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In the encounter with an autistic person who expresses internal experiences minimally and rarely initiates interaction, the a priori that certain events of his sensory experiences could become shareable through the attention of the therapist, through their imitation or comments, promotes identification with the autistic person in a shared astonishment. This potential meeting space makes the therapist more attentive to internal, sensorial, and emotional experiences, to movements and changes, and to sensorial and aesthetic qualities that interest the autistic person. The sharing of sensorial and emotional events based on the impact they generate renders them representable when the therapist allows herself to be surprised by this impact. In demonstrating this shared astonishment, the therapist temporarily occupies a place of double identity that brings about a feeling in the autistic person of jubilation in existing, which can be the source of spontaneously establishing a relation. These spontaneous moments are the basis for the establishment of inter-subjectivity and co-creativity in the encounter. Spontaneous moments of meeting based on these co-created experiences help a sensory rebuilding, and reverse the process of splitting in a more flexible way.