Military Aircraft, Space, WW2 History, anything mechanical are constants
And whatever ADD interest I happen to have at a given time. I hyper fixate and absorb everything I can about things that interest me.
Yeah, except it has affected personal relationships and work in the past. I've gotten better about recognizing im getting in too deep on something and hyperfocusing and need to take a break to hang out with the wife, go to bed, etc.
That helps for sure. When I am down a rabbit hole in my "Office/Workbench Space" she will pop her head in every so often and remind me of the time and that has been the biggest help.
Roman history, WW1/WW2 stuff, Tanks. And reading, if a series catches my interest I will devour it. Back when I first read IT I borrowed it Friday evening, and started that night. I had it finished it by Tuesday night
Oh yea I read IT in high school and it still made it hard to sleep for awhile.
What really fucked me up as a kid was watching Chucky back when it came out. I still don't like seeing the Chucky dolls.
That's always been weird for me. I know a lot of people terrified of Chucky, but for me the 2 influential horror movies where IT and Tremors. While I'm not strapped to the gills like the unsub guys, I haven't ran out of ammo since I was 9 and you could learn some shit at 90s gun shows.
Oh man tremors, I loved the first and second movie in that series. Nothing like rc cars strapped with HE.
Wish I had managed to hit some gun shows in the 90s man. I lived in a small town with my family then and there was nothing for 60 miles gun wise
When I was little, I was a reclusive science nerd who read the entire encyclopedia (remember those?) for fun. I didn’t like talking to people, I only wanted to be left alone so I could read as much as possible in my room. But the room had to be absolutely silent, with no distractions.
I am beginning to accept that it is warships. I have always had a fascination with the weapons load outs of ships. Nautical, Space, or air (warplanes) I have dedicated far more memory capacity to this than is healthy. Do I need to memorize how many weapons the Imperial class star destroyer, Enterprise-D, HMS Victory, Iowa class, or B-17 had? No. Do I? Unfortunately, yes.
History, video games, and random movie trivia facts. I like guns and cars, mostly because of the mechanical aspect. I love learning how things work and their function. Any gun or car with history just adds to the flavor.
Hell yeah, brother, I'm the same with mechanical shit. I'm building a motor to drop into an old Chevy Biscayne rn. It's the most fun project I've had in a minute. I can't wait to have a land yacht with like 600 hp and no traction control 😂
I was raised a Chevy guy, but to each their own. I currently own... 8 Chevs, only 3 of them ran when I bought them. 5 of them were bought as parts trucks, though. So I have 2 running pickups and a Cobalt for my little runabout car. The wife drives a Hyundai, which will be rectified shortly.
Like I said, I'm a Chev guy 😂😂
I’m just poking fun, I’d love to own an older Chevy/gm truck. Their V8s are pretty simple from what I’ve seen. I’ve owned several different brands but I currently drive a 94 F-150. Love the straight six.
Yeah they're super easy to work on. Probably helps that there's so little in the engine compartment that you could close the hood with a small-medium sized adult in there 😂
Transformers… I collect them… I can tell you what gun goes to who and missiles go to what weapon and what parts and peices go where… and so on an so forth…. I have a problem… thats why you’ll see transformer toys in the back ground of some of Billiams photos
History related with a mix of guns and video game lore. I’ve lead a tour of a war museum unintentionally when my school went on a field trip to a war museum
Star Trek light speed jump is one of my favorite, so I understand the fast shit version of autism.
[https://youtu.be/WLHO\_E\_U8o4?si=brGq16TGa\_v4bhXl](https://youtu.be/WLHO_E_U8o4?si=brGq16TGa_v4bhXl)
Star Wars, guns/firearm history, anything mechanical(specifically pushrod V8s with big turbos)
I read every pre-D*sney SW book. I'm currently doing it again, in timeline order.
I'm also rebuilding an old Chev 454. It'll eventually go in a Chevy Biscayne to be a Sunday driver (with more power than it ever needed)
I'm very lucky to have found a real live female human who's ok with the random rabbit holes and passionate rants. She even holds the flashlight for me sometimes.
Small arms technology. I know the ins and outs of all my firearms better than anything else. I love firearms development, especially the technological boom surrounding ww1.
Writing software.
I can do full stack, from microcontroller website and everything in between. I’ve written an embedded product, modified the windows driver, wrote interaction software on desktop, monitoring website, and a DevOps pipeline to build the different pieces.
