I know my emotions

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Recently when going through some old posts, I read that a factor of AS is that one is supposed to have no or little "knowing" of their own emotional states.

In general, I don't have this problem anymore.

I did have some difficulty articulating or rationally expressing it in childhood.

What helped me most was when my parents sent me on a self-development course for youth. Part of the course discussed emotions and recognising them, and their possible meanings. Later I bought a copy of "No Ordinary Moments" which among other things discussed the purpose of emotions of Fear, Sadness, Anger and others similar to them. I learned to articulate feelings (e.g. noticing I felt anger and saying things like "I feel angry because..." or "I feel angry and I think...") in a pedantic way. Later I read books on psychology and cognitive-behavioural analysis, and I developed a better understanding of the relationship between emotions, thoughts, and beliefs.

What's curious is I was diagnosed after I developed this emotional awareness. The psychologist said that lack of emotional awareness is not a concrete symptom as many aspies are capable of developing emotional awareness and competence if the right intervention is made early enough.

I think the problem is not that aspies "know" their emotions, i think their problem is more to describe their emotions to others, so that they can understand it too. Usually they haven't learned to tell anyone else about their emotions. They think their emotions are not worth mentioning. And when they describe them, then they don't use body-language or have not learned to describe them well.

byebye,
Anton

Yes, I believe this is a learnable skill.

I know my emotions very well. The hard part is describing negative emotions without me crying.

I still dont have a handle on my emotions. sometimes, i fantasize when I walk with my CD player and pretend i'm in band and eveyone loves me. my "pretend" brother shows up every once in awile to talk to me

crazy? i dont think so. not when your in the game!!

I think they are more shallow emotions than experienced by neurotypical people.