me, every time I get a new hyperfixation: oh my god, this thing is so wonderful! I’m literally going to love this thing at this same intensity until the day I die.
me, when the hyperfixation ends: my identity as a person is shattered. there is a void that will never be filled. I will never move on from this.
me, when I get my next hyperfixation: oh my god, this thing is so wonderful! I’m literally going to love this thing until I die!
I started reading the picture, got about 3 words in and then went, oh, more writing then I read the rewriting at the top, then I read the rest of the picture
Does any other autistic person have something they hate but also completely know too much about/ are incredibly invested in? Like a hyper fixation or special interest that also freaks you out or that you also hate? Mine is zombies. Absolutely HORRIFIED by them but you’ll def catch me watching zombie content, and explaining how different one’s work. I think it ties into my special interest of cults.
Saying “I’m back on my bullshit” is funnier when you cycle through hyperfixations at random intervals because no one knows what bullshit you’re talking about unless you’ve made it obvious before or while saying it.
To be back on your bullshit you need to be off your bullshit ever. But I’m over here jumping from bullshit to bullshit like I’m playing some kind of platforming game. The only times I’m not on my bullshit are when I’ve fallen off the platforms and can’t get out of the lava to get back on my bullshit.
hey uh, our condolences to everyone whos hyperfixations are fading and to everyone who lost their hyperfixation and is trying to find one. we’re currently flip-flopping between 2 of our old ones and we can’t find any new stuff to fixate on, so we totally get it
people who are a fan of the backrooms, which website do you use?
i use the wikidot because i much prefer the formatting and it’s easy to find anything I want. i hear people use the fandom wiki but it’s so full of ads :/
Why do I hyperfixate, you ask? Why can I physically not help myself from infodumping at every turn?
Love. It’s love. And I crave to love so much that I love things that people often don’t care to hear about and they’re often denigrated, but within a certain niche, often populated by people like me, they’re also deeply loved.
i absolutely set people up to infodump at me, it’s one of my absolute favourite ways to learn things! you mean i get to LEARN NEW STUFF from a FRIEND who is INCANDESCENT OVER SHARING? sign me up FOREVER.
do we have any geologists logged on here today ??? i feel like learning about *rocks*and/or~minerals~
@snowflakeeel You ever see a post that looks like it was made for you? Anyways:
- Ruby and Sapphire are actually the same gem (corundum), but Ruby is made with more chromium. Any corundum of any color other than red is called a sapphire.
- Every variety of quartz has the same chemical structure, SiO2. They get fun colors because of where and how they form. This includes Jaspers and Agates as well- they’re all technically quartzes!
- Pyrite, also known as Fool’s Gold, is actually way cooler than normal gold because it grows in perfect cubes!
- Sometimes a reflective band of mineral gets included in a growing gemstone, making it look like there’s light trapped inside!
- Some rocks are incredibly dangerous to be handled, like Malachite or Cinnabar. However, some are edible. Salt is a rock! Also, Asbestos is classified as a mineral.
- Opals (AKA one of the coolest gemstones in existence) are made when running water pushes silicon and carries it into little crevices. Sometimes, fossils will become opalized!
- The smooth rocks you see in stores are tumbled rocks. They’re usually mechanically tumbled because tumbling a gemstone or rock naturally takes thousands upon thousands of years.
- Sometimes, gems can be created in laboratories. This is usually where commercial diamonds come from. However, few gemstones are only man-made, like goldstone and crackle quartz.
- The famous Hope Diamond, the ‘cursed’ diamond, is actually not the most expensive diamond in the world- that title goes to the Koh-I-Noor diamond last time I checked. This diamond is so priceless that ‘only god or women can wear it with impunity’, as told by a Hindu legend.
- In 1969, a ruby-powered laser brighter than the sun was bounced off of the moon.
- Most of the earth’s crust is made up of Peridotite. It looks like mint-chocolate chip ice cream.
nowTHAT’S what we’re talking about!!! Thank you for those sexy geology facts!!!
