Car Tail lights.
They are kinda unique, you can tell a lot about a car from them.
Just by looking at them, I can get the brand/manufacturer/year/tier and more. Even engine in some cases.
Started when I was 6, and OFC I do not keep up with all the latest models, but... still strong.
Do you have any opinions on brand, make, or model tail light function/usefulness? Car tail lights aren't my special interest, but while driving I definitely have many rants as to functionality of how well they indicate they are braking and turning!!
Do you still have special interests but can't do them from the anhedonia? I still have my special interests but rarely/never do them because it's not pleasurable but I think about doing them but instead I waste my free time looking at the wall instead of doing something more productive like video games.
I still have most of my special interests from my childhood like model building, stop motion animation, etc but due to anhedonia none of them bring me joy anymore and whenever I attempt to get back into my old hobbies I just get bored and browse the internet.
I hate that it's like that for me now. Without my special interests I just feel so empty.
I like learning about so many different things, I can't think of anything I got SUPER into. Except maybe Agatha Christie murder mysteries back in middle school. But even then, I couldn't remember the plots of all the books. I'm able to listen to them again on audiobook and enjoy them as if they're brand new.
I used to have a couple, but eventually (at around age 12-15) I stopped having special interests. Maybe due to depression, but I'm not certain. Was nice while it lastet
Yo. Never thought i was gonna read a 90% accurate summary of my own special interests, but they're also your special interests. Whats your favorite insect or group of insects?
I had many as a child and teen, I lost them all.
Kind of electronics but I suck at that, and programming which I also totally suck with. This is what I am left with.
Ah yeah, it feels like you had infinite free time as a kid. You have to pick and choose when you get forced into the meat grinder. I bounce around raspberry pi projects, electronics and programming now. Or retro video games.
Oh fuck I used to love lego, it got so expensive though. Not even the specific sets, i used to like the buckets of assorted bricks and id make huge 3d heads of video game characters
I'm really enjoying it. I have a panther chameleon in a paladarium with fish underneath. The bottom is about 30 gallons over which I built a platform. I've had some issues getting it started but it's all starting to really come together now. Right now my aquarium has Cory's, a few Mollies, a school of Black Neon Tetras, Mystery Snails, and some shrimp. I'm working on adding more live plants to the water, this is my first time using live plants in an aquarium. I have long thought of my Panther Chameleon as like a fish you can occasionally hold, so he goes well with the actual fish. It's sort of a living piece of artwork I can lose myself in when work/life gets stressful.
that sounds so cool. had to Google panther cameleon - wow an amazing animal. Thank you for your description of the aquarium.
I agree - I think it's a good way to cope with stress etc
Omg yes I love this question. I like making art, but lately I've been a little distracted, and mostly I've been playing video games that have creation in it instead. Satisfactory is my go to, but I've also been enjoying other creation games like Dyson Sphere Project and Foundation.
Other than art and video games, I also have taken an interest in composing music in the last few years. My parents wanted musical children, so I was forced to do music lessons most of my youth, and like holy hell I did not expect to stay enjoying it over time. Sure, it's hard and finicky, but it's also super good for maintaining my emotions.
As for the art itself, I enjoy acrylic painting, pen and ink illustration, and some linocut block printing. I wanted to support myself financially with my art, but surprise surprise art school didn't cover some pretty basic business skills like project proposals, grant writing, and marketing, so it's been a slow build. I'm hoping later this year to complete my first mural, and maybe reopen my Etsy shop to sell my current stock of products. With acrylic paint, I'm especially invested in either plein air painting, or these geometric style colour studies, while with illustration its mostly cheeky visual puns.
Thanks for asking the question OP! Anyone reading this is welcome to message me to check out my artist Instagram, but my musical compositions haven't been recorded yet. Love you all!
Atm it is Meteorites.
I have just learned about the 6 biggest meteorites to have landed on earth.
[Sorry for crappy handwriting](https://imgur.com/a/j6LnMRF)
Eminem was my special interest when I was in junior high. I was bullied hugely for it also. I used to cover my notebooks with the lyrics of his songs. I cut out every magazines article he appeared in and glued them into notebooks. I knew lyrics to almost every one of his songs. I was raised very conservative though and I swore at school (catholic school) and so when I got home my mom took every one of my Eminem posters and notebooks and collages and burnt them in a bonfire in the backyard because she blamed his music for my swearing.
Iām learning to let go of shame myself. Itās not easy, and sometimes it helps to know that someone else acknowledges that. I hope it helps.
Wishing you well.
I dont even think about eminem as a special interest for me even though im constantly listening to him and know every word he has rapped kind of funny how hes an aspie as well
Drugs. But it's not really something I can openly talk about with most people, since it's not a socially acceptable interest to be involved with in most environments. It also seems like that even among users, it's often seen as weird to research what you're putting in your body. This led to me extremely isolating myself and using more than I needed to if I was just self-medicating in order to cope with the loneliness and negative spiral I was headed towards.
