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no one is saying hyperfixations are bad, we are saying there is bad that comes with the joy of it and for some it can heavily impact life and important tasks oh my GOD can ppl stop talking in absolutes
something can bring you joy and be Not Great For You. things can bring you joy and be only good for you in certain doses. hyperfixation is a state of mind that is not neurotypical and while not wrong, we live in a society catered to neurotypical ppl so it can cause issues
"my hyperfixations never hurt me" congrats, because I made my friends hate me as a child because they didn't give a shit about what I wanted to talk about constantly and I literally didn't know how to stop. glad you have only had good experiences but that's not ALL of us.
I feel the need to suppress my hyperfixations a good majority of the time because I learned that a large number of people just do not care and will leave me if I annoy them to much with it
I felt a loss of sense of self when my fixation on p4 dropped some. I didn't know how to deal with being anything other than what people had come to expect from me. I pulled away from p4 friends because I felt guilty I wasn't as into it anymore.
Nothing is wrong with hyperfixations. It's the issue that it can be detrimental to yourself depending on the level of fixation and the world has no idea how the fuck to deal with that.
