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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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  • I think the only person that understands their special interest is the person themselves.  Even other autistic people, if they aren't interested in the same thing wouldn't understand it, although they might understand the level of interest another autistic person might have.  Some NTs are very obsessed with their hobbies too, but although that's purely for pleasure, with people on the spectrum it's the pleasure aspect but also a control of our world and filtering out of stressful environments.

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  • I think the only person that understands their special interest is the person themselves.  Even other autistic people, if they aren't interested in the same thing wouldn't understand it, although they might understand the level of interest another autistic person might have.  Some NTs are very obsessed with their hobbies too, but although that's purely for pleasure, with people on the spectrum it's the pleasure aspect but also a control of our world and filtering out of stressful environments.

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