A Literal Mess

-hearing tiny beautiful sounds like water droplets and leaves crunching -knowing lots of fun trivia from special interests over the years -brightly colored things that make ur eyes happy -that feeling when someone asks you to tell them about sth you know a lot about and it’s infodump time !!!!!! -the Good Foods™ -when ur logical and rational thinking helps you solve a problem or think of something other people wouldn’t -nice textures are So Nice: cats, very soft blankets, smooth and cold stones, the inside of a brand new sweatshirt

-when someone shares something because it’s related to a special interest of yours!

-when someone shares that your special interest thing consistently and specifically reminds them of you!!!

-helping other people explore their autistic experiences, and inevitably learning something about your autism from them too!

-friend is stimming, I stim too, echo stims ad infinitum~

-hey, that stim toy you just got looks cool, wanna switch stim toys for a bit? Cool? Yeah, awesome - oh, this is really good! Okay, let’s switch back now.

-seeing other people stimming, especially in public!!! what a joy!!

-sharing info about a special interest with someone, and seeing them get interested too - esp. when they get long term or really deeply into it!!

-getting excited pictures from friends of their new stim toys, or precious objects

- realizing something you do is an Autistic Thing and suddenly it’s not weird and there are other people who do the same!

- relating to animals!

- scented candle stores!

- unique happy stim dances!

- having plushie collections <3 <3

- that moment when you find out someone shares a special interest and it’s Special Interest Collision Supernova!

- epic reference retention capacity!