Anonymous #1 23h

For sure. This is just the first time I’ve been able to pinpoint why it’s annoyed me because I live in Kansas City and there’s *so much hype*

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Anonymous #4 22h

And that’s so fair lol I’m not gonna shame anyone for hyperfixating! What gets me is that sports is one of the only “acceptable” fixations :((

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Anonymous #7 22h

Lmao as a neurodivergent person I was gonna say something similar, this post is kinda weird idk how to explain it

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Anonymous OP 22h

All are acceptable but sports are just one of the major ones so less people find it weird

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Anonymous #3 22h

Your not crazy who’s told you that

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Anonymous #2 22h

I’ve done worse for my canes

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Anonymous #5 22h

Same I was prepared for hate. I’m also neurodivergent and this is just a post to make other ppl feel for you bc they enjoy sum else. The quicker ppl realize that no one in life is ever gonna accept u just bc they should “feel bad for you” the quicker they gonna be happier

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Anonymous #2 22h

And it’s not just neurotypical people as a neurodivergent person I say I’ve done a lot worse r

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Anonymous #9 22h

it kinda is tho?

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Anonymous #7 22h

I’m a neurodivergent person who loves sports it’s not just a neurotypical thing

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Anonymous #10 22h

It’s not people can like what they like if society likes it too it will be “acceptable” if a minority of society likes it it’ll be seen as weird and weird is not bad it’s just not normal

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Anonymous #7 22h

Wasn’t the point op was making. It’s not about finding community in your interests but the general attitude people have towards them. Haters gonna hate regardless but specifically being really into sports is much more commonly accepted than other fixations

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Anonymous #7 22h

I think yall misunderstand in no way do I hate sports or think it’s “invalid” to enjoy, I just dislike that if I enjoy, say, anime on the same level, it’s treated as “weeb shit” or “weird.” I wish we could just let everyone be happy My BIL is autistic about baseball. I’d be a hypocrite to hate sports I fear

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Anonymous #7 22h

Nah the stereotype if u like other stuff is that ur a “nerd/loser” but if u like sports u are “cool popular jock”

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Anonymous #11 22h

It has something to do with the patriarchy i bet.

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Anonymous #11 22h

It doesn’t

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Anonymous #8 22h

You completely missed the point. The point is that when neurodivergent people have special interests and strong reactions to them, neurotypicals say it’s and. But neurotypical people can have these reactions to sports and it’s seen as acceptable

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Anonymous #12 22h

Say it’s bad*

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Anonymous OP 22h

And sports are known as jock shit it’s just catagorizing stuff. We have to accept that we are not normal and that’s not bad it’s actually great don’t worry about being seen as weird

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Anonymous #12 22h

Who says it’s bad no one no one has ever cared that I like Pokemon or anime or Minecraft

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Anonymous #8 22h

They are actually impressed by the work I’ve done in my world

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Anonymous OP 22h

As it should nothing brings people together like the World Cup specifically

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Anonymous #8 22h

Are you a cis man? This is something a privileged neurodivergent cis man would say.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 22h

Exactly

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 22h

like I had a buddy in high school who 100% had a baseball hyperfixation, but nobody would’ve called it that because everyone just saw it as him being a good baseball player who loved the game. Even though he loved the game more than anyone I’ve ever met, knew all the stats of all the players even the ones not on his favorite team, watched most of the games even when it wasn’t his team, etc. Total superfan. Also an ardent shiny pokemon hunter.

