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What's your current fixation? Do you have one? Do you want one? (slrpnk.net)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/casualconversation@piefed.social
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ADHDers might call this a "hyperfocus" or the kind of obsession which resembles a hobby. Some activity that you think about at work all day and have to tear yourself away from to do anything else. I know it sounds like addiction, and it can look like one, but it always passes. Creative people might call it a muse?

I'm just on the tail end of one (Doom mapping), but no longer to the point I'll skip eating in order to do it. So will probably be moving on soon.

Does this sound familiar? What are your obsessions like for you? Do you get them? Have you ever had one?

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[–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago

Not crazy. I think you're getting at something. Like getting into a more "Zen" (to use the western connotation of the word) like routine is indeed nice and peaceful. I do think all my different obsessions are to keep me occupied from doing the hard work of actualizing, and like, worlding a better place.

So much easier to come home from work and just throw myself headlong into the Good Computer until my head is so full I can't think of what might be missing.

Sorry if I'm misinterpreting you. That's my own take on it anyway

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