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PokemonChampionIris
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12 Aug 2012, 2:25 pm

Pokemon video games! I may of first learned of them when I was 12 or so but i'm still soo in love with anything pokemon... :D and it annoy's my brother. And he call's it 'a troll series' now.

XD; :roll: :wink:


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13 Aug 2012, 4:35 am

I like social networking, makeup, and genetics (only, I don't spend so much time on that now) :D. I'm also obsessed with finding out how to improve my health, but I rarely got through with, actually using any of that info, to improve it.


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14 Aug 2012, 11:25 am

I used to be one of those million-miles-an-hour-monologue type of people all the time, until enough people got mad at me for it (my special interest is music and the harmony and structure of it theory-wise). Every so often someone will get me on a one-way monologue about music though.

I was falsely conditioned to be a social creature being (seeing) that I was raised around mostly females (in my immediate family, dad's the only guy, and I have 3 sisters and my mom). I think that's where a lot of my "NT-faking" behavior comes from.



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29 Aug 2012, 7:27 am

I can monologue if someone is polite enough to sit and listen to me. Monologues are about any petinent subject matter of the moment. Not necessarily or not often about people . I monologue about psychology, social/societal matters, genealogy, genetic aspects of physiology and body typing, you name it. A lot of women maylike to talk about people and I don't understand that. I'm a woman---and there are so many other things in the world to be interestd in that are NOT about people.
Dialogues---however---are harder to come by since most people that I know have zero interest in those topics that fascinate me.



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31 Aug 2012, 10:26 pm

My "special interests" were more obvious as a child...ranging from collections of pencils to obsessions with books to urban design with building blocks and legos.

Later, as I got older my interests matured a lot. In my teen years I got into health and fitness. It wasn't until my college years where I got into people and self improvement. However, like some people stated in previous posts, it was more the behavior of people, brain functioning, communication patterns, and the way they behaved in relation to myself. I got my degree in psychology, but found it to be a dead end career so I went back and started to study Health Informatics. The "special interest" switched to computers and data analysis, which suits me better as a detailed thinker with large amounts of anxiety. Recently, I got out of an abusive relationship and spent a lot of time researching narcissism and mirroring in relationships. In addition, this past summer I went on a vacation to Italy and although it was quite stressful I have gained an interest in cultures and languages.

So anyways... :roll:



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01 Sep 2012, 3:00 am

I'm an aspie female and my interests are pretty intense. I have always thought of them as sort of like the different "eras" of my life, with different interests being associated with different stages of my life (not only my age, but also my state of mind at the time of the interest and things like where I was living and what was going on in my life at the time).

I make frequent references to my special interests whenever I talk to people (which sometimes annoys them), but I don't give long monologues about them very often. When I do, it's usually to talk about the nature of the interest itself (when it started, how I feel about it, what my favorite part of it is, creative ideas I have that are related to it, etc.) rather than facts about it.



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02 Sep 2012, 1:25 pm

My special interests are the Finnish language and North Korea.



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03 Sep 2012, 10:08 am

I am a female with a strong interest in commercial aviation. I also have a strong interest in religons and cultures. When talking in a group setting i have a hard time catching myself monologueing about religon and politics. This is double bad since religon and politics are social no nos.

When my family would go to visit my grandma she would literally talk for an hour straight about all the things the neighbors and people at the elks club where doing. She talked about these people as if we knew them. When we drive anywhere with her she would point to a house or a local buisnness and tell you everything about the people who live there or own the business. Maybe grandma had aspergers??


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09 Sep 2012, 4:31 pm

My special interests are obvious because I like to celebrate them. They include The 60s before the Hippie Movement and that Flower Power stuff, Routemaster buses, Swinging London and Carnaby Street, the music of the first wave of The British Invasion (1963-1966) with The Kinks being on the top of the list and anything else to do with London.

Non London special interests include The Olympics - summer and winter, computers, the Internet, classic rock, lava lamps, candles/candle holders, vintage drum sets, bright colours, Pro-Life, classic cars and working.


