https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/my-life-aspergers/201303/how-much-aspergers-is-really-face-or-emotion-blindness
"- Both prosopagnosia and alexithymia are more common than autism (though we seem to have misjudged the commonness of autism by quite a bit)
- Both conditions are very common but not universal in people with autism. Are the a result of autism, or are they independent? No one knows.
- The close association between them suggests that autism, prosopagnosia and alexithymia may share some common causative factors; even that one may cause the other in whole or in part.
I’d be very interested in studies that looked more closely at prosopagnosia and alexithymia. They are two under-studied conditions that might shed some light on the mystery of why we are the way we are.
For further reading
Alexithymia:
Prosopagnosia
http://prosopagnosiaresearch.org/index/information"
~ John Elders, well-known Aspergian
What is your experience?
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