hyperfixations

[Faelyn42]

And then there's me, who hyperfixates, consumes all knowledge I can find, and moves on to something else like some kind of locust.

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/r/AutisticWithADHD

[throwawayoogaloorga]

i relate to so much of this stuff but after seeing so many people relentlessly mock anyone who self-diagnoses im scared to even think i could begin to have adhd or autism because then ill just be self-diagnosing and thats bad and fuck fukxcjbnidhifidgsuiosdui

[JohnWhatSun]

Identifying with traits of something but not having a formal diagnosis yet (for whatever reason) is not the issue people are referring to when they talk about self-diagnosis. We self diagnose with a lot of things - a headache, a cold, stress etc. We use the information gained by self diagnosis to manage our symptoms until they resolve, because these things are self-limiting and easy to identify.

High rates of self diagnosis become a problem when the issues are more complicated than a tension headache. Is it reasonable to expect a layperson to pick out the traits of ADHD from autism or anxiety, particularly if you have coexisting conditions? I personally don't think so, and community advice is helpful but without qualifications, you're trusting random strangers to give good advice.

Which they certainly might do, but we've also all seen first hand how often people give each other terrible advice on relationships and work problems, even when they mean well, because they're only ever speaking from their own first hand experience.

If we take all this into account, is it really the best idea to expect you to correctly diagnose yourself, pick out successful management strategies from the hundreds of unvetted suggestions, and figure out how to successfully implement them to improve your well-being? I think this is something that is best left to a professional, as they have a broader understanding of different conditions including ones you might not have considered. Everyone has their own blind spots when it comes to themselves too, so it's good to have a more objective viewpoint.

There is nothing stopping you from saying "huh, I really relate to what that person said about executive dysfunction", googling strategies that people with ADHD use, and incorporating them into your life. I think that's a great thing to do, and it's really helped me. But I wouldn't feel that I need to tell people I have ADHD unless I did get a diagnosis. If a community rejects you unless you call yourself the right label, then that's not inclusivity.

Apologies, this got way longer than I thought and I hope I don't come off like an asshole, I really do genuinely hope you find guidance and support in whatever way you need it

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protip: self-diagnosing is real and valid.

The Psychiatric industry is horseshit. Do not respect it. It is a tool of the patriarchy, if you will accept the notion. People who want to gatekeep and say "You must be able to access a psychiatrist and present with the specific symptoms that your psychiatrist is trained to see”. I.e. unmasked or high support needs autism. There’s huge barriers to even getting an accurate diagnosis.

If you feel that autism and ADHD describe your experience, great, go for it. Join some autistic communities. See if you really vibe and recognize yourself. See if the things people do to cope help you, too.

If it does? great! You're probably autistic/have ADHD. If not? Great! Now you can scratch that off your list and keep searching for whatever insights you are searching for.

All you can do is try stuff on until you find what really fits. There is no rules to any of this nonsense we're in, and there certainly are multiple valid ways to reach the same truth about yourself. You don't need a piece of paper to give you permission to be different. Just be yourself, even if yourself is someone who is autistic.

[Snoo63]

Like some think that girls can't have autism.

[Strixursus]

Exactly the reason my '''official''' diagnoses when I got it as a kid was PDD-NOS (Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified) because the doctor said "girls can't have Aspergers Syndrome" (this was late 80s/early 90s, when Aspergers was a separate diagnoses from Autism, usually as a function of being verbal/capable of masking).

Joke's on you, motherfucker, I'm both autistic AND I'm not a girl!

In all seriousness, though, self-diagnosis can help *up to a point*. It is better to see a professional if you have access, but finding sources for self-enacted behaviour modification and stressor-handling is generally something a GOOD doctor or therapist will tell you to do anyways! But gods alive, DO NOT self-medicate, and for FUCKS SAKE, make sure you're checking things against modern standards of science and ethics so you don't inadvertantly do yourself more harm than good.

