Addiction to sensations?

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Neurotypical people have a fairly moderate dopamine release while doing the most diverse activities, from social interaction to cleaning up the house and partying. This is what gives them satisfaction in life and keeps them tick. Without a sufficient dopamine release, life seems pointless and dull and depression generally involves a significant decrease in dopamine release.

Autistic people have little to no dopamine release doing most of the things they do. As such, they tend to be quite obsessive about whatever does give them a relevant dopamine release, whether it's their weird hobbies, extreme sports, cuddling with their girlfriend or in your case : hot showers.

Dopamine release is a highly addictive sensation and one of the main reasons why people get addicted to gambling, sex, video games and/or various narcotic substances. So therefore it's no surprise that those little things that do give autistic people a dopamine release can feel very addictive.

Wow, I love warm/hot showers, too. I love the feeling of the droplets hitting me. And I quite like running it through my hair, but I hate other people touching my head.

Wow, I thought I just had a weird thing with hating people touching my forehead. Galwacco, I do exactly the same when my partner touches my forehead. Can't deal anything touching it though, have to move my hair out the way and not get my hair washed at a salon as it feels too weird. Is this what they class as sensitivity and is it an aspie thing? Sorry to go off topic but have been trying to figure out my strange forehead for years!

That's what I loved the most about being diagnosed with aspergers! The more I study about it, the more it fits with my world's reality! Yes, it's totally related to aspergers having this hate towards touching our forehead!

It can happen in other places too. I have this same thing with my lips, if it's barely touched, it hurts like hell. Can't be normal touch, as in a kiss, I mean light touch, then the pain is unbearable.

My hair is really short, I'd like to have a long one, tried once, but I can't stand the hair touching it, drives me insane.

Wow, thank you, thank you, thank you. Such a small thing, but has bugged for my whole life and my parents couldnt understand why I got soaked at the hairdressers each time! I have that light touch thing too but when I touch an object. I can't just brush something otherwise it kind of tingly burns. Thank you again.

Can't help but make some comments on the 'pleasure of finding things out', sounds like Richard Feynman. But it's the only thing that comes in my mind right now! It was one discovery after another when I got diagnosed and started looking after some answers.

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