Is it normal for aspies/autistics to try and assign each emotion a number?

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I'm also curious about people not on the spectrum (NTs, or neurotypicals).

When I was a kid, I used to try and file each different emotion a number, but I kept on finding it an impossible task.
I still do this every now and again, even though I'm in my twenties now.

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I would start by mentally listing the emotions I knew of, but then my head would start spinning when I realised that
a) I don't know what all emotions feel like, and never will.
b)What do all the other countries in the world call different emotions?
c)What about all the different nuances to each emotion?
d)How would I organise them in this filing cabinet in my head? [Happy, sad, angry, confused and then subcategories? Alphabetical order? But not all emotions can be shown through words! Don't forget gestures and pictures... maybe even sounds!]

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  • RomeoDeMontague
    9 years ago | pl

    I think that is called something else. Think its called Esythia or something.

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  • Blackwargreymon
    12 years ago | pl

    Sure, why not, doesn't sound so strange, plus an easy way to keep track.

    Personally I don't use numbers as a datastructure to index emotions, since I feel emotion themselves have some relationships/connections between them and feel a datastructure, which allows these connections to be [implicitly] represented, is another option.

    (To comment on the previous poster, they are, but people know me so I just ask them which emotion-state they are in at the moment. Sadly enough a question so easy to answer for me is considered difficult by others.)

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  • ALCOHOLPOISONING
    10 years ago | pl

    Autistc ssuiptrenmancy

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  • SwimBikeRun
    12 years ago | pl

    Aspies? Really?

    I'd say it's normal to try and make something that is so abstract easier to understand by attempting to make it concrete. Facial expressions, tone of voice and body language all play a role in emotion. That's why emotions are so difficult to interpret for people on the spectrum.

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