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Autistic joy

Orangegnome

I would really like to start a thread on autistic joy and what that means to different people. I am only at the beginning of my autism journey and learning everything about other people’s experience of life as an autistic human bean is interesting to me. I think I have felt autistic joy through specific sensory things I like to do. I love a particular fluffy texture and it really makes me calm but incredibly happy inside. Anyone else got such an experience? 

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  • 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?

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    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.

  • in reply to pietro_21

    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?

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    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.

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    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.

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