Obsessive Hobbies and Interests shared by 8 Autistic People!
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- čas přidán 13. 04. 2024
- April theme this month was: Obsessive Hobbies and Interests that I can spend hours on. Each autistic person shares theirs. Please support these people by commenting down below on who you could relate with or what your obsessive hobbies and interests are. Thank you for watching! Thank you to everyone that participated. #autism
935 to 940 in. Yes. CZcams is a beautiful thing. I’ve learned more in a year and a half than my whole life on this topic.
After watching again, I want to add a few things. Alejandro, I'm not really surprised, based on what you shared in a previous video, but wow, it's beautiful !
And Bear, you are making amazing things ! Your home might look like a museum of creativity ! Hi to the hens !
Jo, I felt the same all my life, it's great you decided to help with informing people !
Neil, I already love your videos (I'll watch your new one tomorrow, when I'm less tired).
Thank you everybody involved !
As always Cecile, thank you for your support of me and others featured on this channel. I always appreciate your input. :) Maybe we'll see ya in the next collab.
@@autisticjenny Thank you for the kind words my friend!
I LOVED this video!!!! Good to hear other autistic people discuss their interests.
I’ve often struggled when people ask what my hobbies are…I don’t have them.
But I do have special interests! I’ve learnt not to discuss my special interests too deeply with people though, that tends to scare people off. So when asked what my hobbies are, I say, “reading, walking, journaling”…which is true, but people don’t know they are my obsessions haha 😂
Thanks for sharing Joanna!
What an amazing video ! I loved every part of it ! I'll have to watch it again after dinner, because it's really good !
thank you Cecile
Wow I enjoyed this video , thanks to all involved 😊
thank you Margo! Everyone did great.
😊 A...greed!
Haha it wasn't until Orion said 'do I have hobbies? No, I have special interests' that it clicked with me. I should've sent in a video of my special interest - cats, in specific, the stray cats here in Turkey. Lately I've been so focused on getting as many stray cats spayed/neutered (it's a long process - find the cat, make sure they are healthy/well-fed, then the big question, how do I catch? So I try to become friends with them. Then I go out with my box every day, trying to get them used to the idea etc etc etc Worst part, I force myself to connect with humans who know the cat so I know they are at a good place afterwards. That part is EXHAUSTING!) I totally forget about other stuff in life to be honest. It's so lovely to see what activities others love to do! Great video as always 😻
Hi!
You are doing good work with the cats! Cats are one of my special interests as well.
I have relatives in Turkey. What you do is amazing! ❤
Feel free to join my May collab. :) Thank you for what you do. Caring about the cats that need somebody is important. I love that you find them homes. Lucky cats. :)
That would have been a great addition!!! 😮
Good post though. That is awesome of you! (I just did a "are cats autistic video lol)
World need more of you, but ya, the human part of it.. ewww.
@@CallMeMrjoe I bet she would like that video Joe
Nice work!
I can't thank you enough for stepping over to my channel for some fun! It was nice to see what your interests and hobbies are. :)
Yes your interests interested me Orion... ( I know you won't see... more rhetorical I think. )
Nice videos!
Those looks like fractals, Alejandro.
I can relate to trying to figure out what was wrong with me for a lot of my life, Jo.
I love singing too, Isabella.
Thanks for the video Jenny!
Thanks Lily for commenting here. :)
Thanks! 😊 Nice to read that you like it
@@alejandro-314 Beautiful! Are they fractals or are they something similar?
@@Catlily5 Yes, you could say that they are fractal-like structures. They shared that they are defined/calculated in a recursive manner and show some self-recurrence. What I find more interesting is that by this recursion, you start with a line (which is 1 dimension) and, when n tends to infinity, you end-up with a object that has a dimension which is a rational number (between 1 and 2 for the binary tree examples). This value indicates "how much of the 2d plane is the fractal filling". This recursive strategy is found in nature because of this. For instance, a tree can cover more space (to absorb more light) by following this strategy.
@@alejandro-314 Cool, thanks for explaining!
