How much time do you spend with your interests?

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Not every day

I will spend about 60 to 70% of my time thinking about an interest, usually singular one at a time. Usually in a thought loop. Thinking in loops is very typical for Aspies. It reminds me how feed-back on a microphone happens. If your mind is focused to a point, it can tend to from a feed-back loop. So around and around it goes, thinking about the one thing over and over.

Link: Feed Back Effect

Hopefully, I will be thinking about something positive, such as mineralogy, the origin of life, lasers or a scientific paper I’m writing - my recent positive interests. I don’t like the term obsessions, its too negative. However, it is all too easy to end up thinking about something negative, every bit as continuously as a positive interest, then its obsession. Despite making considerable progress with regards social skills over the last few years, to the point that most people would not think that I’m that eccentric or different, my tendency to form narrow single minded interests is unchanged.

I spend virtually all of my time that I'm not at work or sleeping doing this.

I spend way to much time on my intrests I have spent over 70 hrs on photo manipulation in the past seven days I do not know how much time I will eventually spend on this. I am getting pretty good at it though.
I always have one or two things to spend time on.

I try to spend time on my interests but I end up hardly engaging them at all. There are too many noises in my apartment and I do not live alone and am interrupted every half hour or so. It drives me really, really crazy. I feel like I'm just waiting for things to change.

I spend an hour every morning reading medicine and it is next to impossible to tear myself away from it in the end.

As for maths, I would still be doing it for 5-6 hours a day if my parents hadn't slowed me down.