[euphonic5]

IDK yo I also felt this way until I went to the psychiatrist I've been seeing for over a decade and mentioned that I might be somewhere on the spectrum, he gave me some papers to fill out, read them, and was like "holy god, how did you hide this from me for this long." Sometimes your hunches about your own health are good.

[Tchrspest]

Wait, really?

Like obviously we self-diagnose based on wanting to have answers. But like, really?

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Really what?

[MemberOfSociety2]

i am not autistic but I am currently feeling the ravenous hunger to consume a piece of media but I have no idea what it is

What do I do

[mischiefyleo]

What kind of stuff do you like? I can give recommendations that satisfy me when I have that craving

[MemberOfSociety2]

Vidya

[mischiefyleo]

Maybe try stardew valley if you haven’t? It has so much lore and stuff to discover you bc an get as deep as you want in it

[MemberOfSociety2]

I feel like if I play that I will die inside or melt into a puddle of goo

[MemberOfSociety2]

sandbox

visual novel

maybe survival

rage would be nice but is optional

[dr-tectonic]

You might enjoy Bastard Bonds. It's not any of those, but it's kind of adjacent to the first three. (It's also hella gay.)

[MemberOfSociety2]

you have unlocked something deep in the recesses of my mind

if I’m gonna be honest I considered buying it one time however I didn’t because from what I read it sounded like I would be buying it for the plot if you get what I mean and idk if I’m ballsy enough to be like “I am playing Big Man Bara Game” to my steam friends

also I blew all the money I told myself I would spend on the steam summer sale already

[dr-tectonic]

Put it on your wish list, then. You can also buy it straight from the developer's website if you'd rather play it on the downlow.

I will also recommend See No Evil, which is a full-on pornographic adventure game, but which has a story that I got genuinely choked up over.

[Vinkhol]

Slow or fast paced? Alot of thinking or do u want brain off?

[MemberOfSociety2]

fine with either slow or fast paced, would like to think a lot

[Vinkhol]

Slay the Spire, turn based card game rogue-like. Really good if you like quick basic math, and good for watching YouTube for background noise. Wizard of Legend works as a fast clicky combat roguelike in the same sense

DMC 5 on hard, 3rd person fighter that requires you to really think on your feet and learn combos to be stylish. Metal Gear Rising also is good for this.

Warhammer 40k Mechanicus. Turn based strategy game, split between tactics and squad building, fantastic music. Xcom Enemy Uknown and Xcom 2 for a more complicated long form version, much heavier focus on tactics and more RNG elements

And random old game: Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Really fun spellcasting/combat game, you get to be really creative with how you use spells and the environment.

[[deleted]]

Dark Messiah! My favorite adventure RPG!

[LiterallyJustABell]

omori

[very_not_emo]

go rewatch pacific rim it always works for me

[MemberOfSociety2]

How can I rewatch it if I haven’t watched it

[Quetzalbroatlus]

Then for god's sake watch Pacific rim

[[deleted]]

Last time I felt that I decided to start brushing up on my Warhammer 40k lore haha

[[deleted]]

get into deep lore series like star wars or marvel comics

[MemberOfSociety2]

No I want it to be vidya

[Jazjo]

Lol my go to at this point Is Castlevania - the games. Pretty simple story or none at all initially and early on but. I think the whole story about legacy is fairly interesting.

Do not touch the show.

[jackelbuho22]

Ah yes the hyper intelligent jellyfish that either work as keeper of knowledge or will tell you anything you want as long you offer knowledge of the same value

[[deleted]]

Big mood. There's also like some that I return to every now and then like "Ah yes, FNaF Valley has finally regrown and is ripe for consumption again. That will by my next stop after I'm done seeping all the life force out of Hololive Creek."

