[ SECRET POST #1522 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1522 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #217.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - hit/ship/spiration ], [ 1 - personal attack ].
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Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

04. http://i56.tinypic.com/wi26xg.png

[(Anonymous)]

jsyk, hardly anyone cares when natural disasters happen in places they have no attachment to or someone they barely know dies - that's not very unique! Still, I'm one of those people who barely have a sentimental/sympathetic bone in their body too, so... carry on not caring, OP. I will too.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah... you're really not a special snowflake OP.

[no-one-specific.livejournal.com]

You're not a freak for not being terribly emotional/affected by deaths around you. There's no manual on how to deal with life. But congrats on finding a character like that!

[tardiscrash.livejournal.com]

I'm in the same boat. I understand logicically that these things are bad but I don't feel anything about it. I have had people around me die and I never grieved or mourned it was just ... oh well I guess I won't see them again, hm.

You're not alone.

[wldcatsprstr-14.livejournal.com]

I understand exactly how you feel OP. My friends always said I was weird because I could look at someone's grief and be completely unaffected. When people cry around me, it doesn't make me want to console them- it makes me want to run as far in the opposite direction as I can. I honestly can't deal with other people's emotions and I always thought I was just a heartless bitch.

[tardiscrash.livejournal.com]

Uh seriously. People crying awks the hell out of me. I can love them to death but it just makes me really uncomfortable.

[(Anonymous)]

I guess I'm glad that you've never experienced any great tragedy in your life then, OP. People who say "yeah, I've had someone close to me die but I wasn't all that sad about it" obviously haven't had someone THAT close to them die. If you're counting an uncle or a grandparent or something, please, just stop. When your mother or sister or best friend of 15+ years dies and you don't shed a tear or give it a second thought, then we can talk about how you're right and you probably are suffering from psychopathy, but until then, just stfu please. You sound really, really ignorant.

[kallanda-lee.livejournal.com]

Ehm, how do you get to decide what is "close to you". I bawled my eyes out for my grandparents. OP might have a type of autism, or something else. People are wired differently.

[wldcatsprstr-14.livejournal.com]

First off, Sherlock isn't a psychopath; he's a "high-functioning sociopath. Do your research."

Second, being a sociopath doesn't necessarily mean you're devoid of all emotion; a symptom of sociopathy is shallowed emotions, or emotions that don't register at the level they "should." So that doesn't always mean you "don't give it a second thought" or you don't care; sometimes you do but you just don't grieve at a level that's considered "normal."

So don't be so judgmental.

[innatizzy.livejournal.com]

I'm the same. Logically, I understand why death is a sad thing and why people are upset. Intellectually I understand, but emotionally...I don't feel anything. It makes funerals really awkward, since I'm not very good at faking it either.

Definitely not alone.

[unifilar.livejournal.com]

Ah, this is weird, because I'm that girl who cried one time because I stepped on a ladybug. I have a deep sense of mourning when natural disasters hit, and I'm incredibly affected by death, particularly when my friends have to deal with it.

But I'm sensitive to a fault, really. So we're all different. I'm glad you found a character to relate to, and a brilliant character at that. Don't be ashamed of how you feel (or don't feel, as the case may be). It's when people have no sense of value for human life, period, is when there's problems.

[generalstolas.livejournal.com]

Someone has little to no empathy for deaths they have no connection to?
(http://tinypic.com?ref=2hnakvq)

[(Anonymous)]

I wish these "lol I'm a dick but so is Sherlock Holmes so it's all good"-secrets would be against rules. We have some special snowflake posting this shit every. Single. Day.

It's official

[(Anonymous)]

Internet psychopathy is the new Internet aspengers syndrome.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh gosh, I know that feeling. I didn't cry when my grandparents died, and family members were sobbing and carrying on around me. I felt kind of awful, like it meant I didn't care about them. :C I did, but... I just didn't see the point being sad and all that, especially when neither of them came as a surprise.

tl;dr you're not the only one.

