How can i hide my special interests from people?

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but still remain true to myself? I tend to get deeply interested in medical conditions. Most highschoolers find my topics of reading and so on quite disturbing, and i believe that if i can manage to reduce its obviousness in the new school i am attending i could save myself a ton of pain. I still want to read about it though, and i drive myself mad if i dont talk about it with someone, and my parents become emotional and i can tell im upsetting them by the storys of some of these people. I have no clue what to do about this, any advice. I dont want to end up being the odd kid who gets beat up all the time again, I know ill always seem unusual to people, but i hope maybe this time i wont be odd enough to get attacked.

Others with highly unusual special interests, what do you do? Do you talk about it anyway, or hide it somehow?

I would suggest first that you say nothing at all about it at school. Not even to a friend you make there. To no one. Give no hint of it. Keep it strictly at home.

Also, there are lots of forums for lots of different things that you could going. For CP and conjoined twins they would probably be geared toward parents but I'm sure that you would be welcome there if you joined and just told them that you were interested in it. Don't tell them that it's your special interest because "special interest" may sound to them like you view them as a bug under a microscope. Just say that it's something that interests you after you saw something on the news about it, or something like that.

By joining a forum or a group, you can have a designated place for your interests. If you keep it to the internet and those groups, then you aren't likely to run into problems at school with it.

If you absolutely must talk about it at school at some point, talk about "the conjoined twins I saw on a talk show" or something to that effect. Make it sound like it was something you recently saw, then decided to Google to see what it was about. Some kids at school might react better to "Siamese twins" than "Conjoined twins" because that may be the only thing they have heard them referred to as. You can also bring it up at school with friends if there has recently been a news report of a set being surgically seperated, or if there was a recent special on tv about it. If it was a special on tv, say that your mom or dad was watching it and you were in the room, if you think they might think you strange for watching something like that.

Google cerebal palsy forums or conjoined twins forums and I'll be you may find something, even if it's for parents.

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Either a. stop caring about what other people think of your interests or b. don't being them up.

In high school, my special interest was tuberculosis. I didn't hide it at all, even though many teachers and students thought it was disturbing. I didn't care what they thought, because my life revolved around it and it was all I thought about.

Ooohh, I understand what you're going through, because I've been through the same thing. When you're still at school, it is hard to keep special interests to yourself - until you get told by so many different people at school that when you finally leave school you have learnt from your mistakes and you decide to ''start a fresh'' as you enter the adult world and not be so obsessive over one thing any more, to other people.

When I was 13 to 16 I had an intense obsession on some local people, and I talked about them non-stop in school to a lot of my friends, to the point where they said things like, ''gosh, you're so obsessed!'' Even the teachers were worried about me and had to call my mum in to have a talk with her, because my obsession was over some men and the school was worried about my youth and vulnerability which does not mix well with being too obsessive. When I reached 16 I got to the point where I was tired of everyone having the same opinion about me, and the fact that my obsessions were driving away any friends I did have, so I decided to make a fresh start after I left school and not talk about my obsessions as much. I have got new friends now, and they are aware that I get crushes on men, but they don't know that I get overobsessed because I've just kept the talking about them to a minimum. Now I have learnt to keep my obsessions to myself more.