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[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah, I can't speak for everyone who's autistic, but personally, I don't think it's a typical autistic thing. While there are some autistic people who have sociopathy or alexithymia, it's a myth that autistic people don't feel anything or that most take a long time to feel anything emotionally. If anything, emotions can be strong, sudden, overwhelming, but they're not always expressed in the way neurotypical people express them, if that makes sense?

[–]ausernamee 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm talking about being able to name feelings and tie meaning to them and interpret them in a neurotypical framework, not feeling feelings.

For example, i just watched a video with a girl who mistook her anxiety symptoms for arousal. She felt feelings, she was just unable to name which feeling it was or tell you what it meant in the context of the social situation. That's actually not that uncommon. Sometimes you think you're nervous, but it turns out your excited, or sometimes it goes the other way around.

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ah, gotcha. That does make a bit more sense, if that's the case for her.