Limited Interests?

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Who here DOESN'T have a limited range of interests? For example, I'm interested in biotech, poetry, engineering, phsics, writing stories.... plus lot's more.

My most consuming interest is civil aviation but I also enjoy researching/understanding various religions and human phycology. I have had these interests for a long long time. Most of the time I would rather spend my spare time with my interests then interacting with people. Do you feel the same way?

I'm of the category of folks that 'cycled through' different special interests, at least when I was a child. I'd go on a bout of occupying myself with dinosaurs, then there'd be a string of days I'd be drawing Transformers incessantly, then I'd be into gems, or planets, or classifying animals. My mains were always paleontology, zoology, and Transformers, however. They could overlap, too: I could spend a portion of the day on one interest, and then an hour or more on another.

As it is now, I don't have special interests anymore, pathologically focusing on myself instead of on anything in the world outside of me (bordering on narcissism, perhaps, but there's too much self-resentment for it to be that). However, I am planning to broaden my scope before I go to university next year, which means I should get myself 'interested' in a wide range of things, which I'm fairly confident I can pull off.

I have a pretty wide range of interests. Video games, film, anything educational (I could see myself taking every course in college...), sports, model planes, writing, graphic novels...

I'd certainly spend time with my interests rather than people... unless they're online.

I simply have lots of interests, and I used to Hyperfocus on one of them for a week/month, before goign on to something else. Currently, though, I hyperfocus on them all, for a few minutes at a time Airships are still a massive one, though.

I've noticed that NTs seem to have a limited range of interests as well, it's just they don't tend to hyperfocus.

I have an undergraduate degree in liberal arts focusing on the humanities, and work in a profession where I have to be conversant with a broad range of topics. My special interests include literature, cognitive science, human sexuality, the occult, and certain popular rock groups of the 1960s.

I think you are right about this. I also find that I investigate or find interst in things that noone else really cares about or may not even notice. For instance- one day I spent the whole day researching toilets. Yes toilets. (Maybe you are saying to yourself "that's weird") Anyways I looked up the history, cultural use and evelution of them.

I think NTs range of intersts are more main stream and socially acceptable to talk about like current TV series or sports teams.

I don't have a limited range of interests, but I often have one thing that is like an obsession as well.

am dont think thats weird at all [toilets],used to live with a profoundly autistic man who had an obsession with toilets [though not the information,but the toilets themselves],he liked getting catelogues that had toilet pictures in them,and would hug them.
nothing wrong with an interest if its not harming anyone else.


am have a wide list of interests,but dont get to do a lot of them mostly because of accessibility issues,and not having half the stuff at this house yet.
going to parks,going to sensory room,getting frappachinos from starbucks,racing an electric RC car [held together by cable ties,dad was supposed to fix it ages ago],going for drives,going to knowsley safari park,computer games,and as soon as motability sorts the car out will be going to disabled sports clubs [wheels for all being one,as its outdoors].

My interests are in numbers, chart patterns, and fractal geometry/waves. I view voices, lights/colors, and the entire universe as fractals/waves. Frequency, amplitude, time and energy are main keywords here.

I have a very wide range of interests overall; it's just that only one (maybe two) are really "special" interests / obsessions. Those come and go, too.

It does raise the question, as another recent topic mentioned, whether an interest is only deemed to be an obsession if it is seen as peculiar. E.g.: an NT person who talks for hours about fashion, reads dozens of fashion magazines every week, and spends most of their time and money shopping for clothes sounds fairly obsessed to me, but is seldom seen as obsessed because it's viewed as a 'normal' interest. However, if one replaces 'fashion' with 'toilets', suddenly the person in question is seen as a weird obsessive.

When an NT person does this, the mainstream interest isn't seen as weird per se. But it isn't seen as totally ok either. Instead of saying "that's weird", other people will add the "-aholic" suffix to the person's interest as a way of saying that while it isn't a weird interest to have, the obsession with it is considered abnormal: shopaholic, sportsaholic, golfaholic etc.

I looked up fractal geometry. That's cool.

Special interests were always my main autistic trait. Everyone else thought they were limiting because they didn't know how to work with them to educate me. And maybe they are limiting because everyone else wants me to be a veterinary technician or veterinary assistant (which are NOT the same thing) but I can't see myself doing anything else but being an ACTUAL veterinarian DVM.