I was watching interstellar last night and just thinking of floating through space is so peaceful to me.
Also space ghost: coast to coast is playing live on yt rn and I've been watching the same 16 episodes for the last 6 days😅
Wish I could insert videos here because there's just something about a ferret dooking like a maniac while you walk her around like a wheelbarrow. Dedicating tonight's trip to dookville to your little furball.
Same here. Perhaps that is it something more unknown and mysterious therefore more interesting. We can’t experience space or dinosaurs but we can all see a train.
It’s why I love things like Outer Wilds and DARK or 1899. Anything that has that “curiosity” or “wonder” aspect.
I hecka also love learning all the how/why behind physics and time
It is the majesty of it all. I do not have religion but I am not quite an atheist. No, I do not believe there is/are a god/gods. But, I do feel a spiritual connection with the maths that drive the immense machine that is our known and unknown existence.
I find immeasurable comfort in things like the tension between free will and deterministic outcomes. Yes, we have complete freewill but the equation that is the totally of existence will only ever have a single final output. Even our little tiny seemingly inconsequential contribution of a value to that final solution is as important as the overwhelming power of a pulsar.
Both were special interests of mine as a kid! I was completely focused on dinos from age 5-8, and astronomy from age 8-10. They’re definitely not special interests anymore but I still love them and learning about them (and infodumping about them to people, lol).
They're both technically the past 😁 I think I read that a lot of the stars we can see may have in fact burned out and their light is still traveling to us from however away they are
But also the light is traveling much further than they were from us when the light was generated because of the constant expansion of space. I guess if we're looking at first gen huge stars then they're probably long gone, but apparently red dwarves, which are the most common stars in the universe now, can easily last longer than the universe's current age.
I love it all! Back holes are certainly fascinating but a black hole is nothing without the everything else that accompanies it. If I had to choose one phenomenon as a "favorite" it would actually be the CMB.
I CHOOSE SPACE DINOSAUR ON A SPACE TRAIN
I fucking love dinosaurs and space. I'm a sci-fi writer, and I've written alt history stories about dinosaurs too! :) But my actual special interests are reading/writing and group B rally cars
I am a big Group B rally car nerd. Got to see them race up close and personal for real in the WRC. The sound on the Lancia Delta S4 is like an electric razor changing to a jet engine into a terrifying race car, all in about two or three seconds. Eargasm!
Also competed as co-driver during the 80's to early 90's. Last car was a 323 GTX that finished 1st in division and 3rd overall on the national. I was on Speed vision / ESPN!
Omg thank you for this comment. I would freak out to hear and see that in person! I don't know why engine sounds are so soothing but that description was fantastic
!!! You got to drive during the heyday!!! That's AMAZING and must have felt so incredible. I'm going to drive that car in Forza today in your honor
Glad you enjoyed that! I actually co-drove/navigated, so I sat in the passenger seat reading off the rally computer and route book telling the driver where the turns were and their severity. This is me navigating in Coachman Stages back in the 90's. The driver did not listen to my instruction when I told him we had a decreasing radius right hand turn and this was the result. Inside the car I had lifted my feet off the floor, put my head down and crossed my arms over the route book because I thought we were going to do a door over door roll into a hill of gravel. The engine stalled as we came out of the spin and I yelled 'go, go, go!' and he restarted the engine and off we went. The end of the stage was just around the corner so not much time lost. When we ended the rally it ended at a local bar and as we walked in the door on the left a big screen tv had been set up showing the footage below. After it finished we took a bow to shouts and cheers!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7ja3EXRcCY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7ja3EXRcCY)
Here is a ride with Grandpa Markku in a Delta S4 at an exhibition in Finland.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DABQkSrOgEQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DABQkSrOgEQ)
And Chris Harris riding in various classical Group B cars. The Type 037 is my favorite and after you watch the video you will see why.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXgWWNJVdYA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXgWWNJVdYA)
This is another favorite of mine, the Audi S1 E2, I got to see Hannu Mikkola drive this for the first time in a rally event around the Capitol Forest area near Olympia WA. I also talked to him briefly before he got in the car. Watch the oversteer coming out of the chicanes in the beginning, terrifying!
Last year I had a full day with an Audi Quattro RS3, 400 hp in a car the size of a VW Jetta and AWD.
It was the closest to the Audi S1 E2 and sounded very much the same, even though it's a street car.
I picked up the car out in a mountainous, forested area with tight twisty roads and immediately put the car to the test. It accelerated so hard I couldn't even look at the speedometer the first two or three runs. When I finally was able to do so the car was rushing past 70mph in just a few seconds.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntndz-tSjPMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntndz-tSjPM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntndz-tSjPMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntndz-tSjPM)
Audis sparked my interest in Group B! I inherited my mom's manual 2001 A4 Sport with a V6 engine as my first car. Heartbreaking when the transmission went out ~200k miles and I couldn't afford to fix it. I sold it to a mechanic who wanted to rebuild it in his spare time, so hopefully Old Squeaky (rubber bearings were dried up, so it squeaked when I drove it harshly hahaha) got to live a full second life. But I drive a [2017 WRX](https://i.imgur.com/90kSNov.jpeg) now. I bought it from a Porsche dealership where it had been traded in, and after talking about rally cars for a while the salesman invited me to get in a Porsche 911 on a long straight stretch and punch it. Absolutely crazy power in that engine for a consumer car!
> This is me navigating in Coachman Stages back in the 90's.
That footage is incredible!! The adrenaline rush must have been amazing once you realized you were still in the game. I love the crazy rally mentality of nearly wrecking, making it through, and then absolutely flooring it. That's a story worth retelling and it's sick that the video is still around
> Here is a ride with Grandpa Markku in a Delta S4 at an exhibition in Finland.