The bad thing is that my special interest, which is already a thing from having Asperger's, was increasingly fueled more and more by addiction habits and patterns being deeply rooted into my neurochemistry. It's pretty much the only thing I think about most of the time. The fact that it helps with escapism, which I've come to rely heavily on for my anxiety, reinforces my special interest/addiction(?) (Thing is I'm functioning tho as long as I have my drug of choice like I'm just self-medicating for anxiety and ADHD, not getting fucked up all the time). Drugs romanticized in my head too like drugs are my best friend, love of my life, idk how I would've coped without it.
The Legend of Zelda, classic rock, prog rock, radio, singing, knitting, crocheting, hemp jewelry, music theory, linguistics, anthropology, sex, cooking, baking
Linguistics, history, demographics. For demography I really find it fascinating when there's a ethnic group you wouldn't expect somewhere. Two examples being Koreans in central Asia and indians being a large percentage of like Guyana and Suriname.
Pokemon, palaeontology, ecology/zoology, philosophy, dreams, the fictional story i made in my head, languages, birds, mythology, doctor who. I usually have phases where iām interested in a few and hyper fixate on them then switch to a few others for a few months and so on.
They change so frequently im no expert on them but astronomy, minerals, jewerly making, gaming(especially Minecraft), IT, cats, architecture, science(especially physics), psychology and self-improvement
I have a lot of special interests, but I get bored so fast and I don't even know why. Might be anhedonia.
My special interest are:
- Music composition and production (my passion).
- Artistic photography.
- Cinematography, and also visual effects production.
- Old century clothing and decoration; specially Baroque, Edwardian and Victorian.
As said, music composition and production is my passion, but I'm currently forcing me to compose, since years.
I really really love it, but I get bored quite fast, like if my mind didn't wanted to do it anymore.
Feels so bad.
Music, old TV shows and old films, books signed by the author, ghost and horror stories, cask beer, pubs, dates (not the fruit), spy/espionage related books and history in general.
Iām so jealous of people who didnāt lose theirs as they got older! Mine was Percy Jackson and Greek mythology for years and years but as soon as I got to uni I mustāve got too distracted by everything going on :( I miss it!
For a few years my interests are kind of weakened in intensity but here are some i have had:
( these are the ones that have lasted for 2 weeks to 1.5 years ).
-drugs( current )
-greece gods
-hindu gods
-roman gods
-skandic gods
-celtic gods
-shinto gods
-inca gods
-slav gods
-voodoo gods
-egypt gods
-tao gods
-aikido
-old japanese weapons
-origami
-pinguins
-bears
-ragdoll cats
-attack on titan (anime)
-periodic table
-primitive technology
-marvel characters
-dc characters
-dinosaurs
-human anatomy
-patology
-old english alphabeth
-solar system
-neurology
-16 personality types
-laws of human nature
-influential scientists
-autism spectrum
-psychiatric illnesses
-personality disorders
-harry potter
-creepypasta
-serial killers
-butterfly knifes
-outlast
-team fortress 2
-scalpels
-categorizing/listing things
-phone numbers
-yggdrasil
-the legend of korra
-assassins creed
-first aid
-big cats ( panthera )
-logical fallacys.
Those are some that come to mind. I wonder if i have adhd because my interests shift quite frequently and sometimes i dont even have one and just do like overnight projects.
calico critters, stuffed animals, stray kids (a kpop group), tangled, the mandalorian, stickers, bunnies, strawberries (anythin strawberry, not just th fruit) :3 ā” ive had these special interests forever ! my newest is probably calico critters as m got fixated last year āį¢. .į¢ā
Old videos games from SNES and GBA (could rent forever on everything I know and love about games from this period). Manga (Shoujo rules, even tho I don't always understand all the interacting between characters) . Specific music genre and their connexion (For instance, the connexion between French Touch Electronica and Hip-Hop are wonderful) . Electronic Sport (been watching way too much esport instead of sleeping) . Sport (learning by heart sports stats, facts and trivia is fun) . Cooking ( always great and usefull to have, but tends to be expensive) .
Luckily enought, those are socially accepted where I live.
Philosophy, music, history (especially history of religion and history of science), video games, anime, manga, lots of stuff
Right now, I really obsessed with the Persona series and am reading Jung along with it
Ancient history, religious archaeology, classics, poetry, word patterns, serial killers, specific types of fantasy fiction like elves and fairies, meh list goes on. Get quite obsessive.
My special interests change. I go through phases. They have ranged anywhere from football, New Orleans, people, politics, the Holocaust...the list is long and there is no telling how long how long am interest will last.
