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Turning emotions on/off

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I have heard recently that people with Asperger’s have the ability to turn emotions on and off in a sense my whole life I have been miserable not being able to regulate my emotions and I feel the reason I never was able to develop this skill was because I was always told that I need to find a way to deal with it and not react 

if anyone could help me to be able to teach my self this skill to do it at will to shutdown in a way to help with my emotional regulation and impulse reactions that would be the best thing anyone could give me I have been struggling with my Asperger’s for so long and have only been able to do it accidentally once it was the biggest help but I would like the ability to know how to do it when ever I need to make going through life easier 

any help or advice on how to teach myself this would go further than you would know 

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  • Hmm, this resonates. My condition made growing up a difficult experience, with a mess of defence mechanisms forming that I never fully managed to shake off in later life and which have ramped up again this decade. There is a sort of emotional disconnect in my thoughts now, where my brain automatically abstracts certain thoughts so that the emotion they would otherwise generate is stopped/repressed before I have a chance to feel it. It’s a bit of a pisser as these days mostly all I feel is a permanent background subtle sadness/despair with occasional ‘despair anger’ waves. I suppose it‘s because there are things I desperately need as a (muh) human but aren’t getting due to this mechanism in my head. This is more than I knew twelve months ago and I’m trying to work on it with the help of someone I talk to weekly. It’s funny… I used to think I understood emotions perfectly well. But when she asked me to describe them, I was surprised how difficult it is to find the words.

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  • Hmm, this resonates. My condition made growing up a difficult experience, with a mess of defence mechanisms forming that I never fully managed to shake off in later life and which have ramped up again this decade. There is a sort of emotional disconnect in my thoughts now, where my brain automatically abstracts certain thoughts so that the emotion they would otherwise generate is stopped/repressed before I have a chance to feel it. It’s a bit of a pisser as these days mostly all I feel is a permanent background subtle sadness/despair with occasional ‘despair anger’ waves. I suppose it‘s because there are things I desperately need as a (muh) human but aren’t getting due to this mechanism in my head. This is more than I knew twelve months ago and I’m trying to work on it with the help of someone I talk to weekly. It’s funny… I used to think I understood emotions perfectly well. But when she asked me to describe them, I was surprised how difficult it is to find the words.

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