IdahoRose wrote:
I usually don't like to socialize with other people who share my interests. My mom says I have never liked it when people had the same interests as me because the more people who are into it, the less special it makes me feel. Sometimes I even force myself to quit being into an interest if I believe that it has become "too popular". The most recent example is that I used to be way into My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, but I forced myself to stop for that reason.
That is also one reason why I sometimes struggle with my main special interest, which is the movies that Tim Burton and Johnny Depp have collaborated on - their movies are very mainstream now and have literally hundreds of thousands, sometimes even millions (depending on the movie) of "likes" on Facebook. I try to force myself to stop being interested in those movies because I'm scared of people perceiving me as being just another crazed Johnny Depp fangirl, though I always fail in trying to force this interest to stop because I'm way too deeply emotionally invested in it.
Another reason I struggle with sharing my interests with others is that they don't obsess over them the same way I do. My special interests have always revolved around works of fiction, because of the strong emotional attachments I form with my favorite characters. They essentially become my imaginary friends and I love them as I would love real people.
It's difficult to find other fans of my favorite fictional works who understand my deep involvement with the characters. Fortunately, I have somehow managed to find another fan of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp's movies who does understand this, and because of that, he is probably the only person in the world who I don't mind having the same special interests as me.
This is extactaly how I feel with my special intrests/obsessions. When meerkat manor came out, I felt as if my special intrest/obsession with meerkats was being taken away from me. There was a zoologist for some reason I had basicaly assumed was the antichrist, I think it's because I subconciously saw him as a challange to my knowledge about meerkats. Come to think about it, even as a kid I saw other people who supposedly shared my intrests as a threat.
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18 May 2012, 12:12 pm
