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Just got wondering today - have any of you had hyperfocus kick in when it was something you were doing, not something you're watching/reading/studying?
I used to play pool, at an average amateur level, and two games have always stuck in my memory. I *was* the game. I made shots I never could before. Everything was the pool table, and the cue in my hands. Both times it just happened, and I tried to to it on purpose, but that never worked. Just those two games. Autism? Or not?
This happened to me, too, playing pool, although it was during my drinking days and I am not a reliable witness. I have experienced similar when writing, in more recent years, and, as someone else posted, I call it "flow".
@ScottSoCal @actuallyautistic Probably not unless all elite sports players are autistic.
For discussions on focus and emotions, read H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald. At times in the book she feels she is the hawk she is training, she feels such complete identification.