is it just me...

[sciatrix]

or is the venn diagram of "people who are really into asmr" and "people who are neurodiverse" a pretty overlapping one?

This observation brought to you by this breathless article on how ASMR became a sensation, which has me so, so confused: that sensation is something I've experienced for a long, long time, and is just... an everyday part of being, for me. The way he has to work at it so hard is just alien. I was talking about the sensation a long time before ASMR, the vocabulary staple, came up, in little bits and bobs of "yeah, you know that thing" (I used to call it a tuning-fork sensation), and as I remember it I was usually talking to people in communities with a lot of folks on the autism spectrum. The people I have run into who are way into ASMR have also pinged me in the same kind of way for other reasons.

Is this a thing anyone has bothered to look at or work out? It seems like such an obvious thing that I'm a little shy mentioning it.

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[unicornduke]

Oh well that's exciting I guess. Interesting. I can clearly remember the sensation with people petting my hair and it's pleasant mostly but not all the time. The shaking one, I guess I'm not sure what's causing it, I just assumed it was me feeling weird. Now I need to pay attention to it.

Oh I just looked up myoclonic jerk and I super duper get that going to sleep holy crap, I'd forgotten about that. Well, I learned something new today!