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The joy of autism

Wordsmith

I have just come across an interesting article in Psychology Today: ‘What Brings Autistic People Joy?’ by Ludmila Praslova. In it she summarizes a recent research paper on autistic experiences of joy. I particularly like the way she ends:

Autistic people are complete human beings with an extremely broad range of emotions, including intense, profound joy—along with deep pain of being excluded, ridiculed, and bullied. When we are accepted, when our environments reflect consideration of sensory needs and honor neurodignity, we don't just survive, we truly flourish.

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  • This feels so true, to be accepted and included. People tell me I don’t smile enough, I feel I’m smiling sometimes but people tell me I’m not, so I took a selfie recently and saw I wasn’t smiling, guess there’s a disconnect. Sometimes I’m sad and I hope that doesn’t show though.

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  • This feels so true, to be accepted and included. People tell me I don’t smile enough, I feel I’m smiling sometimes but people tell me I’m not, so I took a selfie recently and saw I wasn’t smiling, guess there’s a disconnect. Sometimes I’m sad and I hope that doesn’t show though.

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