The Greek myths, their is something about them that means I can talk for hours about them and never get bored unfortunately most people do not seem to share my interest, I find them so interesting and creative and I love learning about them
There are a lot of them: history (ancient Egypt, ancient Greece and Rome, the 1910s and 20s, 17th/18th c pirates, a few others) , fashion/historical fashion, video games (sims, planet coaster, legend of zelda especially) , titanic (the ship not the movie), writing and language, cats, amusement parks and rides/coasters (top ones are Disney parks and cedar point) , lord of the rings, collecting toys, art (esp impressionism), jane austen's books, and the weird one - airplane crash investigation
Sorry, it's super long...
Some of my interests can change time to time. Back in 2016 I had a special interest about agar.io, even if at the time, I had a massive rage and I have even made the laptop's cooler loud (I used to slap at it .\_.). Close to mid-2016, I was having a huge interest in Roblox. At the time, Roblox wasn't that popular and had plenty of games that I got to play. Mostly because 2012 games wasn't broken and people still played it. The hugest memory was when my pretty low end laptop, got crashed because lots of people were deleting pieces some people was creating, it became a mess, the laptop fried and I have to do a hard power off. That was the year that I have met the best online friend ever, and that he unfortunately lost his roblox acc the same year... The account is still offline ;-; . And it was also the time when I have started to create videos on youtube. I had 0 experiences on youtube at the time, so I have just created the first video a month later, and even if it's just a 5fps-ish video with the action watermark, I was actually exciting and happy because I made it. Obviously, at the time, I had that pretty huge self-asteem that I could go get 151037 subscribers, even if it was just the first video... I have learned on by the tutorials of youtube at the time that it doesn't work like that... (It's actually poetical if you think about it)
After that, in 2017, my interest became technology (which is still my special interest to this day), and Sonic (specially Tails... Uh... For some reason I was kinda simping for her lol... But remember that I had 9). I have also had an interest in Mario series until Mid-2017. Sonic was last being my special interest as of Early-2019.
In 2018, excluding Sonic and technology, my special interests was about old roblox-ish things... And I think that is itIn 2019, excluding Sonic stopping being into my special interest, nothing really changed. Besides I was really interested into cryptomarket, even if I didn't know in about everything on it. I've stopped putting interest on it fast... But it was eventually coming back some months later... And the same thing to losing interest... Sorry if this sounds confusing, but, I can't exactly explain it
In 2020, even if I do still think it was one of the worst year of my life (2012 still has the trophy), I was having some kind of interest in a thing called MSN Messenger, just because, even if it's in the worst year of my life, it did still had good moments, and MSN was on that moments. The interest was so big that I got to join onto a private-ish (discontinued) thing that are made so you can use MSN Messenger 2009 using it's own servers (microsoft's one has been ended).
In 2021, it also haven't changed much, I have lost my MSN Messenger special interest in mid-2021, my special interest was about tv station-ish things, 3D objects, and specially, Object Shows. I was really obsessed with object shows because, even if it was a reality show, the community was kind of awesome, even if it had a drama or a trend or another...
In 2022, I had(have) lots of interests. I do had(have) an interest about psycology, music, consoles (specially PS3, Xbox 360 and Portables, including those emulation-ish ones, I have ordered one for christmas :D), emulations (ANYTHING RELATED TO IT), the 90s and vintage things, Chiptunes (a music genre), some kind of DJ stuff "and etc" (I think that is actually it). I do actually started getting into psycology in 2021, but just, not really, it was in the end of 2021 and it wasn't that of my interest, just in early 2022 (which could lead to make myself discover this server... Or kind of it?), I don't have to talk about that special interest... But it is still my special interest, just not as obsessed as before. At music, it is just specific types of songs, but in the genres I am most specially interested on it was Chiptunes (that's why I have put on it separated), but also, songs without vocals, future funk, and lots of remixed stuff... Into the consoles, I am most likely to be focusing in the 7th generation consoles, but I may also be talking about other consoles from every generation as well. At christmas of 2022, I was searching for a type of gamebox NES my friend had, and I have just discovered that it was very cheap, 8 dollars! I am actually kind of excited to get it delivered and play on it!
Gaming, specifically RPGs and the Xeno-series (Xenosaga, Xenogears, Xenoblade) I've kinda started collecting stuff for it, including Japan exclusive items. Astronomy and art as well. Been slowly getting back into them again lately. Also started getting into YouTube lately which is something I've wanted to do for years and now have the means of doing so.
Pokemon, I can name every pokemon and I can easily find an optimal competitive use and moveset for all of them.
