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Episode 108 ADHD and Alexithymia

The ADHD Adults Podcast

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The Importance of Staying Away From Emotions

I can get overwhelmed by emotion as well when you were saying that I thought oh my god yeah sometimes it feels like I've just got a big fog of emotions. Sometimes if James is really low sometimes I'll purposely stay away from him not only to protect myself from feeling those emotions but to stop me going to the same place as him. There's a really classic ASD phenomenon like that of people think because of the facial difference in facial expressions in the autistic community that they you know valkers don't feel emotions, which is completely b****** wrong.

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