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Can’t anyone?

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It seemed to me that only more neurodivergent types are the ones that would be inclined to start studying some random thing like this instead of going out to socialize.

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Oh so it’s to avoid socializing? Makes sense, I’ve at some point happily learned Arabic, bandweaving, archaeology, electrotechnics, botany to name just a few …

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I don’t know if they do it to avoid socializing. I think it’s just a weird obsessive thing.

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"why are you almost an hour late to practice ?

  • well do you know if NCOs of the Marching Batallion n°24 of the French 1st Motorized Infantry Division used british revolver holster after the Sicily landing in 1943 ?"
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How else am I going to learn the finer points of the ISO standard on floating point data?

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That’s not really an obscure or weird thing to research…depending on what you do for a living.

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I’m an electrician.

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I don’t know enough about wiring circuits to understand if that qualifies as weird

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And within 12 hours, have forgotten 90%

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I would rememeber everything that I saw.

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I used to have this now im mostly depressed

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☹️ I’m sorry buddy

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