hyper fixations cost me my grades, my hygiene, and wellbeing. love having the interests, but i wish i could engage with them where they don't become my entire world
2026-07-01 21:06:23
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Fern🔪 :
it really bothers me that they completely don't understand what a hyper fixation is. I'm autistic and as a kid I would watch the aristocats so often it broke our VHS player. I'd watch it multiple times a day. I knew that film inside and out. watching something often isn't the same as hyper fixating on it 😭
2026-07-01 10:58:15
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ᛐᛗᛚJanisᛐᛗᛚ :
And then they call me weird for saying that I was so obsessed with a movie I would watch it AT LEAST twice a day and would only talk about it all the time
2026-07-02 07:43:58
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gurt :
literally did we forget the word hobby as well 😭
2026-07-01 18:37:37
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M :
i hyperfocus until my bladder is about to explode and my stomach is growling
2026-07-02 17:14:49
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Fenrizzz :] :
yes like the show you liked Watching while having breakfast wasn't a hyperfixation. you just liked it if it was a hyperfixation you'd have alot more to say about it other than that you liked it
2026-07-01 08:52:49
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oddyssey :
im diagnosed audhd but was never really taught anything about either disorder cause i was (luckily able to be) diagnosed young so i honestly have no clue the difference between hyperfixation vs special interest. afaik the difference is mostly how long it stays around? whats like the cutoff zone for a fixation to turn into a special interest?
2026-07-01 16:21:03
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𓍢ִ໋ ola ☆໒꒱.˚ :
literally, there are times when I cry at the thought of having different special interests than I do
2026-07-02 12:19:21
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percy 🦄 :
one of my childhood hyperfixtations was baking. at age 4 I memorised how to make a victoria sponge cake and every morning when my mum dropped me off at nursery I would recite it to my teachers. I apparently also did it when I was upset. victoria sponge cake recipe kept me regulated 😭
2026-07-02 10:42:57
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joan :
like bffr. my hyperfixation caused me to forget to eat, shower, brush my teeth, made me stay up for days and completely consumed my thoughts. it's okay to just have an interest
2026-07-01 11:16:23
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idkbro0303 :
more people need to know about this 💔
2026-07-01 07:17:32
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🦴 :
When I stayed up for 24+ hours and didn’t eat until like the 20th one cus I was super engrossed in something lmao
2026-07-01 12:57:21
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Shannon🪩🌷🍒 :
literally like me having an MLP themed room and birthday party where my sister set ALL of my MLP toys (i had been collecting every MLP toy i had seen from ages like 5-8) out so they could be included in my party and you having an MLP blanket as a kid are not the same thing i fear💔
2026-07-01 20:24:45
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Ella :
my minecraft fixation kept me up till 5 am on school nights. i would go to class, play it during class, then between classes, then at my job, then go home and play it while watching videos of ppl playing it. this went on for weeks straight.
2026-07-02 16:43:13
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Libby :
At the beginning of my hyper fixation on interview with the vampire I was lucky enough to be in the holidays for some of it so i watched it around 3-4 times a week (the whole 2 season series) but then when school started again I had the first two days off because I was "ill" when actually I couldn't fathom having to focus on or think about anything other than iwtv. Same thing happens almost a year before with game of thrones, I would stay in bed all day just reading fan fictions. A hyper fixation isn't something you do in your spare time, at least not when its at its worst, it's something you do all day every day because you can't imagine doing anything else
2026-07-01 11:06:57
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phoebs 🪽 :
i wish i didn’t have hypefixations half the time it’s just the most random things ever and i get so fixated on them that i cant think of anything else and my anxiety gets 1000 times worse 😶
2026-07-02 15:28:43
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Joey :
Planes. My hyperfixation was and is planes.
2026-07-01 18:38:24
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🗣️ :
i literally get a headache and cry when i have more than one fixation
2026-07-02 12:41:30
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🫶 :
I think genuinely had a hyperfixation. Years ago I was obsessed with mha and I would think about it in all of my school lessons and all the time at home. It was constant. I’ve had this happen to other things too like LPS and Gacha. I didn’t have other interests along side any of them. It was just one game or specific kind of toy or show and I didn’t look into anything else.
2026-07-02 08:34:21
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𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐚 🪷 :
idk if i can use that word or not bc i might be neurodivergent and my childhood interest were never really casual 💔 i’d watch the same movie every single day at least once
2026-07-01 10:52:27
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Tyler ^_^ :
My special interest is literally the meaning of my life and being and it is so integral to me as a person and my lifestyle LOL
2026-07-02 18:47:16
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Melephant :
That being said sometimes adhders do hyper fixate on shows and tv. Media in general is a huge interest for me so I get a lot of hyper fixations on media. I see a lot of people talk about MLP and I do think it’s a very common one amongst ND’s because it’s literally a show that teaches people about friendship and gives them rules and lessons that are easy to follow, the characters are allowed to be flawed and for the most part are well written, the world building and lore is also kinda insane when you dive into it and the magic system is pretty intricate. But also the fandom was always really active in terms of fan fiction and fan art ect so there was lots to engage in as well as forums to talk about episodes and stuff after they were aired
2026-07-01 20:05:01
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Jordan Valentin📚✍️🏳️⚧️ :
THIS i literally fimd ways to read fanfiction or watch stuff for my current fixation (dragon age atm) even in uni or at work, to the point of getting talks with teachers and my boss at time for taking frequent breaks, i can put it away and i do bc i learned to surpress it but its painful and hard
2026-07-02 07:17:25
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Chiwawa :
Fr, i was five and learned how to work a tv just to watch doc mc stuffins at 6 in the morning EVERY MORNING. I also will watch the same youtube videos and even restart it if i miss something i already know the knowledge of, i must have the the information even if i watched it 5 times that day
2026-07-03 00:57:54
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Tila'om :
I watched Repo! The Genetic Opera every single day, multiple times a day, for 2 years solid in HS. When Avatar: The Way of Water came out I saw it 14 times in theaters. I would’ve seen Fire and Ash that many times if I could’ve afforded it. I am DEEP in an Avatar hyperfixation and it’s honestly tipping closer to special interest at this point. The day I met my husband I drunkenly infodumped about Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water FOR 2 HOURS
2026-07-03 01:23:56
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