This was extremely helpful to me right now as I navigate social abuse from a self-diagnosed autistic person online. I’m also trying to understand the triggers that might be causing the hyper focusing from their part. Your writing is wonderful, thank you.
If you want a professional former psychologist to diagnose you, just spend about 15 minutes in conversation with me in chat or text on my YouTube Livestreams or something (the gaming is a patina for reaching people to help them with live issues, as you will see). I can assess you for free, as self-diagnosis is usually not terribly unbiased. ;)
Hyper-fixation is more a trait of ADHD, but Preferred Topic is more akin to Autism.
The difference is subtle:
Hyper-fixation is an exclusive reduction of focus and attention on all things aside from the object of focus. Needs go unmet, hygiene goes ignored, and all other topics are procrastinated.
Preferred Topic is a leveraging point for social interaction that excuses the Aspie (ASD) individual from engaging in, perspective-ly to the ASD, pointless banter for the sake of verbal intercourse.
So if you are fixating on amigurummi and forgetting to eat, that is ADHD. If you know everything there is to know about every facet of a peculiar topic that only you seem to have such exclusive knowledge about, and then use it to intentionally appear to not be awkward or un-knowledgeable in public or at parties, that would be ASD. <3 :D
Hello from a victim of narcissistic abuse but also a clinically diagnosed level 1 autistic mother of a level 3 autistic child. While I found your writing very informed and interesting and I do agree with some of your theories, I have to say that you are presenting a generalization of something that is far more complex. Yes, differences may be extremely subtle in some cases but this is not entirely true for every case of autism and may be even a bit misleading for your reader's.
This was extremely helpful to me right now as I navigate social abuse from a self-diagnosed autistic person online. I’m also trying to understand the triggers that might be causing the hyper focusing from their part. Your writing is wonderful, thank you.
Awwww, that is so kind of you to say!
If you want a professional former psychologist to diagnose you, just spend about 15 minutes in conversation with me in chat or text on my YouTube Livestreams or something (the gaming is a patina for reaching people to help them with live issues, as you will see). I can assess you for free, as self-diagnosis is usually not terribly unbiased. ;)
Hyper-fixation is more a trait of ADHD, but Preferred Topic is more akin to Autism.
The difference is subtle:
Hyper-fixation is an exclusive reduction of focus and attention on all things aside from the object of focus. Needs go unmet, hygiene goes ignored, and all other topics are procrastinated.
Preferred Topic is a leveraging point for social interaction that excuses the Aspie (ASD) individual from engaging in, perspective-ly to the ASD, pointless banter for the sake of verbal intercourse.
So if you are fixating on amigurummi and forgetting to eat, that is ADHD. If you know everything there is to know about every facet of a peculiar topic that only you seem to have such exclusive knowledge about, and then use it to intentionally appear to not be awkward or un-knowledgeable in public or at parties, that would be ASD. <3 :D
Hello from a victim of narcissistic abuse but also a clinically diagnosed level 1 autistic mother of a level 3 autistic child. While I found your writing very informed and interesting and I do agree with some of your theories, I have to say that you are presenting a generalization of something that is far more complex. Yes, differences may be extremely subtle in some cases but this is not entirely true for every case of autism and may be even a bit misleading for your reader's.