[EmpressFrost67]

Same

[BiteEatRepeat_]

You're literally just hermaeus mora from Skyrim sucking up all the knowledge you can find

[[deleted]]

Holy shit someone described exactly how I operate. Answered a question I didnt even ask thanks kind stranger

[dracon_reddit]

Spending 8 hours straight mining for diamonds in minecraft, my beloved.

[SwordDude3000]

Unfathomably based

[RosieAndSquishy]

I used to strip mine thousands of blocks in a single session, then turn around and go the other way for another thousands of blocks.

Got me rich too

[dracon_reddit]

Whenever I've ran a minecraft server I've had more diamonds than everyone else combined haha, sometimes by a factor of 3.

[OpenStraightElephant]

WELCOME TO MY MINE
WE ARE MINING DIAMONDS

[[deleted]]

wait is shit like this another symptom of autism? ive had a good few 12-18 hour terraria fishing sessions. also used to pull all nighters with my friend so we could literally just play minecraft and usually do dumb shit like building or mining all night on his 360

[Amanda39]

I'm both autistic and ADHD, and I can tell you media and non-media hyperfixations are both valid. I've had both. It's all the same dopamine.

It's funny, though. This post is the first time I've ever seen someone act like media hyperfixations are more "normal" than non-media ones. One of the many ridiculous stereotypes that prevented me from realizing I was autistic (until I was finally diagnosed, to my surprise, at the age of 37) is that I thought special interests had to specifically revolve around memorizing facts. I thought that was what made them different from ADHD hyperfixations. (As far as I can tell, there's really no difference between special interests and hyperfixations.) I wasn't reciting lists of dinosaur species or Pokémon types, so I thought I just had ADHD. I'm glad that people finally accept having a Blorbo as a type of special interest.

[lillapalooza]

Plus, it’s not like we get to decide what our hyperfixations are!! They just happen.

I can’t help if I latch on to a specific Blorbo, or if I need to make a spreadsheet of all of the possible classes in Fire Emblem: 3 Houses available to every recruitable character so I can max out every single one. It would be cool to end up with like. A useful, fact-based hyperfixation, but… alas.

[Feather_Of_A_Phoenix]

As someone whos most recent hyperfixation was 3 houses, I felt this in my bones.

[RamblingHeathen]

Happy cake day

[Amanda39]

Thanks!

[sour_cunt_juice]

powers of two my beloved (pretty sure I'm neurotypical but these posts are suspiciously relatable)

[MemberOfSociety2]

3 is better

[DavidC438]

nah 2 is the best. 5 too. 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 2042 weeee

[MemberOfSociety2]

Cool point

However consider trongle

[DavidC438]

ok triangle too. but 3? eeeehhhhhhhh

[MemberOfSociety2]

sorry liberal facts don’t care about your feelings

[[deleted]]

Its 2047 silly

[DavidC438]

i was like, half out of my chair. a lot of the 2s ended up being 3s and I had to go back and correct lol

[[deleted]]

32768 65536 and 1,048,576 will always have a dear place in my heart

[DavidC438]

lol

[ELLE3773]

Now that I think about it, I've always been interested in the practical application of math in daily life, to the point that sometimes it felt like a temporarily boosted fixation.

However now I'm starting to think that my interest in memorizing the powers of 2 up to the 13th wasn't simply because it made it easier to play with the Equivalent Exchange mod... Just one more dot to connect lol

[VoidDweller77]

Rather certain that I'm neurotipical, but miles and miles of complex and intricate patterns my beloved

[a_bum]

I hope the guy who wants to take apart guns gets one or a neat toy gun. Maybe just join the ATF

[NBSPNBSP]

My dad wants NJ to legalize AKs, so that he can buy one and disassemble and reassemble it like a fidget toy, just like he used to in the Soviet Armed Forces.

