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3:22am September 1, 2014
Anonymous asked: Always thought it was strange how people see some Autistic people's attachment to objects as a sign of hollowness or not being able to fully experience life or whatever. From the inside, it feels like something that gives a lot of richness and joy and meaning to life, and ever since I figured out that not everyone has this, I've been so, so grateful that I do. (Same goes for intense interests and absorbing sensory experiences! I feel like the world is full of amazing things to discover!)

Yeah I know what you mean.  It seems like some people are hell-bent on making sure that autistic people’s lives, disabled people’s lives in general really, look as bleak as possible from the outside.  Either that or they just have prejudices that tell them it really is that bleak, and warp any perception of what we’re doing.  Because I feel the same way, like my experiences with objects, and sensory experiences, make my life better than they would be without them.  I mean I’m sure that if I were built in some other way, there would be some other thing that gave my life the same richness – if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that life is infinitely rich and you can find richness in any area of life if you look hard enough – but as it is, it’s these things that do it, and they’re sure as hell not things that make my life empty and hollow.