a lexicon

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Hi
I'm new(ish) here and not sure if this is the right forum so sorry if it isn't and i'll move the topic if so.
I'm reading a book called Landmarks by the excellent Robert Macfarlane. In it he discusses the importance of having the words to name your environment and your experience and how powerful that is.
It struck me that we have no words for how we experience the world as autistic people. Because of this we can't talk about our lives properly. Should we invent some? A name for that warm feeling you get when you see something mesmerising? A name for the awful feeling/pain when you have to make eye contact?
Shall we get started on an autistic lexicon?

Aspien

is one I like because it sounds more like a race and less like a sickness.

i think that what is what got me into conlanging & neologizing in the first place. not only was i fascinated by letters & meanings in themselves, i also sensed that the existing vocabulary left a lot of gaps for describing my experience.

introduction & grammar of Glaugnea: in Taboo Jadoo 4

http://graywyvern.tumblr.com/post/95422 ... giyorbicon

I was wondering lately if there are some emotions that (some?) autistic people experience that are unknown to NTs.

One such feeling might be that special joy that comes from things fitting into a pattern. (And its close relative, the special misery that comes when patterns are broken for no good reason.) Not sure what to call it, though. Maybe eurhythmy? (With the other one being dysrhythmy?) It's an existing word, but not used in this sense AFAIK.

I know the feelings about the patterns, but I think the feelings are also common in NTs.