Published on 12, July, 2020
It sounds bizarre even to me, but I couldn't tell what is my special interest, it bugged me all the time.
It was like in a polish poem for kids about Mister Hilary looking for his glasses, while he had them on his nose all along.
After I watched Autistamtic's video about special interests, I decided there is only one possibility - Thinking.
I do have many interests, some of them time and money consuming, but there is only one that persisted through my whole life - Thinking.
It is my safe place where I escape when in need. I do not need to be told to do it, and nobody can break in.
I'm doing it for hours sometimes without noticing how long I am doing tt. If it wasn't for alarms I set, I would often miss moment when I'm supposed to get up and go to work, I'm so engrossed in it.
I can think about anything and everything, because it stimulates my special interest. The more wierd, unexplainable, uncommon, the better, it will make think longer.
It would explain why I do not stick to one branch of knowledge, I read and absorb all, whatever I currently need to thinik about.
When I meet my friends I can talk about what I was thinking about lately with so much excitment and at increased speed, that I can tell they do not know how to interject. But I want their opinions too so I stop sometimes.
I come up with many radical, abstract conclusions often, to things nobody bothered to think about, but for me existing explanation was lacking, so I had to do it.
Does it make any sense to you?
Have you heard about special interest that does not exist in a real word?
Is it possible?
it's in progress
i wanted to learn tennis as a way to stay fit, but i've got nobody willing to be a partner and play together
sounds like a cheap special interest. enjoy. BUBBLE PUPPY - THINKIN' ABOUT THINKIN' - YouTube
It sounds like thinking is your special interest. That's really cool and it's free, you can do it whenever you want to. My special interest and fav thing to do is tennis but I can't do it all the time like I want to. Your interest is fascinating and I can hear from your post how much you enjoy it. You know I think you would do really well if you wrote a book. I bet it would be very interesting to read.
Girls think about romance when they're adolescent not about playing checkers with their brother
Not everything is bad in our lives.
I did have a lot of fun, just not among 'normal' people,
That's lovely. It sounds like you had a lot of fun sometimes. It's funny how parents don't like some things like that. I like your saying though, what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over ... A lot of the things I do are a bit like that. It's like being here my mother wouldn't understand or like. But I find it helpful and enjoy being with others. It doesn't hurt.
Sorry your sisters are different now. I've never had siblings.
There was one girl for 3 sessions, other boys 'killed her' in game to many times, and she said 'bye bye losers', nobody ever listened to me in real life, i was telling them to hold their horses, GM as well.
I wasn't telling my mom at first where I'm going or what I'm going to do, or that there will be many people, she new one of them so I was using him as an excuse, telling mom I'm going to see him, he lived next village
Then we lost access to sewing factory, and we started playing at flats or houses of one of us in turn, then it was my turn and I had to tell mom, after she heard the language we used or what we were 'doing' she never asked me what I'm going to do again, as the saying goes: What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
My sisters liked to play games with me a lot, but when they turned adolescent they changed
Oh so cool. I wasn't allowed to play games, mother didn't like it and thought it wasn't right for girls. Shame they looked such fun. Maybe that's why I just do it in my head now
Good luck with your book. You're very good at writing I bet it will be a fantastic read.
Omg yes! Could definitely do with a download for our heads.
and based on that give them excellent advice, that sounds so incredible, yet plausible, making their brain stuck, unable to decide if they should fight, flight or freeze
like I did yesterday to my manager, when he found false £20 in one of drawers at the end of the day:
if you figure out who brought it, there isn't many twenties shouldn't be to hard and they come back, you should call cops, you never know you might end up national hero on the first page in newspapers tomorrow
TFBR :D
a bit of philosophy is adviced, and I share it with my 2nd friend, it's his hobby
Prof said:I picture worlds, characters, adventures in my head.
I do that as well. I used to play RPGs as teenager a lot. It was usefull to know what to do first
I am trying to write sci-fi book now, but writing isn't in range of my special interest,
I need someone to invent how to download what's in my head
It's my safeplace and nobody can break in
I do own those already
I have a few interests that I pursue in great detail and perhaps they are special interests, but during my diagnosis interviews I tried (and failed in my opinion) to explain the importance of thinking and imagination in my life. I have always thought about things in extreme detail and often get lost in tangents and linking ideas as the thoughts develop. I have tried to describe these thought patterns as daydreaming to help others understand, but that phrase just doesn’t quite explain what is actually going on. I still don’t have the words now, but our thoughts really are our own to be explored as we wish. They are there, they do exist and they are potentially a great way to make sense of a confusing world. A least that’s my view on it. Enjoy your thoughts, I know I will mine. I also now, after many years of negotiation with myself, recognise that I have to make time each day for mine because if not, burn-out is imminent!
Immersive daydreaming. I've always done that too. Not so much fantasy worlds as such, more a nicer alternative reality.
Haha I love that. You need to get a pipe and magnifying glass now
I was recently told that I need to stop thinking so deeply about things. The best of it was that the person who said it is also Autistic.
Apparently, talking to me was a bit like talking to Sherlock Holmes, even though they had a tendency to remember and 'forensically' examine conversations.
I agree with AnnieH. It sounds like you're a deep thinker which could definitely be a special interest. It's something you find interesting and enjoy doing, it's also something no one can take from you and stop you doing.
I think this very possible and a great interest to have. Also as you said a good place to escape to.
I have a special interest which is in my head a bit like yours which is dreaming/daydreaming. I picture worlds, characters, adventures in my head. I can hear it happening if I really think about it. This isn't a psychosis by the way, I got checked for that. It is just my imagination and mind. A bit like you, my way of escaping.
I love your special interest.
It sounds like you are a natural philosopher, Mariusz. A deep thinker. I would definitely class that as a special interest. It sounds as if you spend a lot of time and get much pleasure from it, and perhaps lose track of time when you are 'in the zone'.
Your comments on here are always very astute and I always think you come across as having a low key yet fundamentally accurate understanding of a wide range of topics.