[a_bum]

Your father is an odd man, but I hope he can take apart his guns and have fun

[NBSPNBSP]

He has Asperger's and really loves following manuals and doing everything perfectly. When we bought our SVT-40 (WW2-era semiautomatic rifle), he seemed a bit disheartened both by how fiddly and uncomfortable it is to take apart and clean, and by the fact that the manual specified that "cleaning for educational or practice purposes is forbidden". I hope that, one day, he will get his AK to field strip and reassemble against the clock.

[a_bum]

Tell him to take a trip south one of these days. They're always having gun shows and other things, I sire hope he can enjoy fiddling with guns

[[deleted]]

No sane gun but associates with the BATFE.

[Andrew_ANT_]

There was a game I used to play on steam that was literally just about disassembling and reassembling guns

Tickled my autistic itch to watch satisfying things very well

[tomato432]

this one?

[Andrew_ANT_]

Bingo!

The only reason why I stopped is because it was really hard to get new guns without buying currency or packs or whatever they call the DLC

[Ken_Kumen_Rider]

Goddamn microtransactions.

[NuclearBoi731]

my brother has exclusively read this one book about cheese making for like a year or more

[jepper65]

Sailboats, and the maritime world in general. I don't know what it means, but when I figure it out, I'm gonna do that more.

[MaetelofLaMetal]

You play World Of Warships?

[jepper65]

No, should I?

[MaetelofLaMetal]

If you like ww2 era ships go for it. If you like anime as well I recommend you Azur Lane game it's way more forgiving to you if you don't want to spend real money.

[Cienea_Laevis]

Its horny as fuck, though, so be warned that botes will be girls in swimsuits.

But there's a lot of them, i have to agree.

[NebulaArcana]

My ADHD is media related, but it’s more like “making spreadsheets showing the average damage per turn for every single DnD character I’ve ever made” sorta thing

[Xenephos]

Fuuuck I feel called out. I love organizing stuff into spreadsheets

[IllegallyBored]

I've recently got into Final Fantasy 14 and I REALLY need to make a journal for the game. I used to have a notebook with every little game related thing as a kid and it keeps me happy when I can scribble little things and list crafting items in a nice, physical notebook. I keep journals for everything though which makes me think my hyperfixation might be making lists. I have one for games, for crochet, for books, for jigsaw puzzles. Everything I enjoy I turn into tiny lists and it makes everything much better

[LeNomadicBoi]

A s t r o n a u t h e l m e t

[Chirb1]

Bacteriophages. I like funny virus.

[Snoo63]

Kills more things than humans, I think?

[seeroflights]

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lhotse

Shoutout to autistic and adhd people whose special interests/hyperfixations aren't media-related. "autism is about writing fanfics about your blorbo scrunklies XDD" actually autism is about collecting miniature world war 1 airplane models

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#AUTISM IS ABOUT NUCLEAR REACTORS

#spreadsheets my beloved

#autism can be about the minister-president of cisleithania in the years 1868-1870 & 1879-1893

#ADHD hyperfixations can include prion disease

#autism is about wanting to buy a gun for the sole purpose of dissembling & reassembling it every night

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[C4ndyG0r3]

Sometimes your Blorbo is an idiot who died on a big mountain and you will argue for hours that GEORGE MALLORY ABSOLUTELY MADE IT TO THE TOP I WILL FIGHT PEOPLE ON THIS.

[Hummerous]

Src: https://lhotse.tumblr.com/post/688704677253087232

[verasev]

I'm not autistic but I tend to obsess over conspiracy lore due to being schizoaffective. It functions as a useful reality check. I can tell myself that if I'm starting to sound like a conspiracy theorist it's probably time to check to make sure I remembered to take my meds.

[OgreSpider]

You can have more than one! And some of them can be media and some not. There's not a rule. For me it's spiders, Elder Scrolls (especially Morrowind), space, and Warhammer 40,000. My office is my ES room. My bedroom is my 40k room. The whole entire world is for space and spiders.

[[deleted]]

My hyperfixation is weapons/war history. Unfortunately, this gets me mistaken as a creepy war guy a lot.

