What's your special interest?

I've noticed there a lot of posts on this forum about making friends and finding others who share an interest, so I thought I'd start a thread where people could talk about the stuff that really interests them and maybe connect with others who feel the same about that topic. I hope that's okay, and I'm sorry if a thread like this already exists and I missed it.

I know I have several interests which I get VERY excited about and would love to find others to geek out with on - as it can feel really lonely to not have people who share the same passion or get excited about the same things. But I also love listening to people talk about things that they're really passionate about too, so I would genuinely love to hear about everyone special interests too.

I find it really hard to make friends and am always cautious about talking about the things that really interest me, after years of being told that I'm weird/creepy/boring for getting obsessed with stuff that I like. But that's just me, and if I get passionate about something then I can't help but  focus on it. And that makes sense to me. Why wouldn't someone focus on something that makes them happy? 

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  • I have an ever revolving door of special interests. Current ones are:

    - my new running regime

    - my new friend

    - getting into the outdoors via different courses, especially winter mountaineering

    - reading about autism

    - my surviving lockdown programme

    - learning how to build a 'best practice' organisation, and building it

    - the role of narrative, story and framing in politics

    - foraging

    Then I have hobbies that I approach more light heartedly.

  • u need loads of minions Slight smile

  • Jeez I could do with more minions!

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