Is This What YouTube Is Becoming?

[Edwardo Piet]

The Deviant Hypothesis gains support.  The rest of us normals like to see how other people react to stuff and we find it to be instructive and informative and entertaining on a great many levels.  

You're a normie?

No wonder you frustrate me lol.

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I don't really notice other people's feelings even when I see their reactions lol.

I do.  I'm very big on recognizing others emotions.  I think it's because I'm an empath.  No, not the mythological kind.  More like the philosophical kind.

I consider the needless suffering of people to be objectively bad, and I am always there to comfort my friends... although I'm usually a little too quick to do it. Because I have to guess what they're feeling based on what they say and their tone of voice and stuff.

I'm even worse at guessing my own feelings because I don't have my own face to look at and I'm too busy focusing on what I'm saying to analyse my own feelings.

But, to be honest, emotions are different to feelings. Emotions can be unconscious or repressed. But to actually feel emotions, for them to actually become feelings, you have to be aware of them. Hence why I am emotionless most of the time. Although I come across as this really emotive guy because that's what my personality is like. And it's easy to be expressive when you don't have other emotions holding you back. For example: If you're really sad it's hard to fake being happy right? But if you don't feel much of anything, it's easy to act happy, and it's not even fake if you don't even recognize the distinction between real and fake emotions.

The thing with empathy is... it's supposed to be that you use your own feelings to relate to other people's feelings right? So, if you were alexithymic, like I am, then how do you relate to others with your feelings if you don't even know what your own feelings are?

Alexithymia /ˌeɪlɛksəˈθaɪmiə/ is a personality construct characterized by the subclinical inability to identify and describe emotions in the self. The core characteristics of alexithymia are marked dysfunction in emotional awareness, social attachment, and interpersonal relating.

An inability to modulate emotions is a possibility in explaining why some people with alexithymia are prone to discharge tension arising from unpleasant emotional states through impulsive acts or compulsive behaviors such as binge eating, substance abuse, perverse sexual behavior, or anorexia nervosa.

My bold.

Well, that's got me covered lol.

Alexithymia frequently co-occurs with other disorders. Research indicates that alexithymia overlaps with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).[11][50][51] In a 2004 study using the TAS-20, 85% of the adults with ASD fell into the impaired category; almost half of the whole group fell into the severely impaired category. Among the adult control, only 17% was impaired; none of them severely

There's a strong likelihood that my alexithymia is explained by my autism.