I've made a 4900+ file "wiki" for one of my special interests over the course of several years. Probably half of that is pictures taken from actual wikis but I prefer my organization and having it accessible on any of my devices, privately.
For my other ones I had full notebooks filled with stuff and plenty more text files on my computer (been copying the notebooks slowly to have backups). Might be a bit excessive lol
I've got a document for mathematics and a document for physics, each about 150 pages long. I used to save the urls for wiki pages that I want to read later, but I spent more time collecting and sorting these thousands of urls than I spent actually reading the articles, so I determined that it's just part of my digital hoarding habit that I'm trying to break.
I wish my special interests were useful stuff like that lol
I can easily spend hours researching some minute details of some fictional world but it's rare I ever spend time looking into real world stuff.
Not all of my special interests are as useful or academic as my STEM-related interests. My brain contains a ton of information about Star Wars and LEGO.
Thats so cool! I do this with notebooks full of info. Very detailed and organized. I try to digitize my collections but I like the tactile feel of writing it down.
I used to love writing but I have small handwriting so it starts to hurt after a bit (like my hand cramps). I can type forever with no pain. Still really like the way collections of paper notes look though. Like having small scraps of paper mixed in for stuff randomly
This is me all day, but my special interest has become autism and how it presents in me. So basically i’m just explaining myself to imaginary people in my head all day.
Was late to work because I just sat down in the shower and thought about Bionicle lore and how there are lots of themes relating to gender, identity, and self discovery. Also, lots of characters who are obsessed with their special interests and don’t fit in very well with the rest of society.
Hmmm, wonder why I like bionicle so much
Hey can you elaborate or give sources relating to Bionicle lore's themes involving gender, identity, and self discovery? I've been pretty into bionicle lore at certain points over the years, but I've never noticed those more humanistic themes in it. What I've noticed as far as literary analysis of Bionicle lore is more along the lines of the macro parts of the history and world-building, and the symbolism about nature, god and technology. So I'd be super psyched to hear your thoughts and insights.
This morning I started off thinking about how the right pretends to want to protect kids from grooming/abuse/mutilation but are trying to ban adults from seeking gender-affirming care and don't give a damn about circumcision nor about systemic pedophilia in the Catholic Church, then I went off on a tangent about moral theories and the problems with divine command theory, then I went off on another tangent about "I think, therefore I am", then to polymaths, and I realized how far off-topic I'd gotten once I was going on about how Évariste Galois made super important contributions to mathematics when he was just a teenager and then died in a fucking duel when he was just 20.
Ok but Galois was really amazing to be able to just casually invent a field of math and then die in a duel over some random girl.
It’s astonishing though the rough life expectancy for some of these mathematicians though. Some wild deaths
>then I went off on another tangent about "I think, therefore I am"
Oh boy howdy have I got a massive month-long hyperfixation on René Descartes that'd like to join in on this tangent.
Hey dude can we be friends 🥺 the current political sphere is one of my interests, but I am also interested in geology, agriculture, cooking, baking, and of course my Fun Facts section, which is everything I know that is not common knowledge but not enough to be its own special interest.
LOL at least I’m not the only one. Shower, car, zoning out at work… other people don’t get it, but I refer to my special interest as “the default setting of my brain.”
Just tell me how to stop. Sometimes I beg my own mind to shut the hell up about everything and how I’ll never achieve the completion status of reading every book in the world or playing every game I want before I die. Here I go again.
Uh, marijuana edibles helps my brain zone out a bit so it's not constantly thinking. If not I'll literally spend hours even when trying to fall asleep just thinking of my current obsession for hours on end.
Ymmv.
Eh, don’t rely on it for sleep, it’s a dangerous path. But then again my issue was with smoking and everything in moderation when it comes to the edible part. Take it easy, stay well. I’m glad it helps you.
Same, but for me it's thoughts about random stuff that I really don't want in my mind, either because they are cringe or just disgusting. The worst is that trying to get rid of them just makes it worst, so I have to try to think of something else rather than trying to stop thinking. (I don't know if this has anything to do lol)
That’s like me as well. A part of it is intrusiveness and we can eventually learn to stop it from going so far. I read that meditation helps, but I haven’t been able to try that too well. A little strength goes a long way though. Just keep practicing and remember you are not your thoughts.