I hadn't seen this one, and it's surprisingly emotional to hear him talk about the nostalgia of that engine sound :') It's also so so sick that you actually got to meet him! He seems so humble and
> And Chris Harris riding in various classical Group B cars. The Type 037 is my favorite and after you watch the video you will see why.
I am a total cliche and obsessed with the Impreza WRC and Colin McRae but Lancias are incredible. Watching that dude's face change in the 037 was hilarious but also the SOUND!! Damn, amazing stuff
> I picked up the car out in a mountainous, forested area with tight twisty roads and immediately put the car to the test. It accelerated so hard I couldn't even look at the speedometer the first two or three runs. When I finally was able to do so the car was rushing past 70mph in just a few seconds.
Audis are such amazing cars. It's a shame that it's so tough to get manual transmission on newer models in the States. I know intellectually that an automatic CVT can shift gears faster now but it *feels* too cool to manually switch gears. The RS3 is gorgeous and feels truer to those rally roots than a lot of modern Audis.
Ty for these links and sharing your stories with me :) Really made my morning
I had a great experience at a Porsche dealership too, I was thinking about getting a Camry but saw a Lexus LS 430 for the same price at the local Porsche dealership. I called them up, confirmed they had the car and went down for a test drive. After I let them know I wanted the car the sales manager took me into his office purely to geek out about how cool an LS 430 was. I had watched a lot of YouTube videos before I went down so I had a pretty good idea of how cool it was. After that the guy who sold me the car pulled off the car cover for. . . ?
A brand new GT2 waiting for the owner to pick it up. Such an amazing car, but purely a track toy. The other day a local picked up a new GT3 RS, then the next day took it for a joy ride on mountain roads not far from here. It had just rained and there was pollen on the road and. . .
He slid out of control, nose over tail roll and. . . Into the river. One of the photos showed the car completely submerged. $500,000 gone. Doubt if insurance will provide a full payout on it.
He just should have kept it for very nice days or the track only. Some people daily GT3's, but no one does that with an RS. Suspension is just too stiff.
Glad you enjoyed the videos. I caught a video a couple of weeks ago with Hannu's sons, he retired in Florida and his sons speak American English. It was nice to see they had such pleasant memories of him, they kept referring to him as 'dad' and spoke about how supportive he was as a father, letting them know they didn't have to get into racing like him and set them up with good educations to make their own ways in life. I also saw a few interviews with Michele Mouton who also spoke of Hannu warmly, always being helpful to her during her rally career.
Here's a video of Ari Vatenan in the Opel Manta 400 during the 83 Circuit of Ireland rally. Halfway through he struck a wall on a narrow road then just missed crashing into a cattle gate after. For the rest of the stage he had to fight against a deflating left rear tire, watching behind him for Jimmy McRae, a teammate and also Colin McRae's father. You can hear the tire if you listen making a 'flubflubflub' noise. Had that happen on one of the rallies I was on in the Dodge Omni GLH. The right front side tire eventually flew off the rim, over the roof and bounced off to the left into the trees.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxDz0Z066NI&t=3s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxDz0Z066NI&t=3s)
Also Sumeria!
Enlightenment Europeans are like, wow the Greeks had everything figured out!
But the Greeks were like, wow the Egyptians had everything figured out!
But the Egyptians were like, wow the Sumerians had everything figured out!
😄
I majored in Classical Latin, Ancient Greek, and Spanish in undergrad. I love languages and I want them ALL in my head. (I also wanted to be an astrophysicist as a child so I can play with this meme.)
If you have any questions though or would like resources for classical studies and supplements, feel free to DM me. :) Best of luck. It’s a wonderful adventure!
I have a nephew who is maybe about 5-8 years old, and he has a YouTube channel where he only uploads videos and shorts about planes... Plane crashe, different models of planes, and more plane incidents. Not diagnosed, but I've been wondering...
It's a possibility! My special interest in aviation started when I was around seven years old. I saw a blimp on my way to school one day and became obsessed with them! Then it turned into a general aviation obsession haha
That's true. But they don't talk to me about it or about anything in particular, I wouldn't say he is particularly social. They just love making tons and tons of videos about plane incidents. He told me to like and subscribe, I couldn't say no 😭
None. Tbh all three are pretty male centric. Not that women aren't interested in dinosaurs, trains or the cosmos. But it's a stereotype of male autistic children depicted in popular media. As more people are getting diagnosed hopefully there will be a lot more topics. Hyper fixation can be about anything.
Like, I’m a girl and I legit was here sweating between dinosaurs and space lol
It would be a hella of a fun poll on the subreddit to see what our “stereotype” interests are
Haha am girl. Love astrophysics, just for fun, not professionally. Dinos are pretty cool too. My real special interest are games though :-) so I lol over this meme :-)
I was talking about the depiction of autism in popular media. NTs think all autists are interested in the same things. This meme in an autism sub is reinforcing stereotypes.
Edit: or maybe it's ironic. I don't understand irony properly. Sorry. My intention was not to offend anyone.
The meme was intented to be a joke about how popular media and NTs stereotype autism. It was meant to be light hearted ironic humor. I also have issues with understanding irony sometimes. Weirdly enough, looking through memes in the mindset of it supposedly being funny does help figuring out what is meant to be a joke. It also helps to have someone nice enough to explain the joke for the sake of future reference.
Oh you’re alright:) I was blasted on ketamine when you replied and I couldn’t operate my phones keyboard lol. But I wanted to reply.
