Autistic joy

I don't really understand this question or the concept, I mean I understand the words, but feel no resonance with them, I just feel what I need to feel and then stop. For me the things I enjoy are just that, things I enjoy. I don't stim, maybe it's related?

Are you not one of these autists who seeks out crunchy textured things to eat? I have never looked at an inanimate object and thought it was living, but I can look at a bear and still feel something if it is my bear.

Are you not one of these autists who seeks out crunchy textured things to eat? I have never looked at an inanimate object and thought it was living, but I can look at a bear and still feel something if it is my bear.

The crunchy thing is new to me. I feel it could be anything you obsess about. Children fixate on toys and tastes sometimes. There’s things I’d like to be able to return to without having to be a child again, to get the full sensation it has to be bound to your own personal association (usually time based and linked to a specific thing that happened) with what it is - so it could be absolutely anything. Meaning populates from memory afterwards. But there’s probably no reason why it can’t be a new thing.

No not really, I find crunchy and crispy things a bit difficult, I hate jacket potato skin, crispy bacon or fried eggs, but like crispy roast potatoes, crisps are something I can take or leave and I don't like chips.

To me everything is alive, just because it dosen't move dosen't mean it has no soul or conciousness. Does not everyone feel like that if they encounter a long lost toy?