Special places?

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Hello, we all know we like our special subjects, people or objects, but what about places?

For many years, I have been visiting places that hold some kind of special significance to me, nobody else I notice doing this. They always were places that I used to hang out at, eather by myself, or alone when I was much younger and I absolutly love re-visiting them and remembering all the times their, what happened, with who ect...

Occasionally I see a place I remember from many years back change, construction, destruction changing landscape/floora ect and it depresses the hell outa me when these things change, even slightly, afterall many of these places were filled with positive childhood memories.

Anybody else have this occure? How often do u visit a place and what do u do once u r their?

I just wanted to see if its just me, or an aspie/HFA thing, cause I know most dont do this, so i dont discus it often with ppl.

I don't really have any such place.

Tim

I can relate to that feeling.

For example, my childhood memories consist of playing with the local kids on nearby playing fields.

The place used to be very quiet and rural, until a developer bought over a local farm - instantly ruining the harmonic setting of the residents.

Passing the developer's new multicomplex retail centre is an everday reminder of how they have ruined the peaceful atmosphere the area used to have.

That does annoy me.

Here is one of my special places: Camano Island. You can't really tell in the picture, but the beach is very rocky. I love to go there and look at all the wildlife in the tide pools and under large rocks. There are always a bunch of crabs, and the rest varies. One year there were baby eels everywhere! It's usually grey and cold, and often rains. I always go to the same beach. Luckily, it has hardly changed a bit over the years. Even the picnic tables above look like the same ones that were there when I was very little.

I can identify with your feeling about changing places though. One of the most special places in the world to me was a very small wood next to my elementary school. The undergrowth had been cleared out in many places, so it was easy to walk in. Even as recently as the 1980's, adults didn't worry about children playing in places like that. We used to imagine so many things! One group of trees and logs made up "Uncle Ben's Farm". An old giant tree trunk, rotted out and smoothed over by the years until it had turned into a scary cave, became "Ursula's Lair". A patch of young saplings was where the wild fauns dwelled.

Now it's all fenced up and overgrown.

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i think of my first home. I still dream about it. Its been sold for twenty years, and yet i remember such great times of an old iron and porcelain bathtub in the front yard. When i wanted to hide for a while, i would fill it with wintergrass and grab one of my kittens. I remember how soft and fuzzy the grass was and how cool it was. I could stay there for hours.

I also remember picking all kinds of wild plants and weeds and making 'soup' out of them.. I never tasted those creations, because my mom had already told me that everything weedlike was poisonous. It was fun making it. though.

I THOUGHT about it, but did it only in my memories. 8-(

Steve

There are places I remember all my life...
I don't believe an aspie rthing would be a beatles success. In fact I think what you describe is an atavism! I need to go to my territory from times to times,I still get a lot of power from that place! I am very sure this concept of "territory" is felt by most people, specially men.

I've moved around a lot in my life and felt no special connection with any of the places I've passed through.

Neither do I, but there IS a nostalgic component, and my memories are not perfect with a lot of detail. And HECK, it would be interesting to see how things have changed.
Besides, it could confirm old memories, and help trigger new ones. I learned a LOT about my past by looking around old schools in my memory.

There are a few places that I feel a very strong connection to - so strong that it seems part of my soul is somehow infused into them. I live very far from them now, but last time I visited, most of them were at least partially ruined through development. Now I just visit them in my mind - which is far more pleasureable as I can experience them as they used to be.

I have moved around a lot - I have lived in a caravan and lived in about 12 different houses and 4 different apartments throughout my life!! !! I feel a special attachment towards Manchester, but having said that, I don't have one special place. I think the only special place I have is in my head

I don't remeber any special places - but i do realte to making ' soups'- i used to make these in my garage with all sorts of plants/petals etc. then line them all up in a row - they were my 'experiments!! if i'd been allowed a chemistry set i would definately have been in seventh heaven, but unfortunately i was not!

In my room, spending time with my cats.

I also like the library. How fortunate it is that I work there.

I ask because latly, and this has been screwing with me soo badly, i have not seen my old town, in NJ in 17 years, and feel, as akward as it may sound, an extremly strong desire to go down their and re-visit all those places, i was so small back then but have such a vivid memory of everything, very detailed, moreso then should be, and feel itll bother me until i make the drive, something i absolutly must do ASAP! Their is absolutly no moving forward without taking a trip back kinda?>

Disneyland is my special place.

Manchester UK, the Central Library. On the second floor they have this amazing reading room with a dome ceiling. I went back there this year for the first time in ten years and it was just as I remembered it.

Ed Almos