[Lonely butterfly]

I've got loads.
Crotchet, knitting, computing, gardening (I LOVE PLANTS SO FREAKING MUCH) and uhh I like reading but won't call it a fixation.

[Yaowen]

Those are hobbies in my opinion. Fixations are something different.

[Lonely butterfly]

really? what's the difference

[MuddyBoots]

Originally Posted by Lonely butterfly

really? what's the difference

I believe hyperfixations are short intense bursts of obsession with something. Like right now I have 10+ tabs on my phone (which I almost never use for internet) dedicated to ski stuff, I searched hard for a good, affordable opportunity to go for hours straight and went last night, if someone let me I'd talk for 10 hours straight about mountains and snow and avalanches and weather and the differences between camber and rocker and edge angles and why Vail sucks and touring and places I suspect there's good backcountry, etc.. I'll get angry if the day after it snows I had an appointment in the middle of the day. The thought of it brings this focus and a kind of high. But three days ago it was learning a specific piece on violin I was fixated on (and forgot to eat or go to the bathroom while working on it), and all of a sudden in a second the boredom sets in and "oh, okay, yeah, cannot do this anymore."

[Lonely butterfly]

oh, lol. I thought that's what they were cuz I'm constantly thinking of it.
Crotcheting was so bad at a point, I didn't sleep for 3 days straight just to make a damn blanket.
I didn't even need it done, I just could not fall asleep without finishing it.

[ArthurFonzarelli]

I can get obsessed with anything! I lived near Valley Forge and got obsessed with American Revolution and went there everyday and the museum.
I've been obsessed with music, expensive guitars, audio equipment. Motorcycles a few years ago, hockey autographs several times, etc.
I have no idea why I get carried away with my thoughts. I think I have flight of ideas which is symptom of BP and OCD...
I think something will bring me happiness so I go after whatever it is. But I just end up making myself worse.

[Lonely butterfly]

I mean as long as you watch yourself and make sure you're not overworking yourself I'm sure you'll be fine (says me lol)