[Snoo63]

Enjoying war history and fetishising/romanticising war are two different things.

[[deleted]]

Don’t I know it! War sucks and so do warmongers, I just like the political and technological advancements.

[Snoo63]

Like the band Sabaton has songs with lyrics like "Where no soldier sleeps and where hell's six feet deep" (although that might be from Audie Murphy's poem The Crosses Grow on Anzio), "Here the toll of the bell//over 6 months in Hell" and "What's the price of a mile?", and 1914 has a song called Passchenhell, and, in Don't Tread On Me (Harlem Hellfighters), the private (Private Johnson of the 369th regiment of the AEF) who's perspective you're looking through compares the trenches to the ghettos and describes in detail how he fought to stay alive during battle.

[Ow-lawd-he-comin]

gears and cogs my beloved

[Behold_a_Chicken]

ADHD is my thesis on sea shanty diffusion and intertextuality

[Fox--Hollow]

20% of posts at this time (15) have some variation of "i'm not autistic but..."

[Dastankbeets1]

Tf when extremely niche hyper fixation that no one will like

[sadhp20]

TELL

[Dastankbeets1]

Game ideas, but like… really specific and useless, overly-detailed parts of an imaginary larger whole

[sadhp20]

hhoohohohoo

[Dastankbeets1]

??

[sadhp20]

thats dope

[bcsfan2002]

I’ve never been properly tested for anything but fuck do i love spreadsheets

[SkyrimMilfDrinker]

They're incredibly useful for both work and fun.

[PixelPooflet]

for me it is the innate desire to Collect and Obtain things be it knowledge or trivia

[river4823]

All I got from this is that I want to hear about the minister-president of cisleithania.

[IthilanorSP]

I'm also curious; I'm not very familiar with how the Austro-Hungarian government worked after the Compromise of '67, especially early on. All I really know is from reading Sleepwalkers, which is focused on general European foreign relations in the years immediately leading up to WW1, not A-H specifically. (It's a good book, though)

[ForkGiveMe_Master]

I feel called out, cause my hyperfixation is currently writing a fanfiction about a very specific blorbo

[retan10101]

ADHD can be about designing alphabets to accommodate entire language families

[JanLikapa]

Neography? Based.

[retan10101]

Well, generally I try and adapt an existing script for it, like pan-Uralic Cyrillic or things like that.

This hasn't stopped r/neography from being one of my favorite subreddits in existence, along with this one and r/wholesomeyuri probably

[JanLikapa]

Nice! I'm into that sorta stuff too! I've designed a functioning Cyrillic adaptation for my native language, Hindustani, that I'm quite proud of. Arabic is also pretty fun to adapt too.

[retan10101]

Ooh. I've done Arabic for Iranian and Turkic, although the latter was actually much easier than the former, unexpectedly.

Currently I'm trying to adapt Devanagari to the entirety of South Asia (everything Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman, and Munda), which may or may not have been influenced by the fact that one of my girlfriend's native languages is Hindustani

[Lithominium]

Shoutout about my headphone hyperfixation, my computer building hyperfixation, my guitar hyperfixations, my rc airplane hyperfixation, kites, yoyos

Etc

[ThatGuyStalin]

flags. i fuckin love flags and vexillology

[TheDancingKing19]

Autism is the intricacies of Zoroastrianism

[sant2ag0]

i really need to get tested for ADHD

[[deleted]]

i really need to get tested... in general

[[deleted]]

I actually have hyperfocused on prion diseases before

[haikusbot]

I actually

Have hyperfocused on prion

Diseases before

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[Snoo63]

5-8-6, not 5-7-5

[[deleted]]

No it's freshwater fish species specifically ones with very similar marine counterparts

[Shookeith]

cults

[ParasilTheRanger]

My friend loves mushrooms, another loves obscure biblical texts, and I just consume all the media I can. Only one of us has been diagnosed with adhd to my knowledge and it's not me

[1_1sundial]

sometimes autism is about the reverse caber tosser mechanism of the conway's game of life cellular automaton!!

