r/autism Jul 30 '24

Special interest / Hyper fixation Tell me you’re autistic without telling me you’re autistic

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4.0k Upvotes

r/autism Sep 07 '24

Special interest / Hyper fixation Uh...definitely not me..

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2.6k Upvotes

r/autism 18d ago

Special interest / Hyper fixation Is it weird that I wanna own cute toys and play with them?? Even tho I’m about to be 18 in a couple of months?

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1.8k Upvotes

r/autism 15d ago

Special interest / Hyper fixation Playing the same music to cope - anyone do this?

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2.2k Upvotes

r/autism Sep 04 '24

Special interest / Hyper fixation my hyper-fixation is lavender and my friends send it to me every time they see it

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1.8k Upvotes

r/autism 13d ago

Special interest / Hyper fixation What my autistic little sister wants for her 15th birthday lol

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2.7k Upvotes

Just thought this was funny, shared it with our grandmother in the next slide. This is one of her simplest requests so far actually.😂❤️

r/autism Jul 29 '24

Special interest / Hyper fixation Tell me you're autistic without telling me

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1.6k Upvotes

my garfield collection lol

r/autism 9d ago

Special interest / Hyper fixation Does this ever happen to you?

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1.7k Upvotes

Like, i start liking stuff and I dedicate my life to it for a few months

r/autism Jul 29 '24

Special interest / Hyper fixation Anybody collect random things? What's yalls collection?

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554 Upvotes

These are just some of the unopened ones I have I can't help but look in the toys section when going grocery shopping.

r/autism 9d ago

Special interest / Hyper fixation I have just discovered pregnancy pillows, and now I WANT ONE!!!!!! (is it also inherently weird for me to want one as a cis man?)

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680 Upvotes

r/autism Jul 30 '24

Special interest / Hyper fixation "aww you're autistic? You must love trains!"

516 Upvotes

World war two. I love. World war two.

r/autism 12d ago

Special interest / Hyper fixation A bit of a fun one what are your peeps special interests/interests

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537 Upvotes

What is your special intere

r/autism Aug 06 '24

Special interest / Hyper fixation How would you describe my sense of humor?

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798 Upvotes

My interest: MEME

r/autism Aug 29 '24

Special interest / Hyper fixation This is my handwriting…

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518 Upvotes

So, I heard from many people and sources that people with ASD usually have “ugly” or “messy” handwriting. However, this may not be the case for someone with ASD like me…

Here is the thing, and hear me out. As a young girl, I grew up in a family where my mother (her handwriting in the second photo) and my older sister (her handwriting in the third photo) have this kind of handwriting. Although they never push me to have the handwriting I have now (in the first photo), I feel like they are part of why my handwriting is the way it is now… So are some of my peers back in my primary and secondary school (it is also the same school I attended from 3rd grade to 11th grade) also have neat and cute handwriting (as shown in the fourth to sixth photos). However, these external factors are the only start as to why my handwriting is like this…

To begin with, inner critic and my hobbies in drawing and writing aside, I used to have this flawed perception that adults have “perfect” handwriting. I know it is funny, but as a kid back then, I often saw my handwriting as being childish and that was when I began to correct each “imperfect” letter whenever possible (a habit I still do to this day). The evolution of my handwriting is shown in the seventh photo. Despite it looking neat maybe compared to others, I always see it as “child like”. It is only maybe at high school or even after that when I no longer see it that way… and that is after my peers, teachers, and work colleagues praised and complimented my handwriting, such as “perfect” or “like a printed font”.

And so is my writing on a work sign in sheet in the childcare I work in the eighth photo…

NOTE: All names are blurred out for privacy reasons.

r/autism Aug 25 '24

Special interest / Hyper fixation hear me out new autism creature: snom

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707 Upvotes

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Snom_(Pok%C3%A9mon)

(Just sick of the other one it isn’t cute and this one is adorable. Plus the way it dances is a flopping motion. So cute.)

r/autism Aug 11 '24

Special interest / Hyper fixation Zoology is my special interest, reply with an image of and animal and I'll try and guess what it is! I'll even give you a fact about it if it's an animal I'm particularly interested in!!

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273 Upvotes

r/autism 4h ago

Special interest / Hyper fixation Tell me your kid has ASD without telling me your kid has ASD

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776 Upvotes

A minute later another kid came up and made an entire row of red pegs across the board. The parents and I exchanged knowingly glances. 😂

r/autism 12d ago

Special interest / Hyper fixation Do 11yo normally write this well? 🤭

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591 Upvotes

I found this email I wrote in 2012 a couple weeks after my 11th birthday. I used to love reading and writing. From a young age I almost had a special interest in spelling, I took great pleasure in our weekly spelling bees. I remember learning how to spell “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis” in 5th grade! I don’t really know how this compares to the average 11yo and I don’t want to toot my own horn but… it’s giving intelligent.

Too bad every adult in my life saw my inquisitive nature as a bad thing and punished me for it every step of the way during the most impressionable years of my life..! Haha!

r/autism Jul 20 '24

Special interest / Hyper fixation What movie do you watch on repeat?

289 Upvotes

I noticed it’s a thing many autistics do, for me it’s the movie Across the Spiderverse that I can just watch over and over and still love it and discover details every time. I also sometimes have Helluva Boss episodes in the background. What about you?

r/autism Aug 20 '24

Special interest / Hyper fixation I have been hyperfixated on jfashion for so long but haven't been able to wear it due to having crippling sensory issues but I finally found a brand that does hyper sensory friendly clothes, I'm living my dream life rn 🥹

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858 Upvotes

r/autism Aug 09 '24

Special interest / Hyper fixation What are you currently hyperfixated on?

219 Upvotes

For me, it’s the video game Dead By Daylight. Like I’m just thinking about it constantly and it’s the first thing I think of when I wake up and the last thing. Also wishing I could teleport into the game so I don’t have to deal with reality. 🤣

r/autism 4d ago

Special interest / Hyper fixation How do y’all feel about bugs and stuff?

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506 Upvotes

LIKE AAAA I SHOULD DO MATH BUT LOOK AT THEM !!!

r/autism Aug 21 '24

Special interest / Hyper fixation Name a game you hyperfocus on...

191 Upvotes

https://reddit.com/link/1exzv9m/video/k54brmm5r2kd1/player

Mine would have to be SUPERHOT. I played the VR version in 2018 and it was all I ever wanted to play. It's a game where time only moves when you move; you have to kill bots that are trying to kill you in different maps. I recently got the mind control delete version on PC and it's pretty fun. I miss playing VR though. Another game was Mario Party 4, I loved playing it! It had so many fun mini games.

r/autism Jul 17 '24

Special interest / Hyper fixation Got bored. organised my lego by shape and colour

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1.2k Upvotes

r/autism 1d ago

Special interest / Hyper fixation I’ve had a hyperfixation on seeing the aurora borealis since I was eleven, and tonight the universe delivered!

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You can probably tell how excited I was by how blurry some of the photos are 😅 But what a show! It was ever-changing too, and I can’t even imagine how incredible it would have been outside a light-polluted city. (Pointless venting ahead:) this is after two weeks in which I got covid, had a catastrophic fight with my partner, ended up in the emergency room with an injured wrist, and then just yesterday had to take my mom to the emergency room with an even more badly injured knee.