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by tw1010 2818 days ago
How do you recover emotions without ever having been on antidepressants?
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Assuming you're not being snarky I would strongly recommend talking to a therapist if you feel this way. There are many reasons people have suppressed/muted emotions and a good one will help you find yours.

One example of a cause that's not just 'you might have depression' is 'you might be transgender'. One of the most common experiences of trans women is severely suppressed emotions prior to recognizing their dysphoria and before HRT. Some of my favorite things to read on the internet are stories from trans women about the first time they cried (and then usually cried again because they were so happy about it), the first time they laughed uncontrollably, or the first time they felt passion/anger. Super hartwarming stuff.

Autistic people were never thought to lack emotions, in fact many complain about feeling too intense emotions. The article is garbage.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2518049/

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2010.0022...

Read the article, not the parent poster's mischaracterization of it. The very first paragraph explains the autism+emotion issue.

Also your own sources contradict the claim "Autistic people were never thought to lack emotions".

>Also your own sources contradict the claim "Autistic people were never thought to lack emotions".

Where?