Holding on to things.

[oliviamorgenstern]

I'm wondering if anyone else have troubles holding on to interest?

A have a very big problem with starting something, and going fully into it, but then changing my mind and finding it boring after a few weeks. Often it's because I'm not the best, and therefore i see no point in doing it.

What about you?

 

[Cali Cat]

I'm somewhat like that. It usually lasts months, though, rather than weeks before I realize I'm not interested anymore.

 

[Judge]

Comes and goes....I usually attribute it to depression. Not ASD.

 

[Kobus]

Same here, i give something my everything, it becomes an obsession, then i feel inferior amd get depressed and then the next thing comes along and so the cycle repeats... physics seems to be most constant thought.

 

[Harrison]

I'm wondering if anyone else have troubles holding on to interest?

A have a very big problem with starting something, and going fully into it, but then changing my mind and finding it boring after a few weeks. Often it's because I'm not the best, and therefore i see no point in doing it.

What about you?

I can so easily do this. Something grabs my attention and I will invest time and money only to be bored with it really quickly. Examples are -

Playing the guitar
Learning piano
Gym
Flying
Boats

Should have banked the money

 

[King_Oni]

My inability to hold onto things has mostly to do with being disrupted in my mental flow.

I can be on about something for weeks, but if I'm taking out of that environment, getting back into it is hard. I just need to do something, keep doing it, not have any disruption around and eventually it'll run it's course until I'm good at it, finished it or just get bored with it.

Perhaps I find this an interesting idea, something I've discussed with therapists and they actually agree; if I can't obsess over something I wont finish it. Obsession is my motivation to get stuff done. Being told I can't obsess just doesn't warrant any result.

 

[Peace]

I can so easily do this. Something grabs my attention and I will invest time and money only to be bored with it really quickly. Examples are -

Playing the guitar
Learning piano
Gym
Flying
Boats

Should have banked the money

No, you were right for living Harrison.

 

[Etzelaire]

I hve that too but it's a good thing I guess. Due to my changing the interest I study different languages and have just basic notions but of 3 languages; moreover I have an intro on computers and app creation and I am currently going to put up a basis on quantum physics and mechanics. Diversification as the brokers say.

 

[Graelwyn]

I have this, but I think it is mostly due to depression, though sometimes it might be because I try something and do not become good at it as quickly as I would wish. I hate it when I cannot get fully engaged in something as that is my escape and I get happy feelings from it. Currently, I am in depression and cannot find much of anything to hold my interest.

 

[AsheSkyler]

Hits me hardest when I crochet. I do not have the attention span to do a blanket. Maybe a blanket made of a bunch of little squares, yes, there is a sooner sense of "finished" when I complete a little square, but a blanket makes me feel like I'm just drudging along.

 

[Maelstrom]

Have changed interests and collage majors to much, (has hurt me), but it's not so much that I can't focus on a thing ,I can do something very well if I want to, (if I like it). It's more like I can't do two things at same time, and the new thing, (squeezes everything else out), making me forget the old stuff I was working on , is it the same for you all?

 

[invisible]

I tend to have a lot of very intense and obscure interests which last about a week. I tend to abandon them suddenly after about a week because I think that that's a stupid thing to be interested in because nobody else is interested in it.

 

[Suzanne]

I'm wondering if anyone else have troubles holding on to interest?

A have a very big problem with starting something, and going fully into it, but then changing my mind and finding it boring after a few weeks. Often it's because I'm not the best, and therefore i see no point in doing it.

What about you?

Yes, I am a bit like that. I tried to learn to drive in France, where I live and even though, I was grasping some of the highway code, I thought: what is the point of this? I am never going to get to the level that I need to get to and quit.

My husband is always moaning at me because I have the memory and staying power when there is something I am obsessed with, but something I have to do, I get bored easily and that frustrates him!