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Do you ever cry?

Oakling

Do you ever cry?

It is such a rare occurrence for me, but today I did when I was exercising in my garage gym. I think I know why I did, but often understanding my emotions can be a bit confusing for me.

I think many things got on top of me in this instance (both positive and negative feelings) that it came out in this way. It’s quite an intense thing really.

I just wondered what everyone’s experiences with this was as I know everyone is different. 

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  • I don’t cry commonly, in fact I had thought that I had grown out of it, but I did get a little teary as a lost child might, when I had received my autistic diagnosis. You see I think that I had spent so much time, accepting my fate and the reality that I was not meant to fork-lightning. That I had just been holding my breath and accepting my fate with a straight-back, when the my diagnosis came along, that despairing catacomb that was my psyche, broke open into a whole new frontier, so I found myself breathlessly weeping in a shower. To be in despair is to be as stable as slave might be, but to be granted freedom and presented with real-change and opportunities, just made me feel as a child-escaped to a desert might feel, free but also in the unknown.

  • in reply to DeSpereaux
    DeSpereaux said:
    made me feel as a child-escaped to a desert might feel, free but also in the unknown.

    Into an unknown, but in the company of many friends who know the ways, how to avoid the traps and pitfalls and who can light the way so we walk together.

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  • in reply to Iain

    As you say, friend, freedom is carries with it its own weight, but I think it is only right that we seek it out. Although it is much easier knowing where to find my kin, to be able rely on the buddy system that is this community, its also makes me feel a lot better to be able to pay kindness forward, as only a forum can likeminded-forum can facilitate.