(02-04-2017, 10:27 PM)HarleyDog Wrote: Possibly. But before I answer the reason why, I need to understand the direction you are going with this question? Please be more specific.

(02-05-2017, 12:01 AM)CKwi88 Wrote: Well, if you think of it as a continuum:

"bleeding heart<--------------Normal Person-------------->Straight up sociopath"

Everyone falls somewhere on that line.

(02-05-2017, 03:46 AM)samhain Wrote: I feel like I range all over that spectrum.  Some things just make me feel so bad that I could get sick.  Other things, things that I think I should probably care about more make me feel absolutely nothing.   Then sometimes I just stay in the middle of the road.  I wonder if this is the exception or the rule.

(02-05-2017, 03:46 AM)samhain Wrote: I feel like I range all over that spectrum.  Some things just make me feel so bad that I could get sick.  Other things, things that I think I should probably care about more make me feel absolutely nothing.   Then sometimes I just stay in the middle of the road.  I wonder if this is the exception or the rule.

(02-05-2017, 08:16 PM)CKwi88 Wrote: Any given topic will push you to one side of that spectrum. Take the fire xxlt mentioned. I'm not from the greater Cincinnati area, I've never heard of it. If you talk about the Kiss nightclub fire however, it's a whole different thing to me. 

I remember travelling abroad, and people made jokes about the 9/11 attacks. They weren't from the USA, so it didn't have the same impact on them as it would me. Just like the jokes would have a different impact on me, an 8th grader at the time of the attacks, than the impact on my uncle who was walking away from the buildings when the planes hit.  

I don't know if xxlt was being specific to humor. My personal opinion is that anything goes in humor, as long as the objective of making people laugh isn't lost. Jokes that I find to be in poor taste I just try to ignore. But in my opinion, you can't dictate what is or isn't fair game in humor. 

(02-04-2017, 10:22 PM)xxlt Wrote: So, you know how you can be color blind or tone deaf?

My question is, can one be emotionally color blind/tone deaf?

Yes or no, and how/why?

(02-06-2017, 12:59 PM)hollodero Wrote: The question is posed a bit vague, but sure. Autism is an example. Being a sociopath is an example. Some personality disorders do have an effect similar to being emotionally deaf. 

There is of course a range to all these conditions and the degreement of impairment or "emotional deficit". According to everyone, I myself do have those deficits, but not so much regarding empathy.

(02-06-2017, 12:59 PM)hollodero Wrote: The question is posed a bit vague, but sure. Autism is an example. Being a sociopath is an example. Some personality disorders do have an effect similar to being emotionally deaf. 

There is of course a range to all these conditions and the degreement of impairment or "emotional deficit". According to everyone, I myself do have those deficits, but not so much regarding empathy.

(02-06-2017, 11:40 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Autism and personality disorders were the first two things that popped into my mind. 

(02-07-2017, 10:54 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: Same for me. I have a hard time distinguishing emotions in people. Why it is necessarily, I don't know, but I exhibit other traits that would put me somewhere on the autism spectrum. A number of things can cause this.

(02-09-2017, 03:23 PM)xxlt Wrote: How well developed would you say your sense of humor is? (Serious question - no pun intended.) 

(02-04-2017, 10:22 PM)xxlt Wrote: So, you know how you can be color blind or tone deaf?

My question is, can one be emotionally color blind/tone deaf?

Yes or no, and how/why?

(02-09-2017, 05:44 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: Lack of Emotions is the only Logical way to go...  =)

(02-09-2017, 05:15 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: That is a tough thing to answer. I enjoy cerebral comedy, but even then I don't find a lot of things very funny, at least not haha funny.

(02-09-2017, 05:44 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: Lack of Emotions is the only Logical way to go...  =)

(02-10-2017, 12:24 PM)xxlt Wrote: I asked because a lot of people seem to have a hard time with tone in an environment like this. You don't seem to me to be one of those people. You seem to get when someone is being  serious or facetious. So, your comment about being somewhere on the autism spectrum surprised me.