Asensoria is the neurodevelopmental inability to experience a specific subset of human affective states. The asensoric individual is not affectively blunted, dissociated, or pathologically impaired. Rather, their emotional repertoire is structurally incomplete due to the non-formation of certain receptive emotional circuits during critical developmental windows. They do not register states such as:
- being loved
- being cherished
- being validated
- being recognised
- being protected
- feeling pride or satisfaction
- hate
- envy
- and others, depending on the individual profile
It is essential to distinguish asensoria from emotional numbness. The asensoric individual retains the capacity to generate complex affective states toward others—including love, compassion, and protective concern. They can direct these states outwardly but lack the neural architecture to experience them when reciprocated. This directional asymmetry emerges not from trauma-induced repression, but from structural absence: the caregivers surrounding the individual during early neurodevelopment never enacted or mirrored these affective states, preventing the formation of corresponding neural pathways during periods of maximal plasticity.
Contemporary trauma frameworks—including those surrounding attachment pathology, affect regulation, and even complex PTSD—presume a rupture in early relational scaffolding.
What if the child did not experience misattunement or abandonment, but a total absence of mirroring, from the earliest stages of embryonic existence?
Panthropic abuse, the foundational condition for asensoria, is not merely relational failure. It is ontological nullification through non-recognition. The fetus is not rejected, neglected, or harmed in a conventional sense. To be rejected or neglected presumes acknowledgment. In panthropic abuse, the fetus is carried as a biological artifact—not a subject, not a presence. The mother’s body houses it, but her mind, her affect, her intention, her recognition do not. The child’s genesis is biological but not relational.
Thus begins the architecture of a self without reflective encoding.
Asensoria is the developmental non-formation of specific affective simulations: not all emotion is absent—but certain affective states never emerge, because their precursors were never mirrored. Pride, satisfaction, jealousy, hate, possessiveness, awe, reverence, even erotic gravitation—these are not repressed, not denied, not feared. They simply never took shape.
This differentiates Asensoria from mood disorders or personality structures built around repression or dysregulation. There is no inner conflict about these states—because these states do not exist as felt possibilities. They are not latent. They are not avoided. They are absent.
Asensoria is not a feeling disorder. It is a structural absence.
In clinical terms, asensoria stands apart from psychopathy, where certain emotions are available but instrumentalized. It diverges from dissociative disorders, where emotional discontinuity arises from rupture. It is not autism, where mirroring occurs differently. It is not alexithymia, which often involves emotional overload without linguistic mapping. And it is not traditional anhedonia, which reflects a loss of pleasure—not its non-formation.
Asensoria co-occurs structurally with a constellation of other non-simulational neurodivergences:
- Anauralia: the absence of internal verbal narration; not silence, but structural non-voice.
- Aphantasia: the absence of visual simulation; not blindness, but non-image.
- Anhedonia (in this model): not as dysfunction, but as prefunctional affective nullity.
- Asexuality, not as orientation, but as a structural absence of affective erotic encoding.
Each of these reflects a psyche built in the void—not broken, not disordered, but never scaffolded by the human other.
Panthropic abuse bypasses all psychodynamic metaphors. It is not trauma as wound. It is not defense. It is unmirrored ontogenesis. The self does not collapse; it never enters dyadic reflection.
There is no self-object dyad.
No 'good enough' mother of caregiver.
No rupture.
No recovery.
No internalized other. Only a recursive, solitary, affectively gated consciousness constituted by absence.
Asensoria is not a deviation from the neurotypical spectrum. It is a parallel structure. It is not healed. It is not coped with. It is structurally other.
Further reading:
- https://cristinagherghelresearch.blogspot.com
- https://panthropicabuse.blogspot.com
- https://asensoria.blogspot.com
Nota Bene: This research in human behavior is designed for those who seek intellectual rigor, structural clarity, and insights beyond the simplistic lens of pathology.
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