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11 Sep 2012, 2:38 pm

The last couple of years: scientific fraud. I'm working in research (life sciences) and I've come too close for comfort to a few cases, luckily without being a co-author of any dubious publications, which is what got me started on this subject. But I can no doubt bore you for an hour about technicalities of what not to do with your data in papers... :twisted:



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21 Sep 2012, 4:27 pm

I like history, science and literature, but the one thing I can spend hours and hours on, forgetting to eat and go to the bathroom on time :oops: , is crochet. It really calms me and allows me to dream away and at the same time be productive. I've never been critized for crocheting too long. People admire my work and often buy something small I made (slippers, hats, bags) and sometimes I even get a commission for something larger like an blanket. Perfect solution. I get to be in my own world and earn some money, and I can make people happy.



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23 Sep 2012, 2:49 am

I have about a million interests. The ones I keep going back to are over a dozen as well. Mostly I just like to read and learn, sometimes the subject doesn't even matter. It's not the interest that's "special", it's the obsession, the intensity and involvement that's "special". i.e. Last week I studied all about wooden pencils. The week before I was studying weather. As a result I tend to know something about everything. :) Which seem to attract clueless people to ask me all sorts of stupid questions, which I don't want.


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23 Sep 2012, 7:41 am

My mom goes on for hours about her neighbors, and she's NT. I think it's a normal female NT thing to take way too much interest in what neighbors and other people are doing. NT women like to tell stories, so they will go on for hours if you let them--that's why women are stereotyped as gossipy. I have trouble pretending to care about what the neighbors are doing most of the time, and I would never go out of my way to scoop that kind of information.
So, based on what you've said, I personally don't think these women have AS. They may seem like they are monologuing simply because you are male and think it is polite not to interrupt with your own stories, but that's what they are looking for--they want you to gossip with them. Not change the subject, but talk about something similar in order to affirm that you agree with or can associate with what they are talking about. If you don't cut in, though, they will just continue to talk anyway if they like you because silence would mean that their attempts at rapport-building failed. I've noticed that women will talk a man's ear off even if he gives nothing back because they expect him not to based on the male-female communication differences they've always experienced.
However, I've noticed that women quit talking to me unless I give them a story of my own to match theirs. If I just sit and listen to them, they perceive me as weird and unfeminine and tend to move on to talking to someone else. For instance, if I notice something interesting they said, like "The lady at the hospital couldn't even say 'ask' correctly," and I go into an explanation that I think is interesting, like "Actually, 'ask' isn't even the original pronunciation of the word," they tend to think I am hijacking the conversation and find me to be rude, even though I thought I was being interesting...



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23 Sep 2012, 11:02 am

In my teens old cars and drawing comics were strong special interests. When I was 18 began my interest about ancient civilizations, extinct languages, astronomy and a bit later, submarines.

I have had a lot of special interests considered masculine since I was a child and a teen. Being a girl, that's not something that people accepted easily in the middle of the nineties. If I wanted to be accepted I had to omit which my hobbies were. I remember I felt embarrassment if someone discovered my likings. Today it's different, things have changed a lot in 15 years. Internet has changed it.


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28 Sep 2012, 1:44 pm

occasionally I monologue....I try not to. My biggest interest right now is reading.



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17 Oct 2012, 1:41 am

analyser23 wrote:
I am extremely interested in human beings - behaviours, interactions, motivations, relationships, anatomy, the human brain, health and how it affects behaviour, reproduction, society, etc etc.
I believe it is due to the fact that I don't understand this stuff naturally, hence I am doubly motivated to learn as much about it as possible. I love to analyse people and work out what makes them tick. It is all such a puzzle to me! ... I analyse myself a lot also as I can provide myself with the most insight.

I have heard/read that many female aspies tend to study things like psychology, ....


Interesting, I have spent much time (since a teenager) analysing people, trying to understand/work out their emotions/behaviour. At times, when I think I have formulated an understanding of a specific example, I feel like a genius!! However, I guess I've just worked out what many people just know intutitively, yet for me it feels like a breakthrough!!

I studied Psychology, and found it fascinatating, albeit, more from a researcher's perspective, rather than real life application. This has been my strongest special interest, unfortunately so much so, that I had to abandon it. As my hyper-focus in this special interest, became all-consuming and dominated my life (extremely unhealthy when you are in a marriage and raising children). Now, I just stick to analysing myself and the social interactions I have with others.

My earlier special interests, as a child were polished stones, marbles and frogs, as a teenager, cooking recipe scrapbooks, then as an adult, vegetarian cooking, Psychology and now Aspergers/Autism.