Patrick Alexander

“Pleasure is peripheral; hence it is bound to depend on outer circumstances. And it is only titillation. If food is pleasure, what actually is being enjoyed? Just the taste—for a moment, when the food passes across the taste buds on your tongue, you feel a sensation that you interpret as pleasure. It is your interpretation. Today it may look like pleasure and tomorrow it may not look like pleasure; if you go on eating the same food every day your taste buds will become unresponsive to it. Soon you will be fed up with it.”
― Osho, Joy: The Happiness That Comes from Within

“The issue autistic people have fought for for years has finally been added – as the very last symptom on list B of the DSM-5. The one thing which, to me and many others, is the most important aspect of our autism: hypo- and/or hypersensitivity to stimuli. It’s the essence of the Intense World Theory and, in my opinion (and that of the Markrams), also the source of all additional problems. All people experience stimuli. Sometimes many, sometimes few, sometimes consciously, but frequently completely subconsciously. Stimuli are the signals we receive mainly through the five senses, even though humans actually have more than five. And then there’s the stimuli that come from your brain itself: thoughts.”
― Bianca Toeps, But You Don’t Look Autistic at All

“I'm well known for needing to know the why-of-the-why-of-the-why. I need to know details that may not seem relevant to others, but which help me build a mental algorithm to function in different situations. It's slow to create, but becomes incredibly fast and efficient with time.”
― B.Z. Brainz, Late-Identified AuDHD: An Autism/ADHD Beginners Self-Discovery Workbook

“Pleasure is dependent on others. Happiness is not so dependent on others, but still it is separate from you. Bliss is not dependent, it is not separate either; it is your very being, it is your very nature.”
― Osho, Joy: The Happiness That Comes from Within