''NTs have no interests''

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Tell me why this annoys the hell out of me!

Because it's prima facie wrong?

Because people being wrong bothers you, especially when it is people trying to be 'better' than each other?

It is wrong.
NT's like sports. YUCK!! !

It's actually a rhetorical question.

It means people with AS seem to think that NTs have no interests, when every NT I've met has an interest in at least something. A lot of men like cars, or football, or computers, and etc, and a lot of women like shopping, cooking, TV Soaps, and etc. If NTs had no interests then they must be very boring people who sit staring into space all day,

Last edited by Joe90 on 23 Oct 2011, 4:29 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Because! Sorry I can't elaborate on that.

NTs like socializing. The extroverted ones can be said to have "other people" as a special interest. That's practically the definition of extroversion. And of course they have interests that are weaker than proper special interests, but noticeable all the same.

They are different, sure, but that's okay. You have to let them be themselves. They're the glue that holds society together--the people making all those connections and doing all that social structuring. Without NTs, we'd be a bunch of solitary hunters, and any technology invented by the Aspie cave-men would've died with the cave-man who first figured it out. While it takes atypical people to innovate, it takes typical people to integrate those innovations into a society.

However boring it is to you--remember, your special interests are probably equally boring to them. Live and let live, I say.

Has this been said?

I've never heard anyone say that about NT's.

Hey, Aspies can like sports too! The big difference is that Aspies like the strategic aspect of the game and watching plays develop while NTs use sports as background noise while drinking beer and yapping about the events of the week.

Very true!

Because it's an ignorant statement.

No but it's been clearly hinted.



And being NT doesn't mean socialising 24/7. And no, NTs who like sport don't all do it like that. I've been in a pub before with my dad (my dad is a football fan), and the first thing he asked his mates was, ''here, did you watch the World Cup finals yesterday?'' and they were like, ''yeah, yeah, I did, [name] was hopeless, wasn't he?'', ''yeah, the score was 5-nil. I thought Manchester would win, but it turned out they were crap'', ''yeah''.....and so on. (Don't know much about football but it's roughly how the conversation kind of went).

My uncle's wife is interested in horses. She and her friend are both into horses, and they both own a horse together what they keep at the stables, and they go and see their horse together a few evenings a week and do whatever you do when you own a horse. I bet they don't go there to yap to eachother about whatever and ignore their horse. They go there to see their horse, and I've heard them talk about their horse loads of times.

A special interest/obsession/infatuation is (by personal experience) where your mind is constantly full of this one thing, and you feel the urge to talk about it all the time, and you currently involve your life around it, and you believe it is more ''important'' than real important things. For example, I used to have an obsession with this man, and I saw the man in Tescos one day and I was so excited to tell my mum, and so when I got home I told her, then after a few minutes I suddenly went into detail of what actually happened, and my mum yelled at me, ''oh for christ sake - you still talking about that?! Yes, so you saw the man you fancy - can't you talk about anything else what you done today? You should be looking out for jobs, not stupid people like that!''
That is sort of an example of an Aspie type of obsession.
A normal obsession/interest (what Aspies can have too), is when you just find a particular subject interesting, and you like to collect things what are to do with it, for example my mum likes cats and she collects cat ornaments, and she loves stroking cats and going to places where cats are, and she has a pet cat, but she doesn't sit and talk/think about cats all day long and draw pictures of them and write stories of them all the time and drive people away by not knowing when to stop thinking/talking about them.

Those are the differences between a special interest and a general interest.

I think ''NTs have no interests'' is a myth because most, if not, all people have an interest in at least something.

If nobody had any interests or hobbys or ambitions, I would be bored to tears when I'm with my mates!
The conversations would be like this all the time:

'Hello, how are you today?'

'I'm ok cheers'

'What have you been doing since you left school?'

'Oh nothing. Glad to get out of that place.'

'Aren't you going to college or anything?'

'No, don't like studying. I'm not interested in anything at all, except talking to all my 500 friends I have.'

'Right. Do you want to come to the movies with me and my mates on Friday night to see that new film what's out?'

'No I don't like films.'

'Ok....would you like to go bowling with us on Saturday?'

'No, never bowled before, don't want to start because I'm not interested.'

'How about if we all went to Spain for a week? That'ld be a lot of fun if a crowd of us went.'

'No, don't like holidays and stuff.'

'So what do you like to do then? Anything?'

'No. Just socialise with all my 500 friends I got.'

It would be so dull and boring if nobody had any interests, hobbys and ambitions. I'm neurotypical and I go to college, and I do dancing on Wednesday nights because I enjoy it, and I enjoy going shopping and getting new clothes at the week-end. I also enjoy swimming. When I was at school I came first in swimming in athletics. That's all interests.

Nah, NTs not having interests is just a myth. And most NTs wouldn't even understand why such a myth exist. Most NTs have interests that we right out looove. And it's not only sports and people-watching.
My insterests have included collecting rocks and miniature skeletons, the NASA space shuttle program, collecting dictionaries and The X-files. Right now my biggest interest is still dictionaries and singing in a choir. It's just that many NTs choose to talk about other things than their interests when they socialize with people they know or suspect wouldn't share their interests.

If you had no intrests I wouldn't think you're neurotypical.. maybe depressed or something.. I question how that stereotype arose..