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I definitely was, very sensitive, as I am now.

I guess, I think most kids were.

But my teenage years closed me off quite a bit.

Yes but I never showed it

I was but I was taught early to keep it buried.  Which has lead to problems later in life.

Yes. Still am somewhat, but I am getting to be a bit of a battle axe the older I get it seems.

Yes. 

My first experience being unhappy being male was being told that I couldn't wear my heart on my sleeve anymore.  I was eleven.

These days I can be really analytic about my emotions.  It's important for me to be able to name parts of my psyche.  It gives me some sense of control, or at least keeps me from being swept away.

Too much.

I was, but I forced myself to forget how to recognize my emotions. If I couldn't tell how I was feeling, I couldn't express them. And if I didn't express them, then I was strong. If I was strong, I could withstand the abuse. If I could withstand the abuse, then maybe it wasn't abuse after all. If it wasn't abuse, then there was nothing to get emotional about.

Rinse, repeat for 18 years. This is why I'm obsessed with self-reflection and navel gazing... its a frontier that I closed myself off to a long time ago and have only just rediscovered.

I am not entirely sure as I don't have many memories as a child. The memories I do have, I was not that emotional. Gradually I became more and more emotional. -Shrugs-

sensitive as most children, but i can't remember having been particularly sensitive.
i wish i'd learned the traditional male ideal earlier, so i knew what felt wrong about the way i was treated when i was upset. it was a little weird to find out that what i did wrong was crying.

Yes, but tried to hide it and keep it personal.

I was profoundly emotional as a child, it was really difficult to hide my emotions and I was very emotional reactive. Over time I've learned to keep it to myself but at this point maybe I'm way too withdrawn... I used to be very open.

I was very emotional and overly sensitive as a child. I got mixed responses from my parents. They would nurture my sensitivity, then laugh at me when I cried about something they didn't understand (like when I'd anthropomorphize an inanimate object and get upset because I hurt its feelings.)

By my teens I was cold. The only emotion I could feel was anger.

Oh yes. Very emotional. Then people around me (friends) started to notice and made fun of it... and then i changed to the "hidden" form of non emotional macho man to protect myself, which costs me a lot now when i'm 23.

I could take so much then loose it totally so I'd say yes I was emotional

Until the time I was in junior highschool (7th grade).  After that, emotion got closed away for 40 years.  Very unhealthy.  I really don't know how to handle anything emotional.

I don't remember much from childhood, but I know I cried easily.

For a while I toughened up, but it seems I'm getting soft again... Hm.

I would say I was normal emotionally as a child, then just shut down around age 9. The difference was big enough for my mother to talk about the change even now. No abuse, just this profound  feeling of not being normal.

I was passionate (as I am now, but I have more self control now), but that didn't make me any more sensitive than any other kid.

I'm a really sensitive person in general, I've always felt my emotions very intensely.

When I was little it was mostly happy emotions, then puberty happened. I started trying to hide them away when I was around 8 or 9, but mostly I just came across like I hated everyone and everything. I got labelled as a troublemaker in school based mostly on how angry I came off to teachers (I guess they thought I had attitude issues  ???)

I can remember making a conscious decision to not cry at all anymore around the 6th grade because I hated how girly it made me feel  :-\ That was healthy  ::)

Quote from: Darkflame on August 28, 2013, 05:36:03 AM
I can remember making a conscious decision to not cry at all anymore around the 6th grade because I hated how girly it made me feel  :-\ That was healthy  ::)

i think i made a similar decision a little earlier than that. not so much because it made me feel too girly, but more because nobody ever tried to figure out why, they simply didn't seem to care that i was hurting and told me to stop crying and go on with what they were pretty much forcing me to do (most should realize i'm talking about parents now). after reading the right books, i ended up choosing to live up to a male ideal instead of trying to show my feelings. since showing them didn't work despite supposedly being a girl. maybe i just did it wrong, i should've screamed and cursed and shouted in the typical girly fashion that my sister is such a master of. they actually did listen to her some times.

Absolutely! The older I've got the more emotional I am too lol  :-\ I class myself as a nutball! lol

Quote from: Jamie D on August 26, 2013, 10:17:26 PM
I really don't know how to handle anything emotional.

I'm surprised at this. You're one of the most emotional people I've ever known.

For me, I really don't think so. I didn't cry much. Or talk much. I'm much more of an emotional adult.

As a child. As a teen. As an adult.

But only cried as a child. Lost that ability in my teen years sometime.

Quote from: Taka on August 28, 2013, 06:11:45 AM
nobody ever tried to figure out why, they simply didn't seem to care that i was hurting and told me to stop crying and go on with what they were pretty much forcing me to do

I know this feel.  I am this feel.

*hugs*