So... anyone else super bothered that the term "hyperfixation" seems to have slithered its way into the vocabulary of your average internet user and now basically everyone is using it as a synonym for "obsession"?
Like I'm not going to blame individual people for not knowing any better (and besides some people might be neurodivergent and not know it... or they know but just haven't told anyone publically, which is their right) but the general phenomenon just upsets me.
Hyperfixation is an ADHD and autism specific term because our obsessions just ARE much more intense in general. Learning about what the term meant helped me understand why I could recite the entire Lion King film in two languages and why I literally dropped out of school after I started watching The X-Files because my obsession with the show consumed me to the point I couldn't do anything else. It helped me understand why, despite the fact that pretty much everyone had obsessions, other people's obsessions weren't downright debilitating like mine often were.
The way we function in this world differs a lot from neurotypicals (and other neurodivergent people with different disorders) and we need to have our own words to describe our symptoms and behaviors. It just saddens me to see that our experiences are time and time again ripped away from us and tweaked a little so they can be used as some "relatable", "quirky" memes that apply to literally everyone on this planet.
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