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
My special interests include Napoleonic period cavalry, Byzantine history, taxonomy and evolution, I haven't inflicted them on anyone so far in posts on this forum, so I think you should be OK.
Hi Martin,
I'm jealous of your clearly defined interests.
I find history a bit overwhelming because I want to know all of it, all at once and I can't. I like the video on YouTube "history of the entire world, I guess" by Bill Wurtz.
I'm sure if you started a thread on those things (maybe not on here but like a bigger forum) the people will gather and you can inflict on each other
I had a burst of activity around 2005/2006 and wrote 6 articles, 3 online and 3 in print journals, on Napoleonic cavalry. One even won a prize!