unable to emotionally connect with.....anything.

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I find myself unable to emotionally attach myself to anything that im not already attached to (for example Sonic, i will always love and deeply care about all the characters and what happens). if tragedy happens in the news, i dont care, it doesn't seem like it could be real, so i don't feel anything for it. i don't care for any fictional character either, i can't get emotionally attached to to any game i play, any tv show i watch (as a result, TV is boring, and i don't care to watch it), any book i read. i don't feel...anything, i don't care what happens to the characters, i don't care......whats wrong with me? its like i don't have an attachment to the world like that.

Maybe you haven't read anything, or watched anything, which interests you.

Maybe you're more into abstract things--like philosophy.

Does discussing philosophy make you care about the philosophical issues being discussed?

not sure, i haven't really discussed philosophy that much before, ive been having this problem for a very long while, its only just now bothering me though, it kind of makes me feel....detached from the world, like im not apart of it, living, yet not at the same time. maybe i should try talking about philosophy, after all my father has a degree in such things.

to be honest i think it could have more to do with the fact that i can't relate to any of the characters in it, or anything within it, if that makes sense? when watching tv, or playing a game, i don't really read facial expressions or body language all that well, so can't really put myself into the protagonists position because the situation makes no sense, nothing does anything logically, there are few characters though that make that exception, take data for instant from the next generations, perfectly logical, does things that make sense, so is a very good character in my eyes and i instantly cared more for him as a character and what happened, but not anything of the rest of the characters. weird...i might need to just learn to "go with the flow" and stop letting stupidity and illogical actions bother me.

come to notice, i seem to have very different ways of talking in my posts depending on the time of day, how weird haha.

People tend to vary according to time of day.

I'm more of a morning person, less of an evening person. I probably will post more exuberant posts in the morning, less optimistic post in the evening.

I'm going through a similar situation. It seems now that my special interests (coding and Pokemon) are all that ever interest me, and I just can't connect with anything else. I'm taking a Biology and an English class over the summer, and although I used to like Biology, I don't seem to have that interest anymore and all I feel like doing is browsing the source code for various open-source projects on the internet and working on my custom bootloader for Linux, even though I should be doing work for my classes. It causes a huge procrastination problem, and I end up staying up past midnight trying to rush through things that I should have done earlier.

I have had problems connecting with people my whole life, its depressing but my new special interest allows me to connect with people more easily. My special interest is language and nearly everyone produces it, I love examing the way people talk and relate to each other its interesting and useful.

Stupid linky-thing not working, but https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexithymia might be useful.

Me too. I think taking up an interest in languages may actually help the autistic who has difficulties communicating and relating.

Relating to other people, talking to them without offending them is difficult for me.

I cant really connect with humans but i can connect with animals very well.