#will it be as intense as my ninjago hyperfixation?

[little-hermit-crab56]

Oh shit guys, I think I found another childhood franchise to hyperfixate on.

[pookinat0r]

Hello pookination (horrible name, i know. I just pulled it out of my ass). In the time i was gone i managed to rewatch the entirety of ninjago and become intensely hyperfixated on it so uh. Here are my drawings. Enjoy. Stupud video and doodles under the cut

[jacenbren]

My top headcanons for some of the Ninjago cast because I’ve started rewatching this show yet again and my hyperfixation is coming back with a vengeance:

Kai

Functioning alcoholic

Needs hearing aids due to being way too close to way too many explosions

Multilingual (fluent in English, Spanish, Japanese, and sign language, and has picked up bits and pieces of many other languages)

Always feels very warm to the touch and can easily withstand exposure to extreme heat

Zane

Goes nonverbal fairly frequently

Special interest is birds and has an encyclopedic knowledge of them

The friend who says he’s not gonna drink but has to get dragged home from the bar later

Exclusively wears hawaiian shirts in his downtime during the summer

Jay

Was homeschooled and it shows

Still has some vestigial snake-like features from when he got turned into a Serpentine (weirdly sharp teeth, slitted pupils, etc)

Had a very confusing crush on Kai for a while and refuses to tell him

Gives off tiny static shocks when touched and can grab live wires without any ill effects

Cole

Stoner (no pun intended)

Will occasionally forget that he’s not a ghost anymore and walk face-first into walls

Can play several musical instruments but it’s just not his passion

Despises wearing shoes and can’t think properly unless the Feet Prisons are removed

Lloyd

Has a lot of vaguely oni/dragon-like habits and physical traits that deeply unsettle everyone

A sucker for trashy romance movies

His natural hair color is brown but he got way too committed to bleaching it and refuses to let it grow out

Bit people as a child (and still does)

Nya

Has the highest alcohol tolerance out of the entire team

Is still somewhat distant towards both of her parents and will always see Kai as more of a parental figure/guardian

Never got a formal education and forged her high school diploma

Has a gap between her front teeth

Pixal

Does math equations for fun

Was originally designed as genderless but decided she was female after becoming self-aware

Has zero qualms about breaking the law (has been arrested before)

Gets frighteningly intense playing any board game

Skylor

VERY tall (like taller than most guys)

Has tattoo sleeves on both arms and several on her torso and back

Tried to date Kai before she realized she was a lesbian but they both kinda forgot to tell people that they broke up

Always has the most gorgeously done acrylic nails

Morro

Hung around the monastery after DotD to make amends and has become its resident mildly irritating poltergeist

Has several ear and facial piercings that he did himself

Still has a rocky relationship with Wu and Lloyd but is generally pretty amicable with other people (he’s still kind of a grumpy asshole but he’s trying)

Really likes Deftones

[justletmereadmycomics]

Pipebomb

Call me Tripp, MK, Avid, Noodle, or whatever suits ya' best

Current interests: TMNT (mainly Rise and 2012) ((special)) Lego Monkie Kid (hyperfixation) Undertale Hollow Knight ATLA (Avatar the Last Airbender) Ninjago Rain World (no Downpour spoilers please!) AU masterpost can be found here! (All banners by @/bunnysrph) My Ao3 is justletmereadmyfics :] (will link later) Request guidelines: No: Intense gore (a bit of blood/injury is fine, just no like... mutilated faces. Those are hard.) NSFW T-CEST Complex backgrounds/landscapes Sure: OC's anything not on the "No" part of the list

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[phecdasolar]

*Coughs nervously* Ok, so, um, a little birdie told me you had Ninjago AUs, and I’m bored, so…..

Gimme words to fuel my brain

👀

HELLO ANON I’M SO SORRY THAT’S IT’S BEEN NEARLY A YEAR SINCE YOU SENT THIS AND I’M ONLY RESPONDING NOW I really really hope you see this-!

You were very unfortunate to catch me before when my hyperfixation was trickling out, but now you are very lucky because I am intensely into Ninjago right now and have TRIPLED my Ninjago AU count in the past three days alone so instead of out right telling you, I will give you a choice! Ask about any of these and I will gladly tell you! Ask about one! Ask about multiple! It doesn’t matter! I’m having the time of my life and Ninjago is wonderful!!!!!!

Edit: This goes for anyone btw! If anyone else wants to know about these AU’s feel free to leave an ask!

[jaywalker-daily]

Jay Walker is such a character to me. He is my favorite Ninja but I absolutely detest him. I hate his ass he's so annoying. Anyway. Jay Walker is my favorite Ninjago character. I found the Clutch Powers song earlier and now I can't stop listening to it. Some part of me literally is Jay and some part of me wants to kiss him and some part of me just wants to put him on a pan on Arizona concrete in the middle of July. I am so conflicted about this man. I'm also genuinely hyperfixated on Ninjago rn. My autism has chosen Jay Walker as its blorbo. I feel actual intense feelings about this man. I picture Jay angst in my head every day. Jay Ninjago is the topic of my Ninblago and dudes I’m going insane I am on the verge of tears every day now. Jay Walker from Ninjago makes me insane and gives me something to smile about.

