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Is it normal to have selective emotions?
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I don't care a whole lot about humans. I wouldn't go out of my way to kill one for no reason, unless my reason was for enjoyment (which I seriously doubt I'd ever get to that stage). I don't care a lot about animals, but they seem to be the only ones in which I can feel a very, very short period of sadness if I see one being mistreated. My horse died a few days ago, and I didn't seem even normally saddened, but just a bit saddened. I felt a little sad for about less than an hour, then didn't really care anymore. I'm not sure what this could be.

Is is normal to have a selective sense of emotions to not be saddened much, but only be saddened a little for a short period of time when an animal is hurt?
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tommythecat
12 months ago | pl
Yeah it's just a "shallow affect", doc says i have it. You can think deeply so you know how sad something is, but you don't feel as deeply during this process.
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thinkingaboutit
12 months ago | pl
So you don't have a broad range of stupid emotions. I would say that is a virtue.
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*~ThePurplePixie~*
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
I have that (and a bundle of other things) and I'm about to be tested for Asperger's Syndrome; which I probably have.
Perhaps it could be a mild place on the autism spectrum?
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bugsforbreakfast
11 months, 4 weeks ago | pl
@: *~ThePurplePixie~*
I have diagnosed aspergers and ive been told this can be a symptom of it. For me its like I have no emotional memory. I can feel emotions in the moment, but soon as Im doing something else the memory of what that emotion was like is gone. It happens with good and bad emotions for me. I dont remember what emotions are like unless Im feeling them. Its hard to know what is due to the aspergers diagnosis and what are traits of how everyone is or if its something else about me unrelated to aspergers.
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*~ThePurplePixie~*
11 months, 3 weeks ago | pl
@: bugsforbreakfast
I know, sometimes I feel like I am just completely emotionless...other times, I think maybe not.
Damn it, I don't know.
:)
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