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15 Jan 2010, 2:03 pm

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Yes. My story writing. I get an idea, I plan how it all goes in my head and by the time it comes to writing it out on paper...it's gone.


I wanted to be a writer. Exact same problem.



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15 Jan 2010, 4:02 pm

zippy256 wrote:
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Yes. They dictate the terms, not us.


I love it! :lol:

Programming has always been one of my special interests. I've got about 50, probably more, unfinished projects from when I was young. I started something because it was a challenge, but once I'd worked out how to finish it, I no longer actually felt the need to finish it just to prove myself. Annoyed my parents immensely!

Most of my other interests just come and go in phases, and I'll continue with something where I left off as if there wasn't a 5-year gap.

Edit: Typo. Must be time for bed!


Yes. exaclty. :lol:

I've just had my main special interest evaporate on me. It decided to go and have a holiday somewhere else for a while. Just upped and left one day. I know it will be back because it has done this before. The hilarious part about it is that it is also my career and I have just had to go and cancel lectures and other things that I am booked in to give, because my main special interest has decided to go walkabout for a while. And so, there are all these people in my career field scratching their heads because the way I am makes no sense to them. Someone (an NT person and a very nice one at that!!) rang me and said "You really do not care, do you? You don't care about how it will impact you and your success etc?" And I had to explain to them, "No, I don't. Not like other people care about a career over the course of a lifetime and all the kudos. I like kudos,...nothing wrong with it at all. But it is really secondary to my ASD presentation and the waxes and wanings of my special interests."

Before being formally diagnosed this worried me so much and I thought I was defective. But I am really going with it, now, and i accept this is how it is for me. I am what I am. I am my special interests, and when they change, I change. I feel very wonderful and free about this.

I'm pursuing another special interest at the moment and it is really starting to bubble up and excite me. I love it when this happens. It's just THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD for me. It's an exciting time.


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