Crying when talking about your passion[s]?

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does this happen to anyone else? whenever I'm talking about something I feel really passionate about, i tear up. even though it's not emotionally fueled. I'm so passionate about acting, and whenever i try to describe how it makes me feel i just start tearing up. I also recently realized taht I can't talk about Boston (the city that i for some reason i fell in love with when i first visited and hope to someday live in, even though i've been to countless beautiful cities around the world and never had that happen) without starting to cry. Even if i'm just in english trying to describe a theory or idea within a book that i feel strongly about it happens, or when I'm trying to stick up for someone or stomp out an injustice. What gives? This has happened for a while, and i'm starting to wonder if it may be Asperger's related? I look like a friggin crybaby sometimes, even though i'm not crying for sadness or anything.
This happen to anyone else?

Oh it happens when I'm very angry too, but again not because i feel betrayed or anything, just because my feeling is so overwhelming.

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I recall an occasion when I was passionatly advocating for my 1:1 (oddly enough the man I work with as a job coach and I share the same DX) and starting to cry. (I am a 6foot tall guy in his 30's this doesn't look right) Its not that I was crying out of sadness or frustration or any of that, but like my emotions just overloaded.

It makes perfect sense to tear up when you are passionate about something.

Crying is a response to a strong emotional state in humans. Passion is defined as a strong emotion toward something. Put those together and you get tears. =D

I remember seeing Saturn through a telescope for the first time. Whenever I describe that moment, I choke up because it was so beautiful to me.

Also, when people act self-righteously but are hypocritical, and then someone is treated unfairly as a result, I get so passionate and just let them have it with a flow of poetic language detailing how they are hurting the other person.

It happens to everyone. Don't worry. Be proud you are passionate about something.