Interested in things other aspies find boring

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Is anyone else interested in 'conventional' things or idiosyncratic things that all the other aspies they talk to find boring? Or this same stuff as me?

Every time I get an aspie group of friends, I can't talk about sport/celebs/soaps. I'm really into them. My favourite football club has been one of my specialist interests since I was 12 (I'm a major turncoat and liked their enemies since I was 8 because success and they were my mate's team). The only people I can talk to about them is NTs online. NTs offline tease me for liking a team which isn't English, aspies I know act as if they're above it. (I get that to an extent with guys - if netball was massively popular I'd resent it because I had to do it at school and I'm dyspraxic but I only ever played football for pleasure and was average in my group of friends because I was eldest).

Celebs - I can get obsessed with certain celebrities. Aspies I know talk about this as something that only NTs are into. Some NTs I know are into celebs and can talk to me about it. Others think that talking about celebrities is a mark of stupidity. I like it for an aspie reason, I can practice gossip and keep it low stakes because it's not someone I actually know. I can talk about ideas and use celebs as an eg, for eg how Kanye West was controlling over Kim for a while tied into how someone we knew was being treated by her boyfriend. I didn't want to talk about the latter cos too high stakes so me and mum talked Kim and Kanye instead.

Soaps - I love English (Corrie/EastEnders), Scottish (River City) and Irish soaps (Ros Na Run, I used to like River City but it became boring). This might be an American thing(I socialise a lot with aspies online) but aspies act as if soaps are for morons. I like them for a similar reason as celebs - get to learn about and gossip about other people without it being as high stakes as actual gossip and can be a substitute for talking general ideas without bringing up people I know. And also, it's very high stakes all the time. Most people don't have the life of a soap character but they could have one of those things and it's interesting to see these social issues. I can imagine not liking it if I was American because over there they've got stuff like 'I woke up and it was all a dream' and alien abductions but - so long as it could happen I don't care if it usually does.

Does anyone else on here like that sort of stuff? Or other stuff that aspies don't tend to like? Are we at risk of becoming a (nerdy) tribe ourselves by saying 'aspies don't like such and such'?

Sports, celebs, and soaps couldn't be more boring to me.

Science, science-fiction, and tabletop role-playing games are my obsessive interests.

I find gossip one of the most interesting things to talk about, not celebrity gossip, but actual gossip among family, friends, colleagues and online users. I could talk or listen about people all day. People just fascinate me. This is one thing I don't have in common with other Aspies.

I like sports, but they are unconventional ones like tennis, running and figure skating.

Celebrities-I am not into the "famous just for being famous" types. I like people who are accomplished in their field of endeavor, like Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.

I don't have some of the more typical AS interests. I'm not into sci-fi and have difficulty with technology, but I'm interested in learning more about it.

One interest I share in common with many here is animals, particularly cats.

I follow a couple of famous people I find interesting (e.g. artists or writers) but other than that... not really into celebrity culture.
my interests revolve around music and anime/ sci fi mainly

I am into fashion and make up which most aspies aren't interested in. Also fictional romance stories.

You have the degree of obsession of a typical aspie, but apply that obsession to stuff that NTs are into, like sports, celebs, and gossip about folks in your real life?

Am kinda fifty percent like that. Was more stereotypically aspie when I was a kid, but have gotten more people oriented as I got older.

When I was eight I knew all of the planets in the solar system, and knew their charactieristics, but couldn't tie my shoes.

Today I spend my whole day off looking at U Tube, and ...split my time evenly between scholarly videos about archeology, physics, and astronomy on one hand...and vids about celeb bios on the other. But I still cant tie my shoes. Just kidding about that last thing.

I'm more like bored in things other aspies find interesting, less with the other way around.


Then there's meta -- unlike most people at all, sometimes I don't even know the name of my special interest. I just do them, sometimes without the right references, materials or tools.
I don't recited facts about it, I don't hoard things related to it... Almost never talked about it, save for the expression of liking it and telling others that I could do that.

I do like some, but... Never been a fan, almost never been a follower.
Anything generally involving names of people and history of things or events bores me; which is a huge chunk of subjects both NT-like and aspie-like interests.
So it mattered a little to me if it's celebrity and social media culture or heck scientists' culture... I'm not interested in references.


To me it's just a matter of expressions of the subject and how it matches aspergian expressions, than subject of interest itself.
Just so happens that on how 'things other aspies find boring' is generally expressed, generally matches the allistic ways of expressions or mismatches how aspies'.

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Pop music. I avoid talking about the latest albums of Justin Timberlake or Christina Aguilera here on Wrongplanet, as most folks are into metal and alternative rock. (Love me some Megadeth though!)

^ You are clearly not up to date on your Eastenders or don't love it as much as my GF

Hi Tuff, welcome to WP.

Soaps don't interest me but they were a huge interest for my maternal grandmother, who I suspect had more than a few aspie traits.

What I will say about East Enders is that there is a huge attention to detail behind the scenes. The lighting in particular always set out to create as realistic an illusion of being in an old terrace house as possible.

The programme can be an equivalent special interest just as strong as the railway, and just as the ends of some station platforms are filled with railway enthusiasts looking for their favourite loco or unit, the gates of the BBC Elstree Studios are thronged each day with enthusiasts of East Enders looking out for their favourite cast member.