Am I the only one who switches very quickly?

[Evy the Owl]

Are there any people here who switch between different special interests very fast?

It might have something to do with my ADHD though

 

[Vanilla]

Yeah, I do that.

I once read that there are a few typical types of behaviours in Aspies, in terms of interests, or obsessions. Two of the ones that seemed most prominent were:

(a) Aspies who obsess for long periods of time on a single train of thought, or activity (for weeks, months, or even years).

(b) Aspies who have several obsessions/ interests going at the same time, with shorter attention spans, which they then jump between, and replace with new ones occasionally.

I actually started with (a) for the first 17-18 years of my life, and have switched to (b) after

 

[King_Oni]

I tend to switch around a bit...

However, the moment money is involved it does put the breaks on switching up interests.

I feel I'm a mix between the A & B ones Vanilla addressed. I guess I'm a C then

I have interests that stick around for a long period, but I switch around rapidly to change the angle in said interests.

An example would be; I spend a lot of time painting wargaming figures (that could be seen as A) but the B side of this is that I can't stick with the same type of figures too long. I tend to mix it up, end up on different gaming systems, different painting styles. In a sense I guess I'm just spicing it up to keep my main activity interesting. Though I guess if you add in the broader sense of wargaming as a hobby it involves gaming as well. I can be on a gaming kick at times as well and do no painting for a month or so.

Another one of those examples; for a while I was occupied with a... for lack of a better word "art" project. The project was my main obsession, the fact that I should tie together illustration and graphic design, music composition, writing, prop building and a lot of research in different fields, clearly makes it a case of rapidly changing interests. But still with the focus on the main thing for months.

I guess I'm one of those who likes to do any hobby that is multifaceted just to keep it interesting in the long run.