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Cat Ferguson | The Pinprick's avatar

I am really viiibbbbing with the vibe of this post. Can feel your energy in your lightly edited stream of consciousness. I appreciate you analyzing it while in it because it made me realize something about my own obsessive tendencies. I connect those impulses mostly to Input, one of my top 5 strengths (along with Activator, Ideation, Adaptability and Connectedness). What it looks like: something catches my attention and then I obsessively go deep into research mode. I follow the thread until the thread or my energy runs out. It could be an hour or it could be a month. But it's mostly a solitary obsession. I'm not obsessing with someone, I'm obsessing in private, by myself, until my impulse is satisfied. Compared to what seems for you to be a collaborative, mutual obsession. One person activates the other and vice versa. This is my interpretation of it, at least, and a zero-edited stream of consciousness reply!

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Michelle Akin's avatar

i do both, babe!!! i just got done with the MrBeast hyperfixation, then it was bluesky, now it's rob. i have examples from my past of both people and things. the people are tricky though, obviously, because they can interact back and shift the dynamic, making it more or less interesting, or even making it toxic depending on who it is. i have experienced all of it! regardless, i am so glad to know im not alone on this :D and that it resonated. and sorry it took so long for me to reply. seems like a glitch in our matrix that i didn't

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