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So....can't help but notice an entire section biases asexuals toward alexithymia.

120

Not that surprising; whenever one of my neighbors would ask me "How are you?" I would always go "I don't know".

And also bias towards people who aren't around people nor ever had relationships. They should have the NA option and have it be 0 points.

Result: 148
Alexithymia: You show high alexithymic traits
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Alexithymia is considered to be a personality trait that places individuals at risk for other medical and psychiatric disorders while reducing the likelihood that these individuals will respond to conventional treatments for the other conditions.

Alexithymia is defined by:
-difficulty identifying feelings and distinguishing between feelings and the bodily sensations of emotional arousal
-difficulty describing feelings to other people
-constricted imaginal processes, as evidenced by a scarcity of fantasies
-a stimulus-bound, externally oriented cognitive style.

(source: wikipedia)

165.

I expected that high of a score, I just was curious what it actually was. I was so excited when I found a word for this, because its been an issue for me for so long, especially with certain individuals.

League_Girl, if you didn't know the answer, or have a way to know, it wanted you to skip the question and that was worth 3 points - average. I had to do that on one or two questions

Result: 134
Alexithymia: You show high alexithymic traits


I have always had trouble describing my feelings. I can't even tell my husband ''I love you'' unless he says it first. Growing up, I never said anything like that to my family either.

I daydream alot though.

I got 139.

130... wow. I had no idea I had this, until asked specific questions (some of which I kinda wasn't sure, but mostly I think I knew what they meant...)

thank you for posting this quiz. I had no idea. All's I know is that when I do something according to my feelings, it's somehow always WRONG. sigh.... but there's a lot of times I just don't really know what label to identify those feelings....

I did not know that. I am kinda stunned (look! a feeling!)

90.
The link which offered the automated scoring worked for me at
this link

88

I've always felt like I have very strong emotions, sometimes overwhelmingly strong at times. It was especially so when I was a child with the intense excitement I would feel for upcoming holidays or how I would get so distressed anytime I was chastised that I would begin to pull my hair out. It seems like other people's emotions affect me too, such that I feel a need to retreat and be by myself in order to escape them. I've made a conscious effort to try to "tune out" people's emotions though being around large groups of people is still rather intense.

I've always had an interest in my own emotions and a lot of the art that I make is driven by them, oftentimes serving in a therapeutic role. So while I am less apt to express my emotions verbally than in writing or art, I do find the actual act of expression to be easy enough to do. Is there a term for personality traits that are the opposite of alexithymia? Or would that just be something like "overly sensitive"?

92 here. this is a low score, which is confusing me because often people r impressed about how I manage to verbalize their emotions for them after they are trying to tell me how they r feeling, and this makes them realize their feelings in more depth. People say "oh this pisses me off, blah blah blah, I dont understand it" and I say "oh u mean u r feeling confused because on one hand you are feeling this, while on the other u r feeling that, which seems confusing, but in actual fact this complements this as blah blah blah". and they say "wow, thats exactly what it is, thank you for this". so, 92??? I dont know lol

155. Out of touch with my feelings and everyone else's in day to day stuff.

about 70, I'm pretty emotionally articulate.

Must we constantly dig up ancient threads.

139