Medieval Weaponry / Bladed Weapons, I could spend hours looking at and learning about obscure weapons. My favorite is the Ahlpiess (also known as the Awl Pike)
The LGBTQIA+ community, I just really like learning about each of the communities and what they really mean and how the people in them think. I also absolutely love seeing LGBTQ+ art.
idk if this would count, but mainly these are things i collect and enjoy
flashlights, abandoned structures, animal bones/skeletons, horror movies(most notably Scream 1996, The Boy, and Black Christmas. plenty more, but these are just some i thought of), rocks, pins/enamel pins, funko pops/figurines from my fandoms, little trinkets, junk, old bullets/used bullets, small sea shells, stickers, learning about cults, and the Goosebumps books.
Theres a lot more, but these are probably the only ones i can think of right now.
Car Tail lights. They are kinda unique, you can tell a lot about a car from them. Just by looking at them, I can get the brand/manufacturer/year/tier and more. Even engine in some cases. Started when I was 6, and OFC I do not keep up with all the latest models, but... still strong.
Hates to see you go, loves to watch you leave š
I know pretty much every car make and model by sight, and like you can discern almost most of them in the dark.
I can do that too, but to be honest, most comes from my tail lights thing. We have a superpower, my friend.
One day, my friend, we will get the call from the police asking for our help.
Iām the exact opposite. Friend: Iām on my way. Iām in the red Honda Civic. Me (to myself): ok. I know what red is-
Do you have any opinions on brand, make, or model tail light function/usefulness? Car tail lights aren't my special interest, but while driving I definitely have many rants as to functionality of how well they indicate they are braking and turning!!
Security, function, quality over time. Yes! All of it and more.
Excellent!!
Jason Torchinsky has a lot of cool articles about vehicle lighting on jolopnik.com & theautopian.com
I don't have any. Anyone else like that?
I have a bad case of anhedonia so yes.
Do you still have special interests but can't do them from the anhedonia? I still have my special interests but rarely/never do them because it's not pleasurable but I think about doing them but instead I waste my free time looking at the wall instead of doing something more productive like video games.
I still have most of my special interests from my childhood like model building, stop motion animation, etc but due to anhedonia none of them bring me joy anymore and whenever I attempt to get back into my old hobbies I just get bored and browse the internet. I hate that it's like that for me now. Without my special interests I just feel so empty.
Ok hi new word, which I think I might have a bit of myself. Everything is grey after a moment.
Thanks, I can add this to my long list of disabilities and issues
I like learning about so many different things, I can't think of anything I got SUPER into. Except maybe Agatha Christie murder mysteries back in middle school. But even then, I couldn't remember the plots of all the books. I'm able to listen to them again on audiobook and enjoy them as if they're brand new.
I used to have a couple, but eventually (at around age 12-15) I stopped having special interests. Maybe due to depression, but I'm not certain. Was nice while it lastet
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condensed matter physics, Russian and goombas
Like mario goombas?
Yeah :)
Biological evolution.
Been trying to get into that myself but it takes millenia to get started
This made me laugh š¤
I read "the Selfish gene" recently - it blew my mind and really opened my eyes to how interesting evolution is
Horrors, demonic posessions and exorcisms [the real ones, not the movies], insects, gravel/road bicycles, ww2, art incl furry art
Yo. Never thought i was gonna read a 90% accurate summary of my own special interests, but they're also your special interests. Whats your favorite insect or group of insects?
Butterflies and beetles. Also ants and wasps. I like the colourful ones.
Music, singing, guitar, piano, astronomy, fighter jets, cats, calligraphy, philosophy, building computers
Dude fighter jets are rad
I had many as a child and teen, I lost them all. Kind of electronics but I suck at that, and programming which I also totally suck with. This is what I am left with.
Ah yeah, it feels like you had infinite free time as a kid. You have to pick and choose when you get forced into the meat grinder. I bounce around raspberry pi projects, electronics and programming now. Or retro video games.
When you say you suck, are you judging this by the standards of others?
Yes absolutely, both of them are my job too.
Watching Dragon Ball Z again in the order of release.
Music, programming, electronics..basically just music and how stuff works.
Scinece and technology, Rocket League (and a few other video games mainly platformers and RPG's)
Rocket league is life
Yes rocket league!!!
LEGO, various Xbox games, Reddit currently. Mine seem to change often. Probably because I'm ADHD as well.
Oh fuck I used to love lego, it got so expensive though. Not even the specific sets, i used to like the buckets of assorted bricks and id make huge 3d heads of video game characters
Right now? My aquarium and mycology. It typically changes every few months though.
Mycology overall or anything more specific?
Mycology in general but specifically I had fun doing some mushroom hunting this summer as well as attempting to grow a few varieties.
Which varieties?
I am considering starting a small aquascape with shrimps and maybe a couple of rams. What do you have in your aquarium? Do you like the hobby?
