Yep, that’s a mood.
Agamemnon
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Just another redditfugee. Maybe I’ll infodump a little more about me later… depends on how things develop here.
Shows that those psych-whatever-ists knew drat about the greek language, because ‘word’ would be ‘logos’ and ‘alexi’ is actually a greek surname of ancient decent, that would mean ‘defender’. The ancient greeks would never have named the condition that way! My impression is that various Freudians and Anti-Freudians converged on the term in the early-mid-20th century as a means to make themselves sound smarter than any of them really were.
Source: As someone named Alexander, I just finally felt vaguely offended enough by the term to start digging a little deeper:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7005782/
And also, nothing about the condition as described by modern sources ever made any sense to me - which after reading the article I linked, wasn’t even a surprise to me anymore. Sorry, rant over.
TL,DR: It’s another piece of etymologic fallout from a historic shitslinging match between researchers and practitioners, but one that didn’t get resolved conclusively. Because brains …
A History of the Alexithymia Concept and Its Explanatory Models: An Epistemological Perspective
Alexithymia, as a theoretical psychotherapeutic construct, finds its origins in psychosomatic medicine, actually being quite old. However, beyond the specific observations and case studies, their characterization and systematization is relatively recent. ...
I am sure Wikipedia has a list…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing#Late_20th_cent…
Aaand right. I think I remember a couple spent rocket stages and debris hitting it that isn’t listed, but there shouldn’t be much more that would classify as a ‘vehicle’.
seeing it capitalized in the post title didn’t help. 😆
Yeah… I had to read that 5 times before I brained it correctly.
Hi. Thanks for the welcoming.
I’ll be mostly hanging back, though. Only acting on reports and illegal content attacks. It’s an emergency lifeline that is good to have set up before an emergency happens.
“Yippee-Ki-Yay, Motherfucker!”
Long story that played out over months… Went to the doctors with depressive episode. Got diagnosed burnout. But from what??? So… I dug into researching psychology. Turns out, I inherited the family 'tism and could trace anecdotal evidence back 4 generations. Nobody ever bothered to investigate before. Presented my findings to my therapist and her reaction after listening to it all was (paraphrasing) “You didn’t KNOW?”.
So, yeah… No ‘officially on paper’ official diagnosis yet. I don’t plan on getting one, because it turns out, the main cause of my problems isn’t Autism, it’s ADHD on top, but now I am doing better with that under control and unlearning all the masking I did.
Not a trustworthy source.
Neither namedropping nor virtue signalling nor spreading misinformation is okay.