I did this for three years before I hit MDZS - had at that point thought I had somehow moved beyond fandom. Turns out that sometimes it takes time.

Yeah, from about mid 2008 until late 2011 I was in a fandom dry spell, and then something caught and I was deep into fandom for the next ten years so I know it's a cycle! But it's been about 3 years of lying fallow again and I'm getting impatient