WomensStuff

I'm generally pretty calm and to-the-point, to the extent that I can come across as pretty cold at first. But if there's something that gets to me, whether it's happy / sad / infuriating or whatever, I can let it out and process it now, rather than bottling it up. That lets me appear as even more of an emotionless robot the rest of the time! Yay, I guess?

I have real trouble empathizing with people around me, even if I can read them on a conscious level. I guess that either makes me autistic or a sociopath.

Since going on fluoxetine, not very. I love that stuff and should have started taking it years ago.

The aromatase inhibitor might be contributing as well. I had the estrogen receptor positive variety of breast cancer a few years ago, so now I have to take Anastrozole for another 5 years.

I only have outside references to compare myself to others but things seem to be more muted for me than my peers. I feel the emotions but just not at the same intensity as others. An ex used to accuse me of being robotic. If crying or tears is a metric, I cry maybe once or twice a month on average.

I feel like I have a lot in a big barrel that sloshes and spills sometimes. I was a "sensitive" kid that cried at movies and TV, and animals in the SPCA, and vandalized trees. Somewhere along the way I had to get it under control or store it, probably around starting school and needing to putting a mask on in general. Not to say that I never had embarrassing moments from that point on.

I still cry about both big and small things, when I'm in my own space. And one of things that I love about watching movies and series by myself with earphones in is that I get to cry at dumb shit uninterrupted and not feeling self conscious. I rewatched Harley Quinn and cried my eyes out at the finale of that goofy shit lol.

I mostly have a flat affect unless certain triggers get hit. There's a few triggers, chiefly related to my father's sudden, unexpected death, that will start the tears flowing. And there's a few social triggers (chiefly related to disrespect) that will make people wish they had never been born (or, if they're more level-headed, that I had never been born).

I am undeniably a less angry human than I was a year ago. Thanks estrogen!

I think I do cry a bit easier now, but its still not a super common, everyday thing.

I'm hugely emotional I'll cry once a day about something, including adverts and not being able to find my keys. I get really excited about things as well, I can shriek with excitement and want to bounce all over about it. I don't often get angry though, I flip literally once every few years.

I cry daily at all kinds of things, good and bad. I can basically be made to tear up on command, something my bestie has weaponised against me a few times lol by sending me things like cat rescue videos.