Spock?

[smith2267]

I like logic. And Spock is often put forth as an example of an aspie.
But I have emotions. So what do you all think?

 

[Soup]

Most Aspies have them to a degree BUT ours tend to manifest differently than the typical NT's. Some of us feel them so intensely that they shut them down completely & only appear unemotional. Some feel anger & frustration readily but don't feel much of the 'softer' empathy-type emotions. Some of us go through flashes of great emotionality (NOT the same as the highs & lows of Bipolar disorder). Others feel a full range of emotions BUT may express them unconventionally. I'm the type with dulled emotions that are fleeting. They come on lightly, take me time to grasp & notice, then before I can do a thing with them, they're gone. I think we Aspies usually have atypical emotion hardware AND software.

 

[RubenX]

Live long and prosper
*makes vulcan hand sign*

I so identify myself with Spock. And Spock does have emotions, he's half human half vulcan, he just suppresses them.

 

[Loomis]

Live long and prosper
*makes vulcan hand sign*

That reminds me of a time when I was in my car driving and practicing the vulcan hand sign. The guy next to me thought I was giving him the finger and gave it back to me.

 

[Soup]

I have trouble coordinating my fingers to make hand signs like Spock (like the hang 10 sign surfers do). Back in school they tried to teach us some American sign language (I always wanted to be good at this) but reversing the signs to match a person facing me or even arranging both hands differently but simultaneously was truly daunting. I'd have to look at each hand, arrange each finger, then do the other without screwing up the first one.

 

[John Smith]

Some of us feel them so intensely that they shut them down completely & only appear unemotional. Some feel anger & frustration readily but don't feel much of the 'softer' empathy-type emotions.

I used to think that I was the emotionless type. Spock was even a nickname. But I now know my emotions do exist; they're just very deeply buried and suppressed. Anger is usually the only one that erupts occasionally, usually when I'm frustrated (particularly when trying to talk to emotional people). Normally the anger is directed at myself - hitting my head, punching and head banging walls etc. It's just to try and stop the mental pain (and it sort of works).

J.S.

 

[Amity Alpha]

Some of us go through flashes of great emotionality (NOT the same as the highs & lows of Bipolar disorder). Others feel a full range of emotions BUT may express them unconventionally.

This is me. I've actually taken Spock as a role model, because he's able to use logic to override powerful emotions. Now when I'm highly stressed and the strength of the anxiety is making me totally irrational and over-emotional, I try to remind myself to be more like Spock.