Do you ever lose your "Aspie Interests"?

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I seem to be slowly losing mine. I just don't seem to have the drive to want to participate in them as much anymore. This is disturbing because all of my social contacts and any activity I do outside of my boring job is based around these. I don't seem to be finding any new interests either, I just seem to sit around at home and watch TV. I don't know if it's just because I'm more depressed or what, but I'm definitely losing the drive to participate in them.

Nope. I either get interested in something else but I find I get stuck on one interest for a coupe of weeks, months, years.
Do you know any reason why you are losing interest? I would normally say depression but there could be other reasons.
I used to jump from task to task which was because of my medication.
SSRI's decrease obsessional behaviour. Thank god it didn't last.
Or maybe you are finding yourself too busy?

I am losing my interest in them. I have been very, very depressed, tired, just sitting on Wrong Planet and playing World of Warcraft. I really want to feel like drawing, but it's just not there

I go through periods of time like that a lot, between each interest. My interests tend to be pretty short-lived, so I move through them quickly. For me that period in between is pretty normal, where I have no motivation to do anything, and everything just bores me because I no longer really have any interests at all. Having said that, I have suffered from depression for years now...I am not sure if there is a link between the two or not.

I've never lost interest in my favourite things, much to my suprise. My real interests were reactivated. once I've dropped that punk rocker prudery and forgave a lot of people here, and offline.

never to this day

Perhaps you're just burnt out and need a break. Doing one thing day in day out can get boring even for an aspie.

Acually I can identify with the drawing. I used to draw a bit but don't know what to draw anymore.

I wish I could write a novel! I love to write, I just seem to lack inspiration, and also patience. I just get sick of whatever I'm writing after a month or two, and I give up.

Nope, but I kinda alternate between my three, every few months/years.

I'm 43, and still have my first special interest; collecting and restoring antique radios & TV sets. I've gained 3 other significant special interests, but never abandoned or lost interest in any. Some have mutated (as in I was once fascinated with gasoline lawnmowers, but that graduated to motorcycles and Diesel cars and trucks). Probably the biggest difference between how my special interests were when I was a boy vs. now, is the amount of time I spend on them. My most significant special interest for the past several years, is bodybuilding. I put that first in line, and skip others if I haven't enough time. I'm married, and we are very busy with operating our avocado ranch and managing a few apartments and rental homes, so there's little time. But I still do have the passion, and the excitement still is there if I see or think about a dusty old basement with a broken TV set sitting there since the 1950s, or if I see a weird old Cadillac with a Diesel engine clattering along the road.

Charles

I say you are just burnt out.
I know with my if I do vavle hammer"Half Life map editor" or EAs Radient"COD Map editor"to much I get bored and not do it so I take a brake for while then return to them.Even with Gaming i play one game for so long I get burnt out on it.

Yes. It started back in April and I blame it on my pregnancy since that's when it happened. Must be the hormones. I read it can change your brain. Last time I got obsessed with pregnancy I spent all day reading about it but not this time because I was like why even bother if I might lose it again.

My interests have never stayed the same and they have changed over the years. The longest ones I have ever had was autism and Benny & Joon.

Not sure if I'm an aspie, but I have had special interests. One was mazes. I lost interest when it seemed like I ran out of things to pursue. I was not finding new types of mazes in books. I was able to draw every type of maze that I liked, even invented my own techniques. Eventually I ran out of ideas for new maze-drawing techniques and it became too easy to draw the ones I knew. The lack of challenge and lack of anything new made it become boring.

That was probably 20 years ago. Yet I do suspect that if some day I ever encountered a really clever new type of maze puzzle that I've never seen before then I'd love it.

Yep, I hate it when that happens. When I have a space of time without an obsession my life just feels empty.