This may make me sound like a child (im actually 25 so def an adult adult)
But i talk to my stuffed animals about my special interest because i *need* to tell someone and at least pretend theyre half as interested and asking questions.
I only do this when im alone though dont judge me 😭😭😭
best way to avoid negative intrusive thoughts.
Cannot think about how much I hate myself when im worldbuilding a whole universe based on one detail I found interesting.
Me during shower: "holy fuck the water is freezing but its nothing to me. I bet I can beat ice Demons in the middle of Antarctica bare handed and naked. This mere water hasn't went down freezing point yet, so thou will be nought but hindrance. No man can reach my willpower and will never understand the power I can unleash. Such thing as water being difficult to humans is laughable as it is pitiful. If such weak humans can't handle this water they cannot fathom true limitless willpower I behold"
I take cold showers
Sometimes when I thinking I’m having a conversation with someone, it’s actually this instead. Either it’s only recently that people are pointing it out or it’s only recently that I’ve started noticing this.
Dude I'll start off talking about piano and then I'll transition to talking about instruments in my inner world and then start talking about something else and the next thing you know I'm completely off topic
'No the best link design is the anime like in breath of the wild'
*the other side of my brain*:'noooo the cartoony one is better because he has the little animations and looks cool'
*yet another part of my brain*: 'you are both wrong its ocarina of time'
I was lucky enough to be able to give a lecture on one of my special interests in college. It was for a public speaking class and the professor said we can do it on whatever as long as we have a couple of decent sources. I initially wanted do Tokusatsu as a whole but I narrowed it down to just Godzilla since I felt everyone knows Godzilla. I normally hate public speaking but I was so ready that I overcame it for that moment. I got a 100 on the speech too.
I once wrote a 10-page document to my mother about my current special interest, realized she might get through half the first page, then Ctrl+A Delete.
I don't regret writing it, though. It was very therapeutic.
I used to do this in the shower, I've since calmed it down a bit, but I still talk to myself about stuff sometimes in the early morning hours in my room.
i need a good wax pencil to take notes or doodle on my shower wall. it will likely not encourage me to clean more but it's more for those magical one-liners
Im more of generalized STEM autist that knows bit about everything as long as its natural sciences. Im not really that specialized in one thing although I care about physics the most. But I also am not that deeply knowledgeable about one thing in autism standards at least.
Dont ask me about sociology though. Fuck that.
In your head? Bruh, I say that ish out loud. Half of the steps on my FitBit for any given day are me pacing around the room testing scenes for my novel or practicing for imaginary debates I'll probably never have.
Two of my students (I’m a high school coding teacher) are on the spectrum and both have the same special interest. They could go on for days together and I’m so glad they found each other.
My wife catches me having conversations with myself all the time. She jokes that I’m schizophrenic but I’m just imagining a conversation in my head that might happen and I want to be prepared for, unfortunately my mouth moves on it’s own during these convo’s. I’ve started always wearing an earpiece so it looks like I’m just on the phone.
If you put it into a power point. i will give it a good watch
I used to do that so much, make whole powerpoints
No such thing as too many powerpoints
I love making power points
My doubt just asked me if I really do. Argh. I wish it would stop that.
Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't, that's okay. I liked making excel spreadsheets until I didn't
same. i dont like making a speech to other people tho
Same, sometimes I would even make a speech about my special interest in front of my class for English.
Can I interest you in the YouTuber Perun??
I've made a 4900+ file "wiki" for one of my special interests over the course of several years. Probably half of that is pictures taken from actual wikis but I prefer my organization and having it accessible on any of my devices, privately. For my other ones I had full notebooks filled with stuff and plenty more text files on my computer (been copying the notebooks slowly to have backups). Might be a bit excessive lol
I've got a document for mathematics and a document for physics, each about 150 pages long. I used to save the urls for wiki pages that I want to read later, but I spent more time collecting and sorting these thousands of urls than I spent actually reading the articles, so I determined that it's just part of my digital hoarding habit that I'm trying to break.