[emelethaine.livejournal.com]

I don't know, OP. Being sensitive isn't the best thing in the world, either.

(And you're not a freak. Maybe you just have difficulty feeling grief? Death, losing people, inevitably affects other. I'm sure it affects you in some way.)

[obstinatrix.livejournal.com]

I think you can probably tell already from the buttload of comments saying as much that this is actually not weird at all, OP. I'm like this, my partner is like this, my Dad is like this, so is my father-in-law, etc etc. Some people are more emotional than others; that doesn't make us hard-to-affect people special or 'broken'.

Also, brb, lolling at the part where you say Holmes 'swanned in' as if he weren't a 123-year-old character. I get that you mean to say 'and then I saw this show', but, yeah. This is just another incarnation of a character who has always had these (non)emotional traits.

[mistress-siana.livejournal.com]

People appear to think that sympathy is the be-all and end-all of morality, which it isn't. Most of my close friends and relatives are very *emotional* people, who start sobbing whenever they see a starving child on a poster somewhere. They're also usually the last to accept that their behaviour - the cars they drive, the clothes they wear, the food they eat, the policies they vote for - condones poverty in developing countries, child labour, climate channge and what have you. And when I point it out to them, I get called a heartless bitch. All the empathy in the world is useless if doesn't go hand in hand with a bit of logical thinking.

No one really cares. It's just that most people love to think they do, which doesn't make it true. Bob Geldof talks about 'The bitter legacy colonialism left to Africa' and proudly carries the title 'Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.' What makes Sherlock special is that he's honest about it.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't understand why you are so ragey about it. OP says they don't feel as much as about death as most people. Even if they do end up actually feeling shitty when someone "really" close to them dies then so what? They are still less empathetic that the masses of people sobbing about earthquakes and shootings and things and would feel awkward admitting this to one of those people.

[llrael.livejournal.com]

I sort of get where you're coming from, Anon. Different people react differently to all sorts of things, including death. I mean, I have some sort of serious disconnect in my brain that renders me completely incapable of giving a damn about natural disasters in other countries, f'r instance, but at the same time reduces me to a blubbering wreck over silly things like songs (especially ones that aren't actually sad, e.g. Fields of Gold). Frankly I'd rather it didn't, but what can you do? Sometimes your brain does weird things. News at 11.

[(Anonymous)]

Where can I find your fics, anon? All I keep seeing is a shitload of fic of the 'Sherlock and John finally admit their feelings, fluff ensues' variety. And very few writers seem to actually believe he's a sociopath and not some woobie who needs love and understanding... not saying he necessarily meets the diagnostic criteria, but even if he doesn't, he's a jerk, not some poor little misunderstood boy who needs a hug.

[streetcake.livejournal.com]

There are all kinds of people and they all react to events differently. Things can also change over time. For the majority of my life, I was pretty much like you, but recently I've been crying or getting depressed over any sad news no matter how unrelated it is to me.

And to be frank, if you're able to acknowledge that the situation is horrible, then you're doing better than alot of ignorant, immature people that I know.

[solar-cat.livejournal.com]

I pretty much don't care about death/illness/bad things that happen to people, regardless of who they are. I've sort of learned to say the right things, mostly by trial-and-error, but I get more worked up about some fics than I do about actual people. I think the last time I cried about someone dying was when I was about seven, it was over someone I met only a few times. A few years ago my beloved great-grandfather died, and I felt stupidly awkward about speaking at his funeral, because I just didn't care. I was the only person there not crying, and covering that up was making me feel worse than his actual death did.

So yeah, I totally get that, OP. Different things affect people in different ways. It's not necessarily good or bad, it's just how you're wired. (Well, okay, it's not bad unless you're out killing people or something, but I doubt you are.)

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Recognizing when something you want to say is a lot "not good" might be useful (because antagonizing people generally has consequences, and you can always just think it at them instead of verbalizing) but other than that there are worse role-models in the world than Sherlock. Go for it, OP.