what's your special interest?

My autistic passion is autism. I love everything about autism and neurodiversity. I also have an interest in communication too.

Yes, since the penny dropped for me it seems to have pushed my usual interests out of the way.  My addictions to genealogy, crochet and language otherwise seem to go round on a carousel; one of them becoming absolutely obsessive for a period of months or years to the exclusion of all other interests, only at a certain point to be suddenly put back in the cupboard for the next to come out again and get all of my attention.  I think autism itself joined the carousel this year.  

Yes, since the penny dropped for me it seems to have pushed my usual interests out of the way.  My addictions to genealogy, crochet and language otherwise seem to go round on a carousel; one of them becoming absolutely obsessive for a period of months or years to the exclusion of all other interests, only at a certain point to be suddenly put back in the cupboard for the next to come out again and get all of my attention.  I think autism itself joined the carousel this year.  

Your attention seems very much monotropic.

Have you heard of monotropism? It’s the basis of the autistic processing style, particularly interests.

https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-32/august-2019/me-and-monotropism-unified-theory-autism