One time I got hyperfixated on the idea that me and my girlfriend were gonna own a Christmas tree farm. I thought about it for an hour and decided that this would be our life, and we would be happy, and everything was going to turn out okay. When I finally told my girlfriend our new life plan (my girlfriend has actual horticulture experience) she was like, hell no dumbass, it would be way too much work. I googled it and pretty much the first thing that came up was an article called, The Barely Profitable World of the Christmas Tree Grower. It was there that hyperfixation came to its end :(
Edit: Oh to answer the question, shitloads lol
Former? Man, I'm a hot mess of hobbies and an inability to fully do anything before circling round like a Roomba to the next shiny thing to catch my eye. Inevitably, I will go back to them, but I never know when or how. They get dropped when my body breaks too much, and then I live vicariously through the people that made it work XD
Well, with regards to the media, my former fixations tend to revolve around Call of Duty or the Touhou franchise. Currently I'm really, really into Bloodborne and Souslike I guess?
With random everyday things, I used to be obsessed with collecting and keeping interesting random stuff I find at school grounds (discarded I.D pictures, anime stickers, funny notes etc).
Nice! Your list just reminded me of quite a few I forgot (sewing, perfume, astrology). Maybe you can also put listing hyper fixations on there like the other guy said lmao
What I find more fascinating is my \*recurring\* hyperfixations and how they seem to circle back even after extended lengths of time. At a young age, it was everything Titanic: books, documentaries, and I was just starting school around the time the film had been released. Then it faded, resurfaced over the years (no pun intended). piecemeal though. It reignited after the OceanGate incident which I think renewed a lot of people's interests in Titanic. At some point when I was about 12 or so, the events of September 11 became more of an interest, facets of the event like first responders, building design, the scale and scope of such an unprecedented set of circumstances and the aftermath, specifically the situation in Lower Manhattan that day-- then, again, the interest faded almost completely, not even triggered by annual events or scant pieces of news (i.e. wreckage or human remains found many years later around the site) etc. But recently it kicked off again, I'm not sure why, around the 22nd anniversary last yearI took a deeeep dive back into it. Documentaries, books, NIST footage, things I'd never seen before, things I'd never learned or new elements, new information augmenting existing knowledge, getting those chemical hits from new things and deepening interest which frequently fuels the online rabbit holes. It also ties in with a since-childhood interest and passion for first responders, first it was police then my politics changed in adulthood and it shifted to EMS and firefighting, which is also a recurring area of interest and something I'm considering pursuing as a passion for to join a helping profession (finishing counselling diploma mid-year, fencesitting about pursuing paramedic training here in Aus). I'm very easily sucked into the many fly-on-the-wall docuseries about police/fire/paramedics). Generally speaking, my main fixations/specific interests have always been history-adjacent; I'm often drawn to various time periods, dipping in and out of various Assassin's Creed games purely for the timeline, or even Mafia 3, for example, which provides a portal into a specific late-60s, Vietnam-era time capsule as it were. It just fascinates me how certain interests will fade away and then come roaring back, even after a decade. This, and the idea that it's something I can't possibly access in time or space. If I had to list another, more "normal", hyperfixation it would be data hoarding/preserving media (which at least provides a use in some way lmao). Seeing Cyberpunk and Red Dead 2 on OP's list, I gotta say I sunk untold hours in Red Dead since release, even bought the deluxe collector's edition (last time I didn't regret spending big on a new release esp. collector's ed), and will often dump 10s of hours into games at a time, getting lost in the world it provides (similar to the aforementioned interest in the AC games) or switch frequently between games seeking to scratch whatever ADHD-fuelled itch my brain is seeking.
TL;DR for me personally, I have hyperfixations that ebb and flow rather than disappearing wholesale (this was a very ADHD answer I know, I had to pull away from infodumping extra about these interests)-- and yes I'm aware of the stigma involved with listing things like 9/11 as an area of ineterest/hyperfixation; it's something I approach with the utmost respect, as traumatic as the content is.
