This question probably isn't for everyone but you can still participate. Those WITHOUT ADHD/Autism, what's your current obsession or hobbies?
"Hyperfixation is the experience of focusing attention on one area of interest to the exclusion of everything else for an extended period of time (hours/days/weeks/months)."
What do you hyperfixate/hyperfocus on? (Games, books, organizing, art, meals, etc).
I just picked up my meds and it inspired me to ask this. I hyperfixate on multiple things a day. My current hyperfixations are making chicken dinners, playing Call of Duty, listening to my old metal playlists, and collecting anything frog related. Weird mix… I know.
Growing up, and still now… I catch myself hyperfixating on something and completely losing interest the next couple of weeks, after I bought all the supplies for it… It’s frustrating because I just want at least TWO consistent hobbies instead of them changing biweekly. And I just want to focus on school and work without constantly wanting to stimulate my brain with these hyperfixations. Ugh. ADHD meme lol.
Those with ADHD/Autism, do you have hyperfixations? What are they?
Whilst I've never been diagnosed, last time I went to the doctors, she suggested I may have it and after researching the traits, there's quite a few that quite strongly apply to me - I'm waiting to see if I can get a diagnosis.
Due to that, I've basically self-diagnosed since then, especially as I do have some family members that do have it, although they were diagnosed at birth or around then and probably had the chromosome abnormality, something I thought all autistic people had in common, but it turns out not to be the case, according to my doctor.
Sorry, just thought I'd give a bit of context for clarification.
Anyway, my main fixation, is the gym, like I go often and whilst I'm not the biggest or strongest, it's something I'm always thinking about, like how I can improve myself in terms of it, with things like nutrition, strength, being balanced, etc - when I first started going, I joined with a friend and trained Monday to Friday and here I am just over 5 years later and I'm too stubborn to change that 5 day window, like whenever I've changed my split, I fit it in those 5 days.
I have a tendency to get obsessed with things that interest me in general, especially when it comes to food, like there's not a lot of things I like, but when I find something I do, I sometimes eat it a lot and then end up getting sick of it.
The same applies to music with the same few songs, like I listen to them a lot, get bored, having nothing much else left and then come back to it again months later or even longer.
This one may sound a bit creepy, but I think about sex a lot too, but DW I don't chase it in real life nor am I desperate for it, because I've never had it and I doubt I'd perform well and I understand that when I think about it in my head, it's perfect, which isn't reality - my fantasies consist of the same 2-3 things though, so I'm quite one dimensional with that too, like it's me doing the same specific things, sometimes with a few minor tweaks, so I'm quite one-dimensional and in general, do things the same way.
There's also this thing I have with a routine, like I'm kind of robotic and I don't like disrupting it too much e. g. getting to the gym at the same time on the days I go.
I don't seem to have ADHD or Autism as far as I can tell. Autism seems unlikely since I'm extroverted and have a knack for reading body language and communicating in person. ADHD seems more likely but I took some online focus tests to see if we have ADHD and I passed with flying colors (in the sense that I don't seem to have it).
I sometimes wonder if I have some case of OCD. I just know I'm weird but I don't know how or why exactly.
What I have is that I can't ever settle on any passion outside my work, and I probably wouldn't be able to focus on my work if I didn't have colleagues and deadlines to push me. I draw, I paint, I write music, I write short stories, I do go-cart racing, vert skateboarding, a cooking obsession that comes and goes, a love of history which comes and goes, I got into dancing on a disciplined level until I got bored with it, became a tennis zealot until I got bored with it, took various martial arts until I got bored with them, etc.
I get hyper-obsessed with something, especially something I'm very bad at, and then once I start to get semi-competent at it, it's like I get bored with it and want to find something else I'm very bad at or know barely anything about. I'm the ultimate jack-of-all-trades type as a result. I find it most exciting to progress from the worst beginner to something resembling intermediate, and then the magic is lost to me. I think once I figure out enough to understand what the masters are doing even if I'm nowhere close to mastery, I get bored and the subject is demystified. Then I need a new type of obsession.
