[Aziell]

Something I’ve been thinking about is whether it’s partly because people sometimes don’t really know how to describe what they’re feeling, so they end up putting those emotions onto objects. It kind of helps make sense of feelings that are hard to explain.

At the same time, I wonder if it’s always a good thing. Like, what happens if you lose or break something you’ve gotten really attached to? Could that make the anxiety worse?

Curious if anyone here has seen this or has any personal experience.

[LiKao]

Yes, this is very common. Autistic people can easily go into meltdown if they loose an object that they assign emotional states to.

In severe cases it can be sufficient if the object is slightly moved to trigger a meltdown, and there are reports that support those exact thinking patterns.