Aspies with Alexithymia?

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I'd like to hear about your experience with Alexithymia, and if possible, what emotions feel like from your perspective.

What do you mean experiences?

It causes great difficulty in communications. It's frustrating to know what you want to say but do not have the words. Other people, even health professionals, have mostly no clue about it and can just jump to things if you use the wrong words trying to express things.

I was under the impression that "alexithymia" is the combination of not being able to express emotions, not knowing your own emotions, and not being able to feel pleasure.

In actuality, it's the combination of not being able to express emotions and not being able to identify emotions in one's self.

This, invariably, leads to not being able to feel pleasure (which is not precisely alexithymia).

I can identify basic things like, happy, sad, mello, stressed. But, most anything else, if I don't have an external reference, I'm at a loss.

If it ain't Alexithymia, then I'm under the wrong impression of things.