Talk:Special interest (autism)

Mentioning fixation

Love this article — would potentially mention how it relates to, or is different from, Fixation (psychology). To show why they warrant separate pages, as I think lots of people assume they are the same. Squiddyonwiki (talk) 22:43, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! From my understanding, Freudian fixations are a theory of why some people like certain types of sex, so I'm not sure how people could get the two confused? Did you mean hyperfixation? -- NotCharizard ^🗨 11:12, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I did mean this! Though I don't believe fixation is alway related to sex -- people can get fixated on people, things, objects, etc. However I do think a lot of people mix up hyperfixation with special interest.

Article looks great! Squiddyonwiki (talk) 20:32, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

This article/draft

To Notcharizard. Hello, I have noticed this article or draft I should say, I typed an article through the sandbox titled "Special interest (autism)" in April. When I moved the article to the mainspace, a Wikipedien converted my article into a draft on the web page. The user stated I needed to work on the vocabulary and better reliable sources. Your article hit most of the main points I was addressing in mine. I was impressed with your writing skills.

Great minds think alike. If this is a draft (what you did on the bottom of the revision history), then why was it put into an article format? Tonkarooson (talk) *new editor* 03:22, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean "why was it put into an article format?". It was a draft when I first wrote it, because it was just bullet points from the sources I found, and then when I put it into paragraphs it was moved to article space.

I had a look at your draft, that is funny that we both did it at the same time - I have tried to make the same edit to an article at the same time as someone else many times but not a whole article. It looks like your article was draftified because you wrote it backwards. Your article had some examples of special interests in real people though which I didn't have other than Greta, that would be cool to add some if we can find some sources! -- NotCharizard ^🗨 11:24, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

When I type out "Draft: Special interest (autism)", yours is the top article, directing from "Draft:Special interest (autism)", so from this it made me a bit confused; below yours is my draft on this topic!

I read the article about making backward articles, and I am going to make the option to stop working on my article because yours seems better and mine came from my general knowledge of special interests. This also means I will make Special interest (autism) better! Tonkarooson (talk) *new editor* 02:42, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

NotCharizard, if you feel like a challenge

Consider WP:DYK. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:58, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

rename to Autistic_special_interests

consider renaming to Autistic_special_interests so its consistent with autistic_masking and autistic_burnout Anthony2106 (talk) 09:29, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Requested move 18th of May 2024

Special interest (autism) → Autistic special interests – it should be moved to keep it concistent with autistic masking, autistic burnout and autistic meltdown plus autistic special intrests is a real term that is used i looked it up, it sounds better too Anthony2106 (talk) 06:00, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

I like this name change request, but I don't understand why this article needs to be moved. To me, this name change too good for the discussion to be closed

Also, where did all of these requests around Autism come from all of the sudden lol? Tonkarooson (talk) *new editor* 10:35, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

"Also, where did all of these requests around Autism come from"...i saw the name change request on the autism page and realized i could do one here.

"but I don't understand why this article needs to be moved"... it should be moved to make it renamed to make it consistent with the other pages about autism, and i think the discussion about this change is still open Anthony2106 (talk) 14:33, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

I understand the desire for consistancy, but the examples given (autistic masking, autistic burnout and autistic meltdown) are all autistic "versions" of things that exist outside autism, so that is specified in the name of the subject (i.e. autistic masking is type of regular social masking). Special interests are an autistic thing, they are not usually called "autistic special interests" because that's inherent.

In the case of this article, "(autism)" is functioning as disambiguation, not as part of the typical name of the subject - it is only there because "special interests" is already used for special interest groups. -- NotCharizard ^🗨 14:15, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

"A person with a special interest will often hyperfocus on their special interest for hours" unreliable source

I may have found a better source:

https://oxfordspecialisttutors.com/autism-and-hyperfixation/#:~:text=Individuals%20with%20Autism%20often%20exhibit,the%20subject%20of%20their%20fixation.

I have others, but they didn't seem good enough. If anyone wants to see the other sources, I will gladly share them. Tonkarooson (talk) *new editor* 11:06, 18 May 2024 (UTC)