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Special Interests - they’re just interests

Geeky Gothic Guy

Probably gonna annoy a few people with this but I’m just irritated with reading the term “special” interests. They’re just interests. Why is there the need to have the word special? Not once have I ever referred to my interests as “special” They’re just my interests. By referring to interests as special, just seems like there’s this need to feel, well, special. 

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  • "Specific Interests" is another option, and you can still call them SPINs.

    I'm not sure I mind "special" so much, though. I think my interests are more "special" to me than to the average punter; I get more out of them, probably. Not that NTs can't have special interests, too, or that they can't get just as much out of them, but I think it is rarer, proportionately.

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  • "Specific Interests" is another option, and you can still call them SPINs.

    I'm not sure I mind "special" so much, though. I think my interests are more "special" to me than to the average punter; I get more out of them, probably. Not that NTs can't have special interests, too, or that they can't get just as much out of them, but I think it is rarer, proportionately.

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