Alexithymia
Feb. 28th, 2026 06:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
varidogAlexithymia is a word for not knowing what your emotions are; difficulty in identifying them. Yes, there's a word for that.
Out of curiosity, I took an simple assessment and found myself about average, so nothing of note. I also didn't quite understand the questions, which meant that I guessed at the answers.
Quite a few times in my life, I realized that certain feelings were emotions, and connecting those things together. It's certainly something that I've gone through. Yet, I also don't think that I can't identify things. Yet, I also feel like my range of emotion juggling is not as wide as other people's.
What's hardest to understand is "Externally Oriented Thinking." I'm trying to grasp the concept behind that, but only getting so far. I may, in fact, do that, but I can't tell so easily.
None of this is certain. It's a rabbit hole for the moment.
When trying to make sense of something, I drop over to Reddit and read the threads of people who do associate with that and discover what, if anything, resonates. I'll poke at this for a few days or weeks and see if there's anything surprising.
So far, this doesn't seem like me. The on-the-ground experiences don't quite match mine. I think that I'm truly at the average level, just muddling through like everyone else.
Out of curiosity, I took an simple assessment and found myself about average, so nothing of note. I also didn't quite understand the questions, which meant that I guessed at the answers.
Quite a few times in my life, I realized that certain feelings were emotions, and connecting those things together. It's certainly something that I've gone through. Yet, I also don't think that I can't identify things. Yet, I also feel like my range of emotion juggling is not as wide as other people's.
What's hardest to understand is "Externally Oriented Thinking." I'm trying to grasp the concept behind that, but only getting so far. I may, in fact, do that, but I can't tell so easily.
None of this is certain. It's a rabbit hole for the moment.
When trying to make sense of something, I drop over to Reddit and read the threads of people who do associate with that and discover what, if anything, resonates. I'll poke at this for a few days or weeks and see if there's anything surprising.
So far, this doesn't seem like me. The on-the-ground experiences don't quite match mine. I think that I'm truly at the average level, just muddling through like everyone else.
