Getting bored with your interests

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I have a question about your having a special interest: do you also have a feeling when you have one that it's going to last and last like forever and that you'll never ever get burnt out on it for it's such an interesting thing that it seems impossible that you could ever get bored with it? Even if you know that it happened many times in the past with your previous interests though you thought the same about them then?

I actually worry about the day when I will lose interest, because I don't want to lose interest and want to keep loving it forever. Like I'm married to it.

Yes, I do feel that way, although I know from experience that it is always untrue.

I've made peace with it, but only in the past few years.

I never really got bored with my only real, narrow long-lasting interest [no, I'm not improperly using an adjective where an adverb should be; I attempted to clear that up by means of the comma, but in case you're confused...] it's just that I felt like I knew all that I desired to know on the topic (I can set up a fully-functioning wikia page on the topic, I swear...) and I wanted to move on. It was never boring to me, and it still isn't; I just lost the urge to learn about it.

I hardly ever get bored with my special interests.

Usually I just get distracted by something else and that becomes my new interest. My medication makes me less obsessional about my interests though, so I'm only very intensely into them on the weekends.

This happens to me too....mine change every year to two years. I guess my AS/neuropsychology interest should be ending soon (according to my pattern). I think this one might last longer though. I wonder what I'll be interested in next...............

I also am taking meds for ADD that keep me from focusing too much on my interests and allow me to do school work. Unfortunately they don't stop me from staying up until four in the morning pursuing my interests after the school work is done.

I'm on ADHD meds too. They help me put the most important tasks a top priority and make me feel even bored with being on forums or doing other less important things for too long. They do keep me up at night though. I try to keep a strict bedtime but it's still really hard to get to sleep.

I'm waiting for my interest to change too. The last one lasted about 10 months I think, but I usually get back into interests after taking a break from them and getting into something else. The latest one got really intense from January/February. It's still very intense. I keep thinking by April it will change but it doesn't look like that will happen. I've got no control over when or what it will change to.

I have many core interests like geopathy that never wane, and peripheral obsessions that pass in time.

It's upsetting to think about but loving something forever is likely a rare thing. I don't think people are meant to love something forever, or they wouldn't always be getting divorced and the percentage of people admitting to affairs would be much lower. It's best to enjoy and love something or someone while you do, and accept that it won't be forever.

I compare this to loving people because most people love people and not subjects or objects the same way I seem to.

They don't make me get bored with things like forums but make me more anxious and aware of procrastinating and not getting work done. Unfortunately they've made me too anxious/obsessive. I think I need a lower dose!

I can relate to this. I really wish I could control what my SI's were so they would correspond to the courses I have to take while I'm taking them...............not likely to happen since some of my SI’s haven’t been the least bit academic

I don't think so. I still have the same interests as I did 10 years ago.

When I was a kid I was really into dog breeds. Now I don't care. It isn't sad to me. Now AS and spanish are my obessions. Maybe they will be replaced, maybe they won't. But it isn't sad to me. Once something new interests me, I rarely think about it again.

My problem withh AS isn't that I'm bored of it, but that I've read everything I could possibly find on it, and I don't know what else there is for me to know that isn't already known (and the area where alll the research seems to be happening is causes which doesn't interest me). That is why I come here.

I do have waning motivations towards my special interests at times, but I always find that, after a brief layoff, my interest levels return and I get back into it.

Before the past two months I would lose interest in my obsession, studying Basque, frequently, but now I just can't stop, it's so fun.

Interest in my interests sometimes fluctuate a bit, but never disappear completely, at least they haven't yet.