About this episode
This episode discusses alexithymia in AuDHD individuals, exploring its causes and implications.
Alexithymia is common in AuDHDers, and involves having trouble identifying and communicating emotions. There are a lot of reasons this can be the case, including: interoception differences lack of useful training in emotional skills & language different emotional experiences than expected in the situation Childhood Emotional Neglect (which can cause alexithymia) Alexithymia is NOT a disorder! It's a difference. And... you may have reasons to question whether there are aspects of it you want to address. Additional reading: When you can read everyone but yourself: on autistic and ADHD emotional awareness by Morgana Clementine What Is Alexithymia? Defined, Explained, and Linked to Neurodivergence from Neurodivergent Insights Alexithymia on Stimpunks (various quotations gathered) AuDHD Flourishing resources: Transcript Doc (often a few weeks behind, but we do catch up!) Mattia's Newsletter Like Your Brain community space (Patreon/Discord) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
People in this episode
Host: Mattia Maurée
Topics covered
- alexithymia
- AuDHD
- emotional awareness
- interoception
- emotional skills
- childhood emotional neglect
Keywords
- alexithymia
- AuDHD
- emotional communication
- interoception
- emotional neglect
- neurodivergence
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Neurodivergent Insights, Stimpunks, AuDHD Flourishing
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