Alexithymia: The forest and the trees
2020-03-06
Alexithymia is difficulty recognizing and identifying emotions. How one person used autistic strengths like attention to detail to improve emotional awareness.
On helping children not feeling responsible for other people’s emotions
2020-02-08
Being unpredictable, inconsistent, and uncommunicative can cause a child a lifetime of writing about managing the unpredictable emotions of everyone around them. Here's how to avoid that for children in your charge.
The alexithymia & autism guide
2020-02-05
Alexithymia is so common among autistic people that it is commonly mistaken for autism itself. In this post, I explain what alexithymia is and how it presents itself in autism.
50 Reasons why an Autistic Adult may be in a Bad Mood
2019-11-27
Pete Wharmby lists 50 reasons an autistic person might be in a bad mood, even if sensory issues, alexithymia, or being non-speaking (even if temporarily) can make it difficult to communicate.
Hell is Other People, a One Act Play
2019-09-27
What is the point of communicating if people are going to ignore your message but focus on your "tone," or tell you they know how you feel better than you do, or that your feelings are a problem? Why speak if they are only going to complain that you echo and script?
No, Really, I’m Fine (on Alexithymia)
2019-06-18
Alexithymia has never been so thoroughly or thoughtfully defined in all the ways it affects a person who can't feel exactly how it affects them.
Reader-Submitted Question: Helping autistic tween with explosive emotional reactions
2019-05-16
Aspergian contributors offer advice on how to deal with your autistic tween's explosive emotions.
Adult Autism: How I Learned To Stop Emoting & Love the Burnout
2019-04-15
When the crushing weight of life far exceeds the strength of your executive function, autistic burnout happens. This is a view of how that looks.
Walking in the Autistic Eye of the Storm
2019-04-15
I remember the acrid smell of something broken. Salty, sour, it permeated the Gulf Coast air like the scent of some fading electrical fire or burnt gunpowder perhaps. A battle between sky, sea and land with humans in the crucible.
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Very Grand Emotions: How Autistics and Neurotypicals Experience Emotions Differently
2019-03-23
Autistic people experience emotions differently from neurotypicals, and what they experience as emotions others see as ideas. Here's how.