Published on 12, July, 2020
In the ados assessment last week (still waiting for the second assessment) one thing I was asked was my about my hobbies. I don't know if this is normal, but when I find a hobby like crochet it's all I do for the next 2-3 months. I spend hours and hours and hours a day on these hobbies . then suddenly I don't care anymore. Is this normal?
Normal generally? Probably not. Normal for autistic people? Yes, absolutely. We can get really intense about our interests, and not everyone has the same special interest their whole life- they can be short-term too.
I'm also a crafter and I tend to rotate through phases of working mostly on crochet, then knitting, and then cross stitch, and then returning to crochet. I always come back to each hobby but my focus is often entirely on one of them at a time. I talked about this in my own ADOS appointment and the assessor said it's quite common for autistic people to do this, especially for women.