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Alexithymia is very common among people with autism (www.healthline.com)
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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] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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,”

https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2023/02/24/adam-holman-part-3

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