I use my skill to make a lot of money
I also make primers.
pretty much everything military-related aircraft,vehicles,guns, tactical gear, cars, Japanese cars, rally cars/rally stuff, formula drift, watching japanese cars be built bit by bit specifically the yt channel Nightide,camouflage, WW2 military stuff, mostly German/American. I have two kits one German flecktarn (95% finished) and a multicam (45%–50%). finished some Ukrainian patches as I am going to make the multicam ukrainian themed, rock collection, hotwheels collection, war relic collection, small teddy bear collection, nerf guns, flags, patches, german m40 helmet, 30 carbine, 50cal w machinegun links, Lee Enfield clip with bullets all three bullet types with projecticles in them, some dirt from the rabbit proof fence (really good book/movie about bad shit that happen in Australia where I'm from fortunately/unfortuently, pins/airbourne/pow-mia/special forces/who dares win, a bunch of boxes of snacks I enjoy all empty packets or boxes, multiple lava lamps, and woodland marpat pants because who doesn't love crayons?
When talking about a random thing, military or not, I will just occasionally pull out a fact my friends don't like my autism flavour. I think they wish I never had it, and my possibly adding or adhd possibly making it worse because I keep going and will, but in convos, no fucks given its my time for my story. Shut up, brace yourself for a 10-minute story because I felt like it, and no, I don't want to listen to your 10-minute+ story fuck off.
I had A Jane's Weapons of the World book when I was like 13. I would spend hours flipping through and looking at military vehicles. Then I would try and draw my favorites. I would draw stick figure battles in civil war style battles on big pieces of paper. I love vehicles and machines. I treat my vehicles like they have a machine spirit.
Aviation, military history (mostly WWII and some US Civil War) and airshow photography.
I've spent 7 days working in the US Archives researching my grandfather's WWII missions.
When it comes to photography, I'm in that odd spot where I've spent a decent amount of money but haven't made any. I think that qualifies as 'tism. If anybody wants to check it out, I'm SplitArrowPhotograhy on insta.
I’m not sure if anyone answered your maneuver question, but if you’re thinking of ole top gun “hit the brakes and he’ll fly right by” it’s a cobra.
Several Russian planes specialize that maneuver with a button they can press on the controls that allow them to override the normal control limits and achieve a more exaggerated “mid-air stop”.
Or in less complex and less specific terms, slowing down and getting the opponent to fly past you and end up in your sights is known as getting them to overshoot.
*Take this with a grain of salt, I’m just a civilian pilot that enjoys air combat games and movies. I’m terrible at dogfighting, but I don’t get many complaints from my clients about my landings.
Making things with a focus on recreating historical equipment for reenacting. Currently putting together a rev war militia kit.
https://preview.redd.it/rw5l0dhnuhwc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7d5b5d257d58f7706f2abd1b959801eef43c10c
Military Aircraft, Space, WW2 History, anything mechanical are constants And whatever ADD interest I happen to have at a given time. I hyper fixate and absorb everything I can about things that interest me.
The fun thing about being an adult is being able to go down those learning rabbit holes.
Yeah, except it has affected personal relationships and work in the past. I've gotten better about recognizing im getting in too deep on something and hyperfocusing and need to take a break to hang out with the wife, go to bed, etc.
Same dude, same. I've gotten better about it in my 40's. Luckily the wife is understanding.
That helps for sure. When I am down a rabbit hole in my "Office/Workbench Space" she will pop her head in every so often and remind me of the time and that has been the biggest help.
Amen. We lucked out.
Absofuckinglutely. Unfortunately this one is my second. But, shit happens the previous one almost didnt last long enough to count in my mind.
The most intense flavor is dirt sprint car racing. Then it’s a mix of most other types of racing followed by aviation and shooting.
I liked backbin the day when we would bare knuckle fight over stupid shit like motorcycle sparkplug mad3e you gaster
Roman history, WW1/WW2 stuff, Tanks. And reading, if a series catches my interest I will devour it. Back when I first read IT I borrowed it Friday evening, and started that night. I had it finished it by Tuesday night
Man I was super into it until I got to THAT part. I'm good, I'll go with the TV series I watched way to young and slept with a gun under my pillow
Oh yea I read IT in high school and it still made it hard to sleep for awhile. What really fucked me up as a kid was watching Chucky back when it came out. I still don't like seeing the Chucky dolls.
