What do you think of people that don't show much emotions?

I don't have any immediate thought. I like to get to know someone a little more before making assumptions.

It could be anything from being shy, guarded, neurodivergent, or simply just their default personality. It's like empathy, there's cognitive and affective empathy, it's not expressed in the same way. Cognitive is internal processing of someone's feelings and affective is an external and emotional response to another's state. People assume the latter is more genuine because they can read it better but they're both equally as valid. It's the same with emotions that belong to us.

Unfortunately, I don't think before I feel and that is a problem. Because I instinctively withdraw if someone seems too cold and unemotional to me. In tone of the voice and the facial expressions. I try my best to not take it personally but I'm used to a certain standard when talking to new people and if this is off either this or the other way, I quickly pull my walls up and don't want to interact with them. I guess my social anxiety is kicking in.

So I guess that unless I truly have to be around this person, this prevents me from getting sufficient info to even have any relevant thoughts or assumptions about them. So my initial thought is "I feel like I bore you or you don't like me for whatever reason, this makes me uncomfortable, I don't want to interact with you" and I leave.

Were they born that way or did they become that way? Either way, I just feel that there is a reason behind it.

I took a behavioral health course with a clinical psychologist named Dr. Mann and one of the 1st assignments that he gave us was to analyze Michael Myers from the Halloween Movie and that's one of the the 1st things that i said. He has no emotions.

I can’t really judge unless I know them tbh. Some people just don’t wear their emotions on their sleeve, and that’s okay, it doesn’t mean they don’t feel.

Can obviously be a bit harder to read such a person. I know from my own experience it can make me feel misunderstood.

There is a wide spectrum of people here. At their best they are calm, a steadying force, full of good judgement, good to have around. But sometimes they don’t show much empathy. At worst they are devious and calculating. Watch out for that type.

They have either not even started on the emotions' journey or they've gone beyond it. Who is who it is tricky to see but truth reveals itself in the end always. None to blame:)

Everyone feels emotions differently... Some can control their emotions, some can't... Using yourself as the yardstick is fraught with problems...

That's one less person's emotions I have to deal with

Buster Keaton immediately came to mind. Old Stone Face. Maybe, like Buster, they're laughing on the inside?

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Although, he had his moments -

In general that applies to me. I try to keep my emotions under control.

Everyone is different. Don't put people all in the same sized box. They might not fit.

Flat lined a while back.

Could be many reasons

I admire their calmness

i can't relate to people like that nor understand how they think.

I think better of them than the ungrammatical, to be honest. lol

I'm a mute in real life. And when I do react I laugh.....

Maybe such people are on Sertraline.

Some people aren't expressive as others

I always wonder if they are going to climb a water tower with a high powered rifle.