I’d love to hear how you (autistics) relate with “play.” I am an autistic artist and I relate my art practice to the play of an autistic child. Of course, we don't all share the same experiences, so I'm interested in how you feel or think about play?
I feel like my play as both child and adult was/is sooo magical. Why would I want to play socially when I can be totally immersed in the fantastic stillness of repetitive and/or stimulatory bliss?? I feel like the autistic child’s play-space, the internal, “detached,” or just ‘mesmerized in some far-off place of the mind’ is the most incredible thing…
Do/did you experience it that way or similarly? How would you describe it? I feel like I am the happiest when the world around me disappears. When I’m “in the zone,” in a space of "no-mind,” immersed in a “flow-state,” etc.
What do you think about your own play, as an autistic? What was the experience like in your childhood? As an adult? Fun fun fun fun fun...
