DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: My boyfriend’s mom informed me as soon as how he was once examined for being autistic when he was once a child and would get completely tuned into no matter he was once enthusiastic about. His mother has a brother at the spectrum, however best mildly so, however nonetheless she was once all the time gazing for it in her personal youngsters.I don’t actually care if my boyfriend is even slightly at the spectrum, however I do fear about how wrapped up he will get in his newest hobby.For example, he began removing and gathering vintage Scorching Wheels vehicles. He has most commonly long gone for fashions he simply likes and aren’t essentially all that precious. Essentially the most he’s paid thus far is $65 for one on Etsy, and for his birthday and Christmas he requested his circle of relatives and me for precise fashions as an alternative of anything.I requested him what he intends to do with the 80 or so we now have at our space and he mentioned he isn’t positive but.We went via one thing like this when he was once gathering shot glasses, however that didn’t final very lengthy they usually ended up being given away to pals and a neighborhood bar that has a show of all other types of consuming glasses from across the nation and world wide.Ahead of that he was once giant into baseball playing cards, like his dad, however then he learned how dear that was once and offered maximum of what he had accrued.I don’t have any downside along with his gathering stuff, however do you suppose he perhaps is slightly at the spectrum? — MY BOYFRIEND THE COLLECTORDEAR MY BOYFRIEND THE COLLECTOR: I’m now not a professional, on the other hand you don’t point out anything else that signifies your boyfriend is appearing greater than an hobby in more than a few spare time activities.It doesn’t sound like he’s draining his checking account, neglecting his family members, or taking up your house along with his newest assortment. As an issue of truth, it kind of feels to me he demonstrated he’s pondering issues via fairly than being pushed by means of an obsession when he learned how dear baseball card gathering may get and made up our minds in opposition to pursuing that hobby.It can be your boyfriend hasn’t discovered the eagerness that’ll apply him via lifestyles. He perhaps by no means gets that into something best, however fairly glide into and out of what he fancies in this day and age, choosing up wisdom about other fields of hobby as he is going alongside.
