Nice to meet you, from England

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panda1
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Gender: Male
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Location: North-West England, UK

04 Feb 2014, 3:20 pm

Hello everyone,

I've plucked up the courage to join/post here after googling info on 'person obsessions'. A few contributors here that have experienced something similar and I'm very grateful to them for sharing, as I thought I was alone in the world.

I am between professions, from running a small company to going full-time as a composer. My experiences with both jobs seem to link with autism-related issues.

I have had private counselling for a number of months after very suddenly getting an inexpiable obsession with a female colleague. I have experienced similar people obsessions as a child/teenager, but had a break for 20 yrs. My relationships with everyone else are fairly normal. I am simultaneously fascinated and very phobic of her. I experience weird magical feelings, but also catastrophic abandonment, associated not with her, per se, but with 'stuff' I associate with her.

I'm not really able to continue - it's not fair on colleagues, who I am letting down badly.

On the plus side, I'm quite good at music so I have another income. I am able to play
virtually anything I have ever heard, and on loads of instruments. I can somehow, reorganise it in my brain and come up with an original piece. So I compose for TV, games
etc very rapidly. It's probably a 'skill' of savant proportions, but I'm not sure how I'd compare to well-known musical savants.

If I do have an autism-related condition, then I'm just thankful that I have most of the benefits and relatively minor down-sides - however ghastly they seem in the short-term.

Nightingale121
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04 Feb 2014, 3:26 pm

Welcome!

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StarCity
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04 Feb 2014, 4:16 pm

Hi panda1,

Welcome to Wrong Planet

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We, the people on the Autistic Spectrum have a choice.
We can either try to "fit in" with the rest of society, or we can be so egocentric that we can't be bothered.
I choose the actor. I observe NT's. I listen to their socializing. I practice it, so in social situations I can just emulate/mimic what is expected.
It isn't natural for me, but it enables me to "fit in".
It is VERY tiring and draining, but at least we can appear like them even though it is an act. Like being on the stage.
They can't see it is emulation, and so we are accepted.

auntblabby
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04 Feb 2014, 5:45 pm

hiya Panda you are what I wished I were. was. am.

WitchsCat
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04 Feb 2014, 5:47 pm

Hello there! Welcome to Wrong Planet!

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AnonymousAnonymous
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04 Feb 2014, 6:33 pm

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

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Silly NTs, I have Aspergers, and having Aspergers is gr-r-reat!

Hart
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Location: Australia

04 Feb 2014, 10:17 pm

Welcome

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05 Feb 2014, 12:13 am

Welcome!!

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05 Feb 2014, 4:04 pm

Welcome :flower:

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