Ever felt controlled/overwhelmed by your special interest?

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I work to live, and live to enage in my special interests. Work is second, and special interests is 1st within my priority list. I work to live and live to feed my obsessions, it is a normal plan of my life that I don' want to change. The world is too interesting than to just engage in the same work or the work which has no imagination.
NT's only engage in learning material that relates to their type of work, therefore NT's expect you to know no more than your type of work. However I live a life outside of work, and as boring as a job might seem, my interests gives me meaning in life and full of excitement.

I'm obsessed with video games, and I'm always trying to play each game perfectly trying to do every single thing I can possibly do in them. I can't help it but it always takes the fun away.

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All my special interests are pataphysically related, as it is easy for me to do more than one at the same time.

I don't think any of my interests have ever over-whelmed me. They just cheer me up even through the toughest time and when I look back over the years, they bring me back so many wonderful memories. I don't see anything bad about that.

Well, my pc game addiction has taken over all desires to write, draw or do any of my other, more creative, special interests.

It's left me feeling that life lacks meaning today.. since that is all I did.

I realized at age 17 how internet had taken over my life ever since I started posting online. I realized I had to do something about it but it was hard. I wasn't playing with my neighbor anymore, I wasn't watching my shows or playing my video games and when I watch Benny & Joon every Friday, I felt anxious to get right to the computer. Then when my mother took it from me for three weeks, it was a nightmare. I felt lost and empty inside so I was depressed because something big was taken. But once I found a way to save my stories, I wasn't on the internet so much anymore. Then I found Microsoft Word on my dad's computer and started using it for my stories. Now I didn't need to be at the computer all evening and day working on a chapter to my story and posting it. Now I could save it and work on it later.

I have to force myself off the computer these days like going to bed, to shower, to eat. Sometimes I skip my meals because I am too preoccupied on here or with my fanfiction or with chatting. I'm just lazy.

With Benny & Joon, it only lasts an hour and thirty eight minutes because that's how long it is. I do take the movie with me when I travel along with my PS2. I didn't get to watch it in Montana because I was too busy with the computer but I got myself to play my Wii there and play a video game I bought few months ago but never played it. I also played the DS.

Now thanks to my fanfiction with South Park, I got myself hooked on the shows. No Benny & Joon. I can't watch two DVD's at once damn it. Wait, I have this computer and I watched part of it this morning before work. I even take this computer to work and I write during my break time and lunch break. Yes my obsession has gotten tbhis far, I now have to take my interest to work with me and keep it in my locker and think of my stories all day in my head on the job. Then I hate it when I forget about the ideas I had in my head. I try to write them down if I can still remember.

About Spokane, I have to be near there, I don't want to move far away from it I can never go there or else it be too far. I moved to Portland even though it's further away from the city but it's on the way to Montana so I can always stop there on the way. I can go to Spokane on my days off since I can get there in one day and then back the next day. I also have to eat at Fergusons when I'm there and do the B&J tour but the only place I miss is the park since you have to pay to go there since parking down town isn't free. I could park in the B&J neighborhood and walk there but I'm too lazy.


I also remember when I liked the Teletubbies a lot, I was always watching the shows and the same episode all day when it be on again on PBS Kids. Then I got upset when we lost the channel because it we had to subscribe to it and I didn't even know we were getting it for free when the channel aired. I actually cried and drew Po in my bedroom writing "Bye Beth." Took me a few days to get used to Teletubby free. Then I started watching it on regular TV but it was a nuisance to try and see when it was on since there was no TV guide for local stations and I get upset when the station decide to change the schedule. I don't get upset anymore about a tv show not coming on. I just see it as "Yay I get to keep watching my DVD" "Yay I can keep playing my game" "Yay I can go back to watching my other shows on TIVO." I think Teletubbies was the only show I ever cried over when we lost the channel and be very upset about it I b***h about it to my parents about not having the channel.

I feel for your kid; he's 1 year old, and he already knows he's Autistic. It's a lot to handle. To be perfectly frank, I didn't know what my special interests were 'til I hit 3...cause that was when I got my very first action figures; hooked ever since.

I just think he doesn't know how to handle it yet, is all...and who could blame 'em? He's 1! His mind is still developing! He probably feels overwhelmed beyond anything.

I do have to give you credit for giving in to his special interests, though.

Wish my family'd done that, rather than attempting to take me away from them, because "I was too mature for them".

Spokane I live in lynnwood. My special interest is Wrll and yes it is an obsession. Last year I went out of my way to see if I could Wrll lets say any kind of video. I contantly think about watching video, reading, listening, and looking at pictures. When I was at school in highschool all I could think about was coming home to read erotica. Now since I am trying to write novels I will have to put quotes in my books. And listen to audio or have the tv on when I am writing my novel. I dont find it harmful. Special interests help us and if we didnt have a special interest what would we do. And Wrll is the only obsession that has stayed throughout my life. Wrll is also in the order they appeared in my life. Ive been watching tv since before I was born. Then 2nd grade I started really reading. Then in 6th grade I started listening to Green Day and then music appeared in my life. Then I started looking at porn pictures and I finally got into looking. So Wrll then became my whole life.

And Spokane if you can find a way to get a job out of your computer that would be great or if you can find a way to create your own universe you could write books. Also where do you write your own fanfiction if I read right. Also I wish my eyes right now could handle the computer like you do. And diapers are for alot of people a comfort. Read 5/14s candorville it talked about star trek and how it said to be yourself so the female in that comic said pass me the nachos and the diapers.

We just need to try to find jobs that deal with our special interests.

Anyone ever thought of creating t shirts and other clothing items for their interest. Ive thought of going to a t shirt website to create a that says Wrll. Anyone else also though of getting an ambigram tattoo with the name of their interest?

Yes.

Anything (object or animal) that my eyes zoom in and focus on could become a potential interest.