I thinkmost people find abnormal or weird (like my tendency for them to affect me physically)
I was under the impression that emotions affecting people physically is considered very normal and ordinary: anger making the blood rush to your head, fear making you quake or your hair stand on end, shame making you blush, etc. All of those things I consider to be part of the standard vocabulary of emotions such that if I describe someone as <having stereotypical physical reaction> to <associated emotion> I assume the person I’m describing it to will get it most of the time. Indeed, it’s hard for me to distinguish an “emotion” from, say, an “assessment” without there being something akin to physical symptoms going on.
Oops, I think you’re right. I meant it in the sense that I lose control of my body (shaking/quivering, being unable to stand or form words, etc) but even that just sounds similar to my friends’ descriptions of meltdowns.
I was under the impression that emotions affecting people physically is considered very normal and ordinary: anger making the blood rush to your head, fear making you quake or your hair stand on end, shame making you blush, etc. All of those things I consider to be part of the standard vocabulary of emotions such that if I describe someone as <having stereotypical physical reaction> to <associated emotion> I assume the person I’m describing it to will get it most of the time. Indeed, it’s hard for me to distinguish an “emotion” from, say, an “assessment” without there being something akin to physical symptoms going on.
Oops, I think you’re right. I meant it in the sense that I lose control of my body (shaking/quivering, being unable to stand or form words, etc) but even that just sounds similar to my friends’ descriptions of meltdowns.