Alexithymia and crying during movies

Yes, I don't know why ,I have watched a child die in the street and felt nothing but watch it on tv and have to hold back tears. There is meant to be a thing that says you are more effected by close events ,but that doesn't seem to apply to me .There is also a thing where you release happy chem's if all around are panicking so perhaps this effects how autistic people  react . On tv you are seeing hurt ,but don't get the happy chem's to counter act . I don't  know but would be interesting in knowing 

Yeah lol I meant to say I’m pretty sure forgot to edit it 

I think it's interesting that even if you struggle with reading emotions in real life, you can cry during a film or TV show. But music is incredibly powerful and it does seem to be able to trigger emotions.

Try watching a film which normally elicits tears but on mute with subtitles, and see what happens?

it that a typo ?  or a boast   made me laugh :)

O said:

I’m pretty

Plastic said:

I'm unbelievably easily triggered by music or movies

Plastic,  The film directors and composers are aiming to trigger just that effect, in fact they usually work together and are damned good at it.  I've fallen victim myself many times.

I think footage of duty, courage or bravery is different  --  it's fact not fiction.

Ben

I’m pretty I’m alexithymic it’s something that really find hard to live with the one thing that consistently sets me with and overload of emotion is music and seeing things about dogs being mistreated or dying, sometimes movies but not often. day to day living though I’m quite ‘flat’ emotionally

the closest i came to feeling something for fictional characters was reading game of thrones for the first time.

[NB I'm not that conversant with Alexithymia as a standalone diagnosis - emotional dysregulation I definitely do know about]

I can empathize greatly with characters in books and movies - IE I feel the emotions they ought to be feeling / portraying and I cry / elate etc

BUT

In a clinical setting, more than occasionally I am asked things like "what does 'happy' feel like?" - I am dumbfounded and have to take on board a load of prompts and generally just say whatever they lead me into (and in retrospect wonder if what I said bears any relation to my lived experience....)

The problem is not having access to emotions when thinking about it - but the music or images trigger things via a back door - it's odd and out of control.     I only 'feel' happy, sad or anger in normal operation - everything else is just 'meh'.

thats hard to understand i mean showing emotions on one occasion and not another.

is it the music of the movie/tv making you more emotional ?  

What real life events give you issues ? whereby u expect emotions but dont have any.

I'm not officially diagnosed with Alexithymia but I have great difficulty with emotions.   I'm unbelievably easily triggered by music or movies or bits of footage surrounding duty or courage or bravery.