Special Interests - they’re just interests

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. 

Parents
  • You could put any word in front of interest, and it would still be just an interest, regardless of how intense that interest is. There doesn’t need to be another word in front, It’s just an interest. Having a passion in something would be a better way of describing a “special” interest. We can’t use that wording of course, because that would make us sound too “normal” and not “special” enough.
     

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  • You could put any word in front of interest, and it would still be just an interest, regardless of how intense that interest is. There doesn’t need to be another word in front, It’s just an interest. Having a passion in something would be a better way of describing a “special” interest. We can’t use that wording of course, because that would make us sound too “normal” and not “special” enough.
     

Children