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As someone who switched meds, didn’t sleep much for about 14 days and discovered modular synths: I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.
Disclaimer: let’s face it, I actually love it. Like others in this thread, I can’t even imagine how boring I’d feel not discovering a completely new interest / hobby / aspect of life all the time.
Hell, I know so many people my age who simply seem to stagnate and are simply not interested in anything any longer, and I feel “protected” from that. Life is fucking exciting, let me try all the things!
There are definitely layers to this though, I have core interests that are more aligned with my personality, and I feel that governs how invested I am into each particular hobby. That doesn’t keep me from having wildly varying interests, though.
How I am is not a disorder. Other people just want to put me in line behind them.
ive never understood when my friends decline something because it “sounds boring” i just cant think that way at all
Specially when it’s something new.
They feel the same about me when I decline the opportunity to get shitfaced drunk and banter over 17 games of “Mexican train dominoes” for the 59574th time.
that sounds like it would be insanely interesting maybe the first and second time.
Yeah, this sounds about right. I think this is why other people (without ADHD) often identify me with only one or two of my special interests instead of the full variety of all those interests. The other day I had to introduce me in a certain setting to someone where everyone had to mention their hobbies as well. I was struggling at first how to cram so many hobbies in a short time or how to prioritize them. Then a friend, who was also there, said to me “Oh, you like to upload pictures on iNaturalist!” This is true, but I did not really feel seen because of all the other hobbies that seem similarly important!
iNaturalist?! I wanna see these pics! Do you like Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t?
Haha, username checks out I guess xD
Have not heard of this podcast yet, but will have a listen. Thanks! Usually I have problems paying attention to non-fiction podcasts. But I give it a try.
I can send you a dm regarding my iNat. Have my real name over there and don’t wanna dox myself…
It’s a good podcast, I recommend it to anyone who likes plants. The host is a non-traditional student who swears a lot, very New Jersey/New York.
Totally understandable, so do I.
Oh nice, I’m just listening to the first episode and yes, it is pretty easy to listen to :) Thanks again for the recommendation
I just say i’m into science and technology.
You suck all the dopamine out of something and move on leaving the drained husk of your former hobby behind. Hopefully the dopamine runs out before you put money into it.
I swear as soon as I put money into a hobby, I lose interest. I got a guitar I can’t play, a hackRF I can’t be bothered to relearn, a box of half built eletronics, an unknown amount of Raspberry Pis and Arduinos with no purpose…
Yeah I got into lockpicking a few years ago, figured out how to pick all the random master locks i had lying around the house, and immediately after spending like 250 dollars on some specialty, hard-to-pick locks, I lost interest. Still keep my lockpicking set in my car in case anyone locks themselves out of the house or something, but the dopamine i got from picking those first few locks is gone. On to the next thing.
Same, I have a few locks I don’t have the keys for and even broke into my friends car for them once.
Im not good at it but I can atleast pop open cheap locks no problem.
This is something that has always interested me but I’ve never tried. Any recommendations on a set of picks to start with?
I got a cheap set off of amazon at the time, which worked fine, and it looks like someone has already provided a link to a more reputable business. Most sets will have the same core of tools in them, which will be the most useful, plus maybe some obscure shapes in there that serve a niche purpose.
If you’re interested in getting into the hobby, there’s a discord server called Lock Pickers United that ranks basically every lock in existence on difficulty, and will hand out “belts” a la martial arts, when you can show proof that you’ve picked a lock from different tiers. I never got very far but it seemed fun.
Congratulations on your new hobby that will be abandoned in a few months!
This is the way
yunohost is good at being set and forget for RPis that sit unused. I still haven’t got around to setting up paperless-ngx but I’ve done the rest and it is useful…
Now don’t ask me how long it’s been since I said I’d set up a NAS
as a linux enthusiast and server hosting nerd myself. I bought like 400 dollars of hardware, installed fedora on it, immediately proceeded to not like fedora very much. And then it sat for about six months. On a whim i heard about debian 12 releasing, which had a new enough kernel for proper QSV support on modern intel and i immediately set it up in about a week or two, now using containers and relatively well organized file structures.
This is why I setup proxmox, makes messing with different distros very easy when they’re VMs
No wonder I have a ton of cleaning supplies and a dirty home.
But I got so much Warhammer that needs painting! I have to like it or Shame Mountain won’t erode.
I prefer the term “renaissance man”.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Can you imagine how specialized you would be if you only had one interest? Like the example non-ADD person just into politics… They must know the name of every representative at every level from city to country where they are living, know the detailed history of the political parties, and have a deep knowledge of political movements and their history.
It’s why most people are heavily propagandized and proselytized from a very early age to make sports their hobby. Indeed, these people tend to have deep knowledge of their team’s and their immediate opponent’s histories, with background going back to specific matches half a century ago and impressive retention of numbers and statistics thereof and so on.
All this knowledge of course is absolutely useless politically (and often, socially), which is precisely the point.
Ehm no? What person or institution or organisation do you imagine going “harrr let’s get kids into sports so that they don’t bother to learn about politics harr!” exactly? Because it’s for sure not schools that are doing that. Most schools even teach about how politics work even.
Err, yes? Family and friends and massive amounts of peer pressure to belong. And Massive spending by the state towards such sports ofc.
Just because a government subsidises sports (for example for health benefits) does not mean there is some nefarious plot to keep the populace from being involved in politics
The government building massive stadiums for people to watch sports is not for “health benefits”. Cmon now. This is typical “bread and circuses” stuff.
And it doesn’t have to be a “nyah nyah nyah” twirling mustache guy thing. Fact of the matter is that the rise of professional sports just so happened to correlate to the rise of the nation state.
You’ve crossed into conspiracy theory territory bud. It’s not entirely implausible but it is getting in the direction of “out there.”
What does it say about starting all those hobbies / projects and not finishing any?
wonder if this has anything to do with an inability to say youre not interested when someone starts talking to you about something (at least in my case because i perceive it as being rude and i absolute hate feeling like ive been rude) leading to the actual development of a larger range of interests
Only historical materialism can placate their rabid curiosity now
real
As a person with no diagnosis of any type, I too feel confused by people only having ‘a few’ interests and hobbies. If my time were not so finite, and I had the financial means, I’d be pursuing a lot of random things
Every night after after I just spent 5h with a new hobby, I really dislike the humans need to sleep.
I am aware this sentence is broken but I don’t wanna spend the time
If we needn’t sleep, capitalism would have made sure you have to work 20 hours per day.
I mean, I wouldn’t call it living. Maybe rather existing. :D
Huh. I used to write notes to myself a few years ago when I was still in school and would get super drunk. “Look up modular synths,” was one of my notes and I never went and actually did it. This is probably my calling to learn about them 🤔.
I’d really suggest fiddling around in VCV rack before committing yourself to building anything for real. It’s free too. Individual modules cost upwards of $300 at minimum and you need at least 10 of them to do the crazy generative stuff people are into.
Me, autistic: “Huh, what are modular synths? I wonder what Pickle Junior meant by that.”
Me, autistic, 9 months from now, probably:
Uh, I was never diagnosed with any type yet I have fuckloads of different interests, though I very rarely devote enough time to any of them. Maybe I should recheck? Or is it just a case of internet rabbit holes? I mean, you start perusing wikipedia and you have no idea how you went from vector graphic formulae to chemical composition of certain drugs to baryon asymmetry.
My interests tend to rotate, thankfully. I try to decorate my room or have things that will physically remind me of old hobbies and get me to jump start them back to life.