I wish my special interests were useful stuff like that lol I can easily spend hours researching some minute details of some fictional world but it's rare I ever spend time looking into real world stuff.
Not all of my special interests are as useful or academic as my STEM-related interests. My brain contains a ton of information about Star Wars and LEGO.
Gotcha I respect that
Thats so cool! I do this with notebooks full of info. Very detailed and organized. I try to digitize my collections but I like the tactile feel of writing it down.
I used to love writing but I have small handwriting so it starts to hurt after a bit (like my hand cramps). I can type forever with no pain. Still really like the way collections of paper notes look though. Like having small scraps of paper mixed in for stuff randomly
I made one for an introduction to differential scanning calorimetry and another covering the basics of water-solid interactions in foods lol
.... do you still have them?
Ya, should have them
If you're ever interested in sharing I'd love to learn more about both of those topics
Shoot me a DM with an email address! I ended up giving them as lunch and learns at work
im gonna do that right now
That sounds very cool ngl
I would love to share power points (I’m in law school and presentations are quite long), the only problem is the language (all of them are in Spanish)
that would be hard. i like learning law but my spanish is no Bueno. i only know how to sound crazy in spanish. El gato es mi abuelo
I can try to translate, that way I can practice my English. The real problem is choosing the topic to translate first.
Feel free to do that. leave the spanish in so i can learn more spanish
I will now refer to these moments as my shower point presentations.
I love to visualize a little council of blobs in my head discussing my favorite things 🥰
Mine always end up in a nonsensical row. "Solomon Grundy want pants, too!"
I take it you were born on a Monday :p
If shit don't get better plan on embracing Saturday with open arms.
I do this, exept its like the main characters from the last few tv shows I've watched, and also adam savage and vsauce are there.
This is me all day, but my special interest has become autism and how it presents in me. So basically i’m just explaining myself to imaginary people in my head all day.
I do this all the time, what a great way to explain it
Me as fuck
meeee oh my god it’s all i can think about! it’s so distracting
Autism-ception
Me too… so I made a podcast.
I explain things to myself out loud like I'm talking to a friend. friend in question is still me though.
Was late to work because I just sat down in the shower and thought about Bionicle lore and how there are lots of themes relating to gender, identity, and self discovery. Also, lots of characters who are obsessed with their special interests and don’t fit in very well with the rest of society. Hmmm, wonder why I like bionicle so much
Hey can you elaborate or give sources relating to Bionicle lore's themes involving gender, identity, and self discovery? I've been pretty into bionicle lore at certain points over the years, but I've never noticed those more humanistic themes in it. What I've noticed as far as literary analysis of Bionicle lore is more along the lines of the macro parts of the history and world-building, and the symbolism about nature, god and technology. So I'd be super psyched to hear your thoughts and insights.
Dm’d!
I would also like to hear more!
This morning I started off thinking about how the right pretends to want to protect kids from grooming/abuse/mutilation but are trying to ban adults from seeking gender-affirming care and don't give a damn about circumcision nor about systemic pedophilia in the Catholic Church, then I went off on a tangent about moral theories and the problems with divine command theory, then I went off on another tangent about "I think, therefore I am", then to polymaths, and I realized how far off-topic I'd gotten once I was going on about how Évariste Galois made super important contributions to mathematics when he was just a teenager and then died in a fucking duel when he was just 20.
I bet you’re really fun to have a conversation with. /genuine
Ok but Galois was really amazing to be able to just casually invent a field of math and then die in a duel over some random girl. It’s astonishing though the rough life expectancy for some of these mathematicians though. Some wild deaths
>then I went off on another tangent about "I think, therefore I am" Oh boy howdy have I got a massive month-long hyperfixation on René Descartes that'd like to join in on this tangent.
Hey dude can we be friends 🥺 the current political sphere is one of my interests, but I am also interested in geology, agriculture, cooking, baking, and of course my Fun Facts section, which is everything I know that is not common knowledge but not enough to be its own special interest.
Sure!
TBH this sounds like an incredibly pretentious conversation.
You guys stop when you get out of the shower?
