Does anyone else not really like talking about their special interests?

I can see how bored people are the second I start, like their eye contact suddenly breaks and they look around the room, and only say “mmhmm” instead of replying. So I shut up after one sentence.

But if the other person also likes the subject, I don’t like talking to them either, because there’s nothing to say. If we disagree I don’t want to be rude and argue so I awkwardly pretend to agree. If we agree then all you can do is tell each other things you both already know and agree that they’re good.

Ho boy, my mind is a minefield of such topics. I’m compulsively drawn to obsess about new things for a few months and then never think of it again until someone brings it up.

This meme hit me hard, so true.

Why pretend? As long as you do not spam people it should be fine? And spamming is always bad, regardless of the topic.

I did make the mistake of trying to convince people that learning Linux and using FOSS is the only way to keep some power as the people.

That created a clique of friends that are now telling me every single time they pay for a movie from amazon (calling it buying), that comment every problem I encounter with “That’s a Linux problem” and keep telling me they have “nothing to hide” (“nothing to hide” just means “nothing to protect”).

So yeah, I pissed them off by being too emotional in that topic, and now it’s a game for them. I will refrain from being seen as “too involved” because of that.

It’s too late for me