Very interesting, I never heard of emotional numbness. I do think how our brain is hardwired has more influence with how we think and behave than it is given credit to. I have anendophasia, meaning I have little or no internal monologue. Like, when I want to pick a pen, there is no monologue of my mind saying “I must pick it up”, I just pick it up without any verbal thought.

that is because the numbeness is a gift that allows you to protect yourself from too much dislike, just gotta learn to get comfortable with dislike in order to maximize the amount of people that like you.

Like you, I don’t really care as much what others think. I probably have emotional numbness to certain extent, but unlike yours I would imagine. Unlike most people who have self-critical thoughts, I could easily brush aside negativity or I don’t dwell on it too much. I could feel something, but I just know that too much negativity is not productive so my mind goes away from it and I would rather do something that fix the issue or contribute to my long term goals and values.

However, with all that said, there is a limit to any varying degrees of emotional numbness because from my experience, one could come off as insensitive to other people’s feelings. I have imposed my own values to people who simply think differently without realising it and hurt them. Going back to self-critical and intrusive thoughts, most people have it which I didn’t realise and dismiss their feelings. It is important to develop emotional and social intelligence to curb the downside of emotional numbness.