#alexithymia — Public Fediverse posts
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How do you folks deal with #alexithymia and intimate relationships. I am just discovering this is what is behind my biggest frustrations in life, being unable to communicate my feelings with some ease #AuDHD #adhdadult #adhdsexuality #autism
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We are taking a hike in the forest in southern Washington, and after a while I noticed my jaw was really hurting, and I didn't know why...
Took me a moment to realize, it was because I'd been grinning like an idiot the whole time. Because, I like trees!
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Zinberg studied drugs. Sternberg studied love. Same collapsed triangle.
The culture fused emotion and feeling into one category. The alexithymic registers the weld because the noise is absent.
New on The Unexpected Autistic Life.
#Alexithymia #Autism #Neurodivergence #Psychology #Love #actuallyautistic
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In this paper, we develop:
*why describing alexithymia as "transdiagnostic" is not sufficient to understand it from a clinical point of view
*the limitations of the current research & promising future perspectives
*the possibility & benefits of integrating #alexithymia in clinical case formulationI really hope that this paper will be found by a clinical and research audience. It was a pleasure to co-write this piece, a very rich and fruitful collaboration!
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💡New commentary out : "Why #Alexithymia Matters: A Process-Based Framework for a #Transdiagnostic Approach to #Psychopathology" in Clinical Psychology: Science and Pratice, with Olivier Luminet and Kristy Nielson
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New preprint: I propose epiphanesthesia as a candidate third functional category of interoceptive content, distinct from homeostatic and affective signals, with a neurobiological hypothesis and four falsifiable predictions involving a dissociation in high-alexithymia individuals.
Critical reading welcome before peer review. Boost toward interoception/alexithymia researchers appreciated.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20700796
#Interoception #Alexithymia #Preprint #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiversity #AuDHD
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Lately, I’ve been obsessed with this singer. There is something about her voice that manages to bypass my alexithymia and shake me to my core.
https://youtu.be/r6L-GUOAhGo?is=DozvPm2Jx2FpHZYO
#music #alexithymia #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic #Maphra
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Following our recent article on #Alexithymia (https://tslr.to/Ed7Akp), I thought of what an #ADHD and #Autism friendly watch face may look like. Here's what I have come up with (mocked up for Apple Watch). What do you think?
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For years I thought my emotional system was defective. I was wrong.
Alexithymia is not an absence. It is a “low-noise” operating system optimized for logic rather than biochemical storms. I explore this paradox between neurodivergence and neural architecture in this essay.
You can read it for free (no paywall) here:
https://medium.com/the-unexpected-autistic-life/the-fish-that-no-longer-wanted-to-fly-06a1305113cb?sk=e6828f387679f8ff43429d287970dff4#autism #actuallyautistic #psychology #audhd #alexithymia #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #science
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New Publcation in Affective Science about #alexithymia and emotional complexity!
🔗 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42761-025-00344-7#Sec10 -
I finally landed on what's been going on with me for the past year (two years, really, with symptoms much much worse this year)—vestibular migraines. Really regular vestibular migraines with varying degrees of intensity. And then failing to take care of myself appropriately leading to a blur of migraines blended into one another with no clear beginning or end.
I'm finally eating more regularly. I have to use timers and I have to be careful about meal planning.
... It's so strange to me how much easier it is to take care of myself now that I know what's going on because I have a full understanding of what is happening and why. These solutions are, to me, very intuitive; the body will tell you what it needs. But. Without actual lines drawn between the dots it just felt like chaos despite the intuition. I was chasing solutions instead of calmly choosing what I could feel was needed…
... Which is weird for me to experience, but is nevertheless how it is. Part of this is #alexithymia adding to the confusion and chaos. Another part, I think, stems a bit from a lack of self-trust and the confidence that I actually know what I need. That has been a theme for me lately: trusting myself in terms of what I need instead of listening to what others tell me that I need and what I'm doing 'wrong.’
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"Internalizing Symptoms in Men: The Role of Masculine Norms, #alexithymia and Emotion Regulation" ; new article from Vincent O. Mancini, Julia Ditzer, Jack D. Brett, James J. Gross & David A. Preece published in Sex Roles.
A great read, linking theory to practice. Good job!
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Maybe it is actually #alexithymia speaking, but I am pretty sure I can’t feel hate.
Like, I can feel despise, disgust, loathe, horror, fear etc - but hate? Hate assumes certain amount of passion, strength - it’s something too big to bother to maintain for someone you don’t like.Maybe it’s just my #autistic negation to use definitive labels - like the hesitancy to consider what I can feel ‘love’ or to call someone a friend.
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I share my experiences of love, boundaries, and authenticity as someone living with neurodivergence and alexithymia.
#Neurodiversity #Relationships #Authenticity #Alexithymia #MentalHealth -
@actuallyautistic She's not a villain. She's a poor communicator about her emotions.
I'm not a villain. I'm an effective communicator about my emotions when I know what they are. #alexithymia
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To the tune of NIN's "I Do Not Want This":
Don't you ask me how I feel
Don't you ask me how I feel
Don't you ask me how I feel
I DON'T KNOW JUST HOW I FEEL! -
I was looking for mental health screening tests that did not require collecting personal data.
Yesterday I found @divested has developed Kairoscope, website with dozens of questionnaires that run solely on your browser, zero data sent to anywhere else.
Support Tavi's work here:
https://divested.dev/pages/donate#ADHD #alexithymia #autism #BipolarAffectiveDisorder #anxiety #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #depression #dissociation #eatingdisorders #fatigue #ocd #schizophrenia
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😶🌫️ Are you interested in #alexithymia ?
With the Alexithymia Research International Alliance (#ARIA), our aim is to develop research on alexithymia and to promote effective health interventions!
More info on our brand new website: https://www.alexithymiaresearch.org/