Medication for special interests?

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I once was on a form a few years ago where a mother said her son had a special interest in a country singer, but since taking his new medication, he didn't have the special interest anymore. Is it possible to medicate someone to make them stop having special interests? NOT ob compulsions, but autistic special interests. Not that I'd want that, and I would fight like hell if someone even suggested it. But I've always wondered if it was scientifically possible to medicate someone into not having their special interest anymore. I think I would probably commit suicide if I no longer had my special interest/s, my special interest/s are basically my identity. Sometimes they change, but not too much and I don't pick them. It's as if they picked me.

My experience is that medications create disinterest. Some solve problems but I don't think special interests are problems. Do you mean that the parent medicated the child because of a special interest in a singer? For her punishment, she shall be whipped back in time to Beatlemania.

From Wikipedia -
"Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean (born January 19, 1946)"

So she would have been medicated in 1950. I was hoping to remember something about those days, medically speaking, but that's the year I was born. Maybe they would have given her a lobotomy if she could have afforded it.

I think it's not the mother; I think it's the medical profession at the time, not to mention society's absolute intolerance of anything different. The very idea that Mom would bring you to a doctor because you're odd ... we've come a long way.

And Dolly's fine, thank heaven.

But did the mother specifically medicate her child for that purpose, or was it that the child started medication for something else and lost the special interest as a side effect?

Some medications can make you lose interest in everything, even living.
I was on an antidepressant that had that effect.
Rather ironic that a side effect of antidepressants is suicidal thoughts.

I really hope not.

Sounds like it would make a good bit of terrifying dystopian future sci-fi though.

No thank you. My special interests were a springboard to greater socialization. I could use them to meet people with similar interests. To lose my love of cats, for example, would be to lose a lifeline in hard times and a major life enhancer in good times. I couldn't imagine my life without pets in it.

To be dulled to the point where I could not enjoy pets or enjoy the accomplishments of my favorite tennis players would be awful. To lose interest in what you enjoy is a major indicator of a severe, clinical depression.