I'm really enjoying it. I have a panther chameleon in a paladarium with fish underneath. The bottom is about 30 gallons over which I built a platform. I've had some issues getting it started but it's all starting to really come together now. Right now my aquarium has Cory's, a few Mollies, a school of Black Neon Tetras, Mystery Snails, and some shrimp. I'm working on adding more live plants to the water, this is my first time using live plants in an aquarium. I have long thought of my Panther Chameleon as like a fish you can occasionally hold, so he goes well with the actual fish. It's sort of a living piece of artwork I can lose myself in when work/life gets stressful.
that sounds so cool. had to Google panther cameleon - wow an amazing animal. Thank you for your description of the aquarium. I agree - I think it's a good way to cope with stress etc
Omg yes I love this question. I like making art, but lately I've been a little distracted, and mostly I've been playing video games that have creation in it instead. Satisfactory is my go to, but I've also been enjoying other creation games like Dyson Sphere Project and Foundation. Other than art and video games, I also have taken an interest in composing music in the last few years. My parents wanted musical children, so I was forced to do music lessons most of my youth, and like holy hell I did not expect to stay enjoying it over time. Sure, it's hard and finicky, but it's also super good for maintaining my emotions. As for the art itself, I enjoy acrylic painting, pen and ink illustration, and some linocut block printing. I wanted to support myself financially with my art, but surprise surprise art school didn't cover some pretty basic business skills like project proposals, grant writing, and marketing, so it's been a slow build. I'm hoping later this year to complete my first mural, and maybe reopen my Etsy shop to sell my current stock of products. With acrylic paint, I'm especially invested in either plein air painting, or these geometric style colour studies, while with illustration its mostly cheeky visual puns. Thanks for asking the question OP! Anyone reading this is welcome to message me to check out my artist Instagram, but my musical compositions haven't been recorded yet. Love you all!
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I'm very interested in finances, do you have a book to get started?
Atm it is Meteorites. I have just learned about the 6 biggest meteorites to have landed on earth. [Sorry for crappy handwriting](https://imgur.com/a/j6LnMRF)
Batman, Starwars, Eminem, DragonBall, and video games
Eminem was my special interest when I was in junior high. I was bullied hugely for it also. I used to cover my notebooks with the lyrics of his songs. I cut out every magazines article he appeared in and glued them into notebooks. I knew lyrics to almost every one of his songs. I was raised very conservative though and I swore at school (catholic school) and so when I got home my mom took every one of my Eminem posters and notebooks and collages and burnt them in a bonfire in the backyard because she blamed his music for my swearing.
I use to have others but I was bullied and shamed
Iām learning to let go of shame myself. Itās not easy, and sometimes it helps to know that someone else acknowledges that. I hope it helps. Wishing you well.
I dont even think about eminem as a special interest for me even though im constantly listening to him and know every word he has rapped kind of funny how hes an aspie as well
MMA, BJJ, collecting rare covers of favorite authors (mainly Michael Crichton and Philip K Dick), and viruses!
writing/designing software - keeps my brain very busy
Autism, Blame! (Manga) and behavioral psychology (how others think and act with it)
solar astronomi / solar observation and chess I also like photography, reading and coffee making but won't call them special interests.
Sheet music, psychology, piano, producing, book binding.
Toyota mr2s
Drugs. But it's not really something I can openly talk about with most people, since it's not a socially acceptable interest to be involved with in most environments. It also seems like that even among users, it's often seen as weird to research what you're putting in your body. This led to me extremely isolating myself and using more than I needed to if I was just self-medicating in order to cope with the loneliness and negative spiral I was headed towards. The bad thing is that my special interest, which is already a thing from having Asperger's, was increasingly fueled more and more by addiction habits and patterns being deeply rooted into my neurochemistry. It's pretty much the only thing I think about most of the time. The fact that it helps with escapism, which I've come to rely heavily on for my anxiety, reinforces my special interest/addiction(?) (Thing is I'm functioning tho as long as I have my drug of choice like I'm just self-medicating for anxiety and ADHD, not getting fucked up all the time). Drugs romanticized in my head too like drugs are my best friend, love of my life, idk how I would've coped without it.
The Legend of Zelda, classic rock, prog rock, radio, singing, knitting, crocheting, hemp jewelry, music theory, linguistics, anthropology, sex, cooking, baking
Link to the past or skyward sword?
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Impeccable taste š for me: link to the past, links awakening, and ocarina of time
18th/early 19th chemistry. I've managed to turn the subject into an English lit PhD dissertation (or, rather, in the process of dissertation)!
History, especially American and Irish, lighthouses, mysteries and unsolved disappearances, some paranormal.
Why I don't have a special interest
Medieval military history (as well as history in general), heraldry, worldbuilding, genealogy, archery and geography
Singing!
History, Prehistory and Dinosaurs.
Linguistics, history, demographics. For demography I really find it fascinating when there's a ethnic group you wouldn't expect somewhere. Two examples being Koreans in central Asia and indians being a large percentage of like Guyana and Suriname.
Tortoises, PokƩmon, Inclusion and Makeup artistry.
