Special Interest

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A special interest is what NTs like to call an "obsession" that ND people have that is somehow wrong and must be discouraged but is okay if the person is NT. For example, let's say an NT child is fascinated with dinosaurs. Most people would think that is a good thing, that it's a great hobby and should be encouraged. But if the child is autistic the NTs think this is a very unhealthy obsession and it should be discouraged and the kid should be encouraged/forced to be interested in "normal" things even if they have no desire to be at all.

Never mind that many NT people are extremely unhealthily obsessed with things and it's causing destruction to humanity, such as politics, religion, and "celebrities". It's us aspies and auties that are the freaks because we're supposedly all creepily obsessed with anime, Sonic the Hedgehog and My Little Pony. When I was a teenager I was bullied and harassed constantly for my interest in Garfield comics while having a lack of normal teenage interests like smoking, doing drugs, and sex. But it was perfectly okay if other kids liked Garfield.

My special interest was art, I took cartoon classes in my freshman year of high school & art classes my senior year, I took drama classes, I could remember more back then, I wanted to be actress, I took dancing my senior year too, I love dancing & I loved NO P. E. I hated changing my clothes. Dancing was another special interest, my mom owned a preschool, she had a dancing teacher there for her students, I took private classes from her, I learned a dance routine, the song was from Aladdin later I was in a dancing school.