Does anyone feel like they have a "hole" inside th

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...That can never be filled up by anything, no matter what? I do. Was wondering if other people with AS have this, or if it's just me.

I think that's just a human thing. It's so common that some Christians refer to it as the "God shaped hole" when trying to convert people, because they claim religious faith can fill it. Me, I imagine my internal spiritual shape as a torus. That hole is supposed to be there; it isn't something to worry about.

Yes, I have one. I can't see it, because it's always behind me. But the doctor told me that's normal.

the hole you describe is called 'dukkha' in Sanskrit language

Dukkha means a pervasive sense of being unfulfilled, an unsatisfactoriness, emptiness or suffering.

"Dukkha (Pāli; Sanskrit: duḥkha; Tibetan sdug bsngal) is a Buddhist term commonly translated as "suffering", "anxiety", "stress", or "unsatisfactoriness".[a] The principle of dukkha is one of the most important concepts in the Buddhist tradition. The Buddha is reputed to have said: "I have taught one thing and one thing only, dukkha and the cessation of dukkha." The classic formulation of these teachings on dukkha is the doctrine of the Four Noble Truths, in which the Truth of Dukkha (Pali: dukkha saccã; Sanskrit: duḥkha-satya) is identified as the first of the four truths." Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukkha

An Indian man 500 BCE taught the world:

" The truth of dukkha (suffering, anxiety, unsatisfactoriness[a])
The truth of the origin of dukkha
The truth of the cessation of dukkha
The truth of the path leading to the cessation of dukkha"
Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths

just one way of addressing the emptiness you feel

Be well
slave:)

Yes.

Yeah I've significantly lost my childhood obsession of science
and it feels like I'm missing out on life.
Nothing makes me that curious much any more and this formed that
hole you're talking about; it feels like something is missing.

I agree, it is a lack of satisfaction and the addition of worry or regret,
depending on the situation. (In my situation, this is probably the case,
as for yours, I don't know.)

Yes - it's what drives my constant need to better understand the universe, my role in it, why I exist.

I believe all humanity feels this to one degree or another (except for the truly self-absorbed).

I was listening to a discussion on the radio between two guys who claim to have discovered that a previously unrecognised symptom of ASD is an inability to complete senten

(DISCLAIMER - this is intended to be a joke!)

No, I don't.

I have talked about this subject on here before, but some people didn't seem to like it. It may have been because I put it right onto the thread, so it could have seamed like I was trying to force people believe in Christianity. I am very sorry if I made people feel this way. Here is a link to a Christian website that explains this feeling, but you don't have to read it if you think it would make you uncomfortable. It seems to describe it better then I did.

http://www.gotquestions.org/spiritual-emptiness.html

Some times yes.

I feel it much more than others.

No. If anything I feel the opposite, I feel like I am too full. I have too many thoughts and feelings and ideas, too much information, and not enough space for it all, not enough of an outlet for it. It gives me sort of a claustrophobic feeling. I WANT to find an empty space inside myself, where nothing can fill it in, where it's just still and quiet.

I think they're two different things.

If they are one religion does help sometimes.