Alexithymia is very common among people with autism

Alexithymia is a difficulty recognizing emotions, and is sometimes seen along with depression, autism, or brain injury, among other conditions.

https://www.healthline.com/health/autism/alexithymia

Extreme bouts of gaming can exacerbate this emotional numbness, FYI.

Here‘s a source for this:

“In the long term, if you look at someone’s brain while they’re playing video games, and if you look at the brain of someone who’s played a lot of video games for a long period, there is a numbness and a reduced activation of the emotional processing center of your brain,”

spectrumnews1.com/wi/…/adam-holman-part-3

I dont know how reliable it is but I wanted to at least know if there were sources.

Negative effects of video game addiction are many, but they can be overcome

Video game addiction produces negative effects.

Spectrum News 1 Wisconsin