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How heavily are you emotionally detached from yourself and others?


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And I might laugh at the old man falling, depends on if it was funny or or not

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How heavily are you emotionally detached from yourself and others?

everyone thinks they switch it off. examples help. did you switch off your empathy when you arranged for your own family's house to be burgled while they were away, or when you laughed at an old man fall over in the street? context.

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How heavily are you emotionally detached from yourself and others?

I'm always thinking and analyzing things, trying to think about them objectively, regardless of how I feel about them. At least some of of you know what it's like to lose someone close to you and not feel any different than if you saw a dead bird lying on the ground. To be talking to someone and trying to understand why they are getting so emotional about a subject, when all it's doing is clouding their judgement.

I'm not sure if I'm really a sociopath, but I'm not sure what I could really be described as. I often catch myself trying to study and understand why I act the way I do, and wondering if I actually care about others around me, because of just how detached my feelings are from my judgement. I believe that I do care for other people, but I don't understand why there are times that I feel nothing. A lot of the time it feels like a switch where I can't feel something unless I have a reason to. It can switch off over even petty things, but I don't view it as being petty. I have this thought process where I will take actions to punish my target either verbally or mentally, but I dont feel gratification from doing it. I often feel like other people's emotions are tools that I can use to get my ends met.

One of the big things that make me wonder about myself is the aforementioned darth vader incident. This was a big catalyst in learning control over myself and my actions, especially around other people. I didn't even have a real reason to do it, and all thse years later, I still don't really have any actual emotions attached to it, just a curiosity as to why. 

I came here almost by accident, and I still wonder how much of my facade is just an act. I do feel emotions, but they nearly always take a sideline to when I conclude it's reasonable to metaphorically "turn them on". I've always wondered why I've been like this, and I may never find out, but I do wish that I might ne able to one day.

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How heavily are you emotionally detached from yourself and others?

The big one is when I picked my friend up by the throat and choked her like darth vader, and I cant really give a reason for it other than just because. I was talking to me about something and I just saw her throat. Another time my brother did something, I have no idea what, but I wasnt mad or anything. I just waited for him to come out of the bathroom, walked up to him and smiled, and kneed him in the stomach as hard as I could.He went in his room and cried for 20 minutes while I went to go read a book. I think that what I did was wrong, but I dont feel anything towards it.

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