Interest starting to fade, how to finish degree?

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I'm currently studying pedagogics, and am about to finish my bachelor degree next year. Pedagogics started to be my special interest when i went to collage to become a teacher, so i then decided to just study pedagogics and not become a teacher afterall. As for many other interest i've had, the interest in pedagogics is starting to fade. I've always had this thing when i get overly exicted about something for a couple of years, and then i can't stand it anymore and move onto another topic. I'm either reaaally interessted in a subject, or I couldn't care less about it, nothing inbetween acutally. Does other aspies recognize this?

I'm not diagnosed with AS, but am curently in the prosess of getting the diagnose (the psycologist is pretty sure I have AS, but wants to rule out wheter there is social anxiety and ADHD also involved).

I would say that the goal is to get the degree.

You're almost done. It might not be easy to detach yourself from feeling bored, but being objective about it and finishing at least gets you the degree, and the time you spent wasn't wasted. If I were in your position, I would just "decide" to be interested at least a year longer, and not rely on feelings.

Who knows? Maybe you will "flip the switch" on your interest and you will become interested again.


Also, I find that Aspies tend to lose interest when they have either found all they wanted to know, or have learned all there is to know. Perhaps there is another field you can go into after your bachelors that you can later combine with Pedagogy to create a whole new field or twist on things that is more sustainably interesting?

My interests shift approximately every few years, but they build on each other. I don't see it as changing. I see it as one interest evolving. What happens in the nameable fields, though, is that I start to feel completely alone in them. I try to share my interest and no one gets excited and most don't even respond. Or I am confused about something and need to pose questions to someone who knows more about the subject, but my e-mails are ignored, or people say they don't have time to meet with me, or I don't have transportation beyond my few blocks, or I'm depressed because I can't get enough sleep, etc.
In other words, I never get bored. Its more like I get so unbareably frustrated that I must see if a different world will be different.

Could you maybe find related things for recreation rather than career? I find that I maintain the same interests over the years, but because I have a blinkered focus, I'm always focused for short periods, then it doesn't exist while I focus on something else.

I did a little research on skills shortages in the state in which I live and discovered that there's a shortage of drafts-people. Never done it, but noticed my personal library has a collection of drafting textbooks. I have always admired the precision and visual aspects. So I'm considering it. I know I will lose site of it on occasion, and am thinking of strategies. I'm thinking that drawing skills might allow me to do visual representations of my other interests, which would kill two birds with one baguette. Drawing as a hobby will develop the drafting skills and keep my mind in the area; and it will add another dimension to my other interests.

And most important... It will set limits to the drafting that will make it more like a paying hobby.

Most interests don't disappear, they take a rest, til next time they cycle round. So stick to the pedagogics study. Complete it. You'll have it waiting for you when you want to revisit it later.