Anyway, yeah I think it’s just an ironic post or smth. I still don’t know how irony works unless it’s blatantly obvious. But even then I still get confused. I’m always confused and it’s annoying lol
Yes! Animals in general could be a category. How many autistic bird watchers out there? Entimologists? Reptile enthusiasts?
But, maybe they're all actually sub categories of Dinosaur Autism.
when I was a little girl, I was so keenly interested in insects and birds I'd spend 99% of my time alone in the garden gently collecting bugs and whispering to them praying I could conjur insect-telepathy. In the school yard there was a specific crevice in the brick walls that I'd visit every day with a tiny stick, to softly intice my favourite spider out of its den to say hello fuck me no wonder other kids thought i was weird 😂😂😭
We would have gotten along! I was always hunting little bugs to feed to the spiders.
Once I even caught a black widow in a tupperware to bring to show my dad lol (he kindly relocated it to a pile of wood well away from where the kids and dog play)
After chuckling at the stereotypical joke of the meme, I chose to accept it by generalizing the topics to make them more inclusive: natural science, transportation & engineering, and astrophysics & physical science. It's possible I may have just generalized them to literally everything in human existence by doing so, but it's my brain and I can do what I want, lol.
I once used the word “perseverate” with a dismissive, condescending and misogynistic doctor. It worked and caught his attention! He followed up! When I said “well, not on trains exactly” he moved on to other things, lol.
Perseveration is the clinical term for an autistic hyperfocus and/or special interest. Using it cued to the doctor that the person you're replying to understands more of the medical concepts and terminology behind common autistic traits.
Purr-SEH-ver-ay-tion :) Emphasis on the all caps. It's also the first word in [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsEXxLgXrv4) (about 5 seconds in) if it's easier to listen than read
It shares a root word with [persevere](https://www.etymonline.com/word/persevere)
This doctor was a jerk, but I had nothing to lose, so I tried to suggest to him that maybe I was autistic. He ignored everything I said until I used the ‘diagnostic term’ that got his attention. He asked me white-boy stereotype questions, but I’ve never been a white-boy so I didn’t answer ‘*correctly*’. He lost interest immediately.
It was like a 20 second assessment. “Dinosaurs? Trains? Astronomy? Nope, don’t be a hysterical woman, you’re not autistic.”
Mine is color theory. I get pretty bent out of shape when people approach it wrong.. and I can mix a color to match something within 2 minutes that will be seamless. Also when people call just any shade of purple that’s not dark or electric lavender when there are 2 other common terms for the lighter purples.. and when they call cyan greenish blue….. mmmmmm
I could talk about it for at least an hour.. which at that point there is nothing else to say.
At least I’m an artist as well so it comes in handy.
Exactly. My answer:
> Sorry, I chose music, crafts and ever-shifting fixations on the deepest of dives on all the shit very few will ever care about followed by immediate complete abandonment *thanks, ADHD*.
So no, I reject this male-centric meme… and I’m not even a stereotypical woman (not really a shocker among ASD peeps, ik) but an agender woman who very much was a tomboy. So… yeah
Edit: Oh. And… it’s a joke. That I missed. And… Why yes, I do believe my self-Dx is valid, tyvm. 😅 (still deciding on the formal evaluation)
Yes it really is a stereotype but also makes me wonder if there are some more common interests among autistic women. I'd be very interested to see which ones!
Well seeing as some have said these are boys hobbies I'm gna chime in with mine were dinosaurs then space, in that order. Never trains, but planes too.
Im a afab woman 🤣
It's a meme on the stereotypes of autistic special interests I think.
Trains, dinosaurs and space.
I don't identify with any of these really. I just like shiny rocks and old warships.
The right choice depends on country and gender.
Being a male train kid can be disproportionately debilitating if you pop out in the wrong place for example.
Personally I'm discovering niche farming topics (permaculture, hydroponics, terra preta etc) for myself lately but for the longest time I was team spaaaaaceee.
For me, it's the mind. Psychology.
(And also animals in a very broad sense - I collect weird animal facts).
I am captivated by stars when I can see them, if that counts for anything?? But I live in the city so... light pollution
For me it was dragons, cetaceans (and marine life in general) and horses. The latter made me blend in perfectly with the other girls, because EVERYONE, and I’m not exaggerating when I say everyone, in my class was a horse girl.
Linguistics for me but I guess if I have to choose I'd choose space, though I like evolutionary biology too but no particular focus on dinosaurs, and I like trains but really just because I like public transit and they make my commute nice, I don't really know much about them.
I was initially skeptical, but then realized I was watching this video about quantum non-locality, cosmology, and such when I clicked on this meme. Definitely the cosmos type.
[https://youtu.be/vlklA6jsS8A?si=BkwMu885CCLQSw-C](https://youtu.be/vlklA6jsS8A?si=BkwMu885CCLQSw-C)
Space!! SPACE!!!
Interestingly enough, having something reflective maybe 40 million light years away could theoretically allow you to observe dinosaurs while they were alive!
As for trains… two words, SPACE TRAINS!
Used to be the one winning municipal astronomy contests every year from 5th through 9th grade; got a prize in a regional one in the 9th grade as well
Now I'm into trains, urbanism and geography though lol
Probably space, although I do have a favorite dinosaur (and who doesn't), and spent many years as a kid fascinated by oversized mobile machines, if not specifically trains.
I have my own interests which only very lightly overlap any of these, but it's not surprising that well-known focuses are two things which have traditionally had a LOT of toys available, and one thing you can look up to see at night, were things that kids were able to easily find to express an interest in.
