Halligeninseln wrote:
Regarding the guy with the phone book: All I meant was that it didn't have any extrinsic use like learning everything about rocks and then being a geologist or learning Russian and going to live in Russia.
I see what you mean. I'm a bit touchy about special interests, since when I was growing up my abusive parent constantly used my interests against me and would threaten to destroy everything related to them. Being able to engage in them without interruption gave me a lot of safe space in my life, even with the abuse, bullying and such, and some of it was certainly useless beyond my own entertainment. I
did eventually make money off my primary special interest (gaming), and that was certainly satisfying. Especially when I got to shove that fact in my abusive parent's face.
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When I was 17 I spent 10 months writing 900 pages of autistic literature that I couldn't use for anything because it was completely unreadable. 10 years later I destroyed it because it wasn't usable. That was a mistake.
I've destroyed stuff I regret too. I've been trying to recover the material from memory, and have succeeded to some point, but I still regret it a lot.
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It's good to hear you are diagnosed because it gives your observations a certain authority.
I don't know how to reply to this - I am certainly capable of being wrong, and other people are sure to catch it when I am. When I mention things I have observed about other autistic people (from reading this forum, blogs, books, watching videos, etc) my understanding may still be imperfect and others may have better explanations.
28 Sep 2011, 7:15 pm
