Extreme happiness over everyday things

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Sometimes seeing a pretty flower or something beautiful like a great sunset or cloud formation or having a great bike or horse ride or ski run will make me euphoric. Sometimes if someone I love deeply like my husband or my brother or my ski coach says that he is proud of me about something I can feel that way too. Sometimes I even feel that way when I play with my toy animals. Watching a technical ski video or a video of people skiing in amazing places and conditions can make me euphoric. Sometimes hearing beautiful music or singing beautiful music makes me feel that way.

HighPlateau I don't know what it is about great stationary but I love it too. I have one page left from a stationary set my parents gave me for Christmas when I was 12. It had my name on it and I can't seem to get rid of the last page! But great stationary and gorgeous diaries and notepads are awesome. And if you have beautiful pens to go with them, it doesn't get much better than that. And don't get me started on gorgeous cards!

I love the feeling of the relief which results after elimination.

I don't think having happy felling over doing things is an aspie only thing. I think anybody including NT's have the same experiences as well. But I can see your point of starting this topic. Aspies have a very very hard time connecting emotionally to other people and as a result of that. I think that we find more happiness in doing things.

Being able to enjoy such everyday things is really good. I believe that the OP is a very positive-minded person. He/she is lucky to be able to feel in that way.

Once someone told me that when your life is going well and you are happy with your life, then just ordinary everyday things feel really enjoyable but when you are not happy with your life, the same things feel rather tedious and feel like "tasks that you have to do", resulting in you not bothering to do them at all.

I think that's probably the case for most of us regardless of your neurology, though for some autistic people certain aspects of such chores as grocery shopping etc might themselves be inherently difficult (sensory issues, executive function issues etc).

I like the feeling of having finished grocery shopping because I love having plenty of food in the cupboard and in the fridge for the weekend, but maybe not the shopping itself that much.

I got really excited yesterday about getting my winter clothes out of the storage bags.

I love the soft and cosy feel of my winter clothes and I've been waiting for summer to be over so I can wear them again.

i'm very happy after a good long burp

Working with lathes = an eternal orgasm for my brain.

I'm plagued by near-continual anhedonia. You are all very blessed!

Going swimming is my biggest happiness-inducer. The sensory feeling of being submerged in water is just... perfect. There's no other way to describe it. I must have been a mermaid in a past life or something.

I have depression but that doesn't mean that I am ALWAYS depressed. Many very simple ordinary things make me happy. My husband says that I can make myself laugh for no reason whatsoever. I mean laughing to tears over the stupidest crap. There are things that I just love looking at: planes landing and taking off, car washes, opening boxes (even when i know what's inside of it already), all kinds of random crap. It's wierd. LOL

I struggle with motivation, and if I make my own packed lunch (sandwiches) instead of buying them ready made I feel so pleased with myself & happy that I want to clap & say "Well Done" to myself.

To most people it might be just a regular thing, but to me making my own packed lunch is an achievement, and something I feel proud about.

Totally

Same here!! I made packed lunch for me and my boyfriend for work this morning and I was so pleased with myself that I told everyone at work. People at work think I'm a bit strange because the simplest things make me happy. They save particular jobs for me because they know I will enjoy them, things like sorting things into boxes, doing inventories or ticking things off lists, cleaning things and casting models. They tend to be quite repetitive things, but I take pride in doing them well. On Monday my boss got me to sort a box of keys out, find which doors they opened and label them all. I was so happy I had a massive grin on my face!! Outside work I like sorting out my finances, which involves checking my bank balance and checking the bills have been paid with the aid of a spreadsheet. I also like working out how long it will take to pay off my mortgage if I change how much I will pay in each month. I actually feel stupidly happy when doing that!! I also like reading with my kids, both me reading with them and them reading to me

Hi lostinlove,

"WELL DONE". You sound as if you persevere and do your best. That is a BIG achievement, and one that deserves recognition.

I am actually the same as you Starcity, I struggle with motivation, so every little achievement is a bonus for me

Taking a dump after holding it in for ages. I think most people enjoy that one though.

I got my bicycle tyres pumped to 80 bars this week and rumbling around solidly on the road is a really pleasurable experience after them being hardly usable for a few weeks.

Just about catching a train. I've started leaping onto them dramatically. Contrast with the pain of just missing a train where I simply end up screaming.

Getting off my bike and sticking a song on on my iPod for 30 seconds to four minutes as I walk to a lecture/meeting.

Wearing sock suspenders. Best £10 any wearer of trousers can spend.

Ogling. Things, people, myself.

Drinking cup after cup of tap water from home.

Throwing things in the bin from a distance.

Having a board full of prepared fruit and vegetables in front of me.

I think most little pleasures I can't quite name here and now are similar to throwing things plonk straight in the bin from a distance. Little things falling for me in the right way.