I don´t feel anything for other people

Hi there! I need to ask you a question. I feel like I don´t care for other people. It would be wrong to assume that I NEVER feel anything; I do, mostly for my family. But I cannot measure how strong that feeling is. I guess I love them, but mostly on a cerebral level, or because I have been used to them for such a long time. However, what I feel for my family is still more than what I feel for others. It frightens me but I never feel anything for other people, even if I try really hard to make myself. I feel oddly disconected from everybody. I am a 30 year-old female; quite pretty, but normally pretty, not super attractive. I have never had a lasting relationship with anyone. Partly because I feel that they would laugh at me for not having any experience, and partly because my emotional maturing is really slow. I feel like a person in their early 20s, not older. My intellectual maturity is, however, better than that of my average peers. I know it souds narcissistic but it is not like that. I can clearly see all of my faults. One of the reasons I have never had sex is also the fact that whenever I was with a man, I could not emotionally attach to him, even if I tried, and even if I felt I was sexually attracted to him. I even underwent a long-lasting sexuality screening, but I came out as a heterosexual (not that I doubted it, I just wanted to know WHERE is my problem). I was diagnosed with Asperger´s and OCD just last year, but now I feel it could be some personality disorder. Avoidant PD seems to be matching perfectly, but I also sport some sociopathic (no empathy) and probably borderline (capricious mood) features. I read that reduced empathy is part of Asperger´s, but when I talked to a shrink, he said that he thought Aspies actually DO have empathy, but they just cannot EXPRESS it in a proper way. But I feel like I have no empathy at all. I really could NOT care less about people (even though I care a lot about animals); my sister gave a birth to her little daughter just three days ago and when I came to visit her in the hospital wing, I did not feel a shit. Everybody else was emotional about it, but I was not moved at all. I really did not feel anything. I feel like I would love to have a relationship with a man, but then... am I even capable of loving somebody? I mean, when i love somebody, it´s merely an obsession, but I don´t know if I can feel REAL love. I really WANT to feel so much, which makes me so extremely sad, but I cannot! Even doctors dunno what to make out of it. They say do not care about finding out what is whrong with you, focus on positive things! But HOW? I mean, I am not depressed, but extremely dissapointed in myself. Is there a way I could GROW empathy or emotions? Because I really dunno if I have them. I mean, when something really bad happens to MY people, then only I feel sad for them, but it never lasts for long. Maybe I could have Alexythymia (which is a condition which prevents you from RECOGNIZING your own emotions, but you most certainly DO have them). What shall I do? Do not say: "Go visit a doctor," they never help me. Thank you.

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  • RoseIsabella

    You don't have any feelings for paragraphs either, huh?

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  • Doktor_Hildred_Von_Steinmann

    Firstly. Stop trying to self diagnose, that's the quickest way to convince yourself that you'll have something that you don't.

    Secondly. You sound exactly like me, so I'll ask you this. Is it bad not having feelings of empathy? It would almost be a gift to some, being able to make decisions without emotions getting in the way.

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  • moonlightshield

    I don't wanna sound rude but to me you sound like a hypochondriac who's trying to find a medical reason to explain why your life as how it is right now. Stop thinking and trying to self diagnose and find reasons about everything and go do something about your life!

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  • DubstepismyMJ

    Do you "play" with yourself often?

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  • Nois

    I can relate to your story. If you keep trying to find out what's wrong with you, you'll never be content with yourself. So, accept that there's nothing wrong with you--you just process situations differently than some other people. Focus on the things you enjoy, make your life work for you and stop trying to fix yourself, and instead embrace who you are. If you do however still want to fit into so-called normal society, you could always pretend. Think of it as a role that you're playing, and maybe you'll get so involved in that role that you'll lose yourself in it.

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