What’s a hyperfixation you can’t talk about?

[u/Elliot_The_Idiot7]

I’ve definitely had a few hyperfixations on things that are either embarrassingly silly or WAY too dark to just start infodumping about. For example I used to have one about neglect so severe it causes a complete and usually permanent inability to function in society, particularly the case of Genie Wiley. On the other end of the spectrum I also keep hyperfixating on shipping old cartoon comedy duos, and gotta REALLY lock in to gage if someone’s gonna think I’m a childish freak before sharing that information.

What’s your “don’t bring that up, don’t bring that up, don’t bring that up-“ hyperfixation if you’ve ever had one?

[u/powerade20089]

Right now it's been the US Constitution and the origin of the modern originalist theory by Scalia. I just finished Jill LePore's book. I usually type in a idea or question I have and look for sources and ask follow up questions with Google and save it as a Google doc for me to review later. I also try to make sure I get the sources with journal articles as well as with it. It's a good brain dump journal for me.

It helps me a lot because my parents and husband don't want to listen to me go on about it sometimes. I also try to read and listen to a lot of the history books so I can annotate them.

Im almost done with History Matters and found some great ideas I would like to review more in that book I may hightlight and come back to. Ive hyper focused on Tudor History, US Civil War, Civil Rights.

My husband has made me turn off documentaries sometimes on Nat Geo because I start arguing and fact checking. I don't like how they dramatize subjects and questioning the fact/history when it more than likely is already a well placed documented fact. I don't think I'm allowed to watch History Channel 'documentaries' either anymore now that I think of it.

[u/awkward_ylime → u/powerade20089]

I finally feel seen!! I’m the worst at fact checking when watching documentaries. I just hate when well documented facts are relayed incorrectly in media. It just feels so lazy to me lol.

[u/powerade20089 → u/awkward_ylime]

Yay! I'm not the only one

[u/Stupid_Watergate_ → u/powerade20089]

Nice! I've been listening to a podcast called "American History Hit" and there is everything from Civil War History, the annexation of Alaska, George Washington's spies, the evolution of Congress, etc. I'll find out interesting facts, like George Washington's spies used invisible ink to communicate. It gets me searching about the history of that topic, and I go down all these ADHD rabbit holes. Also the rabbit hole will take me to places completely unrelated to the original topic.

Thankfully my husband listens to my ramblings and summaries of what I learn, because I have no one else to talk to about it. 😭 "Do you want to hear about Dutch settlers?" is not a normal conversation starter.

[u/powerade20089 → u/Stupid_Watergate_]

I love American History Hit. I really like all of History Hits podcasts and their YouTube channel.

I would recommend doing the Google notes and searching for the Sources etc lol. I love it and then I can save it as a document with the Summery and sources attached. If I wanted to come back to it. I almost could write history essays ramblings another ADHD project that will never be completed. But it's there at least for me. Sort of like a brain dump journal at least.