“Autistic people report experiencing intense joy in ways connected to autistic traits. Passionate interests, deep focus and learning, and sensory experiences can bring profound joy. The biggest barriers to autistic joy are mistreatment by other people and societal biases, not autism itself.”
"Too often, others assume that autistic lives are sad. Joyless. In need of “fixing.”
But autistic experience can be intensely, gloriously joyful—when we are not forced to fit into someone else’s procrustean expectations of what a good life is "supposed" to look like. Why can't there be many ways to live a good life? Authentically? Autistically?"
Gosh, this really spoke to me. I often get judged for my life and it's seen as less, but if I ignored external pressures, I'd actually be quite happy with it.
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