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Anonymous OP 22h

Oh no definitely soccer and specifically the World Cup is probably my first and only “normal” hyperfixation

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It does matter a lot actually I’ve been bullied a lot for my interests in Minecraft, anime, etc. I’m a trans man. Trans people, genderqueer people, and women are statistically more likely to be bashed for being “abnormal” when neurodivergent and vehemently expressing interest in something

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Anonymous #7 21h

on one hand i agree, but on the other i totally understand wanting a community or to be public with your interests without ridicule. sports fans can walk anywhere in a jersey but an anime shirt will get me crucified.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 21h

I’ve noticed that with the super in depth ones too, like no way you’re not also neurodivergent and studying graphs, stats, and learning the name of every player for hours everyday 😭

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Anonymous #8 21h

im into pokemon, anime, and minecraft. im ridiculed for all three

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Anonymous #4 21h

I mean it’s like how growing up nobody would’ve considered my hyperfixations on music that, because in high school and earlier, it was just assumed that I liked music. I sang in the choir, I played the bass guitar, I was in musical theater. To people who didn’t know me well, didn’t see me doing hours of reading on my favorite artists, just looked at me as a musical kind of guy.

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But why is it considered abnormal for other things some people enjoy? It’s a weird double standard

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this is a hilarious comment lmao case in point. 🤣

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I choose “Questions with obvious answers” for 300!!

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Anonymous OP 21h

It’s not? Pokemon and Minecraft have some of the biggest fan bases in the world..

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Anonymous #16 21h

both can coexist. im hyperfixated on anime, i dont have many friends who share that interest so i have to go into online communities, do u think we all just only talk about one thing?

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 21h

omg cheese played bass guitar, infinite aura boost.

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Anonymous #15 21h

Tell that to the people who bullied me in elementary, middle, and high school. And college. I’m glad you don’t face ridicule but a lot of us do

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Anonymous #6 21h

Exactly!! I’m happy for sports fans, but let’s give some love to other communities too

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Anonymous OP 21h

Well I’m sorry to hear that, I enjoy pokemon n Minecraft a lot more than my shit sports team sometimes

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Anonymous #15 21h

We are obviously talking about how your sex impacts how your interest in these things are perceived. That’s why I replied to your comment of “what does my gender do with this?” Because it’s a question with an obvious answer.

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Anonymous #16 21h

As I’ve said in multiple other comments, I don’t hate sports. Please read before commenting

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Anonymous #7 21h

But why are sports fanatics accepted within larger society by non-sports fanatics? We’re talking about a larger society issue that goes beyond how individuals feel.

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Anonymous #17 21h

I never brought up sex btw

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Anonymous #17 21h

I feel like you guys are generalizing sports fans and a lot of those same sports Fans are also fans of Marvel and Anime and more quote on quote nerdy things, These franchises are worth billions of dollars that’s all I’m saying 😂

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Anonymous #19 21h

Fr😭

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Anonymous #17 21h

that was #8!

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Anonymous #20 21h

But if someone said neurodivergent people need to be destroyed..

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Anonymous #15 21h

sir this is called a comedic hyperbole.

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Anonymous #2 21h

I want someone to destroy me😞

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Anonymous #15 21h

I don’t believe that they should truly be destroyed, however I think that society is too far in favor of neurotypical life and that they will never accept neurodivergent people fully because they do not understand. They may let us coexist but subconsciously they eill always see us as outsiders because we do not think the same as them.

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Anonymous #20 21h

Just slime me out bro

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Anonymous #15 21h

Yeah, well people already tried to do that in history so…. It’s a little different. Since it actually happened.

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Anonymous #8 21h

fr I love the world cup. it really does bring people together and I think that's awesome

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Anonymous #16 20h

Again, it does not matter that some of these people may also be into other things. We are talking at a large society level that goes beyond individuals so please stop addressing individuals as if that has anything to do with what’s actually being said. You’re doing a strawman. No one is saying that all sports fans only likes sports. We are asking why being obsessive with one thing is generally accepted within society and being obsessive about other things isn’t.

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Anonymous #23 20h

Just generally does it affect the way people treat them. And if you’re a cis straight guy then it frequently doesn’t, or if it does it’s because people only see it as something you do, since the person you are isn’t a problem to them. If people already don’t take you seriously for the person you are, whether you’re queer or neurodivergent or femme then you don’t have nearly as much wiggle room to be unconventional.

