Yeah I'm an autistic adult and I have interest in model trains. It's price is unjustifiable and this isn't going to fix any of my real life problems or have utility beyond making me temporarily feel good. A dcc ready ho scale model without the bells and whistles can cost hundreds of dollars, the smallest 0-4-0 tank engines go for over $100 now and the price isn't going to come down anytime soon. I've been selling off my books and models for this reason as continuing this intense hobby doesn't make sense. I still have that urge because of my autism, it can make it difficult to move on and I wished this was easy.
>>34065936I would say that it sounds to me that you want to pause this hobby and maybe spend that time/money/energy on addressing the problems in your life. Maybe treat it more as a pause than some kind of divorce? Maybe you can return to developing this hobby later once your life is more in order.
>>34065967You know what? I hope these model train manufacturers to go out of business and the boomers who take up 85% of this hobby to die off. I don't think I'm going back to model railroading anytime soon. This pay to play hobby is extortion. But yeah you're right, I'm living above my means.
>>34066016I'm only reflecting back your own estimations. It sounds to me that you already have a pretty logical account of your situation. I would suggest having faith in your intuition and take a small step toward addressing this matter. It sounds to me that you are self-aware enough to make good decisions, so maybe it's simply a matter of taking that first step. There are tons of other hobbies out there that are much more affordable too.
>>34065936It sounds like your question is not if you should quit but how to get rid of the autistic obsession. You want to be rid of it but don't know how.
>>34065936>making me temporarily feel good.That is the whole purpose of ANY hobby
>>34066265How do I get rid of my harmful autistic obssession?
>>34065936Lionel trains are cool. I love the setups that ppl make. You might not wanna add any more to your kit for a while. Make do with what u got. You can also store these long term and in 15 years you'll be thankful you didn't sell em off.
>>34066497That's nice and all but I need the money right now so all of the models have to go. Only thing I'm keeping is my railway series books, they're the only valuable railroad themed items I own.
>>34066539Sorry that ur having to sell em off. I hope you get the chance to rebuild again
There are a ton of video games about model train building. Why not switch to that?
>>34066657I'm not gonna have time for it. I'm falling for the video game trap. I have never been interested in video games and I never will be. Just go look at hat flying rant about video games on youtube.
What I meant was I'm not falling for the video game trap.
>>34066657There is something I would be willing to try if I had the time to do it. It would be model engineering in a 2D/3D CAD software. I'd have to compile research, maybe buy a book on the locomotive I want to design in miniature, ask rail societies for drawings, and get more drawings from museums. I'd like to design locos that run solely on DC power. I never cared about lighting, smoke or sound.
You'd think it would be a good excuse to finally learn math? To get that motivation to study math?
>>34066659>>34066674It's a game about model train building. That's all it is, virtual model train building. You have time to build real model trains, how do you not have time to play a video game where you do the same thing? It's not like Call of Duty or Skyrim, it's just being creative.
>>34065936Sell big so you can either buy the dip or more probably just make back more than you spent and find a cool train simulator game instead.
>>3406601680% of model train enthusiasts are going to die out in the next 10-20 years. Just wait for some estate sales.
>>34065936I won't read over-grown infant threads.
>>34065936>this isn't going to fix any of my real life problems or have utilityNot with that attitude.There are celebrities who have model train consultants on call. Whole businesses and careers built around the industry.Find a niche to fund the obsession and see how far it takes you. Giving up on passions is almost never the way.
>>34065936>continuing this intense hobby doesn't make senseThe prices are high now, temporarily, because of boomers with more money than common sense turning home equity loans into brass loco models.You don't have to give up the hobby, just sell everything for $$$$$ now and buy back a decade or two from now for pennies on the dollar, probably far less. You're not quitting permanently just taking a break until 2035 or so.Its not like they're making more boomers LOL, those prices will collapse soon enough once the estate sales kick into high gear.I like model railroading because per hour its very cheap to buy some $50 plastic model and then spend 100 hours detailing the hell out of it and putting it on my layout. Aside from maybe DnD there are few hobbies cheaper per hour than model RR.Maybe pivot into other models. Not W40K but military dioramas or something.
>>34065936>this intense hobby doesn't make senseit doesn't. If you are going to be a materialistic sperg, at least pick a more worthwhile hobby. Bodybuilding/fitness, automotive enthusiasm and sales, firearms, business ventures/entrepreneurship, electronics engineering, software programming, robotics. These have been real avenues for autists- but you fell for the 1970s Boomer retard shit of toy trains that no one really gives a fuck about outside of the 1970s.>this isn't going to fix any of my real life problemsit wont. I know some that are mega autists too-but atleast have picked obsessions that would make lucrative business. Some of them do Japanese racing car tuning/drifting parts and manufacturing. They took that finicky and obsessive drive about models and construction of- to professional car racing machines. Then they took their products to worldwide production and distribution. They get to feed their autist hobby needs but also feed themselves.
>>34066288Avoid anything that would lead your sequence of thought towards model trains. Reenginer your environment so that the idea never even occurs to you. Remove all relevant pictures, move furniture to break relevant habits.Get a new obsession, one that can attract hyper focus but is better for you. It's like putting a big black hole next to a little black hole. Your old obsession will still exist, but the new obsession interferes with it, attracting your thoughts towards to it with more pull than the old one.Whenever you notice your thoughts are about to slip towards the old obsession, divert it to something else, but this only works if you notice right on the precipice before hyper focus really kicks off.It helps if there's YouTube videos or some online community surrounding your new obsession that you can identify with. If you feel like you are "one of them" that puts pressure on you subconsciously to think and behave as they do.Once you kick an obsession you have to keep avoiding it forever. An image, a familiar sound, a comment about it online, will reactivate it. It will then start appearing in your idle imagination again, generating narratives and images, which trigger hyper focus again. Then it will start feeling super important again. It can take only one day of exposure for this to happen.> t. Asperger's, kicked obsession with card games, card magic and vidya
Yeah, no. Forget about the CAD stuff, I can't do that either.
>>34067080That actually sounds interesting. Which celebrity has this on call? Is it james may?
>>34065936No. Be a train man.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NNPxVR8nYs