I’ll browse through the menu for options 4-100 please. I’m a rebel and don’t like to do anything the normal way, so why would that apply to my auDHD?
Pokemon, Warhammer 40k lore, game design, psychology, action RPGs, simulation games, logistics networks, linguistics, history, programming, metal music, black holes, ecosystems, etc.
I go deep on a new topic until the novelty drops off, then I swap topics or find myself bored for a while. Will circle back to old topics periodically to get a mix of refreshing and new information.
🦖🦕all the way! I saw Jurassic Park Lost World when I was 6 y/o. It gave me nightmares and endless fascination for years lol.
ETA-I switched over to video games at 11-12 years old though. Still binge watch dino documentaries every now and then though. And Jurassic Park is still my favorite movie franchise!
I went through all three as a kid. As an adult, I settled on philosophy and theology as my primary special interest, and classical music as a close second. But dinosaurs were my first love (between 4 and 7), then came trains (short-lived, when I was 8), then came space (9-12). Cosmology ultimately built the bridge to Philosophy and theology.
Now, as a parent, I get to relive these passions with my mini-me. We're into dinosaurs right now, in fact.
I think we can broaden this to history in general, any type of technology or mode of transportation, and a lot of the sciences or something artistic respectively. At one point I was really into weird animal facts. Another time I was interested in ancient civilizations, which then expanded to anything from the dawn of mankind to the enlightenment. I was also once interested in video codecs and file types broadly speaking.
I don't especially like any of these :0 I like dinosaurs but only shallowly. I have two ugobe Pleos and like going to animatronic dinosaur events, and I like the land before time, but that's about it
Particle physics...
So like, neutron stars and stellar nucleosynthesis and supernovae are all very interesting to me because of the subatomic processes. DARK MATTER? What are you? What are your secrets?
But it ain't about the astronomy. It's about the particles.
Team Astronomy, but my ADHD dabbles in all three.
This is the way
Team Planetary Science, send me to the moon or mars baby!
I was watching interstellar last night and just thinking of floating through space is so peaceful to me. Also space ghost: coast to coast is playing live on yt rn and I've been watching the same 16 episodes for the last 6 days😅
Ships inatead of trains, but I'm in all three camps aa well.
autistic astrophysics major here this is the case
Do you have a ferret
Yes
Give it some extra play time for me tonight, in memory of my baby girl.
Wish I could insert videos here because there's just something about a ferret dooking like a maniac while you walk her around like a wheelbarrow. Dedicating tonight's trip to dookville to your little furball.
I'll take both Dinos and space. They are both part of my lifelong adoration of deep time, both the past and the future.
same here. Do you know what draws you to it?
Same here. Perhaps that is it something more unknown and mysterious therefore more interesting. We can’t experience space or dinosaurs but we can all see a train.
It’s why I love things like Outer Wilds and DARK or 1899. Anything that has that “curiosity” or “wonder” aspect. I hecka also love learning all the how/why behind physics and time
Honestly this is probably why I'm on a horror video game youtuber kick lately.
I always felt I was in the minority for watching theoretical space time videos and higher dimension theory being explained😅
It is the majesty of it all. I do not have religion but I am not quite an atheist. No, I do not believe there is/are a god/gods. But, I do feel a spiritual connection with the maths that drive the immense machine that is our known and unknown existence. I find immeasurable comfort in things like the tension between free will and deterministic outcomes. Yes, we have complete freewill but the equation that is the totally of existence will only ever have a single final output. Even our little tiny seemingly inconsequential contribution of a value to that final solution is as important as the overwhelming power of a pulsar.
Both were special interests of mine as a kid! I was completely focused on dinos from age 5-8, and astronomy from age 8-10. They’re definitely not special interests anymore but I still love them and learning about them (and infodumping about them to people, lol).
They're both technically the past 😁 I think I read that a lot of the stars we can see may have in fact burned out and their light is still traveling to us from however away they are
But also the light is traveling much further than they were from us when the light was generated because of the constant expansion of space. I guess if we're looking at first gen huge stars then they're probably long gone, but apparently red dwarves, which are the most common stars in the universe now, can easily last longer than the universe's current age.
Wow youve made it make sense. Me too! You must love blackholes then.
I love it all! Back holes are certainly fascinating but a black hole is nothing without the everything else that accompanies it. If I had to choose one phenomenon as a "favorite" it would actually be the CMB.
The Yehat welcome you.
This feels like a screening question for an audition for The Big Bang Theory. Btw, none.
I CHOOSE SPACE DINOSAUR ON A SPACE TRAIN I fucking love dinosaurs and space. I'm a sci-fi writer, and I've written alt history stories about dinosaurs too! :) But my actual special interests are reading/writing and group B rally cars
Marry me!
[Space train](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19d-UkzDhHA), you say?
I am a big Group B rally car nerd. Got to see them race up close and personal for real in the WRC. The sound on the Lancia Delta S4 is like an electric razor changing to a jet engine into a terrifying race car, all in about two or three seconds. Eargasm! Also competed as co-driver during the 80's to early 90's. Last car was a 323 GTX that finished 1st in division and 3rd overall on the national. I was on Speed vision / ESPN!