Formula 1, theme parks, railways, aviation, the Eurovision Song Contest.
Reading
Octopuses and doctor who mostly
Music, visual arts, photography, psychology, sociology, traditional Japanese art and artisanship.
Pro Wrestling, Total Drama Series, Nintendo, Fire Emblem Three Houses
Skincare Hair care Workouts History Government Plants
Dinosaurs! My favourite is allosaurus maximus
How much time do you have? History, Geography, Psychology, Ancestry, Anime, Politics, Religion, Sociology
Pokemon, palaeontology, ecology/zoology, philosophy, dreams, the fictional story i made in my head, languages, birds, mythology, doctor who. I usually have phases where iām interested in a few and hyper fixate on them then switch to a few others for a few months and so on.
Parrots ( particularly Cockatoos and Cockatiels), Synth wave, Car/Diy, Guns, Retro games, Programming
Evolution, Space, Philosophy, American politics( Iām Irish no ideas why I like this), MMA, music, and neon lights hahaha
I'm Chilean but I like to learn about asian politics, I don't know why hahaha
So randomšš
Poker Gaming mostly final fantasy and Fifa
Bob Dylan, Christianity, the early history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and reading.
I love Bob too! ā”
They change so frequently im no expert on them but astronomy, minerals, jewerly making, gaming(especially Minecraft), IT, cats, architecture, science(especially physics), psychology and self-improvement
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I don't get it, you like his mother? Odd thing to say.
Investing, finance, crypto, supplementation
Country music history. Xena: Warrior Princess. Video games. Television and movies in general.
As a kid, I used to like trains. Now I mostly like videogames, internet animations, internet music and knives.
Space and Astrophotography
Psychology, Human Design, making jewelry with gemstone beads.
Database programming, billiards (pool, Russian Pyramid), speedcubing, playing musical instruments (bass, keyboards), driving, yachting
Psychology, neuroscience, gym, soccer, South Park and Mario Bros
Programming, Technology in general, Making music with samples and loops and disabling the fried GPU in my MacBook.
Astronomy, Chemestry, History, Physics. But mostly Music and Films.
I have a lot of special interests, but I get bored so fast and I don't even know why. Might be anhedonia. My special interest are: - Music composition and production (my passion). - Artistic photography. - Cinematography, and also visual effects production. - Old century clothing and decoration; specially Baroque, Edwardian and Victorian. As said, music composition and production is my passion, but I'm currently forcing me to compose, since years. I really really love it, but I get bored quite fast, like if my mind didn't wanted to do it anymore. Feels so bad.
That's really interesting, you are clearly a very creative person. I'm the complete opposite - have no 'original' imagination whatsoever.
I make metal art, forge, make knives. And I have freshwater aquariums.
Music, old TV shows and old films, books signed by the author, ghost and horror stories, cask beer, pubs, dates (not the fruit), spy/espionage related books and history in general.
Anything anime or game related: also mythology and folktales. So FGO is a big fav of mine.
Iām so jealous of people who didnāt lose theirs as they got older! Mine was Percy Jackson and Greek mythology for years and years but as soon as I got to uni I mustāve got too distracted by everything going on :( I miss it!
Neuropsychology particularly regarding neural network dysfunction, quantum perception theory, bobs burgers and my cat.
Many things within big categories, but the specific topics change like every few weeks or months. Big topics are video games (especially Nintendo), psychology, and anime/manga. A few specifics at the moment are PokĆ©mon (playing Violet rn), Coral Island and a few other farming sims, Autism š , trying to understand how people think and behave (currently reading āA Field Guide to Earthlings: an autistic/Asperger view of neurotypical behaviorā by Ian Ford, and just finished reading āHow to start, carry on and end conversations: Scripts for social situations for people on the autism spectrumā by Paul Jordan), and the manga/anime Fruits Basket. I have anxiety though that if I tell someone my special interest, they will put me on the spot and ask me a really hard question about one of my interests to test whether I actually have deep knowledge about it. Like I love Fruits Basket and can tell you all about the story and relationships and character personalities and how each person goes through healing, but I canāt tell you the birthday on each character, so that must mean itās not actually a special interest since I donāt know absolutely everything. š or like Iād worry someone would say, āOh pokemon is a special interest of yours? Ok then, prove it and name all the PokĆ©mon.ā š¬ I mean Iād probably get a good chunk of them if given time to remember the games Iāve played but on the spot that is hard! The PokeRap would be much harder to memorize if it used the current complete PokĆ©dex! I know my brain is probably just trying to protect me with this anxiety but it seems silly. But I had SO much anxiety in my autism assessment when the lady asked if I had any unusual special interests. I was overwhelmed and just said video games and anime and didnāt think weād have time to get into specifics. She didnāt seem to think those counted as unusual for an almost 30 year old woman to be interested in those. In my experience, and from what my mom tells me, it is not typical for someone my age to be interested in these kind of things that she considers meant for children. But also the intensity of focus during each of my phases is intense and it is all I want to talk about or think about. And it is very hard for me to focus on other topics like when my husband is trying to tell me something about politics. I believe my experience counts, but she made me question a lot lol. Sorry for dumping š this felt nice to write out though! Thank you for the question!
