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thespeechprof.bsky.social • 111 days ago

But I also remember my mom referring to me as a Vulcan as a child because I was always very logical and calculated and didn’t usually react to things in the way other kids would.
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thespeechprof.bsky.social•111 days ago

It isn’t that autistic individuals “lack emotion” it is just that we don’t always “perform emotion” in the way that social decorum calls for and ESPECIALLY not when said decorum calls for fake emotion.
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dogsfoodflowers.bsky.social•111 days ago

This is fascinating. I remember my parents grilling me about why I wasn’t emotive about things. I couldn’t come up with an answer.

dogsfoodflowers.bsky.social•111 days ago

I am an extremely sensitive person but I absolutely cannot fake emotion. At all.

montrealbacon.bsky.social•110 days ago

Just speculation ok? But it's my guess that back then, you felt emotion SO STRONGLY that it overwhelmed you and you had to shut down to cope. I love watching your videos with my husband the amount of love you have for your wife shows 🫶

dresscode.bsky.social•111 days ago

I wasn’t a drama baby. It’s much more likely that I’d inexplicably freeze-up than have a crying tantrum. Yup, I saved those for older adulthood😉

carovanstudios.bsky.social•110 days ago

This is exactly what I’ve been saying in all these ‘anxious v avoidant’ proliferating. Avoidant has been marked up as ‘bad character’ and narcissistic’ and emotionless’. Simplistic and reductive.

Still waters run very deep.

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