Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by the inability to identify and describe emotions experienced by oneself. The core characteristic of alexithymia is marked dysfunction in emotional awareness, social attachment, and interpersonal relation. Furthermore, people with high levels of alexithymia can have difficulty distinguishing and appreciating the emotions of others, which is thought to lead to unempathic and ineffective emotional responses.

High levels of alexithymia occur in approximately 10% of the population and can occur with a number of psychiatric conditions as well as any neurodevelopmental disorder. Difficulty with recognizing and talking about their emotions appears at subclinical levels in men who conform to cultural notions of masculinity (such as thinking that sadness is a feminine emotion). This is called normative male alexithymia by some researchers. However, both alexithymia itself and its association with traditionally masculine norms are consistent across genders.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexithymia

went had look at, readed it all

everyone’s on the spectrum

I read the thread name and wondered if our Alex had a disease named after her at last.

Alexithymia.. not to be confused with the defensive posture commonly assumed by those who are overexposed to “social media”.

Ian said:

Alexithymia.. not to be confused with the defensive posture commonly assumed by those who are overexposed to “social media”.

And what’s that one called

buffy said:

I read the thread name and wondered if our Alex had a disease named after her at last.

i confess …… i did as well!! :)

dv said:

Ian said:

Alexithymia.. not to be confused with the defensive posture commonly assumed by those who are overexposed to “social media”.

And what’s that one called

Dunno, but it’s sure to be Greek

.. or Latin

Presumably it’s an evolutionary trait – these ones are the survivors.

neuro-variability is quite broad of humans, has a substantial spread, nature rolls dice that way with the complex wetware, and it’s really an accident brains do what they do, the neuro-unfolding off the bat from earliest gestation might be said to be fragile

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