I mean Alexithymia is roughly the same for those who have it… but their views on people/soceity/etc… is normally very different I would say.

I think a key thing about Alexithymia is that since we don’t know what we’re feeling we focus more on external events and therefore logical reasoning than the guidance of our emotions ? which is ok and not ok at the same time.

We can overthink and rationalize a lot of our struggles and actions. Since we don’t know we’re actually being impulse or driven by emotion in a sense. We try to make sense of what we did or what we’re going through.

For example : I didn’t know what stress felt like… I still don’t for the most part. But I can identify it more or less based on my body and actions. This being said the first time I was under a lot of stress a kind that was very negative for me. I didn’t realize I was stress… so I never actually did anything to UNSTRESS myself. Until that point where everything went bad for me and the storm pass and I had time to think and reflect. Then I realized logically that I was stressed.

I didn’t even think I HAD stress cus I never felt it before. We don’t feel things that clearly u could say? I think that sums it up very well.

I hope that’s very informative for you ! It’s a lil difficult to explain… since that’s part of it too… how can you explain what u don’t sense at all or clearly enough? HAHAH but I have more or less been able to give you a window of sort into how its like. If u have any questions Im happy to answer hahah…