Overwhelmed by your special interest?

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Is there so much that you are sometimes overwhelmed by your special interest. You want to watch everything or listen to everything. Does it sometime seem like you should just quit because you will never be able to experience all of your special interest.

I wish. I'm still overwhelmed by festive apathy.

My special interest does not do that to me. The Kinks make me happy. I never get overwhelmed by the things that make me happy.

The entire decade of the 60s is a whole different story, which is why I only concentrate on the part of that decade that compliments my personality, the most - Swinging London and Carnaby Street. I don't feel overwhelmed, that way.

I feel overwhelmed by Youtube, because there's a lot of music out there, and I feel compelled to expand my musical horizons.

To some extent. I love to draw and when I was younger and not expected to be that good, it was less ovewhelming. Now that I'm 23 it's more overwhelming because I compare myself to people my age or younger who are a lot better. I know it's just a secondary interest and I've never been to school for it, but I want to be good at it and the amount of work I have to do is overwhelming.

Dusting is your avatar something you drew?

I do sometimes, my special interests are mostly plants and Star Wars, I spent $40 on seed growing equipment just because I wanted to grow plants a while back, I didn't even plan to get it. I spent the entire day planting seeds and tending to my many plants.

I spend a lot of money on manga and then decide which ones to get or read. I have quite a few unread mangas. It can overwhelm me because of choice, I also feel inferior cos I'm not down with the latest arc in a continuing series.

I do, I really; definitely; positively do.

well, i get heightened social anxiety when discussing them. and if its in a social setting where i'm doing them, i can panic a bit. and try not to show too much enthusiasm, because it makes me nervous.

I've always been like that, too. It's interesting to come here and have people talk about stuff like this. I can tell you for certain that when I was your age, I felt that heightened social anxiety when discussing my special interests--but, unlike you, I didn't understand that's what I was feeling. I never would have been able to say, "I feel...." All I knew was that my voice and hands would tremble, someone would make a comment about how weird I am, and I'd tell them to f- off. Or something like that. I would be horribly offended that other people could see my discomfort, but if they said anything, I just thought they were being rude. I didn't understand the concept of "aspie special interest", or anxiety, or any of that.


One time, when I was working in an office while in the Air Force, my coworkers were talking with each other, and one of them mentioned something that happened to be one of my secret special interests. I felt like all of my blood drained out of me. One of the guys noticed, and said, "Are you alright? You look like you've just seen a ghost."

oohhh yeah. i feel that secret excitement. XD i wish i could just shout out and learn more...but yeah i dont. XD

hmm. is this un-aspie-like? to know what is happening to me? i can tell you, before i learned about social anxiety, i was so so miserable for my loneliness in the area.

it's always that way.

Yeah, I tend to overwhelm myself. I get crazy focused on my special interests. I am constantly on the net reading, wanting to go to bookstores to buy books about them...

I am big into WWII history, specifically the Screaming Eagles Division, as well as the history of the concentration camps. Also gaming and knitting.

I love WWII history as well. I like "historically accurate" stuff like Band of Brothers and I especially like watching documentaries like WWII in Color. I find books on WWII a very easy read as well. I am fortunate to be in close proximity to Ft. Bragg in NC, home of special forces and 82nd Airborne. They have the Special Forces and Airborne museum there and I have been enough times that I could be a tour guide. I also like researching Patton and Macarthur and their megalomania. This is a special interest that comes and goes with me.

Band of Brothers was great. I read the book before watching the movie (I always have to do that)
The casting and the portrayal of each of the men was phenomenal.

I envy your proximity to Ft Bragg. I want to go to Clarksville TN one of these days, the division museum for the 101st is there!

I get a lot of people who really find it odd that I (being female) am so into WWII history. Makes me giggle

My grandfather was a WWII veteran. I see that you are from KS. During the beginning of the war he was stationed at Leavenworth, where he actually guarded Nazi POWs. I thought his stories were fascinating. He then got shipped out to Japan.