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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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  • Hi Hope, no I haven't tried to get a diagnosis yet, I keep wanting to but I'm scared of doctors, and ringing people, so ringing up and making an appointment is a big problem for me. I do think it would help but I've had bad experiences with GP's and I have trouble explaining things, I'm not a great communicator, so I don't think he would listen also doesn't help that our doctor had to leave because of speaking inappropriately to patients so we now have horrible locum doctors. 

    As for hobbies I enjoy puzzles, particularly addictive ones like the Rubik's cube which I can happily solve over and over for hours, but last week the chef at work lent me his revomaze puzzle, i managed to solve it in two days (took 4.5 hours) it was so good, I want another but can't afford one. He never made it into the maze and no one else at work could do it either so they're all impressed with it but they can't understand my level of patients with it, they get frustrated after a couple of minutes. I don't find the puzzle frustrating at all, but people interrupting me while I'm concentrating on it is very frustrating! I also enjoy memorising alphabets (Braille, Greek, Hebrew, japanese hiragana) and the periodic table which I know in order forwards and backwards. I guess I just find these things relaxing and the rest of the world is stressful and complicated.

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  • Hi Hope, no I haven't tried to get a diagnosis yet, I keep wanting to but I'm scared of doctors, and ringing people, so ringing up and making an appointment is a big problem for me. I do think it would help but I've had bad experiences with GP's and I have trouble explaining things, I'm not a great communicator, so I don't think he would listen also doesn't help that our doctor had to leave because of speaking inappropriately to patients so we now have horrible locum doctors. 

    As for hobbies I enjoy puzzles, particularly addictive ones like the Rubik's cube which I can happily solve over and over for hours, but last week the chef at work lent me his revomaze puzzle, i managed to solve it in two days (took 4.5 hours) it was so good, I want another but can't afford one. He never made it into the maze and no one else at work could do it either so they're all impressed with it but they can't understand my level of patients with it, they get frustrated after a couple of minutes. I don't find the puzzle frustrating at all, but people interrupting me while I'm concentrating on it is very frustrating! I also enjoy memorising alphabets (Braille, Greek, Hebrew, japanese hiragana) and the periodic table which I know in order forwards and backwards. I guess I just find these things relaxing and the rest of the world is stressful and complicated.

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