This was a really cool video, I’m glad you’re doing collabs! I would participate, but I don’t want my face on the internet. I’m really grateful to those that participated
Thank you Stephanie.
Your story is welcome here I'm sure 😊
If ya ever wanted to share. No pressure.
Really enjoyed hearing about other people's special interests - such a wide range of things!! 💚
Glad you enjoyed it!
I REALLY enjoyed this collab Jenny. It's so great to see what interests other autistic people have and to see the passion and joy on peoples' faces and in their voices. Like Neil, my passion (poetry) has been a huge comfort for me during difficult times. As well as comfort, poetry brings me joy (autistic joy - the best kind!); calms my mind; uplifts me and so much more. Thanks for this great video Jenny! 😊
Thank you so much! I always appreciate your encouragment and kind words. :)
I love poetry as well. I used to do stand-up poetry quite regularly (bad puns and 'dad jokes'). I did an English MA recently, and my dissertation linked the early poetry of John Clare with rave music and British legislation.
@AutisticNotAlien That sounds really interesting. I love how autism allows us more freedom to take something and run with it in a completely different direction! I hope that makes sense! I guess we're generally just less worried about staying inside the box of convention eh! 😊
@@cupofteawithpoetry Autistic people seem more determined to pursue what's meaningful and authentic to them (which can mean that making compromises and adhering to social norms can be very difficult). This independence, curiosity, and willingness to connect separate topics is a perfect combination for a pioneering academic! Not that *I* was a pioneering academic - I was just someone who decided to do an MA because the pandemic compelled me to re-assess what I'm doing with my life.
@AutisticNotAlien That's awesome having an MA in English. Yes I think you're right that we're often more determined to pursue what's important and authentic to us. Good observation ☺️
Information overload for me. Anything i can learn.
Philosophy, neuroscience, interior decorating, creative writing. Music.
Nice! I think Neuroscience is very interesting too.
My biggest special interest is making mixed media cartoons/and some live action (and lately using some AI), to make parodies of things I read on the news. Been doing that since 2009.
That sounds really interesting! There's lots of possibilities with AI
This was a nice video, it's nice to see different special interests I love nature and photography myself, reading music and cross stitch at the moment, the crafts seem to come and go and a lot of things I have started and lost interest as well, but photography seems to be a lasting one for me 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
Photography seem to be a lot of autistic peoples S.I.s... I can see why.
Great collab! I really enjoyed listening to everyone! Musical talent seems to be a shared interest.Books and reading, as well. I just packed up 12 boxes of books aand put them in storage. We all seem to like to create, for me I need to use my hands, in some way.Thanks Jenny! 😁😁😁
Yes, Lisa, we do seem to enjoy creating....great point. We love the arts. I consider myself a life-long "Content Creator" of many types of mediums.
@@autisticjenny Books is one of my interests as well! I just haven't been reading nearly as much since I got onto CZcams 2 and a half years ago.
@@Catlily5 Same here. When younger, I could easily read dozens of books a month.
Nowadays it has to be *_a really good book._* And they are out there... just very few and far between.
You tube talks and interviews usually do a better job of teasing out the detail of the book anyway!!!
There are some books such as David Deutsch's books, Steve Pinker's recent book and a few other but not many...
Oh... Non-fiction guy here.
@@CallMeMrjoe I like fiction more but I did read a book by Steven Pinker years ago. It was The Blank Slate
Oh that was my first book by him too. 😀
Read a lot of his stuff since but it's a LOT MORE IN DEPTH if your not into that kinda thing... but *_The Blank Slate_* is a GREAT book!!!
That was amazingly interesting.
Thank you!
Absolutely awesome video! Loved The editing! Was fun to see a bunch of people I know and a few people I didn't know! Subscribed to autistic not alien look forward to viewing that content. Hi Isabella! Hi Mr Joe! Oh and hi Orion 😂
Thank you Jenn! Yes, I love Autistic Not Alien, Neil's channel. I only wish his videos were longer because I enjoy them so much. I subscribed to Isabella and Mr. Joe also...
