Emotional regulation is a commonly acknowledged challenge for many autistic individuals, with the majority (67 to 79 percent) of children on the spectrum experiencing comorbid symptoms of anxiety and ...

Mimi Nicklin hosts Empathy for Breakfast, a weekly breakfast show, and a podcast, Secrets of the Gap. She is also a mom and a best-selling author of Softening the Edge. Here she explains Autism, ...

Alexithymia, a personality construct denoting difficulty in identifying, describing and reflecting on one’s own emotions, co-occurs frequently with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and has been ...

"Autistic people are cold and feel no empathy." True? It is a pervasive stereotype, but when analyzed through the lens of science, reality turns out to be quite different. According to a study, when ...

Angry facial expressions produced at real world speeds are harder for people with autism to recognize than other facial expressions, a new study finds. Both the intensity of an expression and the ...

Alexithymia is when a person has difficulty experiencing, identifying, and expressing emotions. It is not a mental health disorder but has links with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), eating ...

Alexithymia is a personality trait characterised by an inability to identify and describe emotions. Rawpixel.com/ Shutterstock Eating disorders in autistic people are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images Alexithymia is described as "emotional blindness" and means people can't name or recognize emotions. It often stems ...