Does anyone have useless special interests?

Post Reply New Topic

My interests are dictated by my objectives but I try to avoid interest in things that interest others in my environment. I spent an extended length of time, at one point, during which my one and only interest was in figuring out what makes people tick and pride is a biggie. So I usually try to stay as far away as possible from others' pride. In my physical environment, that is. Unless it's something important to me, in which case someone's pride is the last thing on my mind.

I don't seem to have much pride. Is that an autistic thing? Online, I don't care much because they are free to step away. At a job, school or in a family, the other guy might feel trapped and lash out in some sort of extreme manner. Although, I've been in forums where I've rubbed up against someone's pride and the other guy sort of acts like he's trapped there with me and goes a bit berserk. In which case, I just leave.

I would call a "useless" interest a very smart choice for one who lacks (and cares that they lack) social skills. Something to occupy and hone the mind while not pissing anybody off. Yep. A very good move.

Though I never had it as a special interest, I've always liked brutalist art, especially since I visited the Hayward Gallery. It just seems so simple and clean.

My special interests (movies) are useless in that they're things I couldn't realistically use to get a job, since it's really hard breaking into the film industry. However, they aren't completely useless, because they inspire me to create artwork and stories based on them. They also help me with social interaction since they are movies which a lot of people are familiar with.

That could be very useful if you want to learn about the details of lint.

ruveyn

My special interests tend to have practical application in the end.

Same here, though television shows rather than comic books. I sometimes wish I could control what captures my interest and choose something out of which I could actually make a career...

LOL, I used to be a lint picker. I also had this table that I would sit for hours peeling the paint off of it. I totally lost interest when my cousin noticed and showed me a much more efficient way of removing paint so that I could refinish the table. I really didn't care about refinishing it. I just wanted to peel the paint off.

I love learning about science and technology but I'm probably never going to do anything with it, but I love to talk about some areas in science/tech. Maybe I will, but school has little to do with my education in the science topics I'm interested in. I may make a CO2 laser or something as eccentric because I think it's neat but it's essentially useless.

I must admit that Austin Powers was a pretty useless obsession.

I thought my time on the Sims game was completely useless and a guilty pleasure but it did teach me some things. I was quite obsessed with it for nearly a year but haven't played at all in 5 or 6 years now but the lessons of the energy meters and social meters stay with me. I understand more now if someone's social meter is 'down' and they need to interact and how another person's or my own may be 'full up'.

Even the most useless things can turn out to be helpful.

my interest in digital audio restoration is pretty useless to anybody but myself, judging by the lack of interest [or even curiosity] i encounter when i offer my services to people in the used record stores.

Why, yes, I was temporarily obsessed with Ranma and Gohan and have come to know everything there is to know about them.

Pretty sure I'm not gonna find any practical applications for my knowledge about them.

+1

But part of the reason why my special interest is useless is because I live in a country where it's forbidden. In most other countries, including the entire EU, US and Oceania, my life-long love of turtles and all things connected to them and how to take care of them, might land me a job connected to reptiles. But not here.

So it's not really useless just the circumstances.

I've had plenty of useless obsessions though.

I'll admit most of the things that I have an interest in may not have a pratical application on a daily basis or have connection to something which could be used in terms of financial or occupational nature.Anyways, I don't disregard or discard such things..Simply all that we have interest in or take fondnes of makes us up as a person and people in general....