Feeling empty/blank?

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Does anyone else ever feel a bit blank and empty inside?

Not particularly happy or sad, just nothing?

I've felt like this off and on for as long as i can remember.. I seem to be able to pick up on other people's emotions when i'm around them but if they don't show anything or if i'm alone i just feel like a robot. It's strange. For example i act happy and excitable round one of my friends because she is like this. If i was with someone i didn't know then i wouldn't know how to behave, so i just remain blank until they give me an indication of how i should act towards them.

If i'm by myself then i just float through the day without feeling anything. Is this something that Aspies experience?

I usually don't have a defined feeling in myself for he most part. Ha, I feel obsessed with my special interests Which is excitement and all that. So it's all very chaotic, dynamic state. But when someone comes along I do tend to pick their vibes up. It's just putting another act on and sometimes I act as I think they expect me to. So yes in that sense I find myself being very "empathic". Idk if that's for all aspies. Also not all people can do that to me, I have to be willing to go through this. I do not, however, take sad/negative emotions they make me feel uncomfortable.

It's definitely something I have experienced before. Sometimes it's like I don't really feel anything until someone else does, otherwise, I don't know what to feel. Depending on the person, can be good or bad. I try to steer clear of the people from whom I pick up bad vibes. And kids. They usually confuse me.

I had it for a few years - the "blank" feeling. I managed to regain my emotions by letting myself become confused by them, and I stopped analysing them. Also, opening up and trusting people really works...and allowing yourself to feel a little bad if you make mistakes. Ability to feel down = ability to feel happy. I can make the blankness come back when I please - but only when I'm feeling particularly low, cos feelings give life meaning.

I guess that's been the case for me for over two years, with little change.

yes i feel like that almost every time im alone, i just feel empty like there is a hole in me, its only when im alone though

thank you i thought i was the only one who felt that way

same with the emotions, when my friends are happy, im happy when they aren't im not i have always been that way

I feel that way all the time it's kind of annoying I just don't feel alive at all.