Some people read their feelings like a thermometer. Others look, and the feeling stays unreadable. That's alexithymia - difficulty identifying and naming your own emotions, common among autistic and ADHD folk. It isn't an absence of feeling; the body responds, but the label comes slowly or not at all. We've written about what helps, including a body-up approach.

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