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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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  • These are random but they are the first things that came to my head. Getting into new cold bedsheets, just utter sensory calm. Listening to specific songs e.g chilled out and slowed down versions of trance. I smile and they take me back to the rare times in my past I was happy and borderline authentic. Playing Mario on my game and watch. I get so excited I have to stop myself from letting out an excited scream, so I just tense up. Finally, driving into a carpark and realising you’ve left early enough to be almost the only person in the shop, happy relief. Great thread  

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  • These are random but they are the first things that came to my head. Getting into new cold bedsheets, just utter sensory calm. Listening to specific songs e.g chilled out and slowed down versions of trance. I smile and they take me back to the rare times in my past I was happy and borderline authentic. Playing Mario on my game and watch. I get so excited I have to stop myself from letting out an excited scream, so I just tense up. Finally, driving into a carpark and realising you’ve left early enough to be almost the only person in the shop, happy relief. Great thread  

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