Pulling grass

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I love the smell of freshly torn grass.

Yes I love pulling grass. It has a nice sound when it breaks, and feels good to pull. My old school was right next to a farmer's field, so the grass cross-bred with the crops on one side of the field, and I developed a ritual of pulling the grass out the ground, pulling off the waste material on the outside, and eating the good-tasting crop on the inside.

You mean, there are people who don't like the feel of pulling grass?

I think in general, wherever I'm at and whatever I'm doing, I'm always aware of what's around that can be fidgeted with. And it's Aspie-ish to fidget, and I fidget continuously. Fidgeting behaviors are stims in disguise, it seems.

Needless to say, although I don't go out of my way to pull grass, if I'm doing an activity that involves sitting on the grass there is a 100% chance I will.

I love running my hands and fingers through grass and playing with the grass and I love pulling the seeds off the top of tall wild grass when I am walking through a field.
I once slept in some tall grass near the Missouri river when I was a kid, while on vacation with my family. I could hear the wind rustling through the grass and the currents of the river. It was a beautiful experience.

There's nothing wrong with enjoying grass. That's the very purpose of grass lawns. Why do you think people have put so much effort into technologies to maintain lawns? The problem today is that people no longer view grass the way people used to. It used to be a luxury and status symbol. It used to be part of the garden where people went to relax. They also don't play or enjoy the outdoors as much today. Other forms of technology attached to their hips/hands doesn't let them stop to smell the roses anymore, let alone enjoy lazing about and playing in the grass. Obviously some still do, but their numbers are diminishing: you will always see free-spirited college and university students doing it on campus and it's not considered abnormal there. It's taken for granted: many still love (I assume) the sense they get from it with their eyes, but enjoying it with other senses is too time-consuming or unnecessary. Those who enjoy sitting or laying on grass would have appeared normal in the past because everyone did it. Those who truly enjoy grass are not wierd, you are simply maintaining a spirit that the rest of humanity is losing or repressing.

I loved doing this during elementary school, especially in May and June when the grass was lush and green. It was so calming..the smell, the texture, the crunchy sound, the repetition, the whole experience.

I don't understand why "pulling grass" is so significant that it comes up in relation to AS.

Doesn't everyone do this...well, ok...everyone that was alive before electronics took over?

I can't sit on grass without pulling it out.
And when the dandelions come out, I kick them.
If leaves are in arm's reach I will pull one off and slowly take it apart.

Nature, I dunno.

I'm a fidget, I have to be doing something with my hands, so if I'm on grass I always end up pulling it out.

There's nothing strange about it, I swear it's like a natural instinct built into people haha I notice everyone do it. Whenever I sit on grass I don't even make a conscious decision to start pulling the grass out and fidgeting with it.

I remember kids at school used to pull the grass when sitting on the school field at lunch together, as though it was a common habit. I used to do it too, but it wasn't considered strange.