is it possible to be completely emotionless...?

Question

and still look like you are showing emotions simply by mimicing those of the people around you?

i asked this question not to expand my knowledge but to test your own

Answer 1

Yep, been doing it for years!

Answer 2

Do you mean permanently? or just in answer to some question or anction you couldn't care less about?

I don't think it is possible to be emotionless permanently - even a frosty outlook is an emotion of some kind. There's always something, surely. I would suspect that anyone who thought they had none at all was being a little self-delusional!

I dare say everyone mirrors other people though - whether it is things they want to see you thinking or things they think you should be thinking. You pick these things up and then it can be a bit like performing for the world! Perhaps emoting what you don't really think.

Answer 3

This is copy/pasted from a website about "sociopaths" and going by your 'additional details' this may include you....

[Antisocial Personality Disorder is also known as psychopathy or
sociopathy. Individuals with this disorder have little regard for the
feeling and welfare of others. As a clinical diagnosis it is usually
limited to those over age 18. It can be diagnosed in younger people
if the they commit isolated antisocial acts and do not show signs of
another mental disorder.

Antisocial Personality Disorder is chronic, beginning in adolescence
and continuing throughout adulthood. There are ten general
symptoms:

not learning from experience
no sense of responsibility
inability to form meaningful relationships
inability to control impulses
lack of moral sense
chronically antisocial behavior
no change in behavior after punishment
emotional immaturity
lack of guilt
self-centeredness]

Answer 4

Yes I am that way except for like twice a year when I have an emotional breakdown because I don't show them during the rest of the year

Answer 5

Impossible, and you cannot mimic emotions of other people. Emotions are personal.

Answer 6

Yes. Study with a Vulcan for years. You'll get there. Do you want to BE without emotion? Isn't 'Happy' an emotion? or 'Love'?

Answer 7

I do that all the time. I tend to match my emotions with those around me. Otherwise, I end up be socially and emotionally inappropriate and sometimes outright obnoxious.

Answer 8

Yes.

Answer 9

Yes.

Answer 10

Yes it is indeed! I've actually taught children with Asperger's syndrome how to do that.

Answer 11

In an advertent way, you have just descibed a sociopath. So it is possible, but just not practical.