#auDHD hyperfixation

[lesbean05]

Dude the amount of random happy stimming I’ve done in the past 3 days when I just remember what happened last episode and that it’s cannon and just shake my head and flap my hands around and grin like an idiot is actually like 10 times more than I usually do

[gayalt25tboy]

[chessb0r3d]

What I mean when I do not control the hyperfixation.

[frankieroslesbian]

Nah man having intense hyperfixations as a neurodivergent person is probably the most isolating feeling in the world

Like all I can think about is this specific thing but I'm not allowed talk about it because it doesn't interest anyone else around me. So instead it just builds up to the point where I feel like I'm going to explode

[ren-is-real]

Hyperfixations can be wonderful but be careful because if you go too deep The Sickness. It gets you. The Sickness.

[zebracakesarecopingmechanisms]

ok so we know about the need to infodump, but what about the opposite? The need to absorb more information about your special interest like a sponge, but you literally can’t find any new material because you’ve already consumed every fact about it

[noballoonsinspace]

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Self-taught one work-in-progress at a time so that there’s some beginner stuff I don’t know and advanced stuff that I do know and I will forever be making silly beginner mistakes in complex projects that I’ll probably never complete :)

[cloudofbutterflies]

Me on a crazed hyperfixation reblogging spree: oh my god... my mutuals... they must hate me for clogging up their dashes... plz dont stop following me i promise i won't be this annoying ever again

Me when my mutuals go on crazed hyperfixation reblogging spree: you go girl!!! reblog those posts!!! those two should kiss!!! they are the bestest girl!!!! go girl go!!!!

[genderstealer2000]

guys we should start a thread about how we feel about our hyperfixations

ahem, ill go first

[pira-vampz]

I'm not ok

[lesbean05]

I have 3 types of tumblr posts:

Reblogs of posts from people way more talented than me

Fandom related, appropriately tagged thoughts on fandom things

Untagged, unhinged, whatever random thoughts enter my brain that need to be released into the world somehow or they’ll drive me insane

[vroomvroomwee]

Thinking about how special interests and hyperfixations are not so much an "unhealthy opsession" as they are a means to calm yourself down.

Is it really obsessive to think about your favourite show, movie, subject etc. all day every day and not being able to function properly? Or is it your brain recognising your anxiety from being forced to socialise and being thrown into loud uncomfortable spaces, and creates images in your head, reminding you of the thing you love so that you can calm down.

It's not unhealthy. Your brain is literally fighting to prevent an anxiety attack.

[universalneurodivergent]

Before you jump down my throat about me not posting the original Tumblr post, I found this in a screenshot on pinterest, so this is what I am using because it would be too hard to find this exactly small three section stitch on Tumblr so leave me alone 🙃

[nemo-me-impune]

My life

[chronicctonic]

Sharing here too. ✨️

[victorzhuzhakin]