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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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  • I think it is to indicate an unusual level of interest.

    People are interested in lots things, like whether it will rain tomorrow, if there's a special offer on, what time it gets dark.

    But spending hours on something to the exclusion of everything else, losing time, memorising lots of facts or data, etc., what most might term obsessive, is a special interest.

    You can't have many, there's not enough time.

    Whether special is the right word I don't know. I don't think about it.

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  • I think it is to indicate an unusual level of interest.

    People are interested in lots things, like whether it will rain tomorrow, if there's a special offer on, what time it gets dark.

    But spending hours on something to the exclusion of everything else, losing time, memorising lots of facts or data, etc., what most might term obsessive, is a special interest.

    You can't have many, there's not enough time.

    Whether special is the right word I don't know. I don't think about it.

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