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120.

129.

And I also googled "love" before. I forgot if I got any answers, though, which goes to show how unimportant that is to me.

148

141

Like an earlier poster, I once went for counselling and couldn't answer them when they kept asking how or what did I feel - it was like the emotions had left my head and I couldn't think of the words to say what had been there. Drove the counsellor to distraction and eventually they gave up and suggested I stop. Undiagnosed at the time just felt out of step, anxious and unable to understand people.

Maybe should have known about this and wouldn't have felt so bad.
Diagnosed but still fighting it in some ways even though it explains a lot.
Probably have now learnt how to pass in society, but always felt out of it when it comes to being comfortable with people.

Still the last person I saw from health told me I couldn't have ASD because I had a sense of humour. Need it for that level of ignorance.


EQ test 6 AQ never less than 34 (how do people get less that I never understand).

I found myself "undecided" about many of the questions because I honestly don't know how I feel about many items on the quiz, especially for such items as "8. - You cannot functionally live your life without being aware of your deepest emotions." Still, I got a 103. I can tell the different between feeling "good" and feeling "bad," though I do confuse anger and sadness at times, and I sometimes do not recognize that I am feeling an emotion until others point out the biological symptoms of me feeling that emotion.

I got a 75.

that said, I seem to have developed a defense mechanism where instead of actually feeling something, I have a seizure or a pseudo-neurological physical symptom instead. so I always know more or less what I'm feeling, often with more subtlety than the average person, but for most of my really intense emotions, instead of feeling them I have tremors, shivering, shaking, shooting pains, or distortions in my perception of space and things like staring fits. I spent time in a neurology ward before they realized my issues were psychosomatic.

it's possible that without this my score would've been much higher.

130.

137.

I did the scoring myself, and am quite terrible at math. But I ran over it twice and got the same result.

I got 95. However, a lot of these items relate more to social impairment than alexithymia, and a few tap into asexuality as well.

Items 1, 2, 3*, 5, 7*, 8*, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23*, 24, 26, 27, 28, 31, 32*, 34, 35, 36, and 37 are alexithymia-specific.

Items 4, 9, 10, 15, 18, 29, 30 and 33 also relate to poor social skills, and

Items 6, 17 and 25 also relate to asexuality

On the alexithymia specific questions, I got a score of 52 out of a possible range of 26-130, indicating an average item score of 2

On the social skills questions, I got a score of 28 out of a possible range of 8-40, indicating an average item score of 3.5

On the asexuality items, I got a score of 15 out of a possible range of 3-15, indicating that I got a score of 5 on all three items.

For the test as a whole, the minimum score is 37 and the maximum is 185, with a cutoff of 94. Therefore, meeting the cutoff would mean an average item score of 2.54.

I fall short of that cutoff on the alexithymia-specific items, while getting far over that threshold on the social skills and asexuality items.

So, I'm asexual and autistic, but not alexithymic, despite scoring above cutoff on the alexithymia scale.

I can't remember if I took this before but I got 148. (edit: I did a search and got 139 over a year ago.)

I think a couple of the questions confuse me.

"I often ask other people what they would feel if in my personal situation (any situation), as this better helps me understand what to do."

"I like it when someone describes the feelings they experience under circumstances similar to my own, because this helps me see what my own feelings might be."

Shouldn't strongly disagree here give 5 points, not 1? I picked strongly disagree with both of those because someone else telling me what they feel has nothing to do with what I feel and wouldn't help me know what to do or understand my feelings. Just because they feel a certain way doen't mean I would. I think I may be interpreting these questions different than they intended.

I got 140.

104.

102

142

I seem to have improved a little...

Did I actually take this one?

Test Results: 119 Points


Alexithymia: You show high alexithymic traits. If you are interested in Alexithymia we would be happy to have you as a regular visitor on our pages.

Detailed Results

Your result is broken down into various factors to give you some insight into your result.

Category: Difficulty Identifying Feelings: 21 Points <15 - 18>
In this category you show high alexithymic traits.

Category: Difficulty Describing Feelings: 17 Points <10 - 12>
In this category you show high alexithymic traits.

Category: Vicarious Interpretation of Feelings: 11 Points <8 - 9>
In this category you show high alexithymic traits.

Category: Externally-Oriented Thinking: 24 Points <18 - 21>
In this category you show high alexithymic traits.

Category: Restricted Imaginative Processes: 16 Points <18 - 21>
In this category you show no alexithymic traits.

Category: Problematic Interpersonal Relationships: 20 Points <15 - 18>
In this category you show high alexithymic traits.

Category: Sexual Difficulties and Disinterest: 10 Points <10 - 12>
In this category you show no alexithymic traits.