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Do you have a timeout issue with special interest?
No, my special interest doesn't adhere to time. 80%  80%  [ 4 ]
Yes, I have a short time to get the basics (less than 5 days) 20%  20%  [ 1 ]
Yes, I have between 5 and 10 days to get the basics. 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Yes, I have between 10 and 20 days to get the basics. 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Yes, in a way. It's more than 20 days, but I might loose interest if not active enough. 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
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05 Jun 2012, 8:53 pm

I have something that would be considered weird by normal diagnosis criteria.

I have 72 hours (3 days). To get a special interest up and running.

Eg. If I work on a new computer program I have 72 hours to get the basics working, otherwise I'll lose interest. Or if I'm trying to understand something new, I have 72 hours to get the basics right ... if not, I simply lose interest.

Does anybody else have a timeout on those?


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06 Jun 2012, 2:26 am

I almost always find something that yanks me in for at least a year. Henry James, B.F. Skinner, Bloodrock - it's got to be every single word, every last note. It's fairly exhausting actually.


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06 Jun 2012, 3:15 am

For me special interests have always captivated me from the moment I encountered them.



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06 Jun 2012, 3:45 am

Mine sort of grow on me over time, however if there are some substantial setbacks then I can sort of postpone the interest. I dont have a time limit - your time limit sounds sort of like a trial, give it a go for three days before deciding whether or not it makes the cut as a new interest, sounds potentially helpful :)


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06 Jun 2012, 3:56 am

For me, it's not so much a matter of time, but how proportionate my feelings towards them are compared to how often I indulge in them. Since virtually all of my interests have revolved around movies and TV shows, I can tell if one of them is going to become a special interest by how many times it takes me to watch it in order for an obsession to develop. I usually only need to see a movie or TV show once or twice in order to know if it has the potential to become a special interest. By contrast, if I watch a movie or different episodes of a TV show multiple times and I still don't feel obsessed with it, then it just wasn't meant to be my special interest.



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06 Jun 2012, 4:23 am

What you describe is more a question of perseverance in trying to acquire skills or maintain a (normal) interest than true discovery or "creation" of a special interest. Special interests cannot be controled, they just happen. After all, because people with Asperger's syndrome are blessed with special interests doesn't mean they can't also have normal interests and hobbies like normal people.