@@autisticjenny I should do longer videos, but they take so long to make! Partly because I'm a bit of a perfectionist, but mainly because I have two jobs, two kids, and a 60-mile-a-week running habit!
@@AutisticNotAlien If it gets in the way of family, it isn't worth it. I would never want you to take away from time of family...I know how precious that is. Kids grow up way too fast. So you do what is best for your channel. I will watch your videos no matter how long they are. They are so good! :)
@@autisticjenny Family comes first, though my kids are of an age where they don't need me around as much as they used to. But they still need their meals made for them, and they still need me to be Mr Taxi! I think they secretly like the fact that I have a CZcams channel - it's not exactly normal dad behaviour!
Jenny. *_This is FRIGGIN amazing!!!_* Thank you for giving us a voice on your channel!
I loved the stories!
Very cool art you created. I like the picture you showed. The one it said took hours… I find that fascinating!
Orion. This was REALLY COOL to see a different side of you. I have questions about how you feel about how the subjective the whole processes is?
I read studies about JUDGES AND HOW easily they are influenced by their own judgments, emotions, and mood!!!
There were CLEAR indications such as harsher penalties dealt before lunch and near the end of day kind of stuff!!!
I find that stuff fascinating!!! How humanistic it is, and yet they try to make it a system… lol! It works but it ain't infallible!
Neil: I am in the same boat with my channel. I totally relate. Neat video.
Alejandro: This reminds me of the Mandelbrot Set and his Fractals and ideas.
Bear: Love the electronic stuff. I tried to create a light up photo frame using electroluminescent sheets… YEARS AGO… before white led were available. Only red was affordable enough to buy.
Had to invent the inverter handle to the AC/DC conversions. Was in interesting
project. Learnt all about electricity. Had custom transformers made… custom PC boards… housing… connectors. Was fun learnt A TON!!!
MrJoe… MrJoe, MrJoe, MrJoe, if we don't meet again!!! You are as handsome and smart as I remember!!!
But you CLEARLY CAN'T HAVE AUTISM!!
… your too normal. Besides, you people can’t drive, can you?
My Human Suit… come on… that's just too good!... My Human suit. I wish I woulda thought of that!!!
Isabella: I didn't know you sang… was waiting for you to song something the whole time!!! All good… maybe on your channel…
Thank you again Jenny... I have a few channels to subscribe to 😊.
Cheers all!!! ❤
Your use of wording Jo, love it. Thanks for joining in...and thanks for leaving a kind word for everyone. I hope they read it!
@@autisticjenny Me too. Was from the heart 🖤! (Oh shoot... spell check darn it!) ❤... ya that's better 😀 lol
Yes! I'm working on Mandelbrot images right now 😊
@@alejandro-314 Nice my friend. Will checkout! 😊
Brilliant jenny, well done to everyone who took part. So many talented and creative people out there on the spectrum.🙋♂️
Thank you James... I'm enjoying getting to know people like myself as we can all relate
I really don’t like cameras looking at me. Otherwise I would have submitted. In text I’ll share. I love music. Have a very high quality (concert like) home stereo. Soccer was my passion growing up. I was just on the outside of representing USA soccer back in the 90’s. Video gaming is an other vice I have. Built a full driving simulator. The first person shooters I’ve played, I tend to be a top ten percenter on the leaderboards. I was 64 in the world back on the original call of duty modern warfare.
No worries. :) Soccer is great! My son used to play and my daughter. Thanks for sharing those interests! :)
Wow... nothing to sneeze at there... that's some impressive stuff!!!
Hola Jenny!
Same as other people commented I do not want to share my face on the internet, don´t even have facebook or other things as I am really scared of some people finding me (bad things happened in past, including a stalker that frightened me to death).
