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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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  • Books help me find happy places, I learn loads, they're an escape from the world, if I start to feel wobbly I can go to a book and get into that world, sometimes I have particular characters who I want to spend time with, I think it's why I prefer series to standalones.

    Cooking is one of my few creative outlets, although I get fed up with the lack of stuff available here, my cooking has become a lot more 101 things to do with stuff from tesco fruit and veg and ingredient ailes.

    Walking allows my mind to roam free, as does gardening, only I'm constrained by budget and what will grow here.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    Books help me find happy places, I learn loads, they're an escape from the world, if I start to feel wobbly I can go to a book and get into that world, sometimes I have particular characters who I want to spend time with

    Me, too. I read a lot (compared to the average punter, anyway). I read about an equal mix of fiction and non-fiction.

    I get that the same sense of comfort from reading fictional series and revisiting familiar characters, but I read more one-off novels than series.

    I think my true, life-long special interest is "learning how things work", so my non-fiction tastes are very eclectic. They tend towards the science-y end of things, but lots of history, politics, economics, medicine, biographies, art, minority voices, etc.

    When I was struggling with depression last year, my reading rate went way up. It really helped to distract me from the tornado of thoughts going around in my brain. It helped to give me some focus and some calm. It helped me to hang on.

    After a lifetime of "learning stuff", it often helps me to connect with people once we get past the awkward small talk. If they have a passion, I'll probably know something about it and be able to engage with them.

  • in reply to Damojo

    For me, my non fiction reading tends to be history, usually mediaeval, but often older stuff, pre-history and ancient cultures.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I read history,music,biographies pre 2000s tech and transport for my non fiction musican and tv are big ones though 

    for ik  fiction it’s westerns,sci fi,Tracey beaker and David Williams snd more tbh 

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