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
