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03 Feb 2013, 2:20 am

My psychologist asked me how i generally feel. I didn't know what to say because most of the time i feel.. nothing.
I listen to music whenever i can and music makes me happy :D , but when i don't I feel nothing. Or maybe i feel something that i don't know how to call.
When surrounded by people i guess it is anger :x i feel, maybe sadness :cry: . So i guess i will tell her all this.
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03 Feb 2013, 2:23 am

Alexithymia

Common in those with ASDs

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In a 2004 study using the TAS-20, 85% of the adults with ASD fell into the impaired category; almost half of the whole group fell into the severely impaired category. Among the normal adult control, only 17% was impaired; none of them severely.



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03 Feb 2013, 10:03 am

I had never heard of this. Thanks for the info. This totally fits me.


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03 Feb 2013, 11:06 am

I lack the capacity to have emotion. It doesn't bother me in the least, given emotion is illogical and only serves to weaken the constitution of the mind. With that said, I can feign feeling something based on how others look, talk and behave when they are expressing some sort of emotion or another.



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03 Feb 2013, 11:55 am

We have feelings, but we have difficulty with expressing or describing them.


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03 Feb 2013, 2:22 pm

I feel nothing most of the time. I rarely ever deal with extremes in emotion. My friends often say, "I've never seen you mad about anything or even excited about anything." I am "mellow" all the damn time. I guess that's the only way I could describe it. I don't even really deal with moderate fluctuations in emotion. And if I do I often have to force it. As in I have to tell myself, "A normal person would be happy here." or "A normal person would be mad about this."



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03 Feb 2013, 3:17 pm

Most of the time, I feel nothing. I told my psych that I am opposite of bipolar. I don't know what other people feel most of the time. Maybe moods?



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03 Feb 2013, 8:59 pm

Mostly I am pretty even tempered to the point of seeming indifferent.. Until I'm angry when as I'm told I can be very mean.



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03 Feb 2013, 9:10 pm

kirostun wrote:
My psychologist asked me how i generally feel. I didn't know what to say because most of the time i feel.. nothing.
I listen to music whenever i can and music makes me happy :D , but when i don't I feel nothing. Or maybe i feel something that i don't know how to call.
When surrounded by people i guess it is anger :x i feel, maybe sadness :cry: . So i guess i will tell her all this.:?:


Open questions like that are confusing to Aspies. We need to know "how do you feel about X" or "do you feel happy/sad/negative whatever about X".

So this could just mean you didn't know how to answer the question as it was too vague, not that you don't have feelings, or don't know how to identify them.


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03 Feb 2013, 9:11 pm

I don't feel anything much either, except only obsessive feeling in somethings.



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04 Feb 2013, 7:14 am

CyborgUprising wrote:
I lack the capacity to have emotion. It doesn't bother me in the least, given emotion is illogical and only serves to weaken the constitution of the mind. With that said, I can feign feeling something based on how others look, talk and behave when they are expressing some sort of emotion or another.


You do not lack emotions, that's bullshit. If you lacked emotion you wouldn't do anything as you would have no drive, you wouldn't have any reason to feign emotions if you actually had no emotions.


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05 Feb 2013, 5:33 pm

Ganondox wrote:
CyborgUprising wrote:
I lack the capacity to have emotion. It doesn't bother me in the least, given emotion is illogical and only serves to weaken the constitution of the mind. With that said, I can feign feeling something based on how others look, talk and behave when they are expressing some sort of emotion or another.


You do not lack emotions, that's bullshit. If you lacked emotion you wouldn't do anything as you would have no drive, you wouldn't have any reason to feign emotions if you actually had no emotions.

Your assessment of me is bulls**t then. You don't know me, so you cannot make a valid comment about something which you possess no knowledge about. One can do something and not have emotion. "Drive" isn't an emotion, it's a motive. I am extremely flat-affect (and I couldn't care less).
...See what I did there?