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I hate that this is true for me.
Do you have any hobbies?
Well.... I have dabbled in so many things but never stuck on any, so I guess I don't have any hobbies worthy of the title. Makes me sound boring instead of the truth: spicy and incompetent.
I usually just tell people "I fix shit" or "I build things". Computers and bicycles have been somewhat constant throughout my life though.
Don't get into salt water fish tanks... pistol shrimp are cool as shit... but getting the tank right is not for the ADHD person :)
Comic books even just keeping up with current Arcs... get pretty expensive and then you just have a backlog of 30+ books to read
Beer making is fun... Cleaning up sucks
Gardening wasn't for me... I would get home from work everyday and have to spend an hour or two taming my tomato plants (Like vegetables... hate gardening)
I am sure I have more hobbies abandoned than this. Thats the fun of ADHD. I have abandoned more projects than most people have started
I tell them my hobby is starting new hobbies. And then I list a few of the latest obsessive bursts (this year, rock painting and roller derby and Pilates and paint by numbers and gardening).
Haha, this is what I say, too! "My hobby is collecting new hobbies." There are supplies for no fewer than five types of crafts on my living room table right now. (Also water bottles, several video game controllers, a solved Rubik's cube, my medications, and some cannabis paraphernalia.)
Roller Derby - playing, reffing, or spectating? Derby is awesome!
Trying to learn how to skate and all the rules first, hope the interest stays long enough for me to get to play a game!
Don't forget the most important step: choosing a name!
Honestly, moreso than starting new hobbies I DON'T start them until I know everything about it, which is never.
“My hobby is learning about new hobbies!”
There you go!
So you're a generalist.
I'm a dang puddle.
Society tends to value highly specialised knowledge, but this doesn't mean you are worth any less. Especially if we're talking about hobbies, if flitting between so many different interests that your knowledgebase feels super shallow, then that's fine. Some people don't get it, and would judge you negatively for it, but you probably wouldn't get along well with them anyway.
I bet that there's loads that I could learn from you, and I wouldn't mind that the depth of your knowledge in any one area isn't very deep; I just like learning cool stuff, and I've found that people who know lots of little bits about lots of things are some of the most interesting people for that.