Nts and their interests

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Hello,

Does anyone else feel that Nts are more narrow with their interests than people with AS sometimes?.... the only difference is they are 'socially acceptable'. take football for instance... (especially at the moment with the world cup)... It is perfectly acceptable for an Nt boy to live, eat and breathe football, to the point of obsession. it is even acceptable (and possibly even encouraged) for an NT female to do the same, particularly at times like the world cup, where its seen as 'supporting your nation'. At the moment it feels like it is all anyone talks about. I also feel like my Nt group of friends have narrow interests, which they constantly talk about, like football or game of thrones, or politics etc. I am not interested in these things.
It really feels like NTS do have 'narrow' obsessions but that they are acceptable. Everyone talking about football is driving me crazy!! !

I think the ASD/NT divide is mostly made up by self-diagnosing Asperger's.

But I say this as someone who was behavior modded out of ASD and officially only has a "non-verbal learning disorder".

come to think of it, I have seen examples of NTs obsessing about a topic to the point where conversations would inevitably lead back to the topic of their interests. For example, my mom seems to link absolutely everything back to Christianity. I love my mom, and I consider myself Christian, but it can get a bit tiring, even for me. I guess sports, religion, and national pride are more acceptable obsessions. Then again, maybe it isn't the obsession that society considers acceptable or not. it might just be other factors. However, if everyone is talking about and obsessed with sports and someone else doesn't care, maybe it is the lack of obsession that becomes unacceptable. I don't know.

I've been called "not human" for absolutely loathing football....which pleases me immensely lol

I find that at times, the only difference between an autistic special interest and an NT interest are that the NT interest isn't typically all encompassing (some can be, especially conspiracy theorists). What I mean is that NTs have an easier time to talk about things outside of their interests etc, and that they don't think about that one interest all day.

In most circumstances, NT interests are also more socially acceptable (as someone already posted, more socially relatable) than the special interests of autistics.

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It sometimes seems to me that NTs don't really have interests. I mean, they just don't seem to care for anything, really. Not like me, that when I like something, I really like it. I love Sailor Moon and history for example. I love reading about it, collecting books on it, keeping up with the latest news on them, and collecting themed items on them. Same with cats. I love cats, and I collect figures, books, just about anything with cats. It's even a goal of mine to be on My Crazy Obsession show. I would so love to be considered the ULTIMATE crazy cat lady. I know, it's weird, but I guess it would be interesting. Or on Must Love Cats.

NTs seem to be obsessed with gossip and whatever everyone else said...so and so said something to someone and then that someone said something back to so and so and then someone else chipped in and someone else and....

Thats all they seem to talk about whenever I have taken time to listen into their conversations (therapist told me to watch how others interacted and it required a little eavesdropping...). I got bored and went back to my book on the paleo diet.