What is wrong with me? Is anybody else like this?

I get like it with videos on Youtube of people having cochlear implants and hearing for the first time, football crowds singing you'll never walk alone or sunshine on Leith, missing dogs being reunited with their owners.

But other emotion-inducing things can leave me cold. I particularly dislike videos of someone being given a teddy bear with the voice of their deceased relative inside it. Because I would hate to receive that myself and find it emotionally manipulative, especially when filmed.

Same goes for 'reunited with Dad/whoever after X years'. Unless it's been explained away by travel restrictions, I always think they were in prison or some other bad reason so not sure I should be emotional about it.

Yes! Every year the whole school makes an arch on the last day, and all the year 6s run through the arch to symbolise their journey through the school. I don’t know these children and I probably won’t think about them again but this makes me so emotional. As in can’t quite hold back the tears. Woman has a baby on TV, I know it’s not real, crying. This is only since I had kids and I don’t know how to stop it.

i get the same thing!! deffo not all of them but it’s very bizarre
can be a complete rando’s wedding too

always thought i was bonkers for it :D you’re not alone, OP!!!

I do this, infrequently and for no discernable reason (had to walk out of a supermarket and pull myself together when there was a local brass band playing Hark the Herald angels one Christmas) I think it's my brain telling me I might think I am in control, but I can be jolted out of the blue with a big feeling. I can live with this, it's probably good for me.

I get very emotional with music too OP.

Especially live music, I immediately burst into tears when a concert or gig starts. (I’ve seen some amazing iconic bands but I even cried at Craig David 🤣) When I hear songs on the radio I get full body goosebumps.

I suspect I am neurodivergent so I don’t know if that has something to do with it.

I’m like that. But I never ever cry for me or anything in my life. So assume it has to do with that. Probably should mention it to my therapist some time….

The year 6 leavers is one place I didn't feel emotional! Our junior school were trying so hard to make it emotional that it actually just annoyed me rather than feeling authentic sadness 😅

But...
-Humans doing good deeds 😭
-Dogs/animals saving people 😭
-People saving animals (but very wary of the staged stuff 😡)
-Jets flying overhead and I can feel it through to my bones 😭 (I live in the Lake District where they often flyover, I'm not talking about normal flight paths 🤣)
-Weirdly, watching the UTK march got me. I loved seeing white/black/Christian/Sikhs/English/non English... All coming together. I wish I'd been there. I think it's because it shows that not everything comes down to racism. It's (for me) not about colour. All (or atleast most) of those people marching were there because they all want a safer life and they had the support of all the strangers around them, all from different walks of life.
Do not come at me with any political view, I'm not interested in a debate and don't want to derail someone's thread
-My neighbour brought me flowers after hearing about a health issue I had going on, bawled as soon as the door shut. It was so nice that she thought about me and went through with doing something to cheer me up. Meant alot.

I'd class myself as an empath, I think I have some autistic traits, too. As a pp said, I do have a great, deep sadness inside me. I don't trust people anymore because of everything I've been through so when I see genuine, altruistic, good people, it just gets me.

Me too. im shocking at funerals, weddings, movies, adverts, you name it. The worse is reading on the train, if a sad part comes up im in floods its so embarassing.

I cry like I'm trying to hold it back and I can't I find it very embarrassing!
Funerals are the worst !!
I went to a summer fete and a song came I love I again could not stop it came out of nowhere ,!
Carnival parade with the band's playing again !
My daughter doing her hair for prom !
I sometimes have to walk away and hide away because I get so embarrassed by it ,!!
Id love to know why I get this happening mostly 40s maybe declining hormones ??
I am super happy positive person and u would never expect me to be a blubbering wreck 😁

twas meant to be funny, and an alert that I understood the reference…

so a real shame that you had to be so monumentally unpleasant on
a thread lauding empathy, with such an aggressive and hostile post

I’m like this sometimes, I think it’s hormonal 😵‍💫. People winning medals in the olympics always gets me emotional 😭

My mum and sister are post-menopausal and they get emotional at the drop of a hat. Whereas I'm not post-menopausal and I don't get like that at all.

My dad also used to cry at all weddings and funerals, even when it was people he wasn't particularly close to. He also used to well up on his birthday when being given gifts and so on. And he used to cry at sad films.

It isn‘t just you - we are all bound to be crying in Tesco (Sainsbury and WR,
Asda and Morrisons) soon -
see thread on supermarket prices

I am autistic and sometimes overreacting or show the 'wrong' emotion

I used to get this reading stories when my kids were little - or actually even before that when I was a preschool teacher. This big lump would appear in my throat when I got to the end of stories that were not even very moving 🤣

I’m the same. Convoys of motorbikes / vintage cars / flash mobs / choirs / Mexican waves ….

Humans enjoying being part of a group is what I think it boils down to for me. I quite like it. Feels like a rush. Passes quite quickly ( for me, anyway)

You're a mum maybe, having children has changed me. My children laugh at the things that'll trigger me to cry. It's embarrassing the things that'll make me cry. Your post resonates with me

As well as the funerals of strangers and all those common things, I cry at donkeys on the beach, old fashioned carousels and I also had a completely unexpected quiet sob at a sing-along carol service last year.

Just had to google screaming in the Sistine chapel. Apparently it’s prohibited, then the next page is a mumsnet post from 2018.

Omg I am so relieved to read I am not along. I was tough before I had my daughter. Hardly cried since I was a kid.
Now any kind of live music sets me off, any performance, most films and normal situations which are cute but nothing special. I've been so embarrassed. I went to see a performance at a festival and just let it out as I was in a crowd but people were looking at me...it was happy jump up music 😅

I thought it was partying too hard at uni and a few years on SSRIs after. Once I had my daughter I feel like my nerves are completely shot and I'm an emotional wreck...

God I hope it calms down as it's exhausting.

Just adding. Came out of Les Mis with dh the other week. (I’d told him it was very moving). At the end of the show some people were dabbing their eyes. I said to him “what did you think?” He replied “did I miss something? Did something happen that I missed?” I said like what? It’s something you FEEL, you have to feel the emotion. Nope. Didn’t get it. He’s the Ice Man of SE London.

I'm the same with music - my son is a chorister & I've only rarely been able to get through a service or performance without tears streaming down my cheeks (it's just as bad when he's not actually singing!). It's so embarrassing & I hate it - I'm known for being incredibly unsentimental & I actively avoid nostalgia or anything mushy but the choirs get me every time 😕

I was recently telling my DH about a thing I heard on the radio about a boy being rescued from the sea, and the tears were pouring down my face, I felt ridiculous. I was saying how well the boy's grandmother had explained what happened , but the grandmother (who was well, related to the child, and actually at the incident) was totally capable of talking - but me, who simply heard it and has no connection to these people, I was a right mess even trying to describe her story. I felt very silly. My DH was v nice about it.