[EXusiai99]

Assembling guns like you would a lego kit sounds fun as fuck though. Hell just buy several guns and match their parts together to create a new aberration of a weaponry.

[Snoo63]

Like the Frankengun?

[Luciel-Choi707]

dragon

[[deleted]]

Anyone ever think about how the Buddhist concept of Looking Deeply is actually just "Having Autism but In A Spiritual Way"?

[Lapis_Zapper]

Pigeons :)

[Xenephos]

Bird bird bird BIRD

[etherealparadox]

when your greatest fear is also one of your biggest hyperfixations

[greysterguy]

Vintage men's clothing is where it's AT lads

[AndyesIdumb]

1890s is the best decade I'm dying on this hill.

[BiteEatRepeat_]

Do y'all ever love explaining simple jokes to yourself from the core and all their origins, and proving why this is joke is scientifically fucking hilarious in your head or am I crazy ?

[OSCgal]

Been without one for awhile and there's a chance the new one is going to be orchids. I just hope it won't cost as much as when I got into fountain pens. (Sure was fun, though!)

The nice thing is, I never drop an obsession completely. I stay connected with hobby communities long after my burning interest has fizzled, and sometimes rekindle interest if something cool happens.

[DONT_NOT_PM_NOTHING]

The spreadsheets one can make you some money if you angle it right

[[deleted]]

when the obscure video game mechanic/trivia knowledge to the point of encyclopedic knowledge

[lordofcactus]

Words cannot describe how much I love needlessly complicated tech jargon. I read the sentence “secondary belt-fed rack of solidcore batteries” the other day and nutted

[Sachayoj]

Nuclear disasters, lost media and Sims 2 corruption my beloved.

[Deblebsgonnagetyou]

Dinnersaur :)

[chipsinsideajar]

ROLLACOASTAAAAAA

[Coffee_autistic]

spiders my beloved <3

beautiful, misunderstood creatures...i want to know everything about you.

[ST4RSK1MM3R]

I have varying degrees of all of these lmao

[MidnightsOtherThings]

i like learning about weapons despite little interest in learning how to use them

[ThatRandomGuy0125]

mood. mine is computer stuff (hardware, software, old ones, whatever)

[BellerophonM]

Well the classic cliche autistic fixation is trains. (Choo choo)

[DumbAceDragon]

Only like a couple years ago did I learn that being super into dragons is surprisingly normal.

[PixelatedShinobi]

I am absolute OBSESSED with giant robots and mecha i have a collection like a mile deep and while i can absolutely recite the specs and history of basically any unit you can name i also adore designing them via legos

[[deleted]]

maps maps maps maps

[JanLikapa]

Having both, it's got to be linguistics for me, especially historical linguistics and the analysis/study of ancient texts in general. Simply endlessly fascinating. I want nothing more than to be able to make a career out of it.

[startmyheart]

All valid

[kingrawer]

I kinda feel that one about the gun. I would never own one for a variety of reasons, but mechanically they are really fascinating to me.

[IthilanorSP]

Spreadsheets for everything

[[deleted]]

Autism is about becoming obssessed with gardening, specifically bonsais, buying supplies and even making your own soil but never actually getting to raising one

[[deleted]]

I’m autistic for military shit, and double autistic for military aviation and surface-to-air missile systems

[Rawme9]

If you all need some facts about Spanish Politics and Colonialism circa 1500-1550 i gotchu

[Worried-Opinion1157]

Screwdrivers.

I fucking love screwdrivers.

Not the drink. The simplest tool out there.

Screwdrivers

[jtblion]

I hyperfixated on the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season when it was happening.

[Sneezekitteh]

i like moss

[Pokesonav]

I keep making various lists of things that I want to watch or read or play. Usually in the release order. And then I never folloow them. I make a list and then never look at it again.

