I know this is probably an odd question, but I would really like to find ways to rediscover my special interests again.
Has anyone else gone through not knowing what your special interests are? Or at least can’t remember what they used to be?
This has been bothering me lately because I’ve recently left a demanding and draining job that made me neglect a lot of aspects in my life. Particularly, my interests and hobbies that brought me joy.
I used to be so into watching animated shows and movies, drawing and reading, but now it feels I don’t have the mental or emotional capacity to do them anymore. And when I do it sort just feels like, “this isn’t hitting the same”. This saddens me because I’m sort of missing that old version of myself who would find joy and comfort in these things to the point of never getting bored of doing them over and over again, but now I feel like that part of me is gone.
Maybe I’m just overthinking too much on the special interests topic since autism is a spectrum so it doesn’t look the same to everybody. However, I just genuinely can’t remember what brought me joy and would really like to get that back again.
Any advice or anecdotes would be appreciated 💕