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What makes us happy or helps us

Muckworm

Hi Everyone!

 

It occurred to me whilst typing what annoys me in response to another thread that it might be good to share what we find helpful in handling our autism and autistic traits and what makes us happy, if we can feel happy at all.

 

Well as I said in the other thread - chocolate gives me a good feeling and when my head is full and I'm hitting a meltdown, Mum drives me to a big beach or up on to the Moors near where we live and the space and bleakness somehow calms me down - it's like all the stuff in my head gets lost in the space and after a few hours I come back down pretty well.

 

Also, nature for me, talking to animals because I feel they understand me better than humans ever could.

 

So what helps you or makes you happy?

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  • Hope said:

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    [quote]I love it when the postman brings me vinyl records.[/quote]

    Ooh, that's reminded me of something really odd that makes me happy:

    New things.

    Doesn't matter too much what it is, but I really like the 'newness' of new things. In fact I often want to preserve that 'new' quality for as long as possible, and won't open, or use, something, even when I've bought it for a specific purpose or use.

     

    I am the same with regard to new things. I worry about spoiling new things through wear and tear, and want to preserve the new quality. This, however, ruined my 8th birthday, when I opened some plastercine and played with a strip, only to spend the day worrying that I had 'messed up' my new present.

    I find what Scorpion and Hope are saying very interesting. I too am obsessed with preserving newness. I have PVC sleeves for all of my records (which is many thousands, for too many to count regardless). I also hate marks on cd's, sometimes I will by a cd if it doesnt look new of replace it's plastic case. 

    I am very carefull with new clothes to keep them new for as long as possible. I have a nitemare everytime I buy a new (to me) car. I can never afford new, but I still think that a car thats maybe 4-5years old shouldn't be a mess: the wider world must disagreeSealed. So therefore what may take someone else a couple of weeks may take me 12 weeks. 

    My stereo is 13 years old and it still looks in brand new condition. 

    I can't stand books that are falling to peices either, they drive me nuts.

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  • Hope said:

    [quote][/quote]

    [quote]I love it when the postman brings me vinyl records.[/quote]

    Ooh, that's reminded me of something really odd that makes me happy:

    New things.

    Doesn't matter too much what it is, but I really like the 'newness' of new things. In fact I often want to preserve that 'new' quality for as long as possible, and won't open, or use, something, even when I've bought it for a specific purpose or use.

     

    I am the same with regard to new things. I worry about spoiling new things through wear and tear, and want to preserve the new quality. This, however, ruined my 8th birthday, when I opened some plastercine and played with a strip, only to spend the day worrying that I had 'messed up' my new present.

    I find what Scorpion and Hope are saying very interesting. I too am obsessed with preserving newness. I have PVC sleeves for all of my records (which is many thousands, for too many to count regardless). I also hate marks on cd's, sometimes I will by a cd if it doesnt look new of replace it's plastic case. 

    I am very carefull with new clothes to keep them new for as long as possible. I have a nitemare everytime I buy a new (to me) car. I can never afford new, but I still think that a car thats maybe 4-5years old shouldn't be a mess: the wider world must disagreeSealed. So therefore what may take someone else a couple of weeks may take me 12 weeks. 

    My stereo is 13 years old and it still looks in brand new condition. 

    I can't stand books that are falling to peices either, they drive me nuts.

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