My number one special interest was always animals, mostly mammals. But also common others we often share our lives with, as chicken or pigeons. Starlings chatting in groups are soo interesting, or how they copy sounds like the signal of traffic-lights for blind people. Or crows, how they place walnuts on the street and wait for a car driving on them to open them. Okay, I guess I like a lot of birds😅 In general I am very interested in the behaviour of animals and that leads to my second big interest, psychology, brain research, how bio-chemical processes and behaviour go together, how meds work, sociology, etc. It leads to a lot of things I really enjoy to take a good deap dive into it, like the effects of urban planning and architecture on people.
I like arts and arts-history, love going to museums and arts-exibitions, especially old classics as Caravaggio, Boticelli or Vermeer. I don´t know how often I visited the Gemäldegallerie here in Berlin (its my favourite museum here) and I could go there again and again watching the same pictures and nearly cry out of joy!!!!!!
Since childhood I am also very interested in history, also especially in archeology. Wanted to get an arceologist or psychiatrist as a kid; or a secret agent many years as another alternative watching the classic James Bond-movies with my dad over and over again😂
I like architecture, so trips to other places nearby and walking through the streets, places and parcs can be inspiring (if it is not too ceowded and loud and I have enough time).
I like to hike, especially with a dog. I never had my "own" dog (as I am a vegan animal rights activist I think nobody owns or should own a living beeing, but You know what I mean), but had some dogs I cared a long time for some days of the week. I can walk hours/kilometers in the nature on my own enjoying watching plants or animals, enjoy the silence, feel the wind, smell the air...
I always loved to sing, this is really a reason why I like to visit the service, it´s great to be able to sing loud with the organ acompanying. Sang in some choirs from childhood on. But hate to stay on a stage, beeing forced to it I quit, also playing german flute. I used to sing loud a lot living at my parents house, I was there alone a lot as both were fulltime working and additional did things on the afternoons. But in a small flat I don´t feel very comfortable to do so, same with playing instruments as my german flute. Miss it a lot!
I like to try out some vegan recepies, but I wouldn´t go so far to say cooking or baking is a special interest as I just love good food and as a single I have to make it myself 😅Often I don´t realize in time that I am hungry, forget to cook and then I have to eat something quick. I guess You all know what I mean. So nothing to complicated and I like to eat the same often.
I used to read a lot, mostly fiction, but since I am in big emotional stress (grieving after my dads dead more then two years ago combined with simultaneous ocurring other big stress like an emergency surgery, other sudden deaths, moving, losing job, lawsuits, ...🥴😵💫just too much to handle for me, and I guess the diagnosed "depression" is in fact an autistic burnout) I can´t concentrate on a book like I used to and I watch a lot of serials instead.
Oh, I listen to a lot of podcasts and mostly play casual games parallel to concentrate better on listening. Mostly about history or some true crime podcasts if they are more focused on the psychology instead of bloody details.
Also I like to play old-style adventure-games on computer like "the book of unwritten tales" (it has grown to a triology, so if You loved to play monkey island or Ednas breakout You have to try it!).
And I loved my job in social work with homeless people. I guess I like to spent time with them as that they are more "true", "real", come to the point, don´t care about boring social games mostly. And as I hate injustice I love to fight for their rights. A big amount of homeless people has mental illnesses but as classic psychiatric system has a specific idea of what is the only way of treating them and if they don´t agree just lets them down they end homeless. I think as I have faced this a bit with the late diagnose of ADHD 18 years ago and the constant feeling of beeing missdiagnosed before I found out about the autism now I understand that people say that´s not helpful for them. I am very interested in finding out together with them what could be a good thing for them and then try to make this possible. Often it is a frustrating fight against system/burocracy, but in a city like Berlin there are some alternative places and people trying out new ways, so it is inspiring. During pandemic I worked at a experimental-program where homeless people were given accomodation without beeing registered somewhere first (so also foreigners could take part in) and just had to sign to follow some basic rules like deposit their alcohol/weapons/drugs at the entrance, consume outside and no violance. Dogs and cats were allowed, it was weelchairfriendly, a DREAM came true for us wanting this for years! The left Berlin city government paid it, it was single in Germany, and it was a big success! We were able to get more permanent housing, resignement in social system as health insurance, getting a passport again, regular social welfare, jobs or other needs for the people then in "normal" projects before! I really loved to be able to took part on this! I also later then worked on a vaccination-centre and additional volunteered on a medical ambulance for homeless to get practise as I took the oppurtunity to join a free offered course for emergency medical tecnicians by the organisation that run the vaccination centre (Johanniter). So for me the pandemic was quite a busy time. Medicine in general is a very interesting field, too.