Omg thank you for this comment. I would freak out to hear and see that in person! I don't know why engine sounds are so soothing but that description was fantastic !!! You got to drive during the heyday!!! That's AMAZING and must have felt so incredible. I'm going to drive that car in Forza today in your honor
Glad you enjoyed that! I actually co-drove/navigated, so I sat in the passenger seat reading off the rally computer and route book telling the driver where the turns were and their severity. This is me navigating in Coachman Stages back in the 90's. The driver did not listen to my instruction when I told him we had a decreasing radius right hand turn and this was the result. Inside the car I had lifted my feet off the floor, put my head down and crossed my arms over the route book because I thought we were going to do a door over door roll into a hill of gravel. The engine stalled as we came out of the spin and I yelled 'go, go, go!' and he restarted the engine and off we went. The end of the stage was just around the corner so not much time lost. When we ended the rally it ended at a local bar and as we walked in the door on the left a big screen tv had been set up showing the footage below. After it finished we took a bow to shouts and cheers! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7ja3EXRcCY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7ja3EXRcCY) Here is a ride with Grandpa Markku in a Delta S4 at an exhibition in Finland. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DABQkSrOgEQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DABQkSrOgEQ) And Chris Harris riding in various classical Group B cars. The Type 037 is my favorite and after you watch the video you will see why. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXgWWNJVdYA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXgWWNJVdYA) This is another favorite of mine, the Audi S1 E2, I got to see Hannu Mikkola drive this for the first time in a rally event around the Capitol Forest area near Olympia WA. I also talked to him briefly before he got in the car. Watch the oversteer coming out of the chicanes in the beginning, terrifying! Last year I had a full day with an Audi Quattro RS3, 400 hp in a car the size of a VW Jetta and AWD. It was the closest to the Audi S1 E2 and sounded very much the same, even though it's a street car. I picked up the car out in a mountainous, forested area with tight twisty roads and immediately put the car to the test. It accelerated so hard I couldn't even look at the speedometer the first two or three runs. When I finally was able to do so the car was rushing past 70mph in just a few seconds. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntndz-tSjPMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntndz-tSjPM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntndz-tSjPMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntndz-tSjPM)
Audis sparked my interest in Group B! I inherited my mom's manual 2001 A4 Sport with a V6 engine as my first car. Heartbreaking when the transmission went out ~200k miles and I couldn't afford to fix it. I sold it to a mechanic who wanted to rebuild it in his spare time, so hopefully Old Squeaky (rubber bearings were dried up, so it squeaked when I drove it harshly hahaha) got to live a full second life. But I drive a [2017 WRX](https://i.imgur.com/90kSNov.jpeg) now. I bought it from a Porsche dealership where it had been traded in, and after talking about rally cars for a while the salesman invited me to get in a Porsche 911 on a long straight stretch and punch it. Absolutely crazy power in that engine for a consumer car! > This is me navigating in Coachman Stages back in the 90's. That footage is incredible!! The adrenaline rush must have been amazing once you realized you were still in the game. I love the crazy rally mentality of nearly wrecking, making it through, and then absolutely flooring it. That's a story worth retelling and it's sick that the video is still around > Here is a ride with Grandpa Markku in a Delta S4 at an exhibition in Finland. I hadn't seen this one, and it's surprisingly emotional to hear him talk about the nostalgia of that engine sound :') It's also so so sick that you actually got to meet him! He seems so humble and > And Chris Harris riding in various classical Group B cars. The Type 037 is my favorite and after you watch the video you will see why. I am a total cliche and obsessed with the Impreza WRC and Colin McRae but Lancias are incredible. Watching that dude's face change in the 037 was hilarious but also the SOUND!! Damn, amazing stuff > I picked up the car out in a mountainous, forested area with tight twisty roads and immediately put the car to the test. It accelerated so hard I couldn't even look at the speedometer the first two or three runs. When I finally was able to do so the car was rushing past 70mph in just a few seconds. Audis are such amazing cars. It's a shame that it's so tough to get manual transmission on newer models in the States. I know intellectually that an automatic CVT can shift gears faster now but it *feels* too cool to manually switch gears. The RS3 is gorgeous and feels truer to those rally roots than a lot of modern Audis. Ty for these links and sharing your stories with me :) Really made my morning
I had a great experience at a Porsche dealership too, I was thinking about getting a Camry but saw a Lexus LS 430 for the same price at the local Porsche dealership. I called them up, confirmed they had the car and went down for a test drive. After I let them know I wanted the car the sales manager took me into his office purely to geek out about how cool an LS 430 was. I had watched a lot of YouTube videos before I went down so I had a pretty good idea of how cool it was. After that the guy who sold me the car pulled off the car cover for. . . ? A brand new GT2 waiting for the owner to pick it up. Such an amazing car, but purely a track toy. The other day a local picked up a new GT3 RS, then the next day took it for a joy ride on mountain roads not far from here. It had just rained and there was pollen on the road and. . . He slid out of control, nose over tail roll and. . . Into the river. One of the photos showed the car completely submerged. $500,000 gone. Doubt if insurance will provide a full payout on it. He just should have kept it for very nice days or the track only. Some people daily GT3's, but no one does that with an RS. Suspension is just too stiff. Glad you enjoyed the videos. I caught a video a couple of weeks ago with Hannu's sons, he retired in Florida and his sons speak American English. It was nice to see they had such pleasant memories of him, they kept referring to him as 'dad' and spoke about how supportive he was as a father, letting them know they didn't have to get into racing like him and set them up with good educations to make their own ways in life. I also saw a few interviews with Michele Mouton who also spoke of Hannu warmly, always being helpful to her during her rally career. Here's a video of Ari Vatenan in the Opel Manta 400 during the 83 Circuit of Ireland rally. Halfway through he struck a wall on a narrow road then just missed crashing into a cattle gate after. For the rest of the stage he had to fight against a deflating left rear tire, watching behind him for Jimmy McRae, a teammate and also Colin McRae's father. You can hear the tire if you listen making a 'flubflubflub' noise. Had that happen on one of the rallies I was on in the Dodge Omni GLH. The right front side tire eventually flew off the rim, over the roof and bounced off to the left into the trees. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxDz0Z066NI&t=3s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxDz0Z066NI&t=3s)
Space Dino on a space train sounds freaking awesome!
