Do you have any interests you can't talk about IRL?

Anime and manga, especially the darker/raunchier ones if I'm not with trusted friends. Also Kiwi Farms in general, Chris Chan specifically. He... I've only shared with a few, and not very well, due to the dark turn of the subject matter and the extreme volume of history.
 
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I think I've mentioned this here before, but I'm really fascinated by the early history and theology of the Latter-day Saint movement and Joseph Smith. I'm not, nor have I ever been Mormon, but I've read just about everything there is to read on the subject over the last decade or so and keep up with the work of the handful of scholars that are out there. It's just a fascinating area of American history.

I can't talk about it IRL because there isn't really anywhere to do so. There might be a forum or two out there that I'm not aware of, but 95% of the discussion around Mormonism online these days is about the modern church which doesn't interest me much. The mainstream discussion of the issues surrounding Smith and the creation of the BoM really peaked like 10 or 15 years ago and anyone still talking about it on platforms like Reddit and YouTube are basically beating a dead horse at this point.

My parents are weirded out by it, so I try to hide my power level around them. Unironically have been thinking about taking a Mormonism road trip between upstate New York and Salt Lake and visiting all of the historical sites.
 
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- Anime and Manga, if I happen to find somebody out there who is interested I run for the hills. I hate the average A&M fan nowadays.
- Social Sciences & Humanities - You can't discuss anything in this realm in public. You are given a scripted conversation to make you feel like you can, but you can't. Even with the officially approved disclaimers, shibboleths and scripts you are entering a mine field.
- Similarly, Religion.
- Conspiracy Theories: The moon is an hologram is funny, WEF at war with humanity is not. One of those is real, one of those is not. It doesn't really matter.
- Serial Killers, Lolcows, Celebrity Gossip
 
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Video editing is probably the closest thing I have to a hobby. It's not even that I'm too embarrassed to talk about it with friends/co-workers, I just know no one cares enough to hear about it. And fuck talking to other "creative types". They're some of the most insufferable faggots you'll ever have the displeasure of speaking to.
 
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I have a lot of niche interests people wouldn't get, but I think the most controversial one, something I wouldn't feel comfortable talking about IRL except with a tiny, TINY amount of people is that I like to read about dictators and war crimes as a hobby, though mostly the former. I avoid talking about this with most people because they would most likely get the wrong idea very quickly.
 
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Nuclear energy and the history of nuclear power development. If allowed to talk on the subject, I could go on for hours and have often been told to kindly cease my malfunction.
Ever think about which microorganisms can withstand radiation levels the worst affected sites of Chernobyl?
Thank you, I'll be here until they try to shut us down again.
 
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About how fucking stupid defending Ukraine is, and how hypocritical our own government is. We can't have Ukraine's sovereignty invaded and violated, but ours? Oh, ours is open for business. Ukraine joining NATO would gain us literally NOTHING but piss off Russia. Ukraine isn't a democracy. Ukraine is a dictatorship, but try explaining it to mouth breathers gets you labeled as an "Agent of Putin".
 
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Honestly, with most of my interests I can only really discuss them with one or two people IRL. Otherwise people either don't give a shit or mock me to the point I won't mention it around them.

I really like true crime, especially that pertaining to female killers. Most of my family has always bitched about how I am rotting my brain with violent garbage or joking while I'm watching them that I'm learning how to kill them in their sleep by watching these shows, so I just never watch them with other people. I never gave them shit while they watched Disney Channel or Hallmark movies. I probably should've. Most true crime fans also tend to be quite nuts (Stephanie Cianfriglia is an extreme example).

Trashy TV in general. I have a couple friends and my partner where I can watch and laugh at this shit with, but same deal. My fiancee actually got very offended when my mom "warned" her after they first met about how I've been watching daytime talk show garbage since elementary school, when the likes of Povich and Jerry Springer would come on right after Pokemon. Considering how much I studied in school, maybe I want to laugh at lie detector shows and Judge Judy verbally tear apart a scammer between hours of homework?

Bande desinee outside of Europe

Donald Duck outside of Europe

McDonald's. Its history, marketing (especially the gaffes and scandals), and localized offerings fascinate me. McDonald's also used to have a lot more unique buildings and varied interior decor compared to other fast food joints (e.g. that UFO at Roswell, McBarge, full blown Cabbage Patch Kid doll dioramas at the location by where Cabbage Patch Kids were created). But it's also so "lol fat" that I don't like talking about it in person. Or even online, really.

I'm not as big into anime and manga as I was as a teen, but it sucks that I don't really have anyone outside of my partner or a couple old friends to discuss my old favorites with. Not to mention most otaku nowadays are trannies that are somehow bigger deviants than the otaku I went to school with. I have not been to a convention in years and I'm (mostly) fine with that.

