In my experience I have some say in what I hyperfixate on. Does anyone else experience this or do you guys get dragged along by your brains latest fancy?
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2024
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It really depends for me. Now that I'm medicated I can redirect the hyperfixation, but it takes a LOT of effort. Why catch up on my taxes from 2 years ago I just never did when I have a fresh Linux Mint Wilma install and hyperfixation on archiving every available ROM since the Intellivision up to the 360/ps3/wii era on my nas?
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My fellow funny brained friend! It's wild how much linux got me back into dicking around on my puter. When I was a teenager, I spent hours on my first laptop just fuckin modding the shit out of Bethesda games, pirating the games my parents couldn't afford, and farting around with emulators that let me re-experience games I had almost forgotten. Somewhere along the way, the overwhelming pressure of life caused me to curl up and recede inward and I stopped doing just about everything I enjoyed. That lasted a long, long time.
When I recently got a hand me down rig from a friend, I thought I'd use the hell out of it. I didn't. Then, one day, on a shitty old laptop that choked on windows, I decided to try out linux mint. It's been uphill from there.
That's been my survival mechanism. I'd be homeless otherwise but I was able to hyperfixate on work related things and become a workaholic after failing out of school (where I couldn't focus on courses I didn't like).
My life/work balance has never been good, but its awesome to be fixated on the thing people pay you money to do.
I do make more deliberate choices on what I expose myself to content and general life experience wise. Because when it comes down to it I don't have a say in where the next hyperfixation takes me.
For example I am staying the hell away from trading card games because I enjoy being able to pay my rent.