Kitty4670 wrote:
Is it only Aspergers people that have special interest, is watching kid shows, watching cartoons or buying toys have to do with Aspergers? I know other people that don’t have Aspergers, watch cartoons.
Goldenmom is right. My first really big interest, though it had a couple sub interests, lasted about 15 years! Things changed so much, I figured my goals wouldn't be met, so I switched to a certain sub area of that. By then, that subarea, it was a hobbyist field for "GEEKS", and had JUST started to get a move into business. I've been in that for about 39 years. Unfortunately there have been some big upsets, etc.... so I don't enjoy it as much, but it pays the bills. But MAN, for the first 20 years, I LOVED it, even if it still irked me at times. OH, and now those "geeky" gadgets are everywhere!
Keep in mind also, that I was in primary school when I started. We obviously didn't have the internet, let alone the WWW, then. In fact it was before ANYONE had the internet. Getting information and supplies was harder.
You probably guessed I was talking about microcomputers towards the end. Yeah, electronics eventually got SO complicated that when a chip fabricator, known as Intel, was asked to create a calculator chip, THEY DIDN'T BOTHER! I mean WHY go to all of that trouble for a special purpose chip. They built a CPU instead, and simply programmed IT to be a calculator, and said HERE YOU GO! So a lot of what USED to be complicated specialized hardware is now an easily changed program.
25 Oct 2019, 2:15 pm
