Our Special Interests Part 2
Welcome back to the Audacious Aspie! This week, we continue to look at our Aspie/Autistic obsessions/passions/special interests or whatever you wish to call them. We all have our own fierce passions about any number of topics, changing, like everyone else's, as we age (horrible thought I know, but we are not everlasting...until science comes up with a solution, if science comes up with a solution, debate), or get recycled (Human obsessions: the only source of energy that is 100% green). For example: if you loved trains as a child, your passions might change the older you get and the more worldly knowledge you gain as you go from child, to teen, to adult. I’m sure you lost your passion for all things My Little Pony around the age of 10 right? No? Oh, ummmmm.
Anime: not only for depicting infinitely-surprised humans, vampires, humans with animal traits (ears, tails and such) or hamsters (Hamtaro), and not as good as Manga (my opinion), but also has horses.
Any-ways (ahem), the author has gone through a number of passions through the author's lifetime, sometimes becoming a passion again and again. And, like a true person on the spectrum, those obsessions have been...weird at times: learning Hindi, espionage (don’t tell the C.I.A., F.B.I. or Big Brother. Or the pig called Napoleon, never Napoleon) or jigsaw puzzles just to name a few (as someone who has experience with jigsaw puzzles, and puzzles of any kind, the author must like pain). Of course, his passions changed as he changed as a person, but sometimes one passion or another would return. But, while what the author has said is true, least from my experience, the author seems to have forgotten one extra special interest: those that last a lifetime.
Mine, is military history and war games. I became interested in such things when I was a wee lad, wanting every weekend to go to the Canadian War Museum, bringing Risk and Axis And Allies to my school, and reading about such subjects as soon as I could. Of course, it has at certain point been superseded (not completely) by other passions through out my life (pokemon, zombie horror, and now currently airsoft).
But regardless, i have never lost entirely my thirst for all things military history, particularly British and Canadian. But even now, as an adult still in my early 20’s (but not for long), I still have a burning passion for the topic. I was able to satisfy such obsessions or interests or such in different ways throughout my lifetime. First it was trips to the Canadian War Museum, than board/video games, than war/sports games (paintball and airsoft).
Images like these, of military history, excite me more than images of cars, or motorcycles, or iphones. My sister would say the same thing, except for horses.
As for the author, he/she has experienced a new special interest: lego. Starting small by purchasing a tiny lego set for the authors small child, soon morphed into, to put an understatement on it, a rather fun pastime of creating buildings with piles and piles of lego. And, as I’m sure we’ve all experienced, it continued to grow from there, as every Aspie obsession/special interest does. Even to the point of what music the author listens to, getting really excited about new lego sets that the author had his/her heart set on and, of course, saving up those lego coupons.
Will, that has been the post for this week. Next week we will continue to look at the topic as usual, diving deeper into the authors lego obsession and how it is important to the author and, perhaps, other Autistic and Asperger people as will. How does your special interests affect you? Is it important to you? These are some of the questions that, I know, are running through my head when I am reading this article. Until than, this continues to be, the Audacious Aspie.
I’m sure that if you asked, the author would agree that he/she lives, breaths and thinks lego. What do you live, breath and think of? Like purple anime cats, try not to think about purple anime cats. Okay you can stop now, that's weird.
Source used:
https://respectfullyconnected.com/2015/02/an-insiders-view-of-special-interests/