My eyes cry when I empathise even slightly with something sad, gently funny, gently ironic or with pathos
the problem is, It's completely disproportionate to the level of emotion I feel
So, if a friend is telling me about something slightly sad in her family. I cry. It happens on the school playground if someone is telling me they had a rubbish weekend, or if they tell a joke
It can be very embarrassing:I have had people laugh at me. I have also had someone confide about a sexual assault to me then say"I can see by your reaction this has happened to you too."( it hadn't)
I think It only happens face to face with other women. Sometimes children confide in me because of a role I have but I don't react in the same way.
Tears overflow and I have to pretend I have hayfever but the timing makes it obvious this is not true.
We are quite" spectrumy" in my family.I wonder if it is a reaction to eye contact?
I asked my optician if it was an eye problem- she said no, a brain problem
Any ideas mumsnet?
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embarrassing-Synesthesia? Neurological cause of over crying? asd?
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whydidhesaythat · 10/07/2016 17:52
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