Interests you can't share with other people

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I'm kind of interested in this. It's not that I like the gore factor, and it's not that I want anyone to be hurt like that, but my microanalysing brain which can't picture things ever, tries to imagine. I wanted to know what a body looked like from drowning because I couldn't picture it and I had no idea. Then, I immediately wanted to forget. It's more like information-seeking for me than sensory or gore seeking.

In Uni I had a friend who was in the Physiotherapy program and she got to work on cadavers. One day she took me to the cadaver room where they had a few full bodies donated to science, but also pickled body parts in formaldehyde. I remember seeing the bottom of an adult man's foot floating in a jar. The specimen was preserved so they could learn about all the rings in the skin, and the fat pads on feet.

I thought it was really cool and wasn't remotely upset by any of it. Maybe it's my alexithymia or maybe I'm just super-analytical. I want to know how things work, and that includes human bodies. It all seemed kind of fake anyway, because we get desensitised to see that type of stuff as special effects in movies or art.

I think I’m the same. It’s all about information seeking. When I did my nursing degree I did several pracs in cosmetic and surgical theatre. Watching people have boob jobs, skin blemishes, nose jobs etc was interesting, but watching people get hip and knee replacements, complex breaks repaired was great. The surgeons were so much rougher than you would imagine when articulating the old, then new joints. The drills and saws and hammers they use are pretty cool as well.

For me it's like half information-seeking, and half just a sick fascination that I've always had. lolol

Same with me. I found that no one wanted to listen to me going on about my special interest, so like @MagicMeerkat, I learned to keep mum unless someone opened the door by showing their own interest in the subject.

So basically, I can't share ANY of my special interests with other people in general

i share my PG-rated special interests with the ambient air itself, and if anybody overhears, i hope they get some entertainment out of it.

Autistics usually have high attention to details. Autistics are often criticized for being negative, nitpicking, pedantic, perfectionist, judgmental, etc because they notice little errors.

So for an autistic to complain someone would engage in that behavior towards them - especially about something as straightforward as correct spelling and grammar - is an incongruity bordering on hypocrisy.

I've read a couple books in recent years about conspiracy theories trying to understand things like Q.

I quickly lost interest in the subject. Basically, every conspiracy theory is the same. The specifics often change but the core reasons for the conspiracy and why people are attracted to it are all the same. Then, now, always.

the common person does not know what Touhou Project is and doesn't really care to. If I want to talk about it I really only have the World Wide Web to talk to other people about it.

I'm a furry too. But not for the sexual side to it. I just want to be an animal. Always wanted to make my own plushies. Of species most people don't know exist such as fossas, saiga antelope, Saola, palm civets. Once upon a time no one seemed to know what meerkats were either. But now, since they are my main special interests my IRL nickname is Meerkat Queen. My fursona originally was a meerkat but now it's an alien species I made up that's kind of like a cross between meerkats and fossas.

IDK if I've ever had any taboo special interests like serial killers or poop but they way I was treated as a child for ANY special interests made be feel like I might as well be. My BIGGEST special interests were meerkats, Lion King, and veterinary medicine. Now they're meerkats, veterinary medicine and Rocket Raccoon.

Same with me. That got me into studying Hebrew. A few days before the war, I decided to take a break from Hebrew. Now I’m studying a less controversial language.

I say, roll with it. Keep diving in and learning new things about EDs until the next special interest grabs your attention. That’s kind of how it works for me.

And just in passing [with under-trying, which often works the best] , you might be able to help some other people. For example, maybe with a link you think is better than average, or what in your judgement is the top 3 features, etc. [I really think we human beings often have this weird quirk in which we get an overview of something by a set of three main facts or three big categories]

Here’s something which interests me about eating disorders—

With anorexia, I read that some recent thinking is that it’s not 100% psychological. But it might also be the fact that the body’s “thermostat” for appetite has gotten re-set.

Thanks for the excuse to share some info, I do think it's useful for people to know about

Anorexia has the highest death rate of any mental illness.

People often assume that restrictive eating disorders are just a response to societal beauty standards that over-emphasise thinness, but based on first-person accounts of people's goals and motivations for their restrictive EDs, that seems to be just one factor. Amoung goals, I've seen:
looking more feminine / looking more masculine / looking genderless, looking powerful and in control so people will respect me, looking weak and fragile so people will be kind to me, looking more attractive so I can find a partner, looking frightening so no one will ever touch me again, looking as sick on the outside as I feel on the inside so that I'll be "worthy" of treatment, achieving a number on the scale that I consider a "perfect" number (without caring how it affects my appearance).

What is more consistent is the presence of other overlapping mental health problems, such as ptsd, ocd, depression and anxiety. When trying to help a loved one with an eating disorder, it's best to focus on supporting their mental health, and avoid talking specifically about their body and their eating habits if you aren't their doctor. Commenting on how thin they look can just reinforce the behaviours, and pushing them to eat more without addressing the underlying problems can result in distrust and rebounds.

I love to watch nail fungus videos, especially podiatrist videos.

I have shared with a few people but I have a couple special interests in adult topics that I mostly keep to myself.

moi aussi.