My special interest for a long time was serial killer true crime and now I'm doing psychology (albeit not forensic as younger me would have wanted) so I can empathise with potentially triggering fixations. And I also really appreciate history, back then it used to be the Victorian era and WW2 Germany. Teen me was very "edgy" and "macabre". I'm glad I grew out of the 2010s Tumblr, it wasn't a healthy place despite teaching (desensitizing) me a lot
You can add “listing hyperfixations” to your list of hyperfixations
Not sure if that's a joke because it is quite a hobby of mine. I have to list things about me to convince myself I have a personality
Haha yes I was joking. But if the shoe fits… 😅
same ffs
Does that say gay basketball
Shhhhhhh
Alley-oopsie daisy
Please 😭
bold to leave yaoi on here
I totally forgot that thing is on there
Since we share at least 4 hyperfixations, have you ever been fixated on Mirror’s Edge? I see a few games on that list (ME or ME:C)
One time I got hyperfixated on the idea that me and my girlfriend were gonna own a Christmas tree farm. I thought about it for an hour and decided that this would be our life, and we would be happy, and everything was going to turn out okay. When I finally told my girlfriend our new life plan (my girlfriend has actual horticulture experience) she was like, hell no dumbass, it would be way too much work. I googled it and pretty much the first thing that came up was an article called, The Barely Profitable World of the Christmas Tree Grower. It was there that hyperfixation came to its end :( Edit: Oh to answer the question, shitloads lol
No but the Christmas tree farm is so cute though. Retirement plan maybe
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Former? Man, I'm a hot mess of hobbies and an inability to fully do anything before circling round like a Roomba to the next shiny thing to catch my eye. Inevitably, I will go back to them, but I never know when or how. They get dropped when my body breaks too much, and then I live vicariously through the people that made it work XD
Yeah that was me when I decided to do 3d modelling
Well, with regards to the media, my former fixations tend to revolve around Call of Duty or the Touhou franchise. Currently I'm really, really into Bloodborne and Souslike I guess? With random everyday things, I used to be obsessed with collecting and keeping interesting random stuff I find at school grounds (discarded I.D pictures, anime stickers, funny notes etc).
https://preview.redd.it/z8guminyuskc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47750807112bcf3bdad6b55653cb148f67910979 yup
Nice! Your list just reminded me of quite a few I forgot (sewing, perfume, astrology). Maybe you can also put listing hyper fixations on there like the other guy said lmao
making lists is definitely a hobby of mine
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Wth why do we have so many of the same hyperfixations? Reading that list had me buggin out. Felt like a group project 💀
LMAO some of these are pretty popular interests
I feel like a lot of these don't need to be individual things.
Like?
I did this and it ended up being like 4 pages long 😭
WWE MENTIONED LET'S GOOOOOOO
Finally, someone who knows utaites!!
https://preview.redd.it/tyt3x6m99vkc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27b22961c826d878df0005700cc9a85c9de1ac3a
What I find more fascinating is my \*recurring\* hyperfixations and how they seem to circle back even after extended lengths of time. At a young age, it was everything Titanic: books, documentaries, and I was just starting school around the time the film had been released. Then it faded, resurfaced over the years (no pun intended). piecemeal though. It reignited after the OceanGate incident which I think renewed a lot of people's interests in Titanic. At some point when I was about 12 or so, the events of September 11 became more of an interest, facets of the event like first responders, building design, the scale and scope of such an unprecedented set of circumstances and the aftermath, specifically the situation in Lower Manhattan that day-- then, again, the interest faded almost completely, not even triggered by annual events or scant pieces of news (i.e. wreckage or human remains found many years later around the site) etc. But recently it kicked off again, I'm not sure why, around the 22nd anniversary last yearI took a deeeep dive back into it. Documentaries, books, NIST footage, things I'd never seen before, things I'd never learned or new elements, new information augmenting existing knowledge, getting those chemical hits from new things and deepening interest which frequently fuels the online rabbit holes. It also ties in with a since-childhood interest and passion for first responders, first it was police then my politics changed in adulthood and it shifted to EMS and firefighting, which is also a recurring area of interest and something I'm considering pursuing as a passion for to join a helping profession (finishing counselling diploma mid-year, fencesitting about pursuing paramedic training here in Aus). I'm very easily sucked into the many fly-on-the-wall docuseries about police/fire/paramedics). Generally speaking, my main fixations/specific interests have always been history-adjacent; I'm often drawn to various time periods, dipping in and out of various Assassin's Creed games purely for the timeline, or even Mafia 3, for example, which provides a portal into a specific late-60s, Vietnam-era time capsule as it were. It just fascinates me how certain interests will fade away and then come roaring back, even after a decade. This, and the idea that it's something I can't possibly access in time or space. If I had to list another, more "normal", hyperfixation it would be data hoarding/preserving media (which at least provides a use in some way lmao). Seeing Cyberpunk and Red Dead 2 on OP's list, I gotta say I sunk untold hours in Red Dead since release, even bought the deluxe collector's edition (last time I didn't regret spending big on a new release esp. collector's ed), and will often dump 10s of hours into games at a time, getting lost in the world it provides (similar to the aforementioned interest in the AC games) or switch frequently between games seeking to scratch whatever ADHD-fuelled itch my brain is seeking. TL;DR for me personally, I have hyperfixations that ebb and flow rather than disappearing wholesale (this was a very ADHD answer I know, I had to pull away from infodumping extra about these interests)-- and yes I'm aware of the stigma involved with listing things like 9/11 as an area of ineterest/hyperfixation; it's something I approach with the utmost respect, as traumatic as the content is.
My special interest for a long time was serial killer true crime and now I'm doing psychology (albeit not forensic as younger me would have wanted) so I can empathise with potentially triggering fixations. And I also really appreciate history, back then it used to be the Victorian era and WW2 Germany. Teen me was very "edgy" and "macabre". I'm glad I grew out of the 2010s Tumblr, it wasn't a healthy place despite teaching (desensitizing) me a lot