Shared special interests is nice

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I've recently gotten a new special interest. Meerkats will ALWAYS be number 1 though but I always preferred to enjoy them in private and they're kind of merged with my identity. Was hard to find anything meerkat related or even another person who knew what they were let alone wanted to hyperfocus and info dump with me.

But now I found a new special interest with something different and am in at least 3 Discord servers dedicated to it. Not a single person I've talked to is NT. Makes me wonder if James Gunn is autistic and just not diagnosed or candid about it like Eminem. Plus it's nice to have a special interest that isn't THAT niche and have people to info dump with. Only negative thing is people not in the know who just think raccoons in general have replaced meerkats. It hasn't and if someone wants to drop a a live raccoon on me, I'm NOT saying no. Anyway, it just feels nice to have a special interest that is in the know. But meerkats will always be number one. Special interests were always my biggest autistic trait and honestly...my favorite part of being autistic.

So your new special interest is raccoons? I don't blame you.

A very specific raccoon...but meerkats will always be number one

Yes sharing a special interest sounds great. Trouble for me is that my interests are too wrapped up in tiny details that nobody else wants to know about. I can share music of course, at least in a broad kind of way, but not the fine details of how I create it.

This is how I felt as a kid when I had very niche special interests that were at the time obscure animals that everyone knows today like red pandas, sloths, meerkats, manatees and fossas when everyone else wanted to talk about which Backstreet Boy or member of Hanson they were going to marry when they grew up. Even the "horse girls" and "animal girls' HATED me.