Interests you can't share with other people

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I love to watch nail fungus videos, especially podiatrist videos.

Hitler in his bunker throwing a fit with different translations?

Those ones.

I have something I'm stuck on right now that I can't share with anyone, but it's not anything dark. There was this cassette tape I had as a kid. It was geared for kids, but it wasn't babyish, it was more funny, and also the tunes were based on folk songs so it had good music. It's on YouTube, and I play it sometimes, but there's no way on this big old ball-shaped planet that I would let people know what I was playing.

Is having an interest in Hitler wrong?

Criticizing someone's poor spelling and grammar is bullying? Strange take for someone with autism, a condition that frequently results in attention to detail to the point of being pedantic and nitpicky.



That's probably not uncommon.

If it's a problem probably depends in a large part on the character. Sexually fantasizing about Tony Stark is very different from sexually fantasizing about Bugs Bunny, even though they're both fictional characters.

I think if you fantasize about a fictional character or an impossible scenario it's probably a good idea to psychoanalyze yourself a bit. Try to determine what it is about the character or scenario that's turning you on. There is probably some useful realization within the fantasy.



I have a close friend (never diagnosed with anything, but I wouldn't be surprised if she's slightly iADHD) who is a very sweet woman and not violent, but she's long been fascinated by serial killers and the like. She pursued a career in the criminal justice field as a result. She doesn't hide it, but she also doesn't discuss the (literally) gory details with most people.



Interesting skeptic is similar way I'd describe my interest in cryptozoology and UFOs. I was very interested as a child, but as an adult I've come to understand how much fakery and urban legend and flimsy evidence surround the topics, obscuring any truth that might be within. Don't get me started on shows like "Ancient Aliens" or "Curse of Oak Island."

However, when someone I already had strong feelings for admitted to their childhood dream of going to Loch Ness to look for Nessie, it was very difficult to restrain myself as I had never told her it was also a childhood dream of mine. (Unfortunately, she had already repeatedly rejected my romantic interest in her.)

Does anyone have any special interests/hyperfixations that you can't share with other people because it's embarrassing or people wouldn't understand it?