I have a lot of time on my hands and an all-consuming thirst for knowledge. I've spent plenty of time on this subreddit lately, quenching myself on the FAQ, and what I have got from it is that I need to read even more about everything to even begin to understand how I and everyone else 'got here'. I was always interested in history, now I need MORE.

My field of interest is all of them, to some degree. I really wish that was an exaggeration -- I regularly stay up until five in the morning reading about film classifications or anything involving presidents because all of it is just so interesting. (Do I even need to mention that I'm autistic?) I have, however, managed to narrow myself down into some very broad categories that I take a particular interest in (most significant ones in bold):

• The African continent, including projections of its likely future (possibly more /r/asksocialscience material)
• Languages, their evolution, and spread (possibly also /r/linguistics material)
• 20th century American history, particularly the second half of the century
• 'Daily life' in...honestly, any daily life analysis is interesting, regardless of era
• Left-wing politics, especially in the Anglosphere

I have no formal academic background in anything historical. I do (as you may have noticed) read everything, and tend to surprise people with the topics I can keep up with. I'm a teenager in an alternative schooling arrangement without a job who lives somewhere amazingly unappealing to anyone below the age of forty, thus I have the time to read massive tomes if not always the motivation. I can't afford a lot of expensive books, but on the other hand my parents are pretty big on supporting my desire to know everything that has ever happened in the world in all of its history regardless of how possible it actually is for one person to know that. I like films too, but it's harder for me to get a real sense of feeding my knowledge from them.

The only thing I am explicitly not interested in is 'feminist' or 'queer' interpretations of history. I spent far too much time hanging around people who would espouse both at every possible opportunity some years back, and the sheer awfulness of those people has ruined those areas of academia for a long time in my eyes.

Thank you for reading this and possibly pointing me in some kind of direction, and I'm sorry my interests tend to be too broad to really tell people what I'm looking for!