I also have these visual images that I sort of daydream about. They're recurring images. For example, for the past couple of years, I've had these recurring daydream images that seem to involve projectiles. It started with horse archery like maybe I need to learn to ride a horse and shoot a bow from a horse. But then it progressed to javelins and maybe I want to learn how to throw a javelin at someone riding a horse towards me. Then grenades are a recurring idea like just throwing grenades... or sometimes axes like I want to throw an axe but I don't actually want to hurt anyone. I just want to throw the axe and see what happens.
Oh my god yes! My ADHD has been one of the biggest struggles for me in my day-to-day life, partially because of the hyper-fixations! For a while, I was obsessed with this band called The Strokes. It was so bad. I would talk about the lead singer, Julian Casablancas, all the time with people to the point that I lost friends. Every time I went to go hang out with someone I would bring 10 new pictures of him to show. This lasted for about two years.
I currently have focused my attention towards anime and manga, and a few in particular. I rewatch and reread the series and mangas, even if I don't have the time to do so. I used to go to conventions, too. This has been my "fixation" for the past few years.
ADHD is tough, not just because of the fixations, but also because of the fact it takes me longer to do task it takes neurotypical people. I used to have to get extended time growing up because of how long some things would take me. I hate having the condition, but it makes me who I am.
Ugh, I feel that. My boyfriend has ADHD and definitely has been fixated on certain animes, right now it’s One Piece and Demon Slayer. As always, he’s hyper fixated on PC gaming too.
I hate ADHD too… I have accommodations in college right now to get extra time on tests and have the video lectures transcribed into a Doc or PDF so I can read them instead of listening. It’s so difficult… During high school I had a 504 and IEP just to pass basic classes.
I still use my accommodations to this day, but luckily I don’t have as many exams as I used to. I just hate having work to do outside of class. It always takes me twice as long as my peers. It’s just not fair!
Having ADHD/ADD or Autism doesn't mean that their is something wrong with you at all! Please understand that those are part of your personality and not a decease! None of these "diagnosis" are proven medically! They are purely based on opinions of different people and marked as a problem because they expect from you that you are fitting into society and be focused on things like school and work. But understand that the life we live is a human construction which is not a natural thing and that's it's simply unnatural to be forced to pay attention at school and jobs for extended periods of time! Society is simply a man-made construction that isn't the normal way of living life as nature attended for us to live
I feel like hyper fixation is kind of OCD/ADHD thing my little brother has autisim and i think its more of they can't focus on one thing. They tend to want to get distracted by all the diffrent things that are happening around them
Yep, OCD as well. Autism too. Autism is a spectrum, a lot of autistic folks tend to hyperfixate on things as well. My boyfriends brother hyperfixates on playing the guitar for hours a day for months. Hyperfixation manifests in people with OCD, ADHD, and autism
I do have mild fixations... thanks to my mild OCD tendencies
the most notable one is the need to count things, and start doing math with every number or figure, geometrical patterns are particularly troublesome, sometimes... lol
but I can deal with it for the most part, been a long long journey since I was three years old
fortunately for me... it is a mild condition, especially on the compulsive part, and I have been able to deal with it and I would not say control it, but I am able to "ignore" certain behaviours
and yes, I had to quit certain hobbies I had, collecting for example... because sorting and organizing have been two of my triggers lol, when I was a kid I would spend hours to no end, organizing and sorting many things, not only my things but everyone's clothes and even all the stuff in the kitchen, my school stuff
and many other little fixations would get on the way of my every day life but, I've been able to work around it, and I consider myself lucky because I know that many other have it much more difficult
I don’t want to self diagnose myself but I’ve been questioning if I have adhd for a little while now. I get really hyper fixated on my phone. Sometimes I’m not even watching or reading anything, I’m just endlessly scrolling through posts that I’ve already seen 100 times. I feel like I’m addicted to just having it in my hand. Or pulling out my hair. I have trichotillomania (hair pulling obsession) and I will sit and just pull out hair for hours.