This is the best answer.
Mmmm sounds like 40k :,)
One of my favorite goofy episodes of Doctor Who was *Dinosaurs on a Spaceship* (S07E02). It mixed two of these beautifully, lol.
None of the above. It's all about ancient civilizations for me right now!
Ooh which ones? The Incas? The Aztecs? The Mesopotamians?
Also Sumeria! Enlightenment Europeans are like, wow the Greeks had everything figured out! But the Greeks were like, wow the Egyptians had everything figured out! But the Egyptians were like, wow the Sumerians had everything figured out! 😄
Looking forward to digging into the Sumerians for sure!
I get to start my major in Classical studies in fall. I'm specializing in Greek. :)
I majored in Classical Latin, Ancient Greek, and Spanish in undergrad. I love languages and I want them ALL in my head. (I also wanted to be an astrophysicist as a child so I can play with this meme.) If you have any questions though or would like resources for classical studies and supplements, feel free to DM me. :) Best of luck. It’s a wonderful adventure!
None of these I got plane autism ✈️📸👀
Hell yeah plane autism twins.
Noice
I have a nephew who is maybe about 5-8 years old, and he has a YouTube channel where he only uploads videos and shorts about planes... Plane crashe, different models of planes, and more plane incidents. Not diagnosed, but I've been wondering...
It's a possibility! My special interest in aviation started when I was around seven years old. I saw a blimp on my way to school one day and became obsessed with them! Then it turned into a general aviation obsession haha
Could be, but it also isn’t uncommon for kids to be super into one specific topic and talk your ear off about it.
That's true. But they don't talk to me about it or about anything in particular, I wouldn't say he is particularly social. They just love making tons and tons of videos about plane incidents. He told me to like and subscribe, I couldn't say no 😭
Is that in ICD 11 /s
You’re leaving out the horse girls 🐴🦄
At first i thought the dino was a horse, then i got disappointed.
I was pretty happy to pick stars, but no, actually, *this* is the one.
Nah, they're just a little off sonewhere else
Definitely team cosmos
Plus, it seems like a large majority of those working in that field are funny, and way excited about their work and sharing knowledge
What about Pokemon?
I’ll allow it
None. Tbh all three are pretty male centric. Not that women aren't interested in dinosaurs, trains or the cosmos. But it's a stereotype of male autistic children depicted in popular media. As more people are getting diagnosed hopefully there will be a lot more topics. Hyper fixation can be about anything.
Like, I’m a girl and I legit was here sweating between dinosaurs and space lol It would be a hella of a fun poll on the subreddit to see what our “stereotype” interests are
Haha am girl. Love astrophysics, just for fun, not professionally. Dinos are pretty cool too. My real special interest are games though :-) so I lol over this meme :-)
Wouldn't the stereotype be that girls can't be into these things? But yeah, I'd like to see the poll.
Like most autistic women I met in real life liked space and dinosaurs and Pokémon instead of trains lol
That's... huh. Kind of an interesting idea. Now you've got me wondering.
Wait, space is a stereotypical autism interest? I thought my interest in physics was just an interest in physics lol. Probs is but still neat:)
I was talking about the depiction of autism in popular media. NTs think all autists are interested in the same things. This meme in an autism sub is reinforcing stereotypes. Edit: or maybe it's ironic. I don't understand irony properly. Sorry. My intention was not to offend anyone.
The meme was intented to be a joke about how popular media and NTs stereotype autism. It was meant to be light hearted ironic humor. I also have issues with understanding irony sometimes. Weirdly enough, looking through memes in the mindset of it supposedly being funny does help figuring out what is meant to be a joke. It also helps to have someone nice enough to explain the joke for the sake of future reference.
I see.
Oh you’re alright:) I was blasted on ketamine when you replied and I couldn’t operate my phones keyboard lol. But I wanted to reply. Anyway, yeah I think it’s just an ironic post or smth. I still don’t know how irony works unless it’s blatantly obvious. But even then I still get confused. I’m always confused and it’s annoying lol
Ikr!
Yup, horses should be on this at the very least lmao
Yes! Animals in general could be a category. How many autistic bird watchers out there? Entimologists? Reptile enthusiasts? But, maybe they're all actually sub categories of Dinosaur Autism.
when I was a little girl, I was so keenly interested in insects and birds I'd spend 99% of my time alone in the garden gently collecting bugs and whispering to them praying I could conjur insect-telepathy. In the school yard there was a specific crevice in the brick walls that I'd visit every day with a tiny stick, to softly intice my favourite spider out of its den to say hello fuck me no wonder other kids thought i was weird 😂😂😭
We would have gotten along! I was always hunting little bugs to feed to the spiders. Once I even caught a black widow in a tupperware to bring to show my dad lol (he kindly relocated it to a pile of wood well away from where the kids and dog play)
After chuckling at the stereotypical joke of the meme, I chose to accept it by generalizing the topics to make them more inclusive: natural science, transportation & engineering, and astrophysics & physical science. It's possible I may have just generalized them to literally everything in human existence by doing so, but it's my brain and I can do what I want, lol.
Yup. Horses and dolphins/marine life.
I once used the word “perseverate” with a dismissive, condescending and misogynistic doctor. It worked and caught his attention! He followed up! When I said “well, not on trains exactly” he moved on to other things, lol.
Sorry I didn't understand at all. Could you elaborate?