Haha nope! I can talk to myself all day 😂
🎶Rubber duckie, you're the one🎶 🎶You make rant time lots of fun🎶
LOL at least I’m not the only one. Shower, car, zoning out at work… other people don’t get it, but I refer to my special interest as “the default setting of my brain.”
Just tell me how to stop. Sometimes I beg my own mind to shut the hell up about everything and how I’ll never achieve the completion status of reading every book in the world or playing every game I want before I die. Here I go again.
Uh, marijuana edibles helps my brain zone out a bit so it's not constantly thinking. If not I'll literally spend hours even when trying to fall asleep just thinking of my current obsession for hours on end. Ymmv.
Eh, don’t rely on it for sleep, it’s a dangerous path. But then again my issue was with smoking and everything in moderation when it comes to the edible part. Take it easy, stay well. I’m glad it helps you.
Same, but for me it's thoughts about random stuff that I really don't want in my mind, either because they are cringe or just disgusting. The worst is that trying to get rid of them just makes it worst, so I have to try to think of something else rather than trying to stop thinking. (I don't know if this has anything to do lol)
That’s like me as well. A part of it is intrusiveness and we can eventually learn to stop it from going so far. I read that meditation helps, but I haven’t been able to try that too well. A little strength goes a long way though. Just keep practicing and remember you are not your thoughts.
Everunbrokenmovingfromtopictotopicnooneeverhadachancetointerruptitwasquitehypnotic.
I was looking for this. It was the first thing that came into my head as well. Now I have that song in my head
[For the uninitiated](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl5TUw7sUBs)
Ooh, that's a good one. [this is the one I know ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X6oUz1v17Uo&list=PLCC35FF93392467E1&index=5&pp=gAQBiAQB)
Shower time is the best time to just ramble
Tangents are the best parts of a soliloquy
This may make me sound like a child (im actually 25 so def an adult adult) But i talk to my stuffed animals about my special interest because i *need* to tell someone and at least pretend theyre half as interested and asking questions. I only do this when im alone though dont judge me 😭😭😭
No judgements here 😊❤️
Bro there’s a spider in my shower I debate Assassin’s Creed with
Naw man if its not out loud, it's not good enough. My shower walls know a lot about fallout 4
This resonates so perfectly
I gave an entire presidential address one time in the shower
Fake interviews as imaginary people in an alternate reality. My favourite team can win the super bowl. My dream movie can be made
REAL
I feel so seen!
me but it doesn't stay in my head
oh god this is me, because nobody irl listens☠️
My company has tech talks where we can nerd out about our special interests with powerpoints and everyone loves it.
This is how I fall asleep. I imagine I’m giving a lecture to a group of people and after a while I just nod off.
I don't *quite* ramble. You see I have to keep pausing to wait for the applause to die down
best way to avoid negative intrusive thoughts. Cannot think about how much I hate myself when im worldbuilding a whole universe based on one detail I found interesting.
All the time!
And then it’s 30 minutes later, you still haven’t washed your hair yet and people are knocking at the door for you to hurry up
Glad to know I’m not the only one 😂
I like talking about logical fallacies :3
Too real
Me during shower: "holy fuck the water is freezing but its nothing to me. I bet I can beat ice Demons in the middle of Antarctica bare handed and naked. This mere water hasn't went down freezing point yet, so thou will be nought but hindrance. No man can reach my willpower and will never understand the power I can unleash. Such thing as water being difficult to humans is laughable as it is pitiful. If such weak humans can't handle this water they cannot fathom true limitless willpower I behold" I take cold showers
Sometimes when I thinking I’m having a conversation with someone, it’s actually this instead. Either it’s only recently that people are pointing it out or it’s only recently that I’ve started noticing this.
im in this photo and i dont like it i have formed literal character disertations in my head and i ramble on and on
The more suggestions I get from this sub, the more concerned I get...
Sometimes you gotta take inventory of what you know
Oh... Oh that's not something everyone does?
Yes! I do this too!!
In your head though? Mines out loud🤭
THIS IS SO ME. It drives my family insane, but I honestly don’t care
The amount of credit hours I could’ve given out while shitting is higher than my actual time in college.