I was diagnosed with Asperger's when I was 14 they don't call it that anymore in the DSM but literally anything i'm interested in is a hyper fixation and my attention is captured for for longer than the average person. From politics, history and world events to sharks and architecture to the way a certain view is on the trail I walk on to girls I had crushes on. Honestly I hate it. People say it's my biggest gift but it is also my biggest struggle to act, behave and feel normal while trying to live a normal life. I'm not saying it's all bad or that it's the worst thing out there but it's definitely a double edged sword.
When I am interested in something I have to know everything about it. Most people do not appreciate it when I steal the conversation droning on about whatever i'm saying.
I've never really thought about it, but I go through stages of watching a certain TV programme (I think you call them shows) for a week or so then don't watch it again for months. The same applies to making music. I can spend hours and hours on something then it might be a few weeks before going back to it. The one constant hobby (I guess it's a hobby) is working out. at least 3, up to about 5 times a week.
One time I spent over an hour trying to answer question on this app and I just kept deleting everything I wrote multiple times while trying to come up with the perfect answer I got the perfect answer but it took over an hour as I was trying to come up with the perfect way to write this answer and after all of that I decided to make it anonymous because I didn't want people to associate that answer with me even though it was probably the most me answer I have ever wrote
I have autism I do have hyperfixations sometimes yes. Then I'm like a pitbull that bites into it without letting it go anymore for a certain amount of time. But they don't last for many days or weeks. My brain is so actively thinking all day long that I have a hard time staying focused on 1 thing at once, because while I'm doing 1 thing, my brain already has come up with 10 other things that I also wanna do. Very unnoying and it makes me sometimes wanna slow down my brain to be able to process everything 🙄
My group of friends and I go through phases together depending on the season. We’ve all kind of found our niche’s and we’ll pick up random hobbies and run with them until we all start to get bored then move on to the next. Could be PC gaming, ATV’s, hiking, camping, fishing, even RC toys.
Our newest one is looking like converting enclosed trailers into campers/toy haulers. Though with supply and prices we might just get one and all work on it together.
My current fixation is 3d printing. It appeals to my need for precision and to make things. Thankfully my wife (the autistic person in my marriage) supports it and gets super excited when I print her something.
Yep! I have ADHD (ADD is no longer an accurate medical term, adhd covers it), and I hyper-fixate on things all the time. And it changes periodically. Some times it’s the same food for lunch ever day, or 3D printing spurts for a few weeks, or fixing gadgets, or a certain video game. It varies and changes/rotates.
I sometimes go through times where Im obsessed with certain games or shows. Right now Im super obsessed with Batman for some reason as Im playing the games and watching the movies. It just came out of nowhere, I was minding my own business and my brain told me to play the games and watch the movies.😂😂 Im sure next week its going to be something else.
I have Hyperfixations I got to make a perfect meal, dishes got to be washed really clean, I check on things for fear they will break down like the refrigerator
I fixate on whatever is most fun for me and can take up a lot of time. At the time it is a pnp rpg called "Exalted" but there are numerous other things I do for fun such as screw around on this website, hang out with friends, etc.
The largest fixation of my life though is finding love and unfortunately being autistic does not make that easy. It doesn't help that I tend to be attracted to and attract mentally unwell people.
I don't believe ADHD/Autism are mental disorders. I think it is really caused by heavy metal toxicity from mercury in the vaccines when we are born. Communities that don't vaccinate their children have virtually no cases of autism or degenerative brain disease. My ADHD symptoms diminished after taking chelators and zeolite.
I don't believe it is genetic. If that were the case chelation therapy and Zeolite shouldn't have affected my ADHD symptoms. I honestly don't trust most medical studies, since medicine has only created more problems and not really cured anything. I have more faith in the placebo effect than I do in the drugs given for ongoing treatments.
helpful..., bit I never know what ots going to be on. It could be cleaning the garrage... or that one thing I've been looking for to finish a side project that is just for fun. And not productive at all.
I have ADHD. I will procrastinate until the absolute last minute because I’ve been hyperfixating on a certain thing and doing ONLY that thing for hours straight.
ADHD here. Yes, I do have hyperfixations. They are typically anime, the gym, workout tutorials, martial arts, food articles, anything related to animals and stuff related to farming.
