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Fan(fic) Service 19h
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 14h

To me something that lasts years is a special interest

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11h

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 11h

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

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11h

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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