Curbing Your Special Interest

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Am I the only one who often needs to curb my special interest among NTs?

I was talking with a friend, and she told me about various things in her academic and developmental life, and she fit the bill exactly for someone with hypoxia to the left side of the brain (I have it on the right, which causes Aspie-like characteristics, left is far more common. It causes dyslexia, poor handwriting, poor coordination, and the person may seem "young" or "immature" as a child, but not profoundly so. Many end up writing with their left hands, because their once-dominant right hands are weakened by the injury, since it involves the motor cortex. That's why there's an erroneous belief that left handedness can lead to bad handwriting, dyslexia, etc. It doesn't. These are people who write with their left hands because they lost a lot of nerve control to their right hands. This is rarely diagnosed, but getting more common with the increase in twin births and premature infants surviving). So of course, since neurobiology is my special interest, I wanted to tell her all this.

Then I remembered, who wants to hear "Oh yeah, you're like this because your brain got injured during birth." I'm sure she'd rather carry on believing she's truly left handed (for that, you have to be born with the right side of the brain dominant, and these people are rarely dyslexic and often have beautiful handwriting). Still, it was so hard for me not to tell her!

Anyone else have situations like this?

Pretty much exactly. I've had quite a few different Special Interests in my life, but I'm still trying to remember one rule: "Don't ever make "you" statements!" Even if you're accurate, and think you're complimenting them, they're still not going to like it. If they want to know it, they should ask a real psychologist, and they (probably) didn't ask me at all. It's like "Do you think this dress makes me look fat?" if they did ask!

Simply boring them with a whole lot of stuff they don't want to hear about other SIs is much easier to forgive than insulting them is! Though I try not to do that, too, since I learned a long time ago that most folks aren't _nearly_ as interested in these things as I am.

Should hear me go on about Hemolytic disease of the newborn at Christmastime. "I almost died in your womb, mum. Let me tell you how."

I used to curb it but don't any more. Must be why someone said I was obsessed when I kept talking about brain disorders and then said 'I have a magazine about the brain up in my room.'

Damn that Ritalin.

im interested in your condition, where can i find information on it? Wikipedia failed me, a few google hits down i found http://www.linkshaender-beratung.de/eng ... xtrous.htm, which seemed to kinda sorta have more related info, but not exactly

That article offers a lot But yeah, there is little information about it online- because it is rare and misdiagnosed 99% of the time.

The wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_hypoxia

And it has been proven that NVLD is most likely a right-hemisphere HBI, either way, these are the symptoms for the most part. I have some additional characteristics: http://www.med.umich.edu/yourchild/topics/nld.htm

Man, there are some great resources I found, but I just don't remember where...it took hours of research. Sorry I don't have as much info. I found most of my info in science journals, but I don't remember which ones.

I wanted to yell at the doctor yesterday
This is not a fxxxing allergy, this is a virus infection of group A coxsackie virus!! ! And you gave me an allergy cream? Idiot
But he was so friendly I didn't even mention it. I just got the mess and stowed it away, for when I actually get an allergy.

I wanted to yell at the doctor yesterday
This is not a fxxxing allergy, this is a virus infection of group A coxsackie virus!! ! And you gave me an allergy cream? Idiot
But he was so friendly I didn't even mention it. I just got the meds and stowed it away, for when I actually get an allergy.

I'm sure there are plenty of people here (myself included) who would love to hear about each other's special interests. That's why I made this thread:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt186133.html