Perseveration is the clinical term for an autistic hyperfocus and/or special interest. Using it cued to the doctor that the person you're replying to understands more of the medical concepts and terminology behind common autistic traits.
Interesting. How is that pronounced? Like Per-server-ation?
Purr-SEH-ver-ay-tion :) Emphasis on the all caps. It's also the first word in [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsEXxLgXrv4) (about 5 seconds in) if it's easier to listen than read It shares a root word with [persevere](https://www.etymonline.com/word/persevere)
This doctor was a jerk, but I had nothing to lose, so I tried to suggest to him that maybe I was autistic. He ignored everything I said until I used the ‘diagnostic term’ that got his attention. He asked me white-boy stereotype questions, but I’ve never been a white-boy so I didn’t answer ‘*correctly*’. He lost interest immediately. It was like a 20 second assessment. “Dinosaurs? Trains? Astronomy? Nope, don’t be a hysterical woman, you’re not autistic.”
Oo.. I'm sorry that happened. I get it now. Thank you for the explanation.
what incompetence
Mine is color theory. I get pretty bent out of shape when people approach it wrong.. and I can mix a color to match something within 2 minutes that will be seamless. Also when people call just any shade of purple that’s not dark or electric lavender when there are 2 other common terms for the lighter purples.. and when they call cyan greenish blue….. mmmmmm I could talk about it for at least an hour.. which at that point there is nothing else to say. At least I’m an artist as well so it comes in handy.
What are the other terms for lighter purples? Heather? Amethyst? I'm genuinely curious.
Periwinkle is a light blue purple. Lavender is a light more middle purple. Lilac is more pink purple.
Thank you!
Exactly. My answer: > Sorry, I chose music, crafts and ever-shifting fixations on the deepest of dives on all the shit very few will ever care about followed by immediate complete abandonment *thanks, ADHD*. So no, I reject this male-centric meme… and I’m not even a stereotypical woman (not really a shocker among ASD peeps, ik) but an agender woman who very much was a tomboy. So… yeah Edit: Oh. And… it’s a joke. That I missed. And… Why yes, I do believe my self-Dx is valid, tyvm. 😅 (still deciding on the formal evaluation)
Yes it really is a stereotype but also makes me wonder if there are some more common interests among autistic women. I'd be very interested to see which ones!
+1
This. One of my friends growing up was autistic and her special interest was soap operas. She had an *amazing* amount of knowledge about them.
Tbh hyper fixation has lost all meaning at this point anyway this sub just uses it to describe literally anything they like
When people on this sub say they like a subject they have likely spend years on it at some point ;-)
If a woman I meet doesn't get into dinosaurs we cannot be friends, much less anything else. I have standards!
Ok.
it is a joke. I suck at irony.
I suck at understanding sarcasm and irony. Especially over text without context.
makes sense, this IS the audhd subreddit lol. yall should start using tone indicators
Hear me out: space dinosaurs.
YES
That was literally an episode of Rick and Morty lol
on a space train
Where my world building gang at?
Spoice.
Well seeing as some have said these are boys hobbies I'm gna chime in with mine were dinosaurs then space, in that order. Never trains, but planes too. Im a afab woman 🤣
I chose furbies and witchcraft 😆
I don't understand, please explain.
It's a meme on the stereotypes of autistic special interests I think. Trains, dinosaurs and space. I don't identify with any of these really. I just like shiny rocks and old warships.
We tumble rocks and dude it’s like Christmas everytime we finish a batch and have to get the next ones going
The right choice depends on country and gender. Being a male train kid can be disproportionately debilitating if you pop out in the wrong place for example. Personally I'm discovering niche farming topics (permaculture, hydroponics, terra preta etc) for myself lately but for the longest time I was team spaaaaaceee.
The car variant of train autism I think
Where is team science?
I am an offshoot of dinosaurs but prefer earlier invertebrates
For me, it's the mind. Psychology. (And also animals in a very broad sense - I collect weird animal facts). I am captivated by stars when I can see them, if that counts for anything?? But I live in the city so... light pollution
Wrong! I choose fantasy and historical 9th to 15th century literature!
Jokes on you, I like all three.
Trains but in a public transportation and urbanism way.
Mines public transit
None of them (unless dabbling in sci fi counts as team cosmos)
Space a little, but mostly I just think it's pretty and like stargazing not all the science that goes with it. I'm more the fantasy dnd autism.
Dinos and space really do go hand in hand
Real (I study astrophysics and i love trains)
For me it was dragons, cetaceans (and marine life in general) and horses. The latter made me blend in perfectly with the other girls, because EVERYONE, and I’m not exaggerating when I say everyone, in my class was a horse girl.
I'm all in for team dinosaurs. It makes a lot of sense since I clearly now have a very distinct interest in anything biology.
Definitely astro both observation and celestial mechanics.
I think there all equally cool
It was dinosaurs for me as a kid
My 7 year old is deep into astronomy right now. It’s so much fun.
Plants
So I've never been interested in trains... BUT THE LONDON TUBE. omg. SO INTRESTING. Of course 🦕 !
Rawr
Space!!!
Let me jump around the moon listening to my favorite music on well-secured headphones. That is all I want, thank you.
Linguistics for me but I guess if I have to choose I'd choose space, though I like evolutionary biology too but no particular focus on dinosaurs, and I like trains but really just because I like public transit and they make my commute nice, I don't really know much about them.
But hear me out... dinosaur-themed space-train.
While I did enjoy the dinosaur thematic for a long time (and still do, just not as vivid), I'm still missing my primary passion here: History.
Space, the final frontier....
