Anyone Want To Talk About Our Interests?

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My interests are art, history, geography, video games, and music. I am also on Quora and I like Quora a lot because it gives you a writing platform to write about things you like. I really like pencil shaded art of landscapes and cityscapes as my favourite art. My favourite history is England after 1066 during the Middle Ages, Early Modern, Industrial Revolution, and Modern eras. I tend to like lakes and forests as my what you would call favourite geography type. I like Minecraft, Fallout, and Civilization as my favourite video games. My favourite music is Progressive rock and Synthpop I also like some country and folk (esp. sea shanties) as well.

The ones I have going right now are:

1 ASD special interests (I've relatively recently learned that autistic people develop "weird" interests and obsessions, often of a narrow or restrictive subject matter. I've been doing this all my life and never had a clue it was autism until I began suspecting I'm on the spectrum. I plan on getting formally tested. It fascinates me that the autistic brain is wired for getting caught up with such unusual topics or almost obsessed with more mainstream topics).

2 ASD eye contact

3 How peoples' faces and hair turn out when parents are of different races. (long-term)

4 All the phonetic spellings of common girl names (long-term)

5 Persistent vegetative states (long-term)

6 Extra-terrestrial life (not sure if this qualifies as an autistic special interest because it IS a popular topic among NTs, but I'd much rather talk about this at a dinner party or any other social event than what NTs usually talk about)

7 Flicker fusion rates in humans and animals

8 Feral children

9 Shostakovich (though he's VERY popular among NT classical music enthusiasts, my interest is borderline obsessive, manifesting in frequent imagined conversations about him with a deceased family member who was a big classical music fan but who never introducted me to Shosty; didn't learn about Shosty till after this family member passed away. And it haunts me ethat we never got to discuss this brilliant composer, whom I'm sure he knew about)

10 A man's stubble--two or three days' growth, and not the dense kind. I'd LOVE to run my fingers along a man's stubble (he must have a good jawline and nice chin, and the "right kind" of stubble. I imagine taking a tweezers and plucking one stubble hair at a time. I freeze frames on TV shows or commercials where there's a close-up shot of a man's "right kind" of stubble. I don't know if this is a special interest or an errogenous zone, but it's long-term. Never had a true boyfriend (I'm straight), so it pains me that I can't experience feeling a man's stubble. It's not like I could just go up to a man on the street and ask to feel his stubble, though I DID one time--he was homeless and he let me feel his stubble, and I was in GLORY!!

I'm just too strange NOT to be autistic. Hope so bad the evaluation comes back positive for this. Because if I'm not....then WTF is wrong with me?

^Your interests are harmless, unless you forget to do things like eat or shower as a result, or other harmful things.

To me, as long as you’re not a jerk to people, there’s nothing “wrong” with you.

Of course but its nice to talk about them and meet with likeminded people.

That’s what I say.

I never said there was anything wrong with sharing interests.

All I said is that there’s nothing wrong with having odd interests.

Not special interests as such but still interests:-

Drama (TV)
Autobiography (writing)
Schools
Rats

Boats, in particular smallish work boats from 19th century onwards.
And foremost sailing boats.
The interst includes history, building methods, sail making, rigging, rope work (including fancy work like macramé, rope mats etc).

/Mats

^You would probably like Herman Melville's works, then.

History, science fiction, economics, trying to predict what the future will look like, geopolitics, hockey hockey and hockey, psychology, Star Trek, geography etc.

Keep in mind I only became interested in Hockey because I was fascinated by the geography of sports leagues.

Otherwise it all revolves around social sciences.

I used to like the Islanders back in the 70s.

Thoughts on minecraft?

Right now it's The Trans-Am Series.

I do like Moby Dick, don't know of other works by him. Goldings Rights of Passage is quite nice, and also We the Drowned by Carsten Jensen.
And of course the Hornblower books.
But as for fiction I'm mostly into Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft and such. Or Pasalinna, Bukowski, Dahlström, Toole... Horror or crazyish humor...
But fiction isn't a special interest of mine.
The boat interest is mostly factual, not fictional. I usually get quite disturbed when the author and/or translator gets things wrong, which happens more often than I believe most people think.

/Mats

One of my special interests are chickens! I have 8 chickens now (6 barred plymouth rock hens and 1 barred plymouth rock rooster and 1 white plymouth rock hen who is my favorite) but soon we are going to butcher them because the hens are not laying anymore (they are 3 years old) and they all have bumblefoot to some degree. And then we are going to get four bantams: 1 Mille Fleur d'Uccle hen, 1 black cochin hen (apparently she was supposed to be a black frizzle cochin but the frizzled feather trait is recessive so she turned out with normal feathers), 1 Derbyshire Redcap rooster and 1 Derbyshire Redcap hen. We are getting them full grown from someone who is getting rid of them. And then we are getting chicks and a hatchery near us has a surprise hen deal where you can get any standard-size chicken breed, so we are getting 4 mystery chicks!! ! I am so excited to find out what they are and to have more chickens and convince them to love me and not fear me!! !! !
I haven't had anyone to ramble about this to because I don't want to be annoying. I already talk about chickens a lot.

I do have an almost special interest in the old British TV drama Grange Hill, but unfortunately it's not exactly the most common interest in the autism community.

The only other person who loved Grange Hill as much as I do is my (late) mum. We shared the interest and we both knew all the characters (from 1978-1990) and she was the only person I could talk about it to.

I love geography to and can we PM each other about it.