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How do your speical interests help you

190E(Taylor’s version)

So how do each of your speical interests benefit you other than just relax ist ion 

trains help me with congnitive function as it’s remembering things also the sounds and timetables help wirh the patterns I crave same wirh buses 

The circus stops me becoming depressed an issue I have suffered with for too long 

music helps me deregulate

taylor swift let’s me relax in a fro state and give me a huge way to do vocal stim a and an gives me a joyful outlet and if I’m feeling down it never fails to make me happy 

for 2 years(when I first got inro Taylor) I tried to not admit it(becuase I was masking in a very bad way) but since I’ve been more open about it ive realised over this time it’s been a speical interest as I watched hundreds of hours of tour videos and yt swiftie vids and this was last year before I would open admit to liking her music(I know it’s stupid but before you kknow  autistic you don’t realise how much you’ve been condtioned a certain way so you unintentionally mask on auto pilot)

So even though it feels like a new speical interest it kind of predates my circus one haha which is a big one for me I have list of favoured acts clowns tents even down to who has the best music and why haha 

laurel and hardy(and comedy in gerneral speical comedies duos) are good for echolalia outlets and also stop depression too

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  • I learned to focus most of the energies of a special interest to be able to become a research specialist of a kind.

    For many companies I worked for, I would be given a task to find out about a technology or subject, present a management report on it and if necessary become a subject expert in the field.

    Whatever tech they were considering or even other random stuff (finding out about obscure music artists and how to meet them, how to get a replacement phone delivered to the boss on his yacht near the Cook Islands etc) then I had to dig deep to find what info there was, find contacts and interrogate them for more info and options then devise plans to be able to give a workable solution.

    It could take days of searching ,reading, compiling reports and cross referencing others experiences to give a decent research paper on the subject.

    The energy of the special interest and ability to hold all that info in my head while working on it was a massive help.

    More recently I have used it to let me retire in my 50s and find a hobby that stil pays well and keeps me fit (renovating old apartments) but lets me have a good 6 months of time off a year.

    Special interests can be awesome when you can harness them.

  • in reply to Iain

    I spent an hour last night learning more about Taylor swift snd making brief notes like one or two word notes that remind me of whole stories, songs,eras,Easter eggs and in jokes 

    one I didn’t know is yes whale it’s where Taylor recorded a whale and as it comes out the water she shouts YES WHALE 

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