[Stabbsworth]

i don't like having emotions very much.

[trystan830]

yeah, i get that. i try not to do too many emotions either

[Stabbsworth]

and yet my brother calls me a robot when i don't emote, pulling faces when i emote with my face, and emotional if i dare bother emoting otherwise.

he might want to make up his fucking mind, jegus h christ.

[trystan830]

well that doesn't sound very brotherly...

[Stabbsworth]

and then he wonders why i want outta here.

gestures in an excessively vague manner.

[Espy]

Emotions are stupid and people are stupid and I teared up in class today in front of my entire fucking group due to anxiety.

[Stabbsworth]

god, mood.

[DreadedMartian]

I use to cry but now I get angry and lash out. Which is definitely worse than just crying. People tend to be more forgiving with tears. Harsh language and name calling tends to stick around.

[Stabbsworth]

mm.

i think i've always been like this. always had trouble with emotions shite. doesn't help that i'm terrified of being abandoned as a result of fucking up, y'know?

[Espy]

I had really serious anger management issues as a kid; I think it didn't help that I take after my dad a lot and he also has anger management issues. And mine only got worse in HS and I'm suspecting that might also have been due to mental health issues starting.

So obviously when I hit my lowest point with depression, I went the complete opposite direction with emotions.

I feel like out of the people who talking about preferring to be a robot or cyborg of some sort, a disproportionately large number are ace, aro, ADHD, on the autie spectrum, or some combination of all of those.

[DreadedMartian]

I actually know very well what your saying. I grew up down south as a mixed kid and I was viciously bullied. I also had a rough home life due to my mom. I used to just be sad all the time and then it turned into anger. And then that anger grew.

I think your so right Espy!

I use to want to feel nothing, but now I want to feel but not to the extremes that I do sometimes.

[Stabbsworth]

Originally Posted by Espy

I feel like out of the people who talking about preferring to be a robot or cyborg of some sort, a disproportionately large number are ace, aro, ADHD, on the autie spectrum, or some combination of all of those.

> suspects that i may have adhd / autism (or potentially both, as they can be comorbid) and was passed over bc i was one of those 'gifted kids'
> relates way too much to posts on the internet abt adhd
> fuck

there's also NB people vaguely wanting to be robots, i think? idk.

also, yeah, about the anger issues thing, can relate. i think it's mostly because my brother is kind of a prick and i have to internalise a lot of shit else i get called a snowflake or emotional, because HOW DARE I SHOW EMOTION?!?!?!?!

second edit because i'm forgetting a lot of things, but i was also bullied in secondary.

[Espy]

Considering that you hyperfixate on stuff, ADHD/autism/both definitely isn't outside the realm of possibility.

I do the same, and was put on a pedestal as a kid bc I was at the top of my class, and I'm almost 100% the gifted kid burnout stereotype and IDEK if I'm the spectrum bc comorbidity and, uh, DFAB auties often go undiag'd

oh, yeah, forgot about gender shenanigans

i'm NB too

[Merskelly Metalien]

:] I emote with one of two masks.
The happy mask, hiding anything I'm feeling that isn't happy.
And the leave-me-be mask for those special occasions where I just want space and for you to not speak to me because I have headphones on and am concentrating on something important. /8[
Can totally relate tho. :[ Emotions can flippin' ruin your whole day man. </3 Also they get in the way of such trivial things. >x{ If only there was an off button and if only there were a way for me to shut up! >~>;
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wow...amazing how being bullied creates common issues later on. I'm sorry guys, <:[ former bullied person too here. *wiggles arm* eyyy...

[Stabbsworth]

yeah. ADHD is underdiagnosed if you're DFAB and is commonly just called being a daydreamer or a chatterbox. bit fucked, there, isn't it?
bonus points to it apparently being a 'childhood' disorder, same with autism, nevermind the fact that it can and WILL affect the rest of your adult life <:)

endless gender shenanigans.
i'm nb too hdkjdhjh(more masculine as of late, thinking abt changing the label to transmasculine but i don't get? dysphoric. not much?)

[Espy]

Originally Posted by DreadedMartian

I actually know very well what your saying. I grew up down south as a mixed kid and I was viciously bullied. I also had a rough home life due to my mom. I used to just be sad all the time and then it turned into anger. And then that anger grew.

I think your so right Espy!

I use to want to feel nothing, but now I want to feel but not to the extremes that I do sometimes.

It's v difficult finding a balance between 100% emotion and 0% emotion and like

most neurotypical people don't understand that and it's v frustrating.