#question for the #neurodivergent bubble

(Please read my whole thread before you answer.)

My question is about #hyperfixations

Over the last couple of months, I experienced several fandom-related hyperfixations: First about "Murderbot" (the TV series and the books by Martha Wells), then Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein", after that "Heated Rivalry", and lately "The Night Manager" (TV series, season 2).

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I need other hashtags to follow. I like being surprised by the #algorithm sometimes, but I'm also drained from interacting with it.

I also don't want to get pigeonholed into my set of #hyperfixations of #gaming and #steamdeck. I need other things to look at and read. I guess, I just want to force myself into interesting conversations.

What recommendations do people have?

// time for hyperfixation roulette! will drone:
> clean and repot plants for overwintering?
> start a bunch of plant cuttings?
> play cyberpunk2077.exe all day?
> play stardewvalley.exe all day?
> play hadesii.exe all day?
> spend 4 hours sharpening every knife in the house?
> crochet lil guys?
> crochet fingerless mitts?
> start a whole new craft project/hobby?
> stare into the void?
> learn about compact first aid kits?
> learn about the history of rope manufacturing?
> something else entirely expected?
> something else entirely unexpected?

// it cannot say for certain, but it can say it's taken 45 minutes to unload half a dishwasher so tasks are not high on the probability list!

#adhd #autism #audhd #neurodivergent #crafts #hyperfixations #Plants #plantgay

I ran out of my vitamin B supplements, so Iโ€™m kinda crashy today, ngl.

Iโ€™m binging Scandal on the couch, as itโ€™s my current hyperfixation, and I think Iโ€™m resting? TBD. -Allฤ“na

#hyperfixations #scandal

How do #Hyperfixations form for you? Mine usually go hand in hand with my #SpecialInterests. If something picks up my special interests in a well-made way, I can probably already tell that it's going to be a hyperfixation.

I love hearing about other people's #Hyperfixations so pls share yours right now if you want and maybe also why

Mine atm:
- Hazbin Hotel / Helluva Boss - (christian) religion questioning, themes of religious trauma, hell as a setting and hell / demons / angels imagery, very queer and banger musical songs

- Chappell Roan - one of the greatest pop stars in the making, politically active, sapphic pop music

all go hand in hand with my #SpecialInterests

#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #ADHD

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This is listed as most obscure even though it varies. Dinosaurs? Not obscure. My level of knowledge of dinosaurs and how birdlike they are/were? Pretty obscure. And then getting into anything that isn't a dinosaur immediately puts that way more obscure. And then getting into invertebrate paleontology at all, even the famous stuff like Anomalocaris, Hallucigenia, and Opabinia, nobody knows what I'm talking about.
#paleontology #autism #hyperfixations

It could also help explain a lot of the screwy conflicting timelines regarding early life and seemingly overly-complex eukaryote-like fossils way before they should be showing up.

Everything always ties into my #hyperfixations doesn't it.

My latest hyperfixation is saving and storing information I completely arbitrarily deem useful/important, for when it's not going to be easily and freely accessible on the internet anymore

Is it ever going to happen? I don't know
Will this fixation only last for a few months, leaving me with lots of books and printed stuff I will never ever even look at again? Probably
Does this deter me from doing it anyway? Of course not

#introduction #hyperfixations #neurodivergent

Hyperfixations and me. Another ADHD tale.