Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello,
I got diagnosed 7months ago, just before my 28th birthday. Ever since people have been telling me that all my social issues will be solved by going on forums and finding people who share my interests, but the problem is I don't really have any. I like things but not so intently that a person's negative opinion about them wouldn't make me consider dropping that interest. And I don't know lots about stuff I like. I like movies but like I've never seen most of the big ones people seem to always want to talk about. I remember when I heard my friends watched Community I was like "Oooh I've seen that!!" And then they made all these references I didn't get and I started to wonder if I'd missed half the show.
So yeah, here's me trying to join a community forum when I don't even know what I want to talk about with you
I've been thinking more about this and I wanted to know if hyper fixations would count as special interests or if they are a separate thing? I hyper fixate on things a lot and I feel like those words describe what I'm doing more than special interest.
Hopefully someone will come along and correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe special interests and hyper fixation/hyperfocus are two separate things. For example, I used to spend HOURS doing cross-stitch, to the extent that it was like an obsession. I now realise it was a special interest, and that I had been hyperfocused.