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Are there some of you who consider reading their special interest? If so, how does it feel for you, and why do you think it's your special interest?
I have been thinking a lot about whether I have a special interest or not. I am aware that I don't need to have one. But I would really like to have one. I don't have any obvious special interests. I have topics, like space and physics and TV series, where I can develop a certain obsession for a limited period of time. As a child, it was dragons for a while, dinosaurs, animals in general, and this one book series. But the only thing that's been present throughout my entire life was reading. I didn't learn reading early, I learnt it in primary school, although I did learn it very quickly, from what I remember. Since I was able to read, you could see me with a book anywhere. I would read before and after meals, only putting it away when I really had to. I would read while walking to and from school. I would read every evening with a flashlight. I would read every second I could. The only break from that were a few university years, when I didn't have time anymore to read anything else than study-related things, and it made me quite sad. Since then, I've taken it up again. I forced myself for a while to read "adult books" and classics, but I didn't like them too much. I mostly read fiction, fantasy and sci-fi, young adult books, and some select historic or classic ones (really liked Jane Eyre, for instance). I am quite a fast reader, and when I like a book, I will be glued to it, walking around with it, until it's done. When I read, it feels like I see the words, and at the same time in a hind corner of my brain, a movie plays where I can actually see the scenes.
I don't know whether it "counts" as a special interest. I don't make lists or research about authors or anything, I just read the books. Since a few years ago, I discovered audio-books and I listen to them whenever I can't physically read (like when I'm outside or during housework). It has sort of replaced the "reading on my way to school" thing.
Reading lets me get into different worlds, and I believe that, since I read so, so much as a child, and many books about friendship and, later, love, I learned a great deal of social skills and understanding of the world through books.
I have used reading often also in other scenarios. For example, when I felt anxious and couldn't sleep, I would recite in my head the beginning of a book I knew very well, or an audio-book. When I felt anxious, holding a book and just feeling the pages would help me to be calmer. When I was scared in family settings, holding a book would help.
Reading has been so much part of my life that I never considered it as a special interest. Reading was just reading to me.
Fellow excessive readers, what do you think?
I have been thinking a lot about whether I have a special interest or not. I am aware that I don't need to have one. But I would really like to have one. I don't have any obvious special interests. I have topics, like space and physics and TV series, where I can develop a certain obsession for a limited period of time. As a child, it was dragons for a while, dinosaurs, animals in general, and this one book series. But the only thing that's been present throughout my entire life was reading. I didn't learn reading early, I learnt it in primary school, although I did learn it very quickly, from what I remember. Since I was able to read, you could see me with a book anywhere. I would read before and after meals, only putting it away when I really had to. I would read while walking to and from school. I would read every evening with a flashlight. I would read every second I could. The only break from that were a few university years, when I didn't have time anymore to read anything else than study-related things, and it made me quite sad. Since then, I've taken it up again. I forced myself for a while to read "adult books" and classics, but I didn't like them too much. I mostly read fiction, fantasy and sci-fi, young adult books, and some select historic or classic ones (really liked Jane Eyre, for instance). I am quite a fast reader, and when I like a book, I will be glued to it, walking around with it, until it's done. When I read, it feels like I see the words, and at the same time in a hind corner of my brain, a movie plays where I can actually see the scenes.
I don't know whether it "counts" as a special interest. I don't make lists or research about authors or anything, I just read the books. Since a few years ago, I discovered audio-books and I listen to them whenever I can't physically read (like when I'm outside or during housework). It has sort of replaced the "reading on my way to school" thing.
Reading lets me get into different worlds, and I believe that, since I read so, so much as a child, and many books about friendship and, later, love, I learned a great deal of social skills and understanding of the world through books.
I have used reading often also in other scenarios. For example, when I felt anxious and couldn't sleep, I would recite in my head the beginning of a book I knew very well, or an audio-book. When I felt anxious, holding a book and just feeling the pages would help me to be calmer. When I was scared in family settings, holding a book would help.
Reading has been so much part of my life that I never considered it as a special interest. Reading was just reading to me.
Fellow excessive readers, what do you think?