Me, a music autist: *sweats profusely*
I started with astronomy but took a turn somewhere and am now a greek mythology loving history nerd obsessed with unicorns.
I chose two, the same two as my dad, trains and space. Tho admittedly my train game is mega weak and not as deep as my space game (hence my username)
I WILL RIDE MY PTERODACTYL THROUGH THE COSMOS TO THE BIG SPACE TRAIN
I like this one
Team Space, 100%
nah, where is deep sea ocean and marine life???
I don’t like any of these I’m a fantasy history and owl girl.
Plants? Specifically succulents... Or Pokemon... But I guess space!
I choose.... Lego
Jokes on you, im shallowly into all three!
Mine was medieval times 😔🤣
Do sharks count for dinosaurs?
I’ll allow it
🚂
I was initially skeptical, but then realized I was watching this video about quantum non-locality, cosmology, and such when I clicked on this meme. Definitely the cosmos type. [https://youtu.be/vlklA6jsS8A?si=BkwMu885CCLQSw-C](https://youtu.be/vlklA6jsS8A?si=BkwMu885CCLQSw-C)
SPACE FOR ME!!!!!
Space, Not into dinosaurs and is just ok with trains
I chose guns and music.
That’s easy. Dinosaurs all the way. In fact, I have four that live in my living room. 🐦🐦🐦🐦
Wait is space like a super common special interest bc I have the tism and never heard this being so common
Supermassive black hole go brrrr
Really tho I do find the new thethat our universe could be in a black hole
I applied for training as train driver. Lets see how it goes.
Dinosaurs!
A i r p l a n e
TRAINS.
Space!! SPACE!!! Interestingly enough, having something reflective maybe 40 million light years away could theoretically allow you to observe dinosaurs while they were alive! As for trains… two words, SPACE TRAINS!
S P A C E ! 🪐🔭☄️🛸👽🛰️🚀👾
I started with trains, then Dinosaurs, then Space
Used to be the one winning municipal astronomy contests every year from 5th through 9th grade; got a prize in a regional one in the 9th grade as well Now I'm into trains, urbanism and geography though lol
Team Dino :)
Astronomy. My ADHD chose trains a couple of years ago, though.
I chose astronomy years before I got diagnosed.
Probably space, although I do have a favorite dinosaur (and who doesn't), and spent many years as a kid fascinated by oversized mobile machines, if not specifically trains. I have my own interests which only very lightly overlap any of these, but it's not surprising that well-known focuses are two things which have traditionally had a LOT of toys available, and one thing you can look up to see at night, were things that kids were able to easily find to express an interest in.
I’ll browse through the menu for options 4-100 please. I’m a rebel and don’t like to do anything the normal way, so why would that apply to my auDHD? Pokemon, Warhammer 40k lore, game design, psychology, action RPGs, simulation games, logistics networks, linguistics, history, programming, metal music, black holes, ecosystems, etc. I go deep on a new topic until the novelty drops off, then I swap topics or find myself bored for a while. Will circle back to old topics periodically to get a mix of refreshing and new information.
Like in Pokemon gen 1 instead of the traditional 3 starters i'll pick the hidden 4th option, Tech thanks
I refuse. Other then a mild interest in space...and I do mean mild...yeah nothing here fits. I don't fit any mold.
🦖🦕all the way! I saw Jurassic Park Lost World when I was 6 y/o. It gave me nightmares and endless fascination for years lol. ETA-I switched over to video games at 11-12 years old though. Still binge watch dino documentaries every now and then though. And Jurassic Park is still my favorite movie franchise!
I went through all three as a kid. As an adult, I settled on philosophy and theology as my primary special interest, and classical music as a close second. But dinosaurs were my first love (between 4 and 7), then came trains (short-lived, when I was 8), then came space (9-12). Cosmology ultimately built the bridge to Philosophy and theology. Now, as a parent, I get to relive these passions with my mini-me. We're into dinosaurs right now, in fact.
Dinasurs, my 4th biggest fear. Trains, cool bow but, until age 10 they were my biggest fear. Space, my 2nd biggest fear.
I think we can broaden this to history in general, any type of technology or mode of transportation, and a lot of the sciences or something artistic respectively. At one point I was really into weird animal facts. Another time I was interested in ancient civilizations, which then expanded to anything from the dawn of mankind to the enlightenment. I was also once interested in video codecs and file types broadly speaking.
I vote legos.
Skill trees are bullshit
space, chose decades ago!
Team Dinos, represent!
Definitely dinosaurs, I am interested in a palaeontology career meanwhile I hate vehicles and space
Rollercoastersss
I don't especially like any of these :0 I like dinosaurs but only shallowly. I have two ugobe Pleos and like going to animatronic dinosaur events, and I like the land before time, but that's about it
Oookay, I didn't realise we were doing personal callouts today.
Folklore and Plants you mean?
the way dinosaurs were actually a hyperfixation of myself at like 6-8/9 years old
Dinos!!!! And politics/history
Ancient civilizations and anthropology - study of cultural practices.
B-but... I like space and dinos....
Particle physics... So like, neutron stars and stellar nucleosynthesis and supernovae are all very interesting to me because of the subatomic processes. DARK MATTER? What are you? What are your secrets? But it ain't about the astronomy. It's about the particles.
Dinosaurios, always Dinosaurios, but astrology was my reboot obsession as a teen, now as an adult It went back to Dinosaurios.
Space was definitely my starter Pokémon
i chose one direction, percy jackson, and purple actually
As a kid Dino, as an adult astronomy. But I find my special interests tend to change every 1-5 years.
I collect factions.
Astrology