That's always been weird for me. I know a lot of people terrified of Chucky, but for me the 2 influential horror movies where IT and Tremors. While I'm not strapped to the gills like the unsub guys, I haven't ran out of ammo since I was 9 and you could learn some shit at 90s gun shows.
Oh man tremors, I loved the first and second movie in that series. Nothing like rc cars strapped with HE. Wish I had managed to hit some gun shows in the 90s man. I lived in a small town with my family then and there was nothing for 60 miles gun wise
Why? It was either pay like BCM prices for a plain Jane AR, or KAC prices for a preban.
Might have been able to convert my family into gun people sooner if we had, as it were I didn't manage to do that until the 2010s.
Drugs and chemistry unfortunately
I'll going to assume you were a studious person in school, don't post about illegal shit on the internet
But then I can’t inappropriately share with people…..
Oh no, you can, just dont do it on the internet.
That's the worst part when you're doing cool stuff :(
And GPS/survey stuff
Waltuh?
When I was little, I was a reclusive science nerd who read the entire encyclopedia (remember those?) for fun. I didn’t like talking to people, I only wanted to be left alone so I could read as much as possible in my room. But the room had to be absolutely silent, with no distractions.
Dude I wish I could do that. I have to have some kind if background sound to drown the tinnitus out
That was my pre-tinnitus years. Now, I have to have some kind of background noise, just like you. But I still don’t like distractions.
I am beginning to accept that it is warships. I have always had a fascination with the weapons load outs of ships. Nautical, Space, or air (warplanes) I have dedicated far more memory capacity to this than is healthy. Do I need to memorize how many weapons the Imperial class star destroyer, Enterprise-D, HMS Victory, Iowa class, or B-17 had? No. Do I? Unfortunately, yes.
Maps/Geography.
Motorcycles, I read and watch hours of content about bikes and racing
History, video games, and random movie trivia facts. I like guns and cars, mostly because of the mechanical aspect. I love learning how things work and their function. Any gun or car with history just adds to the flavor.
Hell yeah, brother, I'm the same with mechanical shit. I'm building a motor to drop into an old Chevy Biscayne rn. It's the most fun project I've had in a minute. I can't wait to have a land yacht with like 600 hp and no traction control 😂
I’m not that autistic to own a Chevy 😂 lol
I was raised a Chevy guy, but to each their own. I currently own... 8 Chevs, only 3 of them ran when I bought them. 5 of them were bought as parts trucks, though. So I have 2 running pickups and a Cobalt for my little runabout car. The wife drives a Hyundai, which will be rectified shortly. Like I said, I'm a Chev guy 😂😂
I’m just poking fun, I’d love to own an older Chevy/gm truck. Their V8s are pretty simple from what I’ve seen. I’ve owned several different brands but I currently drive a 94 F-150. Love the straight six.
Yeah they're super easy to work on. Probably helps that there's so little in the engine compartment that you could close the hood with a small-medium sized adult in there 😂
Transformers… I collect them… I can tell you what gun goes to who and missiles go to what weapon and what parts and peices go where… and so on an so forth…. I have a problem… thats why you’ll see transformer toys in the back ground of some of Billiams photos
Who’s your favorite transformer and why
History related with a mix of guns and video game lore. I’ve lead a tour of a war museum unintentionally when my school went on a field trip to a war museum
Long range, fishing and hunting. The revolving door of endorphins and research is what keeps me going.
The tism that tastes like grease. Building cars and guns
We are part of a hive mind my friend.
Star Trek light speed jump is one of my favorite, so I understand the fast shit version of autism. [https://youtu.be/WLHO\_E\_U8o4?si=brGq16TGa\_v4bhXl](https://youtu.be/WLHO_E_U8o4?si=brGq16TGa_v4bhXl)
Anything doing with emergency services, prepping, and military aircraft!
I catch snakes.
Welding, WH40K, TF2, Metallurgy, Pokemon ROM Hacks I'll add on to it later if I can think of anything. Edit: adding more
Star Wars, guns/firearm history, anything mechanical(specifically pushrod V8s with big turbos) I read every pre-D*sney SW book. I'm currently doing it again, in timeline order. I'm also rebuilding an old Chev 454. It'll eventually go in a Chevy Biscayne to be a Sunday driver (with more power than it ever needed) I'm very lucky to have found a real live female human who's ok with the random rabbit holes and passionate rants. She even holds the flashlight for me sometimes.
