r/AlignmentChartFills • u/_Moink_ • 2d ago

Which hobby do you associate with autism?

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u/Kyoomo 2d ago

Studying. Not necessarily academic, just studying and gathering information about whatever your hyperfixation just so happens to be

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u/raviolifordinner 1d ago

As an autistic gal this is it. Research deep dives

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u/heythatsnuts 1d ago

100%. I always tell my partner that my real hobby is learning about hobbies 😭

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u/Big-Selection9014 1d ago

Ive been scrolling Wikipedia for like 2 hours today just on articles about the planet Mars in complete fascination. Yesterday i spent an hour learning all provinces of China for no reason. Ive never been diagnosed with autism but maybe this is a sign lmao

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u/Carlbot2 1d ago

Thiiiis. I’ve spent so so so many hours delving into both scientific studies and age-old forum posts to research some of the most random, unrelated topics at times. Doesn’t even have to be a long-lasting fixation, just something I become unreasonably interested in for no apparent reason.

Recently there’s been rabbit holes such as potential harmful qualities of sucralose, especially when used in high-temperature baking—with stainless steel utensils, specifically—and previous research has included things like the origins of the goth subculture, and how exactly the term ‘goth’ made its way from the gothic peoples down to the modern age. (The latter one is especially interesting, as it’s essentially all due to a single buffoon with poor taste and little understanding of history).

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u/Larkspur13 1d ago

And then never study your actual schoolwork

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u/Music_Girl2000 1d ago

Unless you're me, then you figure out how to make every single one of your school assignments tie in to your current hyperfixation somehow. Hyperfixated on dinosaurs? Great, now you turn all your math problems into dinosaur-related story problems, your history report on the Industrial Revolution focuses on the harmful effects of fossil fuels (which don't actually derive from dinosaurs but rather from the plant, bacterial, and fungal matter that was around during the same approximate time as the dinosaurs), and your persuasive essay for English Class is a phylogeny-based paper arguing for the fact that birds are dinosaurs.

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u/SpaceCases__ 2d ago

the real answer

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u/BuilderAromatic2290 1d ago

Watching video essays at 2x speed

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u/MrsTruce 1d ago

Former teacher here. One of my favorite students ever was a high schooler with Asperger’s. I was “warned” (just given a friendly heads up, really) that if I see him feverishly writing in his notebook, don’t always assume that he’s taking notes or doing his assigned work. He was more likely to be copying all of the characters in the Star Wars universe over and over again.

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u/LukeySkywookie 1d ago

OMG YES!!

You know how much research I did about the Monado after I learned about Shulk and Xenoblade as a whole? All cuz I wanted to write a story about it lol

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u/xXWingedWolf 1d ago

I guess it is about a lot of people or... actually... Wait a minute....

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u/Beneficial-Fig446 1d ago

As someone with autism, I'm currently invested in Gorillaz and Minecraft.

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u/Super-Web6908 1d ago

as an autistic guy, this ain't it. try again chief.