"Computers" as the so-called "special interes

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My "interest" has always been computers. Anyone else a "computer person"? I thought "computer ASD people" is the stereotype, and yet I have not seen a single person here talk about a lifetime interest in computers.

My ASD means I am like an encyclopedia of computer information, and not necessarily talented at doing anything with the information. Do you just memorize information like me, or do you like to actually produce code/hardware ?

What was your favorite college course? I enjoyed Computer Architecture. It is something about the sophistication of order that indulges my brain.

Why/how did you get interested in it?

About me:
I am not a very good computer programmer, because I like "order", and past employers want "quick and dirty". So, eventually I abandoned programming.
My mom sends me out to fix her friends virus-ridden Windows computers.
My employment now I do research into computer architecture design area.

Thanks.

I have read multiple people mention their computer interests and computer jobs.

I am verry merry berry interested in computers, and I love coding.

I'm "interested" in computers, but I've never had the "special interest" thing. I tend to pick something up then drop it a few hours or weeks later.

So is your interest in Computer Architecture more hardware design focused (e.g. circuit boards, etc.) , or more in the systems/solutions area?

I worked in systems-related fields for like 30 years. In the early days I would have considered my interests in computers as a special interest. But after a few decades of working in it full time the bloom starts to fade from that rose.

I understand your dislike of programming. With any luck maybe you can find a way to jump into the business at more the architecture or at least systems analyst levels. Otherwise the more common career progression I have seen is to start out in programming and then move up to analysis and architecture.

One of my interests has been computers and software. This goes back to when I was really young (my Mom took me to the Lawrence Hall of Science, where we got to play games on their computers). I took my first computer class as a Freshman in High School (which was pretty rare, back in the late 1970s).

In college, I majored in systems analysis and design and minored in computer science. My favorite classes included an introduction to assembly language and introduction to algorithms – in both cases I really liked the instructor. Though, I also really enjoyed several philosophy classes and an astronomy class as well.

My first job (out of school) was as a programmer. I remember thinking, “Wow, I actually get paid to do this”. I have remained in the technology industry since. I like working with software computing systems. The difficult part (for me) is the politics.

For me its not as much an interest i think, as its a way to escape reality. Go to a happy place, that you can understand.

I tend to list computers as an interest but its not one of those big things I can talk about for hours lol.

Computers or internet in general is more my safety net. I require some form of internet(Phone/laptop) on me at all times or I get really anxious.

Not really a special interest, but I do use my computer a lot. I have a slight interest in coding, but i'm pretty bad at it so I gave up. I wish I could code, though!

Thanks.

Yes, I work on patent research in the hardware area.

I am perhaps a mediocre programmer if given enough time. The employers want "code guru" people who can work quickly - that is not me.

I work in software - hardware interaction area , such that unique hardware architectures are invented that are specific to a design goal.

I bought my self a C++ game programming book and already am in 100 pages

I've always been better at using computers than most people I've known. It's never been a special interest but the things I've done it like make websites, do graphic design and professionally edit photos have been. It's just something I've always been good at. I never stuck with my studies though because my mild dyslexia didn't like programming and the amount of text we had to read was just draining. I'm now into my early in life special interest of drawing and have various new special interests too.

I used to, but I outgrew that interest. I thought it would be a lifetime interest, but my interest in computers got replaced by other interests.

I'm afraid what Aspie traits I have don't include the really neat stuff like being a math wiz or a computer genius. I do love computer's, tho, and finding enjoyable stuff to do with them. A friend once gave me a serious talking to because I had something like five older laptops I'd gotten on ebay (all working) at the same time. They weren't expensive nor very powerful, but they worked and I could play with them happpily, both in using them, switching out parts between them (they were all variant models of each other), and so on.

He was ALMOST right. I had very good reasons for having them, and they weren't expensive to buy. But FIVE computers at the same time? There was something to what he said. I don't really care, tho', because I was having fun. Heh heh.

Oh oh. I just realized he better not see what I've got now. Nothing that's brand spanking new, but I currently have two PCs, two laptops, and two tablets, all working.

No, I have no special interest in computers.

I love computers. I do computing programming in C# for fun and then enrolled in a few online courses to work toward my professional certificate in C# programming and .NET development. I looooooove programming.

I can use computers and don't really find them confusing, but they certainly have never been my special interest. I do find out as much as I can about topics that do interest me though at least I used to, now due to my mental health I don't quite get into things like I used to.

Not really interested in computers these days although I was briefly as a teenager. I don't know if I have an ASD though. I have something like it. It could be that I was just a smart kid with asynchronous development, passion for my interests and a sensitive nature and body who got bullied too much and developed anxiety and depression as a result, or I could be on the spectrum.

Anyway:

I hate just memorising information about anything I am learning about. I like to be able to reflect on the material so that I can not only understand it, any relationships that are present, how any variables interact and how it fits with what I already know but also so that I can use said information in all sorts of weird, wonderful and sometimes unexpected ways. I like to cross my skills over into other areas as much as possible. I like messing around with what I know and seeing what I can do with it basically. I can experiment a lot.

In short I hate learning something if I don't feel as though I am eventually going to do something with that knowledge.