How do you act when excited about your interests?

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easy peasy. i just trade in my union for something alot smaller and self-sufficient.

I've never devoted much thought to this question. Considering it now, I think the appropriate feeling to answer would be the way I get when particularly involved in a book I am reading. I lose track of time. Nothing exists outside the story I am reading. I have noticed I read much more quickly in this state even though I'm not making any conscious effort to do so.

I'll call that my reading zen state. Hard to achieve and impossible to achieve intentionally. Book has to be really good and involving, things around me have to be quiet, and the lighting has to be right. Otherwise i'll get distracted every few minutes and still be well aware of the passage of time and my immediate surroundings.

I just found out that I bounce. Someone I know is excellent at copying people acted like me when excited about a topic. She bounced.

I talk a lot, and then regret it when I calm down since people probably find me weird. I can't help it I just get so excited and happy.

MY BIGGEST SECRET:
I also shake my head and upper body when -->excited<-- or angry/thoughtful. I sit in my bed with my legs kinda cross legged and shake my head and upperbody to music.

Embarrassing. But true.

Whenever I get to talk about my interests, learn something new about them, or have a "eureka" moment I tend to get ultra OCD about it. I talk much more than normal, ask questions beyond the "limits", and often feel like I'm moving a mile a minute on the inside. I sometimes regret the asking questions part because it tends to end badly, but otherwise they are very productive/enjoyable times. Physical signs would be stuttering, jitters, involuntary spasms, and lifting myself up and down on my toes intermittently if standing. I also tend to put a show or song that I like on repeat when I'm thinking at home/talking online, but I've cut back on that in particular due to my wife's complaints.

The hardest part about excitement for me is avoiding overdoing something. Whenever I stop myself I feel as though I lost out on something, and whenever I overdo things I feel I might have made a bad impression that could be impossible to repair.

High pitched fast talking.

If at home sitting around something catches my imagination/interest I often suddenly find myself standing by the patio doors or the closest window or next to the kitchen sink.

If around others I am extremely cautious about any talking about anything that interests me having learnt from experience that talking is not likely to be the best option for me.

Last year I got extremely interested in criminal law, magistrates and crown courts and then deeply interrogated someone who had a recent courtroom public gallery experience.