I love sharing my special interests. I have lifelong special interests, like dinosaurs and space and the mesopelagic zone and Mario 3. I also have different ones that come and go through the years, like James Webb Telescope and zombie apocalypse survival and Juche ideology.
Right now, I’d consider myself interested in comic books, Formula 1, James Webb discoveries, and Minecraft. My husband and I share many special interests, as well as share in each other’s excitement of our unique special interests, and those of the childrens’. We love to share facts in my family, do math together, constantly build and create, watch documentaries and read encyclopedia articles, and participate in fact-gathering missions.
This week my son was off from school for fall break, and he delighted in going to the library and checking out books about the Titanic, playing Titanic-themed Roblox games, listening to the Titanic soundtrack, drawing the Titanic, painting the Titanic, making Titanic out of Lego and clay, building the Titanic in Minecraft, and watching youtube videos about the Titanic sinking in real time.
My daughter and son share special interests as well. They are both interested in Titanic, Digital Circus, video games (Roblox and Sonic and Star Wars) and cats, and love video chatting with their uncle (my brother) and his wife because they have cats. Cats perplex children, and I’ve been sending out cat facts in all my orders because they’re interesting and mysterious creatures.
As an autistic mom, I try to encourage their special interests beyond what a normal mom would do. It is contagious when they express a deep and genuine interest in something. They have a natural love of learning that for me and my husband never abated. The world is such a big place full of so much beauty and complexity and I feel there isn’t near enough time to show them everything.
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