Your Most Specific/Niche Interest

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What would you say is your most specific or niche interest? Something that may seem odd to other people?

Also, does anyone feel embarrassed to share them with people you know irl? I've always struggled with sharing some of my interests with people irl because I'm afraid they will judge me and think I am really weird for them.

Early music (like medieval music, Renaissance music and even some earlier) and also historical/ancient woodwind instruments are both pretty niche. Even among classical music communities that's pretty niche. So niche that there's practically no pre-Classical (18th century) music scene in my current area. (That's changing when I move! )

I could go off on these subjects for quite some time, especially the history of woodwind instruments! Alas... Pretty niche subject that not even many classical musicians care to hear about. lol

Most of my interests are more general: classical music - all time periods, art history, French and Spanish, and literature. I go through spurts where I’m obsessed with a Zelda game, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, or WrongPlanet.

I don’t talk about my interests with people offline that often on account of being very shy. I tended to talk more about them when I was younger. Now I prefer keeping things to myself.

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I never had to think about what everyone else think when I have zero intentions of sharing my interests... Nor actually care if I say it out loud.

But then, I don't have the same urge to verbally infodump about my interests.
My special interests just doesn't come out in a form of hoarding wall of texts of info and data of a particular topic.

I don't express my special interests by talking about it at all. I just never talk about it.
So far, my special interests only manifests as an activity or practice that I can choose when or when not to do in public.

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Interesting thread. One of my niche interests is spellings of female first names.

Clarice, Clarise, Claryse, Clarrice, Clarriece, Clareece, Clairise, Clearese, Clearreece, Klaryce, Klarryce, Klairese, Klairrese, Klairrece, Klearise, Klerise, Klerrise, Klereese, Klearryce

And then big fat ponytails. This is a hybrid special interest and stim: I call it a Spim.

I like looking at bits of rubbish at the side of the road/footpath (crisp packets and drink cans etc). I look but don’t touch and I don’t tell anyone I find this interesting!

I am a confirmed and self confessed geek. I have a huge interest in the geology of the area where I live and collect rocks and fossils, study rock formations and spend a lot of time learning about the ones I find in this area. I am particularly interested in skeletal sponge forms from the Devonian age, stromatoporoids. ( when I am not studying about autism and learning as much as I can about that!) I can't possibly "pass" as "normal" (whatever that is)
no shame!! !

Do what you love and don't apologize! <3

Looney Tunes because it's immature

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It's difficult for me to speak in person so I mostly stick to things the other person knows about. That way they can do most of the talking. So in that regard, I seem atypical for an autistic person, as I don't really info dump. Not in real life anyways.

It also limits my interests in many ways. I like to learn about other cultures. If I could talk effortlessly, I'd like to go to mosques, Hindu temples, etc. Since talking is difficult for me, I don't, because they'd be asking, "What made you want to check this out? Are you a convert? Did you meet someone of the religion?" Etc. I avoid basically as many RL social situations as possible.

My interests HAVE gotten me in trouble
I like mud, I love the way it feels. I was swimming in the river, and I found a saturated clay deposit. Guess what the dermatologist ordered. The red necks caught me having a mud bath and they heckled me. They said N(word) in the water, there were dozens of them on the shore. I went under, cleaned myself,.waited half an hour, and walked back to my car. I lost my phone to the water, but I escaped the mob. Anyway, people don't accept people who do strange things.

Arts & crafts and pea-like characters such as Om Nom.