Do you hide your special interests from other people?

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Do you hide interests from other people?

The only time when I hide interests is when I'm in public just to fit in this world. I used to hide it a lot more when I was younger due to a stage I was going through in my teen years and my friends back then would of probably thought I was a bit nuts being over obsessed with a band or a TV show.

Are you also like that, just curious.... This question popped in my head when I've noticed my girlfriend hiding herself from other people which she is also in the spectrum.

- superboyian.

Well, I don't usually hide them. But my current obsession is kind of embarrassing (ASDs and similar disorders) and I can't really go talking on and on about that can I? So this is probably the first time I've ever hidden an obsession.
I have other ones too that I don't hide, like dreams.

Oh yes, I still do it at 30. It used to be really bad in my teenage years when I would get obsessed with old movies, actors/actresses, and other things. I would become expert in my interests and would be embarassed to show other people how obsessed I was because no one was like me.

I hid my obsessions through high school. After high school I wound up in a group of people who were interested in musical theatre, and even then I was more into it than they were but at least I felt like I could let that obsession out.

Other obsessions are reserved for when I'm alone. Unfortunately this means that in conversations I usually don't contribute much because the only time I'm comfortable talking about things are when they're my special interest.

I hide my obsessions as well as I can.

None of my interests are unusual in subject, so I'm not embarrassed about them. They're unusual in scope though, so I don't talk about them unless I'm explicitly asked, because I don't want to be a bore.

If it's too strange or non-mainstream I do. The music I listen to I keep a secret.

I don't really hide them, but I do avoid talking about them to people I know are not interested. The subject gets quickly changed and my feelings get a little hurt, so I try to avoid the disappointment all together. One of my interests is paranormal stuff. I find a lot of people are disturbed by the subject, so I keep it to myself. My mom doesn't mind discussing it.We both have studied it and have intelligent discussions about it. My sister is a selective Christian and sees such things to be from the devil.

Most people just don't understand my doll obsession. My mom appreciates my work. My daughter loves dolls too. My sister doesn't care to look at my work because she isn't into dolls and will not even try to appreciate the things I make. I know of a lot of people who think dolls are creepy and think grownups should not "play" with them.

My other special interest is computers. I am pretty good with them, even though I am not as good as many on this site. I love to tinker with them and do some programming, fix problems. I don't hide that one because it isn't all that odd, and I find myself helping people with theirs a lot.

So far I have not heard any special interests that are so strange they must be hidden away. I know for teenagers it can be tough to be different though. I am on the upward swing to 40, and i have been labeled weird and strange all my life, so now this stuff hardly bothers me. If someone doesnt like my interests they don't have to talk to me again.

It depends on the obsession. My obsession with knitting, I shared without a problem. My obsession with antique roses was something I could share, too. My obsession with a particular old sci-fi show, I share with those I know to be of like mind. The thing is, I get really involved with an obsession, then suddenly lose interest and move on to something else and it leaves the folks who knew me in the knitting phase or the gardening phase or whatever wondering what happened.

Some of them I can talk about with others to a limited extent. Others are things that you just don't talk about with other people, and in that sense I will keep them private.

I don't hide my obsession with Johnny Depp at all. Everyone, both in real life and on the internet, knows about it. I'm excited to share my love of him with other people, because it's the first socially acceptable special interest I've had since junior high school. Houwever, the extent of my obsession appears to bother people sometimes. They seem to get tired of me always bringing him up in conversations. They're also pretty weirded out by the fact that the inside of my closet is plastered with pictures of Johnny I got from magazines and the Internet. I don't really know why, though - it's completely acceptable for schoolgirls to hang pictures of their favorite celebrities in their lockers at school, so why is it so strange that I have such pictures in my closet?

I dress like The Kinks, so no.

I hide most of my personal info from others, including most of my obsessions.

I hide my obsessions because I know I can babble on incessantly. It's kind of odd, because it means I almost never talk about my obsessions, despite spending half my life deeply involved in them. Then again, maybe I am talking about them lots and it's only my personal view that I don't. Meh.

In person, I generally hide it as I don't want to look like I am crazy, but on the internet, I don't. It doesn't matter because I can be myself and nobody cares. Most of the time I try to keep it relevant, like Star Wars in a forum designated for that subject. But other than that, it depends on where I am and who I am with.