AS and a fascination with water.

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Hello to anybody who has ventured to the General Discussions and has decided to read my thread. This thread is concerning AS and a fascination with water.

Since I was little, I have fostered a peculiar fascination with water. Engaging in such activities as experimenting with the vacuum effect created by a space occupied by oxygen underwater. Often, engaging in such experiments occupies hours.

Thus, my enquiry this evening is the following.
Do you have AS and a fascination with water?

When taking the "Aspie Quiz", I did notice that one the questions concerned a fascination with water.

Please reply with an elaborate answer.

Thank you in advance.

Not in particular but I do get fascinated by things regularly. I believe that if we met and we talked about water then I would become fascinated by it too.

When I was growing up, I did have an interest in water. There were some interesting things that you could do with it. I loved do color it with food coloring and watch the dyes mixing and coloring the water. I liked the way that you could make rainbows and the way that some things changed when they got wet. But I think that this is just because I was always interested in things that you could play with, experiment with. It's just because there were a lot of things that you could do with water, not a special fascination with water.

Sure. I love looking at a stormy ocean, or looking at the strange attractors in a stream

yep. that's why i live on an island....

No, I like swimming and looking at the ocean because it's pretty and I think big waves are kind of neat, but no more than NTs.

I like it, but not in an "extreme" way.

From a chemistry point of view, dihydrogen oxide is a fascinating compound. With AS, not that much.

Not so much a fascination as a phobia.

Always had a fear of water, it resulted in my nearly drowning at 6 years old, wouldn't go in the bath as a child, greatly disliked rain, and still can't swim today - I've gotten over it a bit, I like rain and can go in the bath, but still very uncomfortable with water on my head/face, chest and shoulders.

Oh yeah. The one thing I hate is rain. I can't stand rain. Damn rain. I don't like being out in the rain. I always carry an umbrella. If I wear a hood and the rain hits my face I cannot stand it. I have gotten better at being out in the rain but I would still rather not.

I absolutely love water. I could (and have) stare at it for hours. Lakes, rivers, oceans, rain... natural water is the greatest. But even a swimmng pool captivates my interest. When I was a kid, a sink of water was enough to occupy me for an entire evening. Now, I'm considering going into the field of Hydrology.

My son Joe (4) LOVES water. He will sit in the tub until its so cold he's turning blue, and then still have a melt down when we take him out! We have a 3ft deep pool that we set up in the summer, and he LOVES it. We also have water tables, and water play toys, and pretty much anything that has anything to do with water he loves....

Except Sand

He hates sand with a passion. He won't walk on it, he won't touch it, he won't do anything with sand or sand paper.

So we go to pools, and not the beach, which really sucks as we live right by the ocean, and there's lovely salt water beaches here.

I love water have always been fascinated by it
Mom used to stick me in the bath when I had a melt down a it calmed me down and kept me happy for hours
I now live on a boat cause its all around me all the time

I've been fascinated by water my whole life, swimming in it, watching it, playing with it, I don't really care. I just love spending time around water, I find it somehow very calming.

And if I can toot my own horn here for a moment, I think that fascination with water is what led my to take these photos: http://nomkcalb.deviantart.com/gallery/6489024