Good easy hobbies for not very clever schizophrenics with low attention span

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I gave mine to my nephew, but I used to love playing an autoharp. Really easy to play and you can experiment with chord changes and simple kids songs.

I like the Smule app for karaoke too.

Wooden pencils are fun to sketch with. There are some really nice ones available now that feel very comfortable in your hands.

I have a set of Jenga blocks that are fun to build things with… Legos are fun too but I am afraid my cat would swallow them.

We have a neighbor who recycles greeting cards and makes new ones from them… they are super cool.

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online gaming. i dont have the attention span for most long story games so i mainly play online fps games

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If you don’t have beautiful surroundings walk up and down local alleys to see the weird stuff other people have in their backyards. Great way to realize there are people stranger than those of us with SZ.

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lol that is not good advice. alleys are not too safe in the U.S. especially at night and in suspicious areas

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Birding or birdwatching is about as easy and cheap as it gets.

:bird:

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And you can let the birds come to you. We have several bird feeders on the tree in our front yard. We get a huge variety of birds, we bought a book so we could identify them. We even had a few hawks show up and attack the birds, lol

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I got a great video of a hawk killing a mocking bird on my friends roof at sunset down in Houston. I think it’s neat af.

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I’ve seen a Blue Huron crash into the trees when going after a little bird once down by the river at my favorite birding spot.

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Southern Minnesota has some great birding areas especially surrounding the Twin Cities.

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I recommend reading. A page a day, and you get hungry for more. Then you’re reading a whole chapter a day sometimes.

I wish I could find the strength to write, I’ve enjoyed so many wonderful books, I just think that if I wrote I could give back to the community. I just don’t think I write enough to have the foundation to write scenes and to structure a concept into a narrative.

Thats why I’m reading about writing. If anyone in the world has enough time to write its me, its just I don’t feel satisfied with my writing, I can tell it lacks a lot of structure.

You might not think it, but a page a day really will get you hooked.

I didn’t have the desire to read even though I’ve ready all my life, and really enjoyed it, but I did it anyway and started a page a day before bed time, from an author I liked. Then I got through about 5 pages and started reading more naturally. Getting into the book was fun and rewarding.

I wish I could say that every book will be great, but sometimes you can laugh at bad writing and that can make you feel nice too in a way.

I read a book and it was clearly meant to sell board game specifically to low self esteem older nostalgia tied gamers.

I felt really bad because I knew the book wanted to teach about the games world, but it wasn’t done for the right reasons, the author was being commissioned to write for the background of this game world, and they weren’t inspired by it.

So I tried to laugh at the parts where I thought the author was targeting a lower self esteem person. I wanted whoever they were targeting to not read the book because I feel like they were trying to fake a friendship in a way with the audience.

The book has to sell itself on the merits not on trying to make you think the author is your friend. The author might genuinely like the target audience but if the book doesn’t merit being the interest of that audience all it is doing is wasting their time, and somewhat hurting peoples pride.

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Have you considered reading short stories?

Each year there’s a new volume of “Best American Short Stories” with a different famous author who selects which ones make the cut. When I was in my third year of college it was Salman Rushdie, but it was Stephen King before that IIRC.

These stories are a very small commitment.

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I’m Canadian. Shooting each other is not a national pastime here.

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I like going on YouTube and listening to music and watching videos.

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I get fake flowers at the Dollar Tree.

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@Ryanana I’ve heard a writer talk about putting his pages/chapters in piles on the bed.It helped with organizing his book and finding structure, among other things.

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i guess being a snarky ■■■■ is a pastime there

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It’s more of an art form.

:blush:

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This is pretty hilarious, I almost, almost posted @shutterbug that no wonder he’s snarky so often (was gonna use that specific word), he’s Canadian! Nobody shoots each other over there compared to over here. It’s amazing. I saw a documentary on it once.

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