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Alexithymia, also called emotional blindness, is a neuropsychological phenomenon characterized by significant challenges in recognizing, sourcing, and describing one's emotions.
Common, but not exclusive to autism. It's not that people suffering from it don't have feelings, It's at the mechanisms for meaning and inference of those emotions is noisy or distorted. Even normal humans, as I've said previously, are not reliable narrators of their own internal states, people with alexithymia are much more so unreliable. Which is why the whole troon solution is such a problem, because you have a group of people who are already have trouble navigating their internal emotional realm, but trust that this new revelation somehow cuts through the noise in a a way that cuts to some core emotional truth, versus just another misunderstood signal. They're exactly the type of person to mistake a dopamine rush of seeking something as finally being able to feel
Common, but not exclusive to autism. It's not that people suffering from it don't have feelings, It's at the mechanisms for meaning and inference of those emotions is noisy or distorted. Even normal humans, as I've said previously, are not reliable narrators of their own internal states, people with alexithymia are much more so unreliable. Which is why the whole troon solution is such a problem, because you have a group of people who are already have trouble navigating their internal emotional realm, but trust that this new revelation somehow cuts through the noise in a a way that cuts to some core emotional truth, versus just another misunderstood signal. They're exactly the type of person to mistake a dopamine rush of seeking something as finally being able to feel
