Do you feel that your special interest is limiting?

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Toy Soldier's here.

Though I heard the Stripes version of Jolene the other day and it has to be my favorite cover/version I've heard.

I get like this about other bands too, btw, Tool, NIN, APC, Tori Amos, Lady Gaga, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, whatnot.


To test a theory I have, do you like Zep?

With all the pressures and expectations in life, my interest are my time to be alone. I am glad it is limiting. If it wasn't limiting then I'd need to find a new one. Its my alone time to unwind and retreat into myself after having to deal with this crappy world.

I'm not nearly as open about my special interests in real time, as I am on WP. I have a few good friends, whom I spend a lot of evenings with. They're older than me, so they understand. I also have a few good friends at work. There's a slip of the tongue that happens at a 1-10 ratio of what comes out, here.

Yeah, Jack is the only male who could ever pull off that song. Just curious, was it from Under Blackpool Lights?

Yes, I like Led Zeppelin, they are another one of my favourites along with Pink Floyd. What about you? Do you like The Kinks or any of the other mid sixties to seventies bands that the 'Stripes seem to be influenced by?

I dream of finding someone I could fully discuss the concepts I've been working with in my head, as long as I feel like discussing them, and get feedback beyond "damn..." and the sense they need a tylenol.

T.T


Zep, Pink Floyd, Rush, the Beatles, 1940's and 50's crooners (oh I wish I had the velvety voice of Nat King Cole, or Sinatra, or Ben E. King, or any of em really... ), Queen, early Metallica, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, 50's and 60's pop hits, all sorts of that stuff. The Doors, the three or four Kink's songs I recognize (All day, you really got me, tired of waiting), Moody Blues, all sorts of stuff like that. My mom and dad had an awesome record collection.

I think Avatar is becoming a special intrest for me as well. I'm just reluctant to admit it to anyone just like I was when I discovered Titan A.E. was a special intrest. My main special intrests are meerkats and veternary medicine. Why not combine them and become the world's leading authority on meerkat health? That's what I plan to do. People are always telling me to give it up because it's too hard to be a vet and will be even harder for someone with AS. My special intrests were never limiting to me. They were limiting to everyone else becuase I never wanted anything to do with anything else. It's frustrating trying to find information on meerkat anamoty but it is out there...somewhere. But it's not nearly as frustrating having everyone tell me to give up on being a vet because it is supposedly too hard. I'm having trouble finishing high school, and will probably have trouble in college as well but once in vet school I will probably be valadictorian.

Only one of my interests has had any economicimpact [except for spending me money to acquire references and materiel]. It has been noted that I cannot talk even THAT one even to others in the same field. Well, to be fair once I found a non-Aspie with whom temporarily [about two months] I could talk. Which mostly meant shutting up while he told me what's what.

Thing is, I cannot easily fake a normal conversation about pretty much nothing, and they don't even try to fake conversing with me.

I get by if I listen and think my own thoughts. But the interests are just a byproduct of the brain difference, and yes, if you broadcast on FM you are limited in an AM world.

Not at all.
I find my special interests enrich me and fuse with me and offer me such an incredible way to live.
I do get sad sometimes that others do not understand how richly I live.
it's not about money for me. It is about truly living as I am meant to, as a person with AS.

No my special interest are who I am. One allows me to watch anything, read anything, listen to anything, and look at anything. Its Wrll. I just want to spend an hour a day on writing a book and try to write a book a year and make it as mainstream as possible to make tons of cashe money.

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I might add, all my interests - the ones I bore people to death with, and not just the economic one - are liberating, not limiting.

They may negatively impact my social life, but they make all parts of my life, including social life, possible to bear. Without them, I would be pretty much a mess by now.

NOTE: there is evidence that if you have a strong supportive community, where you are just Cousin Joe, he's a little odd but he's just like his dad and my uncle, you may not need to be so drawn into your interests. Though the prime example for sure had them.

My current interest in movies is actually less limiting than my interest in anime was. That's because watching movies is generally seen as more socially acceptable than watching anime; I can talk about it openly without being considered "esoteric" or "geeky". I've made some friends online and I've gotten closer to some of my family members by discussing movies with them. However, my mom has pointed out that my obsession with Johnny Depp movies, particularly Pirates of the Caribbean, was something that I should have been interested in when I was a preteen (I was 12 when the first PotC movie came out).

Not really. I have three friends that I do stuff with, and I do get out, a lot. I don't go on about my special interests in music offline, unless I've had a few beer. Maybe my interest in WP is somewhat limiting, because I'm not out walking, as much as I can be. I could be walking 20,000 steps a day, but than that would be limiting, because it would be cutting out the time that I socialize, with other members of my clubhouse, or post on WrongPlanet.

As far as my interest in The Kinks are concerned, if people don't like the way that I look, than they don't have to look at me. Normal people scare me, for reasons unrelated to my special interests, so I have no interest in them. That interest is limiting to the hours of sleep that I get at night. I only get the 6 out of the 8 hours of sleep that the experts recommend, but that's about it. I talk about typical things with the normal population, unless I'm at a New Years Party, and I get drunk, while everybody's doing Karaoke. I used to hear from my sister that it was great, that her friends got to know the real me, at a house where I went to, for drinking parties with my family, and than it would dawn on me. I'd tell myself, "I got drunk and talked about The Kinks, London and Cockneys." My dad used to tell me that I could drink, just as long as I don't "Walk the streets."