Emotion wheel for writers2/3/2024 ![]() ![]() It has taken years of therapy to even realise when blood rushes to my arms it means I’m angry or when there’s a falling feeling in the pit of my stomach that means I’m anxious (it further complicates matters that I also have synaesthesia).īut those kinds of emotions only come out when there’s a salient trigger feelings of anger where the person isn’t immediately in front of me tend to get swept away in analysing and rationalising, rather than feeling. My biggest issue in identifying emotions is having to purposefully connect the dots between the physical manifestations of emotion in my body and that particular emotion. Separating emotions from bodily sensations It is often described as “emotional blindness” but I believe this is a simplification, and as someone with alexithymia myself, I would better call it something like “emotional illiteracy”. It has nothing to do with being reluctant to share your feelings or having a “stiff upper lip” and not wanting to talk about emotions, rather, alexithymia renders you frequently unable to identify what it is you’re feeling at all, let alone describe it to another person. It is not a mental disorder or disease, and you aren’t “diagnosed” with it, but rather it describes the experience of being without access to emotions like the vast majority of the population are. Choosing a Good– or Bad– Therapist for Your Autistic Childĭerived from the Greek meaning literally “no words for emotions,” Alexithymia is a construct or set of traits describing the inability to identify and verbalise feelings within oneself.Īlthough 10% of the general population are thought to have it, the incidence within autistic people is somewhere between 50-80%, possibly more.Directory of NeuroDivergent Graphic Designers & Illustrators.Directory of Specialists Diagnosing Autism (ASD) in Adults.Directory of NonSpeaker Pages, Blogs, & Media. ![]() AAC: Augmentative & Alternative Communication. ![]()
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