Does Anyone else not like talking about their interests?

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I don't mind writing about them, but in general conversation I typically try to avoid subjects in my main areas of interest. I don't really know why, but it always seems awkward for some reason.

If I know the person I'm talking to is interested in the subjects it does make it easier though.

I agree with you there. It's much easier to talk to people with similar interests.

Tim

I always feel my interests are considered goofy to the rest of the world so I rarely discuss it wil anyone. Then I get accused of not letting anyone get to know me but then I get smirks if I mention what I am interested in.

My interests are not out of the ordinary, but not widely popular either. Finding friends with similar interests is usually not a problem.

Tim

Oh, I'll tell them but I have to volunteer the information. My interests are like a diary...hands off unless I say you can read it. But here, I leave my dairy open.

Yeah, it just feels weird, maybe like you're letting them into your little inside world. Also they accuse me of "knowing too much" sometimes, and consider me weird. That wouldn't be such a problem but I'd rather keep them as friends.

Well, yeh, it's letting them inside my own world. I learnt a long time ago that you can't care what other people think. Or at least, I hope I did. You can't trust anyone. I know it sounds bleak but there it is. No, it's not pessism, it's the truth, it's accuracy.

Some call me heartless. I have the heart...of a little girl...in a jar...on my desk.

Oh, you mean my own heart? That was locked up a long time ago. I can't remember what I did with the key.

Oh, I can verbally fight back but it usually lands me in trouble.

And I'd rather spend time with my interests/obessions than real people. Obessions won't betray you.

No I don't discuss my interests with anybody. I don't need people who already respect me to think that I'm an arrogant loner geek.

I never talk about my obsessions or interest all the time because I know if I do that, people won't want me around and it scare men away from me so it be harder for me to meet them. Because I had started that habit when I was 15, now I'm unable to do it with aspies too because I feel bored talking about them. It's a habit I've delevoped. I keep my interests to myself. Few of them are embarrassing anyway and I will only talk about something a few times or maybe sometimes or once in a while with the same people but I will not do it everytime I'm talking to someone.


It's good to hear I'm not the only aspie who does this.

I only discuss my interests online,not because they're so outside the "NORM" but because I have nobody to talk to IRL

Same here

Tim

I'm another who doesn't talk about my interests. It's never occurred to me to talk about them with others, unless they also happened to share the same interest[s].

Wow, I'm the total opposite. Given the chance, I run off at the mouth about my special interests. A lot of the time I'm stumped as to what else to talk about.

I don't really talk about them at all.

I'm more interested in gossip and acting the goat. People don't want to hear about everyday things that i'm obsessed about such as bunches of grapes.

You should be proud of who you are - even if intellectually challenged or ignorant buffoons do class you as 'arrogant loner geek'. End of.

To this day I still find it a little difficult to talk about my interests, at least in an NT environment. I think it's because as a kid, my interest in numbers and maps was scorned, because they were considered abnormal interests for a little boy to be TOO interested in.