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Anonymous #17 19h

Because there’s a larger community of people who like sports. I am not exaggerating what OP said. OP said they jealous bc “neurotypical” ppl get to enjoy sports at a “hyper fixation” level unlike “neurodivergent” ppl. Whether neurodivergent ppl can’t enjoy sports wo being considered “weird” is not the point. The point I made was that no one is going to ever accept you bc u just have an interest in something whether ur neurodivergent or not.

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Anonymous #7 19h

Ppl into sports hate on other ppl into sports just bc they don’t agree with them whether it’s about stats, probability, or the team they’re rooting for. If people have bullied you before ur specially neurodivergent and because u have a niche hobby than ofc that’s an issue. But what u gonna do bout it by saying u jealous of ppl you are presuming are neurotypical and you are presuming are not feeling weird bc they have an interest in sports.

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Anonymous #7 19h

The difference btwn you and them is that they just don’t give a fuck lmao. Stay in your victim mentality and you will always be unhappy. That’s all it is. Why u gaf if a “white cis male (yalls words)” comes up to you and says wow ur weird bc u like Pokémon and ur autistic. Like bruh be so fr. You are perpetuating the feeling within YOURSELF by accepting what they say.

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Anonymous #7 19h

That’s why I brought up community and friends because they help you get out of that thought pattern. But i hope you know that everyone feels throughout their life that their weird or unaccepted bc they like something, whether it’s a hyper fixation whether it’s neurodivergence etc. why do you care? You’re hurting yourself

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Anonymous #19 18h

You’re literally crying over this post but ok

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Anonymous #21 18h

Ok? Acting like your experience is gospel is super weird. People get seriously bullied just for being “weird” like this, it’s gross to assume that neurodivergent people are making a big deal of nothing just bc you never experienced it

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Anonymous OP 18h

Yeah, my brother did try to end his life recently because he finally had the momentum to give up on every single academic standard that he was held to, even though he scored the highest in his graduating class and was on his way to MIT without even realizing it. He said he didn’t have the energy to finally give up until one day he did It’s definitely very, very, very, very, very difficult and I’ve experienced bull bullying but it’s not bullying in a regular way.

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Anonymous #25 18h

Bullying for me happened by being told in my classes to turn and talk and I would just be alone. It would scare me more than my class did not have a signed seating then the fact that I had AP calculus test same period. I wrote about my parents divorce and gone to Cornell after ignoring everybody telling me why it’s so stereotypical and whatever lol. I literally also wrote my community essay about how I didn’t have a community. lol. Because I’m autistic. And I didn’t know that was my community :)

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Anonymous #25 18h

-I was voice typing this from my journal. Sorry about that.

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Anonymous #7 18h

No feelings are very real, and sometimes if somebody is experiencing stronger emotions, their opinion is gonna sound more intense, but obviously that person doesn’t walk around, feeling extremely extremely severe emotions that they’re describing if they are describing such experience

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Anonymous #2 18h

This is so funny I like how everybody is actually like babbling at each other but like like it’s actually so wholesome. I appreciate you guys.

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Anonymous OP 17h

Me when I lie bcuz ik im wrong:

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Anonymous #19 17h

What did I lie about tho like

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Anonymous #30 14h

ok but 40 million of those 50 million are just fans of the other team lmao

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Anonymous #29 14h

That’s literally my BIL LOL He’s a baseball player and that’s his special interest-

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 13h

them too, but i’m talking about the people who don’t like sports at all and hate on fans of any kind too lmaooo

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Anonymous #15 10h

This isn’t entirely relevant, but stereotypically uncool/geeky stuff is very ‘in’ now (Pokémon and Minecraft, but also D&D, anime/manga, Lego, video games, etc.) because they’ve become more widely known and accessible (also because people got into a load of new hobbies they wouldn’t otherwise have tried out during the pandemic)

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Anonymous #32 10h

Geeky stuff becoming popular now doesn’t necessarily mean people don’t still get teased or bullied for being into things “wrong” or “too much” and it definitely doesn’t undo bullying that happened to people as kids.

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