[thebrokenbean]

See my first instinct was to say 'pirate'

But considering how I had a stage of intense hyperfixation on TMNT and Ninjago, multiple times each...

I think I have to follow past evidence 😂

No “see results” options we choose sides like middle schoolers

[jinxedshapeshifter]

Yknow what. I'm gonna make this post because I saw a Twitter thread and I think it's important.

Allistic people need to stop co-opting clinical terms for AuDHD experiences.

Hyperfixation and special interest are both clinical terms used to describe experiences exclusive to autism (in the case of special interests) and ADHD, and neither of them are fun to experience. Let's go over the two terms before I go any further.

Special Interest

A special interest is a usually lifelong interest exclusive to autism that usually starts in childhood (and is part of the diagnostic criteria; I don't remember if it's required or not). An autistic person can have multiple special interests as far as I know. Personally my primary special interest is zoology, and has been for as long as I can remember. I have an additional special interest in neurology that started because I had a seizure when I was 10 and I've been fascinated by neurology ever since, to the point I'm tempted to try to become a neurologist myself (technically this special interest is actually in medicine in general but I had this seizure and sorta honed in on neurology in addition to having a special interest in medicine lol). From my experience, the intensity of a special interest can wane and wax over time, but they're a constant in your life. For me personally, my special interest in zoology is more likely to be prominent if I'm hyperfixated on something involving animals (like Sonic or my furry OCs).

Here's the thing though: I have been subtly implied to be a predator because of my extensive knowledge of animals. I'm literally just someone who does way too much research on animals because of curiosity and fascination. In addition to this, while I definitely don't mind (it's an integral part of who I am, and people asking me to share that part of me makes me super happy), I've been treated as an actual zoologist amongst my friend groups and even in my family. I don't mind it as long as people acknowledge that I'm not a professional when it comes to animals, but it bothers the fuck out of me when I mention I don't know something and get told "well, aren't you super into zoology or something?"

Hyperfixations

Hyperfixations are like a more intense, shorter term version of a special interest that's not exclusive to autism. It's common for people with ADHD to end up with hyperfixations too. There is a slight difference between hyperfixation and hyperfocus; a hyperfixation is usually an interest that lasts months (although I've had some that last mere weeks and I'm sure hyperfixations lasting shorter amounts of time than that aren't unheard of), while hyperfocus is being so incredibly focused on something that doing anything else is out of the question. The two usually overlap but don't always.

Examples of things I've been hyperfixated on:

Undertale

Deltarune

The Good Doctor

Animal Crossing

Sonic the Hedgehog

Dungeons & Dragons (pretty sure this is a special interest at this point. If it goes dormant it does not take long for me to get back into it. It also feels like a more casual interest but I am Not Normal™️ about the Forgotten Realms lmao)

Ninjago

Again, hyperfixations aren't fun to have. I lost sleep when I was hyperfixated on The Good Doctor because I would stay up all night and watch it. I watched all 6 seasons (averaging 20 episodes each, with 45 minute episodes!!!) within 3 weeks. That wasn't healthy (which is kinda ironic in hindsight considering The Good Doctor is a medical drama but MOVING ON). I lost sleep when I first hyperfixated on Undertale in 2017. Losing sleep over hyperfixations ISN'T FUN. I just want a normal sleep schedule man.

Similarities Between The Two

From my experience, the biggest similarity between hyperfixations and special interests is with both of them, you can't really help what your interest is. It's why I hate it when people get upset with autistic people and people with ADHD when they have "problematic" interests (glares at everyone who gets upset that people are still interested in Harry Potter). I am very much aware of some of the issues with The Good Doctor. I was aware of them when my brother offered to watch it with me and we stayed up watching it until 3am. I still got hyperfixated on it.

I got hyperfixated on plane crashes a few months ago. Some people might not see how that's problematic, but aside from me also losing sleep over that one (this time for more than just staying up all night watching a show related to the interest), the ones that fascinated me the most and still do (aside from British Airways Flight 009)? The ones that were deliberately (or planned to be deliberately) taken down. Pan Am Flight 103. Philippine Airlines Flight 434. FedEx Flight 705. Air France Flight 8969. Germanwings Flight 9525. It fascinates me. But seeing people be shamed for special interests and hyperfixations deemed "problematic" also makes me feel bad even if I'm not specifically or directly being targeted.

