I've seen it mentioned in some posts that the test isn't so valid for teenagers due to their having such an emotional time in their lives whilst trying to find their own identity, but what factors determine the lack of validity? I've been like this since birth so despite being a teenager atm, it's a bit different.
It is a valid representation for this moment on your life, understandably the results might change over duration and awareness.
As an example, upon taking the test a second and third time I was asking myself the following question:
- am I answering with my core or with my coping mechanisms?
Don’t invalidate yourself just because of your life stage, I’m a teen and I’ve took tests as well as watch videos and I can positively say I have alexithymia, i also have asd1 so life is wired.watch this video
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vN5bagmADe4
I don't think that age has any bearing on the validity of the results to the questionnaire. Teenagers may be more prone to strong and rapidly changing emotions but if they're Alexithymic it still doesn't make those emotions any easier to identify or recognise. I tend not to break things these days, because if I do I'm the one who has to pay to replace them, but as a teenager I frequently broke things. Did I do it from anger, frustration, enjoyment, bravado, pleasure? Did it give me a boner at times? Probably all of the above, at various times and in combination too. I just know that I frequently, deliberately broke things. Why? Even now Alexithymia prevents me from identifying the causes, just as it did at the time.
