Your Woodbadge thread was the reason I joined this forum as it exemplified the suffering that arises from our culture's lack of identification and resources for verbal adults with alexithymia--a super common language disorder affecting one's use of social and emotional language in one's own cognitive processes communicating with oneself. It's like dyslexia of social-emotional information. The lack of opportunities for social growth in a healthy community that this lack of language and knowledge creates brings maladaptive interpretations and coping strategies the person is left to figure out fo