Nail polish. Not just brands and colors but also the making of it, hand care, nail anatomy, etc. The few people that ask basically nope out once I sperg or are like "k"
 
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ForgedBlades said:
I think I've mentioned this here before, but I'm really fascinated by the early history and theology of the Latter-day Saint movement and Joseph Smith. I'm not, nor have I ever been Mormon, but I've read just about everything there is to read on the subject over the last decade or so and keep up with the work of the handful of scholars that are out there. It's just a fascinating area of American history.

I can't talk about it IRL because there isn't really anywhere to do so. There might be a forum or two out there that I'm not aware of, but 95% of the discussion around Mormonism online these days is about the modern church which doesn't interest me much. The mainstream discussion of the issues surrounding Smith and the creation of the BoM really peaked like 10 or 15 years ago and anyone still talking about it on platforms like Reddit and YouTube are basically beating a dead horse at this point.

My parents are weirded out by it, so I try to hide my power level around them. Unironically have been thinking about taking a Mormonism road trip between upstate New York and Salt Lake and visiting all of the historical sites.
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I'm a big Mormon fan too and would join you on your road trip. 1800s Mormonism is badass.
Mormonism, American Indians, and the Old South are the three things I autistically fixate on more than anything else.
 
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I'm too terminally autistic to share an interest I can discuss irl. Last time I mentioned to a group of normies I play games, it felt awkward. And yet I was supposed to believe that gaming was mainstream and bigger than hollywood. Not even a remark from one of them mentioning that they play some casual game on their phone, just nothing.
 
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I'm too terminally autistic to share an interest I can discuss irl. Last time I mentioned to a group of normies I play games, it felt awkward. And yet I was supposed to believe that gaming was mainstream and bigger than hollywood. Not even a remark from one of them mentioning that they play some casual game on their phone, just nothing.
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Unless you were doing it in an autistic way, the problem is them, not you. Video gaming is so mainstream that it's like the main thing young men (I don't know that you're young, I'm just assuming because I picture everybody on Kiwi Farms as a young man) bond over.

There are some men (I know one) who seem like normalfags because they meet all those outward stereotypes but there's something off about them that it's like they don't have any interest that's not calibrated to that kind of personality. They don't feel like they're actually normal so much as they feel like they're putting on an act. This goes for other things like getting really common memes and Internet slang. In this day and age there's no excuse for someone not knowing what a "chad" is or what "based" means, for example, I overhear random dudes in places like gyms throwing around those words.

Now, which specific kind of video game, that changes things.
 
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Unless you were doing it in an autistic way, the problem is them, not you. Video gaming is so mainstream that it's like the main thing young men (I don't know that you're young, I'm just assuming because I picture everybody on Kiwi Farms as a young man) bond over.
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Yeah I didn't bring it up out of the blue or be autistic about it. I was just casually asked what my hobbies were.

This goes for other things like getting really common memes and Internet slang. In this day and age there's no excuse for someone not knowing what a "chad" is or what "based" means, for example, I overhear random dudes in places like gyms throwing around those words.
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Funny you bring that up. So there's a gen x'r who thinks chad is a term to describe the male version of a karen and I once tried explaining what the term actually meant and was used but I didn't get through to him. And this incorrect definition spread throughout his circle of friends.
 
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Yeah I didn't bring it up out of the blue or be autistic about it. I was just casually asked what my hobbies were.



Funny you bring that up. So there's a gen x'r who thinks chad is a term to describe the male version of a karen and I once tried explaining what the term actually meant and was used but I didn't get through to him. And this incorrect definition spread throughout his circle of friends.
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For someone a bit older that makes perfect sense. My parents (Baby Boomers) automatically associate "Chad" not with some brutish jock type but with a metrosexual or even gay man. Kind of dude who'd wear a scarf. Which is what I'd imagine Karen being married to.

"Chad" is mostly just jock given a broader setting.
 
Magic. A while back I started learning about how widespread and socially accepted magic and the magical worldview in general were, all the way up into the 1800s Western world. The only people, outside of folklorists, that have any interested in magic are your Wicca lunatics or wizardshit fans, which is not remotely the same as what I'm interested in (likewise, basic White girl astrology is not the same as pioneer's use of astrology like a work calendar). I am somewhat interested now in learning more about numerology and symbolism in alchemy. There's no real distinction between most magic, herbalism, alchemy, and chemistry/pharmaceuticals.

I also find, as far as wizardshit goes, it very boring how much high fantasy magic consists of shooting light rays at each other and it is a large chunk of why I do not have much interest in the genre.
 
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