What do I “feel”? Forgive the Star Trek references, but the characters I connected with most were Data and Spock. Especially Data. He was intrigued by the emotions felt by the biological humanoids. Spock could feel them, he just chose to suppress them.



Why would those characters resonate with me? A week or so ago I found this website. http://www.alexithymia.us/ I took the survey, and got “emotionally dumb” not the lower intelligence dumb, the not able to speak them dumb. It’s like I know the response I’m supposed to have in situations, but I don’t know how to properly share them with others.

I’m a parent and husband, and it has taken a while for my family to understand how I operate. I’m a horrible gift giver, and may not every call or send a card for a special occasion, but I think they know they’re on my mind.

I see what everyone around me is excited about, loves, and is interested in, but I fell like an outside observer…