Take the Alexithymia test

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Dont know if this helps link wise...appeared to be the same test.


http://www.sparx104.co.uk/?p=alextest
My apologies if already been mentioned


I had this result:
137
Probable Alexithymia

Thanks completerject. That does indeed look like the same test.

My score was 143 which comes as no real surprise. It was really apparent when I went to see a counsellor. She would ask me about myself and my mind just kept going blank. I hate it when that happens.

Don't be upset over these test results. These on-line tests aren't all that accurate and should be regarded as light entertainment. About the best they can do is help you understand yourself a bit better. To be honest, these days when I take on-line tests I cheer if the scores come out particularly extreme.


Yeah, done that. Tried reading a few romance books as well but still don't really get it.

I got 140.

My imagination is better than usual but I have difficulty with it sometimes, however I'm good at making up stories or thinking of way more possibilities than others, which makes for long over the top story style conversations with myself and an aspie friend.

My feelings I sort of understand, but I have to explain them in long analogies, I don't think any language is complex enough to explain ones feelings adequately.
I'm also asexual, so any sexual related questions may have been skewed from this. Being asexual, I have difficulty understanding sexual attraction and thus can't be expected to understand the emotional side of what seems like a sort of icky, physical activity. =/ Hard to say if they're really related.

Normally if someone asks how I am I say 'I'm ok' which my counsellor pointed out I tend to do whether I'm very good or very bad.
But this is the correct polite response, and it takes a lot of analyses and analogies to figure out how I'm feeling, and usually takes months before I realise WHY I'm feeling that way.

I got 101.

Although feelings may be confusing, especially when they come from another person, I've been actively developing my empathy to fix that. Besides, I don't have big problems when trying to find out about my own emotions.

I understand love but don't understand romantic feelings.
I thought I did until I noticed every time I talk about romance I mention how it makes me feel warm and fuzzy like when a cat is being cute or I hug it.
And realised, if I felt it with a cat, it wasn't romantic (or at least I'm pretty sure it isn't as I get it with my family when they're cute too).
So now I figure I'm not romantic and don't really know what romance is supposed to feel like, but I'm pretty sure I haven't had that... >.>

Not that sure about that =P. Last year I learned in psychology class about the misattribution of arousal experiment. The details of the experiment are in the page itself, but among it's implications that we discussed in the lecture was that at times most of the people don't know what they're feeling either, so they look for a plausible explanation and then go for it. And about the cat, if fear and arousal are physiologically undistingishable, then it could be viable that under the right context, feeling all warm and fuzzy with a woman it could be romantic. I'm theorizing a bit here, so if you disagree it's cool

I got a 133

Well the feeling is exactly the same as when I hug a cat or have a good time with my family. And I can't say that it's romantic with one person just because they're not my pet or relative. So I assume it's just happiness and finding people cute.
I've noticed that I pretty much over use the word cute as I see things in terms of cute, and that aesthetic attraction isn't very important for me.
If everyone seems like a cute pet to me, or I have admiration for them, I don't think either really fit the idea of romantic feelings.

Although I don't mind.

At the same time, you may be right. I just don't think it matters to me. I know I always found some of the things people get with romance don't apply to me, so it feels a bit better just knowing I'm not the only one, regardless. ^_^

I got 172

120.

129.

And I also googled "love" before. I forgot if I got any answers, though, which goes to show how unimportant that is to me.

148

141

Like an earlier poster, I once went for counselling and couldn't answer them when they kept asking how or what did I feel - it was like the emotions had left my head and I couldn't think of the words to say what had been there. Drove the counsellor to distraction and eventually they gave up and suggested I stop. Undiagnosed at the time just felt out of step, anxious and unable to understand people.

Maybe should have known about this and wouldn't have felt so bad.
Diagnosed but still fighting it in some ways even though it explains a lot.
Probably have now learnt how to pass in society, but always felt out of it when it comes to being comfortable with people.

Still the last person I saw from health told me I couldn't have ASD because I had a sense of humour. Need it for that level of ignorance.


EQ test 6 AQ never less than 34 (how do people get less that I never understand).

I found myself "undecided" about many of the questions because I honestly don't know how I feel about many items on the quiz, especially for such items as "8. - You cannot functionally live your life without being aware of your deepest emotions." Still, I got a 103. I can tell the different between feeling "good" and feeling "bad," though I do confuse anger and sadness at times, and I sometimes do not recognize that I am feeling an emotion until others point out the biological symptoms of me feeling that emotion.

I got a 75.

that said, I seem to have developed a defense mechanism where instead of actually feeling something, I have a seizure or a pseudo-neurological physical symptom instead. so I always know more or less what I'm feeling, often with more subtlety than the average person, but for most of my really intense emotions, instead of feeling them I have tremors, shivering, shaking, shooting pains, or distortions in my perception of space and things like staring fits. I spent time in a neurology ward before they realized my issues were psychosomatic.

it's possible that without this my score would've been much higher.

130.