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2:06pm August 1, 2014
Anonymous asked: Uhm... Hello? I have a few questions (if you don't mind answering) think I may be autistic, but there are still a few things I didn't find much information about. For example, special interests. My main questions are: Is a special interest something that you keep through your life, as in, permanently? And can it be anything (example: literature)?

Some people keep them throughout our lives.  Some people cycle through them very quickly.  Some people cycle through them, but keep them in the background our whole lives – for instance, I have cycled through many special interests but cats have always stayed even though they started earlier than some more recent ones like crochet.  Also sometimes you can have a special interest that goes away for awhile and comes back with a vengeance unexpectedly.  You can have more than one at once.  And yes it can pretty much be anything.  It’s the way you relate to it that makes it a special interest. 

I wish there was some term other than special interest, but as a person with language problems I’m not going to mourn too badly that there isn’t, I’m just going to use the terms I’ve got.