**Feel very little besides the spontaneous outbursts of things like rage, lust, or excitement, but never happiness, sadness, etc. (character limit).

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I know this is the thing everybody hears when they ask this and it can get real annoying, but as someone with a similar but different situation it does really help to find people who readily accept a friend who might not be as responsive as is “acceptable”. Most dinners I space out and don’t contribute much to conversation but my friends still talk to me and like me which helps

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Hold on to the feelings you do feel and apply them to the moods that others seem to be feeling around you. It should (hopefully) create bonds in your mind as to how you “should” be reacting. It’s like neuroplasticity or smth of the sort.

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pay attention to social cues. even if it’s not real for you, following social cues will make conversing easier

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Fake it til you make it. Lots of times the label feels like it applies and it’s just masking like difficulties with empathy and anhedonic depression. Just be what people see as ‘decent’

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Sometimes you gotta at least pretend to care. I’ve dealt with situations where I was dealing with grief and depression. My friends had no sympathy and ghosted me. It’s an example of what not to do

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