Anonymous wrote:Do you find you have nothing in common with them? I am asking because I find that somehow the conversation always comes back to them talking about their very specific interest just assuming other people are just as interested in it.

I couldn't imagine going on and on about a particular interest to other people as if they care.

Like if I go to a new friends house and see pictures/toys in the box etc... of something like Star Wars or Harry Potter I am turned off. I feel similarly about adults who play video games. By adults I'm referring to people like 30 and up.

Is it just me?? I mean it's Juvenial and weird.

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Anonymous wrote:Weirdish, but these kinds of people always seem more "real" and friendly to me, so you have to take the good with the bad.

Yup--I know some people who have these types of interests (although I wouldn't call them obsessions), and they are nice, friendly, down-to-earth people. I think people who have a genuine interest or hobby are, on average, more interesting than those who don't, or who are afraid to admit it to others.

It's better to be yourself and find real friends, than to pretend to be someone else.

I don't understand obsessions with Disney, but I also don't understand obsessions about weight loss, celebrity gossip, or all politics, all the time. Everyone has their thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Weirdish, but these kinds of people always seem more "real" and friendly to me, so you have to take the good with the bad.

Yup--I know some people who have these types of interests (although I wouldn't call them obsessions), and they are nice, friendly, down-to-earth people. I think people who have a genuine interest or hobby are, on average, more interesting than those who don't, or who are afraid to admit it to others.

It's better to be yourself and find real friends, than to pretend to be someone else.

I don't understand obsessions with Disney, but I also don't understand obsessions about weight loss, celebrity gossip, or all politics, all the time. Everyone has their thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Weirdish, but these kinds of people always seem more "real" and friendly to me, so you have to take the good with the bad.

Yup--I know some people who have these types of interests (although I wouldn't call them obsessions), and they are nice, friendly, down-to-earth people. I think people who have a genuine interest or hobby are, on average, more interesting than those who don't, or who are afraid to admit it to others.

Anonymous wrote:Weirdish, but these kinds of people always seem more "real" and friendly to me, so you have to take the good with the bad.

Anonymous wrote:I am leery of adults who wear Mickey and Minnie Mouse gear. They may be perfectly nice when I get to know them but that is my first impression.

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Anonymous wrote:Op, what are you interested in?

Nothing that specific. Like general travel, world news, food, real estate etc...much more general topics. Most people I can converse with very easily but I can't take talking about topics that seem suited for a 12 year old rather than a 35 year old.

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I feel that way about Women who talk about make up, fashion, clothing and fitness. They sound like teenage girls

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Anonymous wrote:For all the people against young adult you realize that the 30-year-olds you're talking about grew up with Harry Potter. It came out when they were 11, 12, 13, 14. And it revolutionized, even fomented the entire genre. Why should they give up reading books and others like it just because they've gotten older?

And for the Gen Xers out there, the same is true for Star Wars. I don't talk about it all the time, but I've definitely seen all the movies, and I'm hard pressed to think what would have to happen to get me to skip one.

Anonymous wrote:Lots of people in this thread unaware that their go-nowhere, unoffensive small talk bores the hell out of 99% of the population. Keep talking to each other, folks! It takes the burden off the rest of us.

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Anonymous wrote:Op, what are you interested in?

Nothing that specific. Like general travel, world news, food, real estate etc...much more general topics. Most people I can converse with very easily but I can't take talking about topics that seem suited for a 12 year old rather than a 35 year old.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a coworker like this. She's so sweet and very funny and intelligent, but also very juvenile.

Her social media profiles all have things like school: Hogwarts, "Harry in the streets, Draco in the sheets" headers, etc. She has multiple wand key chains. I mean, I don't see a reason for someone over the age of 21 to have one wand key chain let alone multiple. She's always very depressed about the dating scene in DC and going on about how the only way she can get friends to do things wit her is by paying their way. I don't want to overstep because she's just a work friend, but at the same time, I want to yell that most guys don't want to hook up with a woman who has a life-size Daniel Radcliffe cutout in their bedroom along with a whole bookcase full of those little Funko Pop! toys. (I've been to her apartment for game night)

What on Earth does this mean?

Anonymous wrote:I don’t quite get it but admire anyone who has that kind of passion, no matter what it is. I wish I were that passionate about something! I enjoy movies, books etc, but nothing sweeps me away the way it did when I was a kid. To retain that feeling into adulthood would have been awesome.

Some people do take it to an extreme though. My mother, who works in IT, once had a colleague who refused to answer to his real name, only his D&D name, in a completely unironic way. He looked like you would imagine the D&D stereotype to look - basically comic book guy from the Simpsons.