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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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  • The nearest I come to sensory joy is the feel of a well-balanced fountain pen with a properly tuned nib. It should be light in the hand and glide across the paper without needing any pressure (but there should be a degree of feedback from the nib so that you know it is making proper contact with the paper). Having written that, it occurs to me that other experiences of joy that I would usually think of as aesthetic or spiritual also have important sensory dimensions: the smell of incense and the sound of chanting during Orthodox Liturgy or the whole body experience of singing Beethoven's Ninth with a professional orchestra. 

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  • The nearest I come to sensory joy is the feel of a well-balanced fountain pen with a properly tuned nib. It should be light in the hand and glide across the paper without needing any pressure (but there should be a degree of feedback from the nib so that you know it is making proper contact with the paper). Having written that, it occurs to me that other experiences of joy that I would usually think of as aesthetic or spiritual also have important sensory dimensions: the smell of incense and the sound of chanting during Orthodox Liturgy or the whole body experience of singing Beethoven's Ninth with a professional orchestra. 

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