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Testing for Alexithymia

Polaris302

Hi,

I'm very good at recognising the feelings of others, but I've always had difficulty identifying my own feelings.  I know when I'm feeling a strong emotion like anger, sadness or happiness, but most of the time I can't really tell what I'm feeling, or when I feel something and spend time trying to figure out what it is I'm experiencing.  I've seen blog posts mentioning Alexithymia, and I was wondering if there is a  test I could take online to confirm if I have it.

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  • Yeah I don't know if I have it either. It wasn't mentioned in my assessment so I hadn't heard of it until a couple of years ago. I tried the online test which I scored highly on but I found the questions confusing. I don't know if I know my emotions, I don't know if I feel them because I have nothing to compare it to. I'd love to be neurotypical for a day just to be able to understand the difference in how I process the world. Autism is normal to me.

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  • Yeah I don't know if I have it either. It wasn't mentioned in my assessment so I hadn't heard of it until a couple of years ago. I tried the online test which I scored highly on but I found the questions confusing. I don't know if I know my emotions, I don't know if I feel them because I have nothing to compare it to. I'd love to be neurotypical for a day just to be able to understand the difference in how I process the world. Autism is normal to me.

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