Okay, could add more, but I think I should stop now😂.
I really dig your hobbies! I can relate to a lot of that. Thank you for sharing that with me. :) I enjoyed reading about it. And thank you for what you do for the homeless. I think they are a forgotten population. And yes, I can imagine social norms are the least of their concerns or last thought.
@@autisticjenny Well, at the moment I am doing nothing. I am at home not working or volunteering for months now. And I always did because I loved to do, it is not something "heroic" for me. And last it is with homeless people like with autistic people of cause, "if You met one..." ;-) But mostly they are "rough but pure", like that a lot. I am not always very good with that "professionell distance", and sometimes I just give a shit on it. There are people I really like (yes, more then others, I am a human, try to treat all fair and equal, but sometimes I like some more)and often I knew I could have ended up the same if not a small bit happened differently at my life.
Thank you Jenny! This was fun!
I really liked what you explained about voices, I was wondering if Colm McGuiness was one of the voices you studied... I'd like to hear you sing, I'll visit your channel ! Thank you !
@@cecile-p Voices are affecting me on a deep level. I think he has a very interesting and beautiful voice, I will listen more to his music!
@@isabellammusic When you talked about how to use voices to communicate emotions, I thought about him because he sounds like he has different voices. There are probably many others !
Yes it was! Thank you! I subscribed to your channel :)
Loved it Thanks! I find it facinating how we all have some commonalities, yet of course different. I Love photography. Never had a great camera as was generaly financially impaired. ;P. When I finally got a decent camera, I got rid of it shortly after for things for my kiddos. No worries. However, my phone has SO many pictures. fam always asks why Im taking another picture. I love trying to capture things and the beauty around me. I love learniing about the Bible, history, & science. Just learning really. I also have a fairly ridiculous obsession with the video game the Sims. I think its an escape method that I have total control over & helps me decompress. Or, I am just odd. Lol. I have played the Sims on & off, but for most of 24 years. I took a year off when my youngest was born as he took pretty much all my energy. A few times I stepped away for up to 2.months. Otherwise I never really stop playing like 30 mins to 3 hours a day. When I dont escape to the Sims... I dont do as well in life . Idk if that makes sense.
Stacy....sounds like we have some things in common!
Niceeee. I love religious books. Also history and political science books (thats what i studied on college). Sometimes i wish i could absorb all knowledge. My memory isnt so good after several burnouts. But i still enjoy reading and learning. I also have a big thing about learning different languages but i became lazy with the years 😅 i still dream i will learn russian properly one day. Another thint i like is crochet and cross stitch. Doing manual crafts keeps my mind away from obsessive toughts. Wow im really impressed by yall special interests ❤
Thank you! I enjoy cross-stitching. It's been a while though. My grandmother tried to show me how to croquet and I'm left handed. I wasn't able to learn then. Yes, books are great! :) I looked at a bunch at the thrift store today.
Great video 😊 was really interesting to hear everyone
Love it! Thanks for sharing y'all!
Our pleasure!
great installment, really insightful - thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Again, I can’t find your Etsy shop, but I want to support yoooou
I don't sell anything that anyone on my channel would probably like. But maybe in the future.
@@autisticjenny you never know, we have varied interests
Thanks Jenny! I couldn't send anything longer. Singing and writing music is my favorite but I didn't realize only 10 seconds would send over email. 🩵
Wonderful photos ! Thank you !
Thank you. It was nice to see your photography. I love that too. I feel like cell phones have come a really long way also. I don't use my Nikon as much as I used to. I think I've become lazy and prefer to whip out my phone.
@@autisticjenny Some day I'll own something better than a phone to make videos with. 🩵