How do you act when excited about your interests?

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How do you act when you get really excited about your interests?

Sometimes I get so excited I don't really know what to do with myself so I just jump up and down (or bounce up and down if I'm sitting down). Happened yesterday for example. I was watching the stars and I got so excited and fascinated I didn't know what else to do. So I jumped up and down.

Other times I act act/behave differently when I'm excited about things. I'm really into chemistry and today we had a brilliant Chemistry class at university. I got all excited about the organic chemistry and I talked a lot. I'm usually a quiet and very introverted person but when really enjoying something (like Chemistry in this case) I ask a lot of questions and I talk a lot (I often say things over and over again) etc. I even get louder than usual (I even answered questions in front of the class today which is very unusual for me). I think the teacher noticed my enthusiasm because he asked me if I enjoyed the class (not in front of everyone). I said I did and I also told him I really like Chemistry and that I spend time at home (on my free time) reading about it. He smiled and said "okay". Not in a rude way but it sounded a bit like he thought I was talking too much.

Anyway, after I left the class I started to go over everything in my head. Everything I had said, how I behaved and things like that. I started to regret how I had acted and I thought that people (including the teacher) probably thought I was really weird and annoying. I started to feel really stupid and I got all anxious. I know that's probably social anxiety and it might just be all in my head, but still.

What do you think? Was I too excited about things? How do you act when you're really enthusiastic about interests? Do you ever get anxious about it?

hehe, my strongest interest is snow, it started snowing yesterday and i started bouncing around the house and running to all the different windows in my house, i even squeaked a bit, in hindsight it was quite embarrassing but i was to excited to care at the time.

i dont get anxious about what people think of my reactions but i do get anxious if the interest buries me for too long, you know if you get too narrow minded about one thing, it can make me panic afterwards because i feel lost, again this is usually when it snows.

Yeah, the very interest, like just mentioning the interest gets me very excited and anxious to do something about it. If like when someone asks me about a question about something, I do often ramble beyond the question, yet I do feel I need to get the point accross.

I get excited and will talk to anyone that asks a question and when people spread misinformation about my special interests I get agitated and just get upset.

I don't know because my enthusiasm for the interest is perpetual.

I start talking faster than my mind works and often make a fool out of myself. My interest is cars, as in Antique/Sports/Exotic makes and models, and I get such an adrenaline rush when I go to a show or auction that I'm sure I sometimes bounce up and down.

These days I just get happy, as we all do. My mood is better, I feel excited, I'm anticipating having an awesome time doing one of the things I enjoy, I smile.. etc. My body language surely shows I'm in good mood, but I find it's a lot more internal than external - I just feel... good, well, happy, balanced, content, fulfilled etc.

I'm not sure if I ever got hyper-excited about special interests as a kid, but observing my more-Aspie-than-I've-ever-been 8yo nephew get excited about something he smiles, jumps up and down, runs around the house, squeals and shouts happy things (YES! I'm SOOOOO Happy & E X C I T E D to go to _____ and do _____ with grandma & grandpa today!") etc and really expresses his excitement.

As for doing any of these "childish," or more Autistic behaviours as an adult.. they may get some awkward glances from some people, but f 'em, who cares? You ought not to, especially sine these reactions are beyond your control, but also because wtf-ever - they're expressions of happiness in the way you express them. Just be happy, and be happy being different, and if others have a staring problem with it then feel sorry for them that they may be incapable of being as happy and excited about something as you are, or feel sorry for them that they feel a need to suppress expressing feeling happy when they're excited about something as a young child on Christmas morning. Perhaps it's them who has the problem and could learn from your example of just being free to be who you are at all times. No one should ever feel bad or self conscious about being happy, no matter how it happens to automatically be expressed.

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I get interested. I don't jump around or anything. You know in the movies where a scientist finds something interesting, mutters "My God" under his breath and then three days later it shows him putting the finishing touches on something? That's me. A movie series, a TV show, a book, whatever, I do a marathon session until I'm done.

I also behave strangely when personal interests are involved, and it goes far enough for people to start seriously hating me.