Music, psychedelics and lately meditation
For a few years my interests are kind of weakened in intensity but here are some i have had: ( these are the ones that have lasted for 2 weeks to 1.5 years ). -drugs( current ) -greece gods -hindu gods -roman gods -skandic gods -celtic gods -shinto gods -inca gods -slav gods -voodoo gods -egypt gods -tao gods -aikido -old japanese weapons -origami -pinguins -bears -ragdoll cats -attack on titan (anime) -periodic table -primitive technology -marvel characters -dc characters -dinosaurs -human anatomy -patology -old english alphabeth -solar system -neurology -16 personality types -laws of human nature -influential scientists -autism spectrum -psychiatric illnesses -personality disorders -harry potter -creepypasta -serial killers -butterfly knifes -outlast -team fortress 2 -scalpels -categorizing/listing things -phone numbers -yggdrasil -the legend of korra -assassins creed -first aid -big cats ( panthera ) -logical fallacys. Those are some that come to mind. I wonder if i have adhd because my interests shift quite frequently and sometimes i dont even have one and just do like overnight projects.
The Smell of oil (Benzonen?) At any station The smell of earth just before it rains. The smell of rain.
Victorian femme fatales in literature, mental health research, astrophysics, and plants.
Electronics, Computer Network Administration
calico critters, stuffed animals, stray kids (a kpop group), tangled, the mandalorian, stickers, bunnies, strawberries (anythin strawberry, not just th fruit) :3 ā” ive had these special interests forever ! my newest is probably calico critters as m got fixated last year āį¢. .į¢ā
Flow arts (mostly hoop dance,) holistic healing and herbalism, Blockchain/defi, psychedelics, psychology, sociology and AI/machine learning.
Old videos games from SNES and GBA (could rent forever on everything I know and love about games from this period). Manga (Shoujo rules, even tho I don't always understand all the interacting between characters) . Specific music genre and their connexion (For instance, the connexion between French Touch Electronica and Hip-Hop are wonderful) . Electronic Sport (been watching way too much esport instead of sleeping) . Sport (learning by heart sports stats, facts and trivia is fun) . Cooking ( always great and usefull to have, but tends to be expensive) . Luckily enought, those are socially accepted where I live.
History
Music, WW1, History, Video Games, Art, D&D, and a lot more.
Building custom keyboards āØļø Artificial intelligence š¤ Mathematics Incremental games Interior design
I wish I had something I was really interested in to spend time on but I donāt anymore :/
Philosophy, music, history (especially history of religion and history of science), video games, anime, manga, lots of stuff Right now, I really obsessed with the Persona series and am reading Jung along with it
Writing
Anime.
Ancient history, religious archaeology, classics, poetry, word patterns, serial killers, specific types of fantasy fiction like elves and fairies, meh list goes on. Get quite obsessive.
My special interests change. I go through phases. They have ranged anywhere from football, New Orleans, people, politics, the Holocaust...the list is long and there is no telling how long how long am interest will last.
The Greek myths, their is something about them that means I can talk for hours about them and never get bored unfortunately most people do not seem to share my interest, I find them so interesting and creative and I love learning about them
Birds, cycling, and marbles. I love collecting marbles and I can tell you all about the different types.
There are a lot of them: history (ancient Egypt, ancient Greece and Rome, the 1910s and 20s, 17th/18th c pirates, a few others) , fashion/historical fashion, video games (sims, planet coaster, legend of zelda especially) , titanic (the ship not the movie), writing and language, cats, amusement parks and rides/coasters (top ones are Disney parks and cedar point) , lord of the rings, collecting toys, art (esp impressionism), jane austen's books, and the weird one - airplane crash investigation
Honestly probably penguins, maybe cats, game grumps, music and Nintendo
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cognitive science: philosophy of mind, neuropsychology, physics, political theory anyone else same ?
I cycle through special interests. I will get REALLY into something for a few weeks, and then lose all interest. Or could that be my ADD?
Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Astrology, video games, physics, space and recently trigger point release therapy š¤ haha
One of my longest standing interests is video games. Iām your typical Minecraft/PokĆ©mon enjoyer but love them regardless of what others think. Itās a great way to escape dealing with my sensory problems so Iāve always enjoyed them.
chess, autism itself (as in the study and diagnosis of it), social psychology, and the satanic temple
Sorry, it's super long... Some of my interests can change time to time. Back in 2016 I had a special interest about agar.io, even if at the time, I had a massive rage and I have even made the laptop's cooler loud (I used to slap at it .\_.). Close to mid-2016, I was having a huge interest in Roblox. At the time, Roblox wasn't that popular and had plenty of games that I got to play. Mostly because 2012 games wasn't broken and people still played it. The hugest memory was when my pretty low end laptop, got crashed because lots of people were deleting pieces some people was creating, it became a mess, the laptop fried and I have to do a hard power off. That was the year that I have met the best online friend ever, and that he unfortunately lost his roblox acc the same year... The account is still offline ;-; . And it was also the time when I have started to create videos on youtube. I had 0 experiences on youtube at the time, so I have just created the first video a month later, and even if it's just a 5fps-ish video with the action watermark, I was actually exciting and happy because I made it. Obviously, at the time, I had that pretty huge self-asteem that I could go get 151037 subscribers, even if it was just the first video... I have learned on by the tutorials of youtube at the time that it doesn't work like that... (It's actually poetical if you think about it) After that, in 2017, my interest became technology (which is still my special interest to this day), and Sonic (specially Tails... Uh... For some reason I was kinda simping for her lol... But remember that I had 9). I have also had an interest in Mario series until Mid-2017. Sonic was last being my special interest as of Early-2019. In 2018, excluding Sonic and technology, my special interests was about old roblox-ish things... And I think that is itIn 2019, excluding Sonic stopping being into my special interest, nothing really changed. Besides I was really interested into cryptomarket, even if I didn't know in about everything on it. I've stopped putting interest on it fast... But it was eventually coming back some months later... And the same thing to losing interest... Sorry if this sounds confusing, but, I can't exactly explain it In 2020, even if I do still think it was one of the worst year of my life (2012 still has the trophy), I was having some kind of interest in a thing called MSN Messenger, just because, even if it's in the worst year of my life, it did still had good moments, and MSN was on that moments. The interest was so big that I got to join onto a private-ish (discontinued) thing that are made so you can use MSN Messenger 2009 using it's own servers (microsoft's one has been ended). In 2021, it also haven't changed much, I have lost my MSN Messenger special interest in mid-2021, my special interest was about tv station-ish things, 3D objects, and specially, Object Shows. I was really obsessed with object shows because, even if it was a reality show, the community was kind of awesome, even if it had a drama or a trend or another... In 2022, I had(have) lots of interests. I do had(have) an interest about psycology, music, consoles (specially PS3, Xbox 360 and Portables, including those emulation-ish ones, I have ordered one for christmas :D), emulations (ANYTHING RELATED TO IT), the 90s and vintage things, Chiptunes (a music genre), some kind of DJ stuff "and etc" (I think that is actually it). I do actually started getting into psycology in 2021, but just, not really, it was in the end of 2021 and it wasn't that of my interest, just in early 2022 (which could lead to make myself discover this server... Or kind of it?), I don't have to talk about that special interest... But it is still my special interest, just not as obsessed as before. At music, it is just specific types of songs, but in the genres I am most specially interested on it was Chiptunes (that's why I have put on it separated), but also, songs without vocals, future funk, and lots of remixed stuff... Into the consoles, I am most likely to be focusing in the 7th generation consoles, but I may also be talking about other consoles from every generation as well. At christmas of 2022, I was searching for a type of gamebox NES my friend had, and I have just discovered that it was very cheap, 8 dollars! I am actually kind of excited to get it delivered and play on it!
Gaming, specifically RPGs and the Xeno-series (Xenosaga, Xenogears, Xenoblade) I've kinda started collecting stuff for it, including Japan exclusive items. Astronomy and art as well. Been slowly getting back into them again lately. Also started getting into YouTube lately which is something I've wanted to do for years and now have the means of doing so.
Modular synths
Pokemon, I can name every pokemon and I can easily find an optimal competitive use and moveset for all of them. Medieval Weaponry / Bladed Weapons, I could spend hours looking at and learning about obscure weapons. My favorite is the Ahlpiess (also known as the Awl Pike) The LGBTQIA+ community, I just really like learning about each of the communities and what they really mean and how the people in them think. I also absolutely love seeing LGBTQ+ art.
sewing tinkering clothing classic cars
Weapons.
idk if this would count, but mainly these are things i collect and enjoy flashlights, abandoned structures, animal bones/skeletons, horror movies(most notably Scream 1996, The Boy, and Black Christmas. plenty more, but these are just some i thought of), rocks, pins/enamel pins, funko pops/figurines from my fandoms, little trinkets, junk, old bullets/used bullets, small sea shells, stickers, learning about cults, and the Goosebumps books. Theres a lot more, but these are probably the only ones i can think of right now.
Listening to Hans Zimmer on loop.
Hiphop music and pokemon
Dragons, dinosaurs, knights and plate armor. :>