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Originally Posted by stopdog
Plus there is the problem of what is too emotional to each person. I imagine I (and possibly pbutton may be closer to my end of the scale) am on one far end as to what on the scale of showing/having emotion is too much or too little. I find those little icon things to be too much expression of emotion for me to use (plus I almost never know which one means what). For me, "that was not terrible" is almost over the top praise. To others, that would be tepid at best.
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feel deeply, my emotional life can sometimes be very intense ...... but I am not necessarily comfortable
displaying that depth of feeling, or always with others displaying it, too. I would suck as a T because even though I do feel strong empathy for people in pain, I have a very hard time dealing with deep, intense expressions of emotion (ie, tears can make me squirm). So for me intellectualizing emotion, doing forensic analysis on it, is my way of handling it safely. That does make me seem cool, controlled, detached on the surface to those who do not know me well .... that is a part of me, but not the whole of me.
I am actually expressive, more so when I am feeling socially comfortable or whatever; I like to use those emoticons here to try to make a correlation with the body language/expression that isn't seen, but might if I were saying such and such in person.....and also to try to clarify and/or soften my meaning at times. I like to use, but not overuse, them.