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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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  • Mason, have you tried to get an official diagnosis for yourself?

    The most intense special interest I ever had was with the film actress and Celebrity Kate Winslet. I was obsessed with her ever since I saw the film Titanic on video (those were the days!) when I was 11. I never saw the film at the cinema because I was too young.

    I saw the film because I was already obsessed with the Titanic as an historical event, and knew everything about it, all the facts and figures. I fell in love with Kate Winslet through her character, Rose,  and saw the film so often that I inadvertently memorised the whole screen-play!.  I saw all the other Winslet movies as well, and anything that included Winslet, even if it was only a cameo role. I knew everything about her life, and could not think about anything else. During a time when I had no friends, I was obsessed with her for 8 years. If I could not pursue the interest for whatever reason, I would go into a complete fit of anxiety and anger.

    Currently I am not mega obsessed with any particular interest, although I have disabling OCD, but I do have moments when I enjoy collecting information about a particular subject.

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  • Mason, have you tried to get an official diagnosis for yourself?

    The most intense special interest I ever had was with the film actress and Celebrity Kate Winslet. I was obsessed with her ever since I saw the film Titanic on video (those were the days!) when I was 11. I never saw the film at the cinema because I was too young.

    I saw the film because I was already obsessed with the Titanic as an historical event, and knew everything about it, all the facts and figures. I fell in love with Kate Winslet through her character, Rose,  and saw the film so often that I inadvertently memorised the whole screen-play!.  I saw all the other Winslet movies as well, and anything that included Winslet, even if it was only a cameo role. I knew everything about her life, and could not think about anything else. During a time when I had no friends, I was obsessed with her for 8 years. If I could not pursue the interest for whatever reason, I would go into a complete fit of anxiety and anger.

    Currently I am not mega obsessed with any particular interest, although I have disabling OCD, but I do have moments when I enjoy collecting information about a particular subject.

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