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Listitems I have felt at least once before finding this: 7/8 Listitems I have known the name of before finding this: 0/8
How about you?
Also... what's the feeling called when reading something, thinking 'that sounds totally made up' - then doing a quick google and realizing its actually a thing?
Here's one I feel and enjoy but have a hard time explaining to people who don't experience it, and have no word for:
The sense of potential that comes with being alone in a normally-crowded space.
Like walking the halls of an empty hotel during or right before a convention, when nobody is there yet (or awake yet, or awake still), and there's this electric sense of anticipation, potential... It's not quite excitement or enthusiasm, maybe you don't actually care about what's going to go on in that space at all, except that you know something is but not yet and that has an energy all its own.
I feel something like that on big streets in the night.
Normally there are trucks and cars and everything is loud.
But 2am in the week:
The only thing on the streets are you, a few puddles from the last rain and the very occasional stray car or moped far away.
And, yeah, I think in that moment I can relate to your feel.
Exactly this!
Now that I think about it in depth, I for myself (got PDA) would retroactively interpret the feeling as:
With masking in mind we could also interpret it as:
On the other hand it may be something not-neurodivergent at all (how should I know), or maybe it's a combination of a general feeling everyone has with above stated reasons on top.