AS and a fascination with water.

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I'm a keen swimmer and SCUBA diver but, other than the physical effects of water and its application (e.g., hydraulics), I'm not particularly interested in water. Have you tried diving? If so there's a *VERY* technical dive on Titanics' big sister, HMHS BRITANNIC in the Aegean.

I use to go snorkeling in the springs when I lived it FL, I always wanted to learn to dive but never got a chance to, I ended up moving back the AL before I got a chance.

I swear, i love water more than anything in the world. Any kind, the ocean, a lake, a stream a pool, rain, a puddle, i simply love it! I find water extremely soothing. Whenever i get upset, all i want to do is go down my road and wade in the stream. Streams are perhaps my favorite form of water. They are so clear and cold, and i think running water is especially soothing. I've also always had a fascination with boats, because i love the water. It has always been my dream to live on a yacht at some point in my life, and also to live on an island at some point. I don't know why i love it so much, but i do!

I love the sound of flowing water and rivers far upstream. I wouldn't say it's a fascination, but I do enjoy it, though do not always like to engage with it (e.g. rain)

Well I believe that god is in the breath and every time you breath your in an intimate connection with god. Oxygen is created by the trees, and they are cutting all these trees down to reduce our ability to be aware. I also am fascinated by water. A good way to make money these days is to boil down water from the ocean and sell the salt which is very good quality & because it's local & not processed it's super easy to sell.

I think it would be cool to find an efficient way of desalination with no chemicals involved & you would get the byproducts of both healthy clean water & salt and it would be a great tool for those pirates who love the sea.

I absolutely love water. If I could own a boat, go 50 miles out into international waters and drop anchor, I'd be in heaven. I love everything having to do with water - SCUBA diving (especially wreck and deep diving - nitrox for the win!), swimming, snorkeling, parasailing, water skiing, boating, jet skis, and just sitting on a beach or lake shore (prefer beach). I love to walk through the surf and wonder where the water moleclues that are touching my feet, last touched solid ground, or if they ever have. I enjoy thinking that I might be the first human to ever have physical contact with any given wave. The beauty that exists underwater (and the QUIET, especially using a rebreather) is unmatched so far, at least as far as I can tell. I love islands because they embody 2 of my favorite things in this world - water and solitude. The physics of SCUBA diving facsinates and delights me, as I love things that are measurable and applicable.

On a different note, ever since I was a little kid, I have always been frustrated by my lack of ability to breathe underwater. It always seemed ridiculous to me that the oxygen is right there, but we are unable to get at it and therefore have limited amounts of time we can be submersed without equipment. This has persisted to bother me throughout my life. It just seems so....unnecessary and primitive, to be so restricted. I do understand the physics behind the reasons. But it still bugs me, and I am always thinking about a way to overcome this inhibitant. The discovery of the invention of the rebreather satisfied me on a few levels, and I believe we are on the right track.

I think some of the most beautiful pictures ever taken have involved water. The sound of waves puts me to sleep quickly and peacefully. The rocking motion of a boat does the same. The power that water is capable of is unbelievable. There are so many ways that water is amazing, how can someone not love it!

Welcome!

I haven't voted in your poll because I have not been diagnosed with AS (although I have some pretty strong traits but not sure if I am diagnosable). Anyway I have a real fascination with water and nearly all of my artwork from the last 10 years was centred around the theme of water in some way most recently the coast, so I was intigued by that question in one of the test I took aswell.

MooCow I love those photos

I am obsessed with water and the movement of it i stim while watching water move like waves and it is a visual stim i think. I use to tense up and stim off of water movement as a child and today i still am obsessed with it and stim off of it.

I love water! It's probably the number one most soothing thing for me...I like looking at water and love being in it. I've expressed on numerous occasions that I wish I were equipped to live in the water. It took me a long time to realize how much I loved water, because there are some sensory things related to water that I loathe, such as being cold/wet when I'm not in the water. In other words, I could swim or just sit in the water for hours on end, and would if given the chance, but I'll sometimes turn down the chance to go swimming, because the thought of having to get out of the water and being in a cold, wet bathing suit turns me off.

The same with showers...I love just standing under the water and feeling it running on me, but I tend to take extra long showers without realizing it, probably because of the combined soothing power of the water, and the dread of having to step out of the shower, and being wet and cold. I also shudder at the thought of pulling clothes onto my damp skin.

Rain is a tough one fore me. As a general rule, I don't like it, because I hate driving in it, and for the most part, you don't really get the opportunity to just sit in the rain and 'soak it in', so my interaction with the rain is limited to walking through it to get inside, where I'll end up...you guessed it: cold and wet.

I wish I had space in my bedroom for one of those little indoor fountains/waterfalls.

I love water too when i was younger i always have been entranced watching water go down a drain in the form of a whirlpool. I also like to swim alot and prefer to live in a state that is along the coast. I dont know what i would do if i were to move somewhere land locked.

While I don't swim, and don't actually go into water, I am completely fascinated by it in all shapes & forms. I especially love the sound of water: waves, rushing rivers, rain, etc.

I find water to be very healing. I love to sail and swim and I find both to be extremely medicinal. If I am not living by the water I am feeling claustrophobic. I don't mean that I have to actually see it, but I like living in coastal towns. If I could afford to, I'd like to have an indoor swimming pool and also I have thought of an immersion pool that would be like a rectangle of 30"x40"x90" that I would like to have it in my living room, where the surface would be on floor level and I'd like to either be able to stand in it and sit in it and watch tv or type on the computer or I could just have my feet in there. If I am ever wealthy enough I am having one of those custom built! lol

Phobia of deep water, disgust of swimming pools and seas. But I do like to put my hand in water slowly, feel the surface on my hands etc. but nothing special.

I love goofing around with a water bottle turning it upside down then back and forth to watch the bubbles. It's even better with something more gelatinous like dish washing liquid because the bubbles move slower. I can also spend hours in the ocean bodysurfing catching wave after wave after wave. I get out feeling like a guru.

I love water, too, in any form. I can stare endlessly at a glass or bottle with water in it when light shines through, at rivers or streams or dewdrops, or the sea or boiling water in a pot.
I like swimming, especially in empty pools when you can stare through the whole length of the pool under water without any annoying legs or arms interrupting the scenery.
And I am fascinated with icebergs and snow and the deep sea.
(A while ago I watched a BBC documentary abou the deep sea where they showed a lake of high saline water under water. That was so cool. If I could decide for one superpower it would be being able to survive at the bottom of the sea - but I'm too scared to go diving)