If I'm not obsessed with AS, then I don't know what obsession is. I've been literally reading text books, medical journals, books of peoples' accounts of having/growing up with/raising people with AS and every Internet article I could find. The past 2 years has basically been one long library session of reading about AS spotted with periods of sleep, eating, working (and even then, I'm reading, writing or thinking about it when I can). I'll quite often sit up until 2 or 3 in the morning reading about it. I wake up through the night and read some more. I've read so many books by and seen so many videos of Tony Attwood, I feel I know him personally! I've watched every movie and YouTube video I can get my hands on. My Kindle has over 30 purchased books on AS and several hundred Internet articles (Push to Kindle). I've search Google, Yahoo etc. about it so often, I know what every article is from it's link. I've made copious amounts of notes about my childhood, my experiences, things that didn't mean a lot at the time but in hindsight, since being diagnosed (and accepting it), show a pattern, act as evidence and help explain a lot about my past. I have AS tshirts and badges. I can't stop thinking about it. I'm totally obsessed.
It's the same whenever I get a special interest. It always goes like this! It completely takes over my life and I Love It
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Your Aspie score: 151 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 60 of 200
Formally diagnosed in 2007.
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