Oh girl this was my childhood hyperfixation, here we go!
-The Koh-I-Noor, mentioned above, was also supposedly cursed. It’s been some time since I researched it, but if I recall correctly, the cursed was reportedly broken after the gem was re-cut. This happens occasionally with cursed gems, as it did for the Black Orlov.
-Speaking of notable diamonds, it’s worth mentioning that the largest diamond in the world, and the largest diamond ever found are actually different stones.
-The largest diamond ever found was the Cullinan, found in the Premier Diamond Mine in South Africa, in 1905. It weighed 3,106 carats. HOWEVER, it was cut the next year into 9 larger and 96 lesser stones. (Now, sadly, the history of this diamond- and most notable diamonds tbh- is steeped in British imperialism. Which is why the largest pieces are in the British Crown Jewels today.)
-The largest diamond in known existence is the Golden Jubilee. It was found 80 years later in THE SAME MINE. It was only cut into the one large piece weighing a little over 545 carats, outweighing the largest piece of the Cullinan, which is only 530 carats.
-Quick sidebar, the word “carat” comes from “carob,” as in the bean. Before standardized weight, gems would be weighed against carob beans. One carob bean is one carat.
I don’t wanna just do the history of the big sparkly ones, so I feel I owe it to ya’ll to do some just cool gem facts.
-Sometimes, yellow sapphire and blue sapphire will grow together in such thin stripes that it’s perceived as green.
-Other gems that grow in stripes include tourmaline- which has the widest coloration variety of any gemstone. The most notable occurrence of this is when pink and green tourmaline grow together. It’s called watermelon tourmaline and is often cut to showcase the coloration.
-Amethyst and citrine do this as well, since they’re both forms of quartz that get their coloration from titanium impurities. It’s called ametrine.
not to be like anti-neurotypical or whatever but adhd people with hyperfixtations and autistic people with special interests are like, literally the core of any fandom. all those fics and comics and askblogs that update daily with no signs of stopping? those theory and other fandom blogs that post content so often you wonder how much free time they have? listen, it’s amazing what you can get done when it’s literally the only thing you fucking think about. appreciate your local autistic/adhd content creators.
i have been super self conscious abt my public & compulsive verbal stimming recently so if u r autistic/adhd/add/another stimming neurodivergency & have verbal stims/echolalia/palilalia please reblog with ur current favourite sound, word, or phrase! it’ll make me feel a little less alone:“)
mine is a high pitch "nnnyA nnnyA nnnyA nnnyaA nnnyA” & “wow” :D
I get so excited for newcomers to the YR fandom — like YASS, welcome, new friend How was your experience watching the show for the first time? Share all the feels! Please, help me relive those glory days where those watching experiences were new, fresh and raw! I plan to accompany you on your journey as your soul is slowly consumed by this show
Sometimes it’s a slow progression from one to the other. Like when I jumped from Monster High to Star Trek.
Sometimes there’s a clear connection from one to the next. Like Star Trek to space.
And sometimes your brain just says fuck you, I’m gonna take away your space hyperfixation with hundreds of documentaries and amazing sci-fi shows and you get to have rabbits.
Rabbits!
Do you know how many documentaries their are on rabbits?
I have found 2, 2 full length documentaries, and by that I mean more that 30 minutes.
I live in a college dorm! I can’t even get a pet rabbit!
Tell me what am I supposed to do with the knowledge that the Flemish Giant is the world’s largest rabbit?! Or that the biggest recorded rabbit was a Flemish Giant named Darius and he went missing in 2021?!
Did you know rabbits don’t have toe beans? At least not visible ones, they’re covered by a layer of fur. I learned that last week. Want proof?
My hyperfixations are being weird again.
It’s currently The Phantom of the Opera and Blue’s Clues
That being said, would anyone like to send me asks about either of those pieces of media?
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