“I may feel it, but my face and voice don’t show it.”

Flat Affect may be caused by different things:

• lack of mirroring, see ASPD
• lack of prosody
• lack of emotion

My Experience

Since I have no Social Salience I receive no signal and there is nothing to mirror. In fact I probably give off strange vibes.

For whatever reason I also have low prosody – I tend to talk in a bit of a monotone and at a constant rate (sometimes fast, sometimes slow, usually the wrong speed). If I pay attention I think I can affect this, e.g. if I am telling a joke (but my jokes often fall flat, so my mileage may vary!).

I have emotions, I am just not expressing them in a way that NT receivers would pick them up.