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#special interests
theradicalace · 1 year
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i don’t know why my brain works this way
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neuroticboyfriend · 2 years
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what matters most about your interests is that they make you happy. whether other people find them productive is irrelevant. you don't have to produce anything. you are not a machine. your interests aren't for others. your interests are for you. do what makes you happy.
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ok so we know about the need to infodump, but what about the opposite? The need to absorb more information about your special interest like a sponge, but you literally can’t find any new material because you’ve already consumed every fact about it
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zebulontheplanet · 6 months
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Your special interests don’t have to be deep or complicated. Your special interests can be just something that you really really enjoy. Your special interests are for you to decide.
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vorpalfae · 1 month
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bpdohwhatajoy · 8 months
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Autistic pride post *special interest edition*
This post goes out to…
❤️autistics with special interests considered “cringey”
🧡autistics who have no interest in talking about anything besides their special interests so they struggle to hold conversations with people and absolutely despise small talk and feel self centered and lame for their narrowed focus
💛autistics who get labeled as annoying, gross, obsessive, or weird for how much they’re into their special interests
💚autistics who have a special interest in something society has deemed immoral so they feel shame around it being a special interest
💙autistics who have no one to info dump to about their special interest so they talk to themselves about it
💜autistics who get told “who cares” when they talk about their special interest
⭐️ You special interests are cool, valid, and awesome! You deserve to feel no shame about them and instead only experience joy surrounding them. I’m sorry society has made you feel like there’s something wrong with you for having your special interests. There’s nothing wrong with you and there’s nothing more beautiful than autistic joy over a special interest and no one can take that from you ⭐️
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my-autism-adhd-blog · 6 months
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What Special Interests May Look Like…
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Mrs Speechie P
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martian-garden · 9 months
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Hey besties help a weird ND guy out
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crazycatsiren · 7 months
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Thinking about how the ancient Greeks looked up at the night sky and called what they saw planḗtai ("wanderers"), and today, we call them planets.
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opossum-dyke · 9 months
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This is me lately
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xanyiaz · 1 month
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themaskedlady · 10 months
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"special interest" to refer to things you like is not a term for neurotypical people. Your favourite show or book is not your special interest. Unless you are autistic, you don't have special interests (ADHD people may have hyperfixations, but even those aren't the same thing).
Special interests are interests autistic people see the world through. They're often huge sources of joy and our default thing to think about as well. It is a term for autistic people only and I'd rather not have "special interest" watered down in the same way "gaslighting" and "trigger" were.
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notabled-noodle · 2 years
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what a special interest is not: an interest an autistic person has
what a special interest is: a range of things as diverse as the autistic community, but often includes…
thinking about it makes you emotional
you can’t stop thinking about it
you don’t really want to stop thinking about it
it helps you to understand the universe around you
it fills your brain with static electricity feelings
this has been a PSA. not every interest or hobby an autistic person has is a special interest
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ms-t-marie · 1 year
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vorpalfae · 4 months
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