[ SECRET POST #4617 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4617 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I have ADHD and "hyperfixation" in a fannish context annoys the hell out of me ... mostly because it's so clinical and detached. I'm sure there are people who don't have mental conditions who use it, which is annoying in itself. But I feel like a lot of people with them do use the term to either make their obsession seem more legitimate (like you said) or just further detach themselves in a kind of self-mocking way? And in both scenarios it feels like people are afraid to just like things and have deep emotional connections to them. Calling them "hyperfixations" detracts from that, IMO, even if yeah maybe your ADHD or Autism/etc does facilitate that connection.

I know I'm probably overthinking it, but *shrug*

SA

[(Anonymous)]

I want to make it clear that those terms are helpful in an actual clinical context, though. And I don't want to police how people interact with their own mental illness/conditions. It just annoys me, personally lol

Re: SA

[(Anonymous)]

+1, a lot of mental illnesses do look (to people who aren't trained or don't have personal experience) like a strong personality trait. Like the OCD example above, it's not the same thing. An intense interest is not a hyperfixation, just like enjoying a regular drink is not alcoholism.

Re: SA

[(Anonymous)]

Like, science fiction is a hobby and a habbit for me. I've read hundreds of stories over 40 years. I usually do a chapter or story over lunch and a chapter or story before bed. Vacation time is nice because I can binge a few hours while my partner drives. A book has to be *really* good to start cutting into sleep time for me.

Compulsive behavior, there was the time I knitted myself to strain injury, trained jogging to injury, a bad week will have me running on three hours sleep multiple days running. I spent 60 hours on a bad mental health week optimizing fractions of a second out of a program I used a half-dozen times.

And this language slip or ambiguity really annoys me, because it makes it difficult to say "I can use some help here, because this thing is taking over my life in ways that are not at all fun." Which I still have to do now and then.