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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  • Animal Freedom

    I guess my main SI is Animal Freedom. I realised 5 years ago that all major social change came about through social movements, and that animals needed one so we stop breeding them in captivity, separating them from their loved ones, and killing them.

    So I read up a bit (actually a lot), got involved in lots of groups doing AR and vegan outreach to suss their strategies out, ran the national AR Gathering twice, got involved with the folks planning XR before it kicked off, and then left my job and starting an organisation to turn the country into one that doesn't kill or exploit animals. We're growing.

    I have a tendency to turn my SI into my job, unpaid or paid, which is great, though turns my passions into hard work and responsibility!

  • I really believe that, one day, society will look back on the way we treat animals today, the way we view slavery now.

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