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I really hate when people say they’re hyperfixating on something when they mean they really like it for two weeks, like to me a real hyperfixation lasts YEARS
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Anonymous 8w

To me something that lasts years is a special interest

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Anonymous 7w

To me it’s kinda like special interest brings you joy hyperfixation is damned if you do damneder if you don’t.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

yea same, and this got me looking up hyperfixation vs special interest which told me essentially that hyperfixations seem to be more about the degree of hyper-focus on a specific topic rather than the duration (though special interests seem to be longer by nature than hyperfixations, given that maintaining a special interest isn’t always as intense as hyperfixations are categorized by) but the two aren’t mutually exclusive!!

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 8w

you know what I think you guys are totally right 😭 whoopsies on my part

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

no big deal!! it was illuminating for me too since i hadn’t really stopped to check out the specific differences between the two myself

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