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Alexithymia is very common among people with autism (www.healthline.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Alexithymia is a difficulty recognizing emotions, and is sometimes seen along with depression, autism, or brain injury, among other conditions.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Not quite... alexithymia is being unable to put words to feelings. It's in the word... a- is not, lex- is words, thymia is feeling. Lacking words for emotions is not the same as not feeling the emotions.

Alexithymia is a common experience, but especially common when other communication barriers exist.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Shows that those psych-whatever-ists knew drat about the (ancient) 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:

https://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 ...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

It's from lexis, for speaking, and thumos for heart.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alexithymia