I LOVE POKEMON SO MUCH! It's one of my main interests at the moment and a huge source of comfort to me. I love every single aspect of this franchise: games, the anime, cards, merch, you name it. I got interested in Pokemon years ago, but only in 2022 it has become my big obsession. It is something I could talk about for eternity and that's why I made this page: to share my fav stuff about and my love for our beloved Pokemon.
At first I wasn't really interested in Pokemon and I knew about it just as much as an average person (or maybe even less). It changed somewhere in 2016 or 2017, when I was an avid Disney XD watcher (mainly because of Gravity Falls). They were airing Pokemon XY/XYZ anime regularly and I started watching it out of curiosity... And I immediately LOVED IT. I watched this serie everytime I could when it was on tv. I started learning names of the pokemon shown little by little and even tried making one on my own, but my interest in Pokemon wasn't much more than that at the time.
It became more intense in 2020, when I started going to high school and when I finally decided to give Pokemon GO a try, since I finally had a phone that could handle the game. Even tho I was still mainly interested in Kalos pokemon, I have also learned then about pokemon from different regions. That's when I first found my favorite pokemon and my fav type. It was a time between two lockdowns, so sometimes at the weekends I would go to the city to catch some of these silly creatures. I once got into a bit of a trouble for my pokemon hunts since my mom didn't really approve of that at the time cause "People have been dying in accidents because of tht game!". That didn't really stop me tho lol :P
It slowly started turning into fixation a of sorts, but a month later another lockdown began and I couldn't go out of the house for pokemon hunting anymore. Because of that I slowly lost my motivation for the game and abandoned it, my fixation died out.
I wasn't thinking that much about Pokemon for the next one and half a year until one day my best friend messaged me that he started playing Pokemon GO. It was summer 2022. In the meantime I sometimes considered coming back to Pokemon GO, but this is what pushed me to finally do it.
And this was the moment when the past fixation came back and eventually turned into a special interest