Is it normal that i never feel anything? no emotions?

No, I'm not emo. 100%
My childhood was great. My mom always said that even as a little kid I never had normal emotions.
While all the people I know cry about movies, books or just tragic things, I never did.
A year ago, I was thinking about how I would react if somebody I loved died. I would probably have to force myself to cry.

I have a lot of friends in school. Never was the unsocial type of a girl.
I have 2 friends that I can tell everything to, and love to hang out with them. But, when there sad, I never feel sorry for them. I just try to cheer them up and move on.

I had 3 boy crushes in my life. One when I was in preschool, one in 2nd grade, and the last one was 3 years ago.
And from that day on, till today, I haven't felt any emotion.

I cry only when I'm angry, or get injured. Never for somebody else.
When I watch a movie with somebody and they're all crying and asking me why I'm not, I just say:
''It's just a movie, not real life''.

Please help. I don't know what to do!

Is It Normal?
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  • Well you have described feeling several emotions in this post. Having a crush and angry. And why do you try to cheer up your sad friends? And this whole thing seems to be bothering you.

    I guess what you are trying to ask is you don't feel anything for someone else, aka don't have empathy.

    It's hard to say how normal this is because some people cry at anything remotely sad on TV where as others don't give a damn. I actually find it weird that people ask why you are not crying at a movie.

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  • Emotions are useless. At least negative ones, anyway.

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  • ...is that you, Brooke?

    Anyway. I mean no offense at all, but I find unemotional people very disturbing. How can you call someone that you don't have feelings for a friend? Without emotion, all you are left with is cold, hard logic. Logic only uses people, it has never loved a single person.

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  • I think you just show constraint and self control when under difficult situations. (or at least you try to) so you do not feel the need to cry, etc. im the same. its normal.

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  • Once you experience real love, with someone who is equally committed to you as you are to them, then you'll understand what the pain of grief is like.

    You're just inexperienced, not a robot.

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  • I think you're normal. I can honestly say you're not the only one who would have to force themselves to cry if a loved one died. I honestly believe that as humans, we've evolved to 1) not care about others pain or 2) enjoy it when others get hurt. Then you have those rare few who actually care about others to a high degree.

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  • It's normal, some find it attractive. Just generally makes you more emotionally stable than other people. It's good to have someone like you to tell you problems to. Depends on who your friends are though.

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    • I find it attractive.

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