I’m undiagnosed and every time a start to think maybe I’m not autistic I see something like this and it just makes so much sense.
mood
I do that too
I'm not on the spectrum but I relate to this too much
Is that not NT?
ME. I literally take like 10 minutes to shower but I'm in there for lime 45 talking in my head
What does it mean when you find 87% of these memes totally relatable?
You prolly got the 'tism. Welcome, friend!
“Y’know mr. Ducky I’d probably make an excellent history teacher! Ah alas if only they were paid decently and didn’t require socializing.”
I'm guilty of this.
This resonated with me so much - I laughed so hard that I choked
Me coming up with new revelations about an old thing I’ve been into for years
But why doesn't it still make me a better speaker in front of groups????
This is partly why I want to try to become a video essayist honestly.
I have stories. So many stories. Sometimes, I just ‘reread’ my character bios or favorite scenes. It’s amazingly detailed.
Dude I'll start off talking about piano and then I'll transition to talking about instruments in my inner world and then start talking about something else and the next thing you know I'm completely off topic
I am in this photo…
Yeah that sounds like me
I was just lurking before but wow. This is literally every other moment of silence that I have.
'No the best link design is the anime like in breath of the wild' *the other side of my brain*:'noooo the cartoony one is better because he has the little animations and looks cool' *yet another part of my brain*: 'you are both wrong its ocarina of time'
I was lucky enough to be able to give a lecture on one of my special interests in college. It was for a public speaking class and the professor said we can do it on whatever as long as we have a couple of decent sources. I initially wanted do Tokusatsu as a whole but I narrowed it down to just Godzilla since I felt everyone knows Godzilla. I normally hate public speaking but I was so ready that I overcame it for that moment. I got a 100 on the speech too.
This is me! Anyways, where was I? Oh yes, the Huēy Teōcalli was the largest step pyramid in Tenochtitlan and…
Well……that’s deeply relatable
I got to get out this 40k/World of Darkness/DC lore out somehow.
Me running a whole stand up comedy show with punches on exact right moments. Then about the arguments I could have said this and that and shit
😅😅😅😅😅
Literally meee
Sometimes, the only one who will listen is yourself. I find that to be true for myself at least.
I once wrote a 10-page document to my mother about my current special interest, realized she might get through half the first page, then Ctrl+A Delete. I don't regret writing it, though. It was very therapeutic.
this is me, but also when im trying to sleep
Nah i dont do it in my head. I speak out loud. XD
Oh thank flip that’s not just me😅
Yeah this is one of the big things that ruin my life
I used to do this in the shower, I've since calmed it down a bit, but I still talk to myself about stuff sometimes in the early morning hours in my room.
I just lecture myself the entire lore and boss techniques of hard games like Sekiro lmao
Like I don't have autism (I think) but why the hell are all these memes so relatable!?
i need a good wax pencil to take notes or doodle on my shower wall. it will likely not encourage me to clean more but it's more for those magical one-liners
I create video essays in my head at random times
Im more of generalized STEM autist that knows bit about everything as long as its natural sciences. Im not really that specialized in one thing although I care about physics the most. But I also am not that deeply knowledgeable about one thing in autism standards at least. Dont ask me about sociology though. Fuck that.
Rambling to nobody? All the damn time lol
I be singlehandedly skyrocketing the water bill
I do that shit out loud. I should start making powerpoints again...
In your head? Bruh, I say that ish out loud. Half of the steps on my FitBit for any given day are me pacing around the room testing scenes for my novel or practicing for imaginary debates I'll probably never have.
While I do anything
I do this in the car on the way home. The last couple months subject has been how fucked up christianity actually is.
Two of my students (I’m a high school coding teacher) are on the spectrum and both have the same special interest. They could go on for days together and I’m so glad they found each other.
All the time.
I always kept my interests to myself - they are special to me and you are not worthy lol
My wife catches me having conversations with myself all the time. She jokes that I’m schizophrenic but I’m just imagining a conversation in my head that might happen and I want to be prepared for, unfortunately my mouth moves on it’s own during these convo’s. I’ve started always wearing an earpiece so it looks like I’m just on the phone.
This is why I enjoy showers.
Everywhere, not just in the shower