Special interests and hyperfixations aren't some "uwu cute interest" we can control the topic or intensity of. I've hyperfixated on things to the point of forgetting to go to the bathroom until I'm almost too late to. I've hyperfixated on things to the point of forgetting to eat and drink. I've hyperfixated on terrorists taking down planes. My special interest in animals goes beyond just "man, animals are cool!" I have spent hours researching animals and their behavior, diets, reproduction, everything and it leads people to the wrong conclusion. All I want to talk about is what I personally am interested in. I had to physically stop myself from asking my grandpa to buy me new dice because yeah, gaming/campaign dice are another special interest I have, and that's not fucking cheap. The dice I was tempted to ask my grandpa to get me were almost $10 for a set of 3 at Walmart, and I wanted two sets. My grandparents aren't really in a great spot financially, and I was already asking for a $15 dice tower. I broke my ability to write regular stuff because I hyperfixated on HTML too close to the sun and my brain kept going "okay, but where are your <p> tags?????"

None of it is something I can control. That's why it's a symptom of a fucking disorder. You think AuDHD people are gatekeeping the terms special interest and hyperfixation? Fine, fuck you. You're just downplaying what those terms mean.

I've been refusing to watch anything except D&D: Honor Among Thieves because my autism brain personifies everything and I feel like I'd be betraying something if I watched something else, ended up fixated on that something else, and lost interest in D&D.

Hyperfixations and special interests aren't a fucking joke. They're fucking debilitating. I shouldn't be getting so focused on something that I forget to pee because I forgot my body does that in the first place and my focus being interrupted should not make me irritable, or borderline ANGRY.

"But what if --" IF THIS SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING YOU EXPERIENCE THEN YOU DON'T COUNT. I'M SPECIFICALLY TALKING ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO TALK ABOUT BEING ABLE TO BE INTERESTED IN THINGS A NORMAL AMOUNT AND STILL CALL IT A HYPERFIXATION OR SPECIAL INTEREST. If you don't LITERALLY MAKE YOURSELF SICK OR HAVE UNHEALTHY HABITS BECAUSE OF AN INTEREST, it's not a hyperfixation, and if you don't have autism, you can't have a special interest.

[reonagisolos]

so theres this guy

[i-love-jay-walker]

I dunno how much help this will be, but I'll give my story!

When I was 11, Ninjago came out and I immedietly got hooked. Never in my life have something grabbed me like Ninjago did. It held me tight and still does. I don't think it will ever let go and I'm good with that

If I played with other kids, I would be Jay from ninjago and no one else. Every. Single. Time. I would mash Jay into anything i could and talk about him always.

It has been my Hyperfixation since then (I turn 23 in 2 months). Never has it gone away. All of my other hyperfixations have, but not Ninjago. Its here to stay.

Half a year ago I got diagnosed with Autism (along with ADHD, but that was when I was 16). A big reason for suspicion was my obsession with Ninjago.

The fact that I knew so much, could talk for hours, spend my money on LEGO and most importantly, my singular obsession with Jay.

If I had to write a book in English class, I would name the character something random, but use Jay's character because I simply couldn't comprehend not having him. I couldn't imagine it being anyone else.

If I got another Hyperfixation Ninjago would always merge along and I would go through hoops to make the stories make sense as to why Jay and whatever other character I liked were the same person. I've done this with the weirdest characters, but I made it work. Literally did it with Lucifer, demons, Indiana Jones and any character you can imagine. If they were my Hyperfixation they would certainly get merged.

Again, no other media has done this to me.

My personality is completely based on fictional characters, but Jay most of all.

When Dragons Risings got leaked and Jay wasn't really shown in it, I felt this intense feeling of dread. That feeling when you suddenly realize you're all alone in the dark. The feeling when you think you spot a pair of eyes in the dark. A feeling of never knowing hope, of despair pulling you down into the horrid depths of dread. I've never felt that way before or after, I suppose it's the feeling of losing someone dear to you. And all because of a fictional character that I'm weirdly obsessed with.

When I was badly suicidal a few years ago, one of my last ropes, that I clung to with all my might, was the fact I needed to know what would happen next. I couldn't die yet, what if something big happened in Ninjago! So I had to live, I had to watch. And I did. And I still will.

To me, Ninjago isn't just a show. It's a life. My life. It saved mine and it took over. It holds me in a tight embrace, like the mother that could never love me. It showed me the love and care that I never saw for myself. It taught me that family is found and not build by blood. It gave me a hope and told me to hold onto it forever. And so I will. I will never let go.

Ninja never quit.

Hey everyone!

I’m writing a 10-12 page paper for my English 2010 class on why Ninjago is so much more than a kids show and I need your help!

Will you please reblog/tag/comment/dm your experience with Lego ninjago and why you love it, why you think it’s more than a show, or even why you don’t think it’s more than just a show. I want to hear all of your opinions and ideas!

I would appreciate that so so so so so much! It would really help me out!!

Please note that if you do choose to add your thoughts, there is a strong possibility that I would quote you in my essay (I would obviously use your online name and credit you for the response, I’m not a mad man)

You can make your response as long or as short as you want!

Thank you all so much!!!❤️