WHY do we get excited over little things?

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I've mention topics on me being excited time and again but was curious WHY we might do this. I would chalk it up to our immature brains. Some not ALL Aspies excel and are mini adults as children or are intelligent in academics yet get excited over Disney World like a 2 yr. old would yet I'm a 27 yr. old adult!! ! I get super excited for buying a Superman shirt today since I LOVE Superman! Even my 5yr. nephew thought I looked weird getting excited over it and mom told me to "calm down"

How NT's can live NOT getting excited over things is beyond me. My older sister did over getting Wine Buy one get 1 40% off like super clapping excited which personally I found strange. Wine?! vs. Disney or a cool shirt. This was one time in ages I saw her ever do this yet I do it almost weekly.

New show,movie,video game etc. I get SUPER excited. WHY do you think we do this??? Thank You fellow Aspies.

I also think that NT adults might be excited about little things but they know it's not socially acceptable to show a lot of excitement over little things and so they don't (they inhibit the urge to show excitement). Even if we aspies do understand that this is socially unacceptable we might be more impulsive in showing excitement or slower at processing the social context and how we should act in it or we just don't process this social information at all ,at the time. So, I might be really loud and jump up and down and flail my arms because I got a new book series that I like in public and an NT might be just as excited but they will rapidly , almost intuitively inhibit the urge to be loud and jump and flail over something small in public. If it's something big like someone's just proposed marriage to them then they can be loud and jump a bit in public because that's socially acceptable for an adult to do but then they still wouldn't flail their arms or jump weirdly ( they have to and they know how to be graceful, not gauche).

Yes if it's a proposal jumping up and down excited is considered "normal" or a football fan. But a t-shirt at the store is "wrong" or Disney World unless you are actually 5 yrs. old NOT 27yr. old adult woman!! ! is "wrong" The idea that our way of showing excitement is wrong depresses me. The fact that people have the capability to suppress it is weird and loss on me sort of. At Disney it's smile be happy for your child getting on the ride while I'm jumping up and down excited like a child.

Not showing excitement sounds like a depressing way to live. Not being excited over anything and nothing makes you SUPER HAPPY! Jump up and down excited you must live a depressing sad life IMO. (of NT's etc. who don't get excited.)

Wish it was more acceptable.

Is excitability really a typical aspie trait? I ask because that has certainly not been my experience. My brother and I are both AS, but we are both considered to have a lack of enthusiasm in comparison to normal people.

I don't get visibly excited over things that a lot of other people get excited about, or in the same way many other people do. For example, my in-laws will scream and shout excitedly over something sport-related or someone in the family achieving something at work, whereas I am completely indifferent to the sport-related acheivement and I just smile and say, 'Congratulations' when someone achieves something at work (unless it's my husband in which case I'm a bit more enthusiastic, but only in private). However, I will spend ten minutes dancing around the house and singing stupid songs about having taught my cat to give high fives or become all jumpy, flappy, and clappy over getting a new stuffed animal or a new book or finding 50p on the ground.

Other than a creepy crooked tooth grin I am not outwardly excited, but I do feel this pent up energy and tingling all through my body when I get to do something I like, especially work. I guess it's just because we're Autistics and Aspies.

It's not the reaction--it's the cause of it. I embarrassed my husband on an airplane because as it was taking off I burst out with, "THIS IS SO EXCITING!! !" It was the first time I'd flown in 20 years and only the 5th time I'd ever been on an airplane. I was in my late 30s and all the bored commuters raised their eyebrows at me.

You have higher glutamate levels and therefore you get excited easily.

I love flying although i hate the loud plane engine noises before I get on the plane! If I could afford to fly so much I would but I stick to trains theyre cheaper not as fast but you can get mad drunk and fall asleep and time goes by fast after that hehe!

I don't question it. I value it. If something brings you happiness, why diminish it by labeling it "too insignificant"?

Come to think of it I do get excited rather easily!