Aspie Obsessions

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My current obsession may have lasted 1-2 years...i never kept count much....

My obsession with Pokemon lasted like 3 years or more though, though it was paused with Sonic and Beyblade and our new cable tv channals (lol yes...that was a total obsession, though it was kinda short) for a bit of time...

Suprizingly, I barely care about Pokemon anymore after all that...it's kinda sad really...

Yet, sometimes...it's still just stuck in my mind. It's odd, ok?

PS: Forgot to ask...what's your current SMALL obsessions at the moment?^^

As for small obsessions...I probably have some I can't think about at the moment.

My obsessions change pretty frequently (about every 2-3 months), hence my inability to pick a profession to work towards. When I was younger, it wasn't such a big deal to me but now I wish I could just stick with something and start a career. I'm going through a forensic science phase right now and I'm hoping I'll be able to stay interested in it long enough to pursue it. I decided to take the spring semester off and if I still want to get into forensics by the summer semester, I'm going to go for it. *crosses fingers*

That describes my interest patterns better than I could.

I have always been into computers most of my life, I would think that to be my primary obsession. Hardware - building, modding, weird new total liquid submersion ideas, 100% custom cooling etc. Networking. Software - Coding, operating systems, game design, music, graphics editing. Anything and everything. I would try to learn as much I could, see it in every way possible, every angle.

But within the last two years I have taken a new interest in cars. It helps me talk more too because computers are too geeky, and socialy unacceptable, but its cool to talk about cars.
Its just different... Say the topic of conversation is older American muscle cars, I would be more on the specification side, and most people would be on the feeling side (like how good ol cars give them a feeling from the past, or something..

I also form temporary obsessions, for instance I typically would not do so well in school, and yet everyonce in a while I would turn in a great 5-10-um alot of pages report on something that I spent many uninterrupted hours on.

People also complain that I will talk too much about something and get too technical. Someone makes a comment about the weather, and I talk about all these different weather systems and how things are happening. People are like, ok ok ok Rick, thats enough, or they would look at me weird then I would realize I am talking to much about one thing.
Or the boss at target would ask "hows it looking out side" then I'd try to tell him exactly how many carts were in different places, and the average rate at which customers we taking carts out, and how many I was able to bring in. Turns out the right response is just "its lookin good"
Hmm think I posted that before. ohwell.

Judas Priest (first four albums)- Rocka Rolla, Sad Wings of Destiny, Sin After Sin, Stained Class

Heirloom Livestock Breeds and Heirloom Tomato Varieties, but this is really more of a summer interest- look up Tennessee Fainting Goats sometime

Beer, Wine, and sometimes Cheeses

Rope Bondage

Mathematics

Ubuntu 8.10

Organic Fair Trade Coffee

Photography

No wonder I work for myself.

My interests are long-lasting. I may change in intensity and ramble about one more than the other, but once something becomes a special interest for me, it never stops being one. I don't think I could handle rapidly changing special interests. One of my strongest Aspie traits is an extreme hatred of change, and the special interests also are an integral part of me, so if I switched them too often, I think I'd feel as though I were losing a part of myself.
-OddDuckNash99-

slightly off topic, but do you like A Beautiful Mind? I'm just guessing cause of your avatar. It's my fave film!

Charlie

This is exactly what I do.

My constants are plants, music and writing. Those are bottomless wells for me. Anything and everything about these will always fascinate me endlessly.

My temporary interests usually rotate through a catalog of social studies and humanities topics.
Stoic philosophy, ancient Celts, Central and South Asia, the Gobi Desert, colonial South Africa, the Roman Empire, etc. etc. etc. Like a never ending textbook flipping through chapters.
Every so often I'll pick up something new, but it usually falls under the umbrella of one of the above categories.

To distinguish obsessions from interests, (as in when I try to explain this to someone not on the spectrum) it all comes down to motivation and depth. There are people who want to research geography because it interests them. Then there are people who CANNOT HELP IT. They wallpaper their room in maps, get utterly lost in an atlas, or can sit on Google Maps for hours while the rest of the outside world ceases to exist. That's me...

Right now, my main obsession is money, followed by classic auto performance and restoration. I am also a coin freak, and get into baseball cards from time to time. My obsession are constantly shifting from one thing to another, but the ones I listed are pretty permanent.

I get alot of "mini-obsessions" that I lose interest with, soon after I'm satisfied that I know enough about them, or have done enough with them.

Ben 10 used to be a minor special interest, but now I'm starting to like it more and more. I watch it on the net if I can't watch it 3 times a day on TV. I also have the video game. I know it's for kids but I love how there is such a huge background history about the aliens. I wish I could write something like that.

I also have these sharpeners that are designed like antiques. I have 6 now and every time I go to the antique shop they order in more. They even have boats and planes now, which I like as well.
Here's a photo of them: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lttl/3193675626/

I also love 'did you know' type books. I was reading a thick book of random knowledge today.

Those are my current obsessions. It will probably change.

Oh yeah, I'm starting to listen to Funeral For A Friend more, because they are touring next month and the singer is my friend.

Yes, A Beautiful Mind is one of my stronger special interests. Both my user name and avatar are taken from it. It became my favorite movie/one of my special interests shortly after I watched it for the first time in 2005. The tracing-the-stars scene from my avatar is my favorite part.
-OddDuckNash99-

For me I have one lifelong primary obsession but along side that I'll have other generally short lived secondary obsessions. Some of those short lived ones are of the weirdest things. The primary obsession is pretty much constant and the secondary ones are only one at a time and may be re-occurring.

i have many obseions whichi swtich between each week i think of it like pokemon come back skateboading go music i choose you right now i am really into music but it is a race to the top to see if skateboading or anime will replace it or if music will keep it's fame lole videogames are kinda low in my obsasion popularity right now and I don't know if i will ever be in too yugioh cards again lol.

My obsessions stay constant, but I just add to them.

According to what I've read on various AS sites, it can waiver either way. While some people may be very obsessed with one particular thing their entire lives, others have obsessive interests that can come for a specific period of time, then suddenly leave. For myself, I tend to have one "major" obsession that will come out of just about nowhere & last for 5 years or so, then disappear. My current obsession has been going on for about a year & a half now & I don't know when it will end, but am sure it will within a few years, as they all do.
I also have a lot of "minor" obsessions. One of them right now is History. I'm a little worried about this because I'm about to begin school to major in History & am unsure of whether I'm truly interested in History, or if it's just an obsession & will leave suddenly. If it does leave, I'm afraid I'll lose all interest & won't be able to finish the BA or study or learn while in school because it's very difficult to learn something unless I'm interested.

It varies for all people. But my "block of time" obsessions have been going on since I was very little.

My obsession has always been computers/video games