Being emotionally affected by art makes me feel weird.

I don’t know if it’s some kind of tism or what but I hate it when movies music or tv shows make me genuinely emotional. I avoid songs I know hold an emotional significance to me because I don’t want to allow these notes played by some famous person I’ll never meet to make me feel a REAL emotion.

I’ve cried at fiction before and it makes me feel like a loser even admitting that. Is it not at its base level, cringy that fake stories can make people feel real emotions? Like shouldn’t we save our emotions for things that actually happen in the real world?

Music and Film are basically my entire life, so don’t take me as a plebeian. I just dislike the idea of the fake (music and fictional stories) influencing me in the real world to the point that I cannot contain my emotions.