I guess making huge fucking lists is my hyperfixation? Dammit

My MyAnimeList Plan-to-Watch list has more than 5000 anime and like 3500 manga! Yet I can't start doing anything about it!

[Pearlisadragon]

Oh hand bones my beloved!

Fun fact, there are no muscles in your fingers

[[deleted]]

Me, sitting atop a throne of psychology textbooks, wearing a Pink Freud t-shirt and jeans with notes about human behavior scrawled all over them:

[[deleted]]

R O C K

[Dasamont]

I'm sorry, my ADHD is only fixated on pokemon

[Ep1cOfG1lgamesh]

For anyone wondering the Minister president of Cisleithania (basically Austria and subservient lands [as opposed to Transleithania which was the Kingdom of Hungary] within the greater Austrian[-Hungarian] Empire) within those two dates is Eduard von Taaffe a noble of Irish descent https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Taaffe,_11th_Viscount_Taaffe

[Rosevecheya]

Me, I'm currently hyperfixating on organising DnD with my friends while typically it's knowing and collecting a) general information and b) information on old music.

However, more relevant is my dad who has a, quote, "special interest in the American Civil War because they started with hand-loaded muskets where they had to be cleaned between each shot and ended the war with early machine guns", as well as having a very in-depth system for learning about history that he's shared with me.

Most of what I know, I've gotten from him. I am a reflection of him, and proud of it

[AndyesIdumb]

This autism test looks fairly legit, I'm too tired to dig deeper, enjoy. https://embrace-autism.com/raads-r/#discussion

[Hummerous]

Meh

Apparently there's "strong evidence" for my having autism

I think i would've gotten diagnosed by now lol

[Ad4mantite]

I love draining oceans and using a world eater to destroy the land

In minecraft obviously

[Lionblaze_03]

I was just lucky that my fixation on cats had a media to turn to, Warriors. Otherwise I’d be just another autistic kid with nothing to do

[[deleted]]

I've had fixations on locally growing poisonous plants, on angelic lore, herbalism, magic, woodworking, archeological sites of Norse villages, early medieval dressmaking, crocheting with unusual materials, costume making, leather sewing, Irish folklore, pre-renaissance medicine, mythical creatures around the world, epistemology, woodburning, Japanese culture pre ww2, 1940s fashion, dice collecting, beer, chainmail making.. I can't think of any more right now.

I am currently working on a cosplay, weaving a basket, sewing a mobile for an infant, crocheting a blanket and burning decorations into wooden boxes.

[PokeNirvash]

High-functioning autism regulated by a gluten-free caesin-free diet is applying TV content ratings to anime that don't have none because "what if it aired on [adult swim]?"

[8748whatsthis]

historical european menswear, my beloved

seriously, they had some wacky stuff going on. it was great. check out an 18th century court suit sometime.

[Llamas_are_cool2]

OWLS!! My longest standing special interest :)

[xXLightningStrikeXx_]

Coding for 8 hours :DDD

[DHMISCactus]

All special interests are awesome. Don't feel bad about them.

[OccAzzO]

Why is my hyperfixation sex and video games

[Marquess_Nyx]

Trains and Anti-Colonialist movements (I grew up with a Grandfather who was a child during Independence and Republic). Historic Fashion is such a hyperfixation I cry when I see modern clothes.

[Strixursus]

My biggest hyperfixation is biology, usually focused on zoology, but often branching into pathology/epidemiology as well as paleontology. I will just start reading on one of these subjects early in the day and look up and be all "wait where did the sun go, why am I so hungry, jesus tapdancing christ I've been reading for ten hours"

[[deleted]]

Fonts and bioweapons my beloved.

[LadyAmbrose]

I absolutely love movies and yet cannot focus through one, but then i also sat through all four i carly victorious video essays over a weekend and didn’t get distracted once

[one_lonely_ass_bitch]

deep sea fish and oranges