremely emotional on me.
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KalahariMeerkat
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| Yes. And I can turn off feeling. I have a hard time turning them on. And I can also willingly turn off feeling (i.e. touch) but I have to know something is going to happen in order to do it and sometimes under extreme stress I can't feel sensation whatsoever like once my mom kept kelling at me about something and I acidently pinched myself and I didn't even feel it and there was a mark from it too. I actualy sometimes crave intese sensation too. Earlier my mom slapped me because I reached for a bucket I was supposed to wait for her to hand to me and I kept reaching for it knowing she would slap me because it was resetting my abilty to feel. |
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Wolfpup
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| I seem to have a natural defense (possibly totally normal) where if I have a reason to experience horrible loss/sadness I sometimes just don't feel anything, or anything in regards to it. It basically switches off, but I can't control it (I'm assuming it's the "time heals all wounds" thing, except the pain is still really there, I can just not actively deal with it all the time). |
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MrMacPhisto
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I can easily switch them off and swith them on with no problem. I can still be emotional I can switch just one emotion off and keep all others on. Even though I swithced off when I saw her when the bride came down the aisle I felt tearful.
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| Sort of yes in that I can be so incredibly f**** up from something I get emotional blunting the takes ages to fade. But no as in on an off. |
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agentcyclosarin
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I am normally at a detached standpoint so I rarely clue in to the fact that I am feeling something until miles later and than I'll battle it down logically and rationally. Emotional meltdowns still happen sometimes (very rare though) but this has a reason and a root from where and why they happen. I can most normally step back and if I notice I'm feeling something (as thats usually what its classified as.. something.) I depart and reason it out with myself.
If emotions effect me I am often oblivious to this, I find something comes to a head and when I trace it back searching fr the reason and do the analysis it was something that had been there for a while without my noticing. Sometimes even to the extent of years without my noticing.
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willow
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I can turn them off...but I usually don't...once I turn them off...I can't turn them on again.
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willow
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| frankwah wrote: | Yes, I can turn my emotions off. It came in very handy during my adolescent years when extreme emotional pain was a regularity.
It pissed off one of my ex-girlfriends because when I dumped her, she and I would be talking on the phone. She would be crying and I would just be listening and talking with no emotion. Even though she was right there on the other end, in incredible pain, I was right there listening, fully cognizant and completely unbothered. I told her about it and I had a name for it. I called it "the switch," because I could turn it off and I could turn it on. It really angered her when I turned it off.
I always thought I developed control of "the switch" because of the pain I had gone through as a young adolescent. Maybe it has something to do with my AS.
Can you say anything more about your switch? |
I like that term. "the switch". that is just what it is like.
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Brittany2907
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 9:14 am Post subject: Switching on and off emotions... |
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Sometimes when i'm in a stressful situation they switch off automatically. I am not really that emotional anyway.
I can "switch off" my emotion at will, but usually when I do that, I stay that way for the rest of the day, or until I wake up the next morning.
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