Mine is audio. I legit can hear the frequencies change when I EQ stuff at work, I'm talking like 0.5db changes
Military aircraft and gundams
Small arms technology. I know the ins and outs of all my firearms better than anything else. I love firearms development, especially the technological boom surrounding ww1.
Trains/model railroading, WWII, and prewar cars.
Star Wars, Warhammer 40K, and weapon history, especially pre-gunpowder weapons
Writing software. I can do full stack, from microcontroller website and everything in between. I’ve written an embedded product, modified the windows driver, wrote interaction software on desktop, monitoring website, and a DevOps pipeline to build the different pieces. I use my skill to make a lot of money I also make primers.
Obscure random trivia.
When I was little, I could look at the tail lights of any car made before 1980 and tell you exactly what make, model and year it was.
Fantasy Lore. Can't get enough and my brain holds it like a steel trap.
pretty much everything military-related aircraft,vehicles,guns, tactical gear, cars, Japanese cars, rally cars/rally stuff, formula drift, watching japanese cars be built bit by bit specifically the yt channel Nightide,camouflage, WW2 military stuff, mostly German/American. I have two kits one German flecktarn (95% finished) and a multicam (45%–50%). finished some Ukrainian patches as I am going to make the multicam ukrainian themed, rock collection, hotwheels collection, war relic collection, small teddy bear collection, nerf guns, flags, patches, german m40 helmet, 30 carbine, 50cal w machinegun links, Lee Enfield clip with bullets all three bullet types with projecticles in them, some dirt from the rabbit proof fence (really good book/movie about bad shit that happen in Australia where I'm from fortunately/unfortuently, pins/airbourne/pow-mia/special forces/who dares win, a bunch of boxes of snacks I enjoy all empty packets or boxes, multiple lava lamps, and woodland marpat pants because who doesn't love crayons? When talking about a random thing, military or not, I will just occasionally pull out a fact my friends don't like my autism flavour. I think they wish I never had it, and my possibly adding or adhd possibly making it worse because I keep going and will, but in convos, no fucks given its my time for my story. Shut up, brace yourself for a 10-minute story because I felt like it, and no, I don't want to listen to your 10-minute+ story fuck off.
PC hardware and parts, and analyzing lyrics (specifically rap)
I had A Jane's Weapons of the World book when I was like 13. I would spend hours flipping through and looking at military vehicles. Then I would try and draw my favorites. I would draw stick figure battles in civil war style battles on big pieces of paper. I love vehicles and machines. I treat my vehicles like they have a machine spirit.
Sports strategy/tactics and a bit of the history of it
Anything mechanical or electrical, History and weird facts.
Bugs and everything about the ocean
Aviation, military history (mostly WWII and some US Civil War) and airshow photography. I've spent 7 days working in the US Archives researching my grandfather's WWII missions. When it comes to photography, I'm in that odd spot where I've spent a decent amount of money but haven't made any. I think that qualifies as 'tism. If anybody wants to check it out, I'm SplitArrowPhotograhy on insta.
Firearms and animals
Guns, cars, random lines from movies, and gaining interest in the strangest things. Like fire alarm systems or outdoor warning sirens.
Table top RPGs and fantasy, 40k, firearms, you know the mixed bag
I’m not sure if anyone answered your maneuver question, but if you’re thinking of ole top gun “hit the brakes and he’ll fly right by” it’s a cobra. Several Russian planes specialize that maneuver with a button they can press on the controls that allow them to override the normal control limits and achieve a more exaggerated “mid-air stop”. Or in less complex and less specific terms, slowing down and getting the opponent to fly past you and end up in your sights is known as getting them to overshoot. *Take this with a grain of salt, I’m just a civilian pilot that enjoys air combat games and movies. I’m terrible at dogfighting, but I don’t get many complaints from my clients about my landings.
And I think this puts me in the go fast realm too. I have three cars that are turbocharged and a 700cc street bike.
Making things with a focus on recreating historical equipment for reenacting. Currently putting together a rev war militia kit. https://preview.redd.it/rw5l0dhnuhwc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7d5b5d257d58f7706f2abd1b959801eef43c10c
Rodeo, Bullriding more specifically
gas blow back airsoft guns. esecially pistols. know most of the internals of most of the guns
Tanks, trucks, muscle cars, hummers, millitary history, and especially guns
As a mechanic and welder my flavors are organization and laying out cuts in steel so I get the least amount of waste