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Do you think NT's/normal people understand how much our special interest means to us?

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I'm quite bored now because I have had so much fun over the weekend and now am just about to get ready for bed for work tomorrow so thought I'd start a new discussion. So do you think NT's understand how important and how much our special interests means to us? For me, I feel like they think we're "addicted" to it because we could be doing it the whole day or for a very very long period of time non stop.

For me, I love movies, computer and especially video games, I played that new infamous, Second Son game what was out on a Friday, started playing it on 21st March, 22nd and today as well, I was playing that game for hours non stop getting very attached to the character, the world, the story, the powers!!!! I just felt extremely happy doing that and it made my mood very happy again and I'm all ready for work again tomorrow because I know I had a lot of fun and enough fun also enough time to have fun to do all the things I enjoy! That's how much my special interest means to me, it calms me down after a long week of work with communication, anxiety rally gets me at work with communication, I really find it difficult to think of the appropiate thing to say or to know what others are thinking. I notice that if I don't have enough fun and I have work again, it does make my mood really depressed!

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  • Well, I was trying to explain it to my dad because I know he doesn't understand autism at all. My interests can be quite odd and he accepts that and just goes with it and doesn't see why it's a problem. I tried to explain that the problem isn't the interest itself but the intensity at which I'm interested, that it's all I want to do and the stress and anxiety I feel when I have to come away from it to go to work and how it can makes normal daily living more stressful and difficult when I can't do these things. He said he doesn't feel that way about anything but understands when someone interrupts him while he's trying to do something it gets a bit annoying... I told him that's not the same thing and he just doesn't understand it. I find it very difficult how people don't understand me and I was never officially diagnosed although my parents admit they knew I had 'problems' but didn't know what it was and didn't want me to be labelled. Id rather have the label and therfore the understanding of myself. 

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  • Well, I was trying to explain it to my dad because I know he doesn't understand autism at all. My interests can be quite odd and he accepts that and just goes with it and doesn't see why it's a problem. I tried to explain that the problem isn't the interest itself but the intensity at which I'm interested, that it's all I want to do and the stress and anxiety I feel when I have to come away from it to go to work and how it can makes normal daily living more stressful and difficult when I can't do these things. He said he doesn't feel that way about anything but understands when someone interrupts him while he's trying to do something it gets a bit annoying... I told him that's not the same thing and he just doesn't understand it. I find it very difficult how people don't understand me and I was never officially diagnosed although my parents admit they knew I had 'problems' but didn't know what it was and didn't want me to be labelled. Id rather have the label and therfore the understanding of myself. 

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