How do people survive without special interests?

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Soooo, I'm watching this. And, I've been in a bit of a malaise as I have mentioned. But, I have to say that for all that time 'not doing anything', I've been:

1.) Reading forum posts to find out more things. Sometimes, the replies are more instructional than the OP. I may say, yeah...I've wondered that. And a lot of good information.

2.) Learning about Axolotlthemia, which is apparently the inability to express amphibians...but I can't remember the name. And, there are other things I've learned as well.

3.) Taking that which I have digested and researched to better understand

4.) Taking that and learning to be more aware

5.) Really pushing to get the diagnosis and start to do what I need to do...just getting started, but it's moving a little

So, maybe I'm not so unfocused after all. It's just not the usual thing I do. I always do things that are aimed at one point, tying many, many interests together, or literally making things...working with my hands, programming, something with a tangible payoff.

I dunno....maybe just not so flumquiffled as I thought.

That got me thinking and I noticed that if someone gave me a choice of meeting my soulmate or becoming an astronaut (space travel is my special interest) then my response would probably be "that depends, how long will I be in space and where will I be going?". If it's a long duration mission to somewhere outside the Earth-Moon system and/or multiple missions to destinations within the Earth-Moon system then I will almost definitely pick becoming an astronaut. If it's something like a year long mission on the International Space Station then I would have to think about it more.


I do because Ritalin has that affect on me, when I'm on it everything just seems so boring including my special interest. It's enough to make me hate the stuff now because it made me quite depressed. Believe me, you are better off not knowing because it's so boring and it sucks. It makes me have a "meh" attitude about space travel which I didn't think was possible until it happened.


It helps that they generally don't suck at socializing and have more of a drive to do it. Take my 17 year old brother for example, he has ADHD and is quite obsessive about his interest (BMX biking) yet he has a ton of friends and one heck of a social life because he doesn't have any social impairments. There are also people who are bad at socializing and also lack obsessiveness and special interests, I have a friend like this and he has struggled with depression a lot. There are a lot of neurotipicals out there who wonder how we could ever stay sane without socializing much, just as you wonder how they could sty sane without special interests. I probably would enjoy socializing too if I didn't have such a hard time with it.