Unusual Obsessions

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Norse Mythology is fun.

Some highpoints to expect.
Thor Cross Dressing!
Loki Givng birth to 6 legged horse!
Odin's Eye-Ripping!

I work in the stockroom. There is alot of stretching and pulling, and lifting. My worst fear at work is pulling a hergnhia or mess up my back. So, I am obsessed with every detail that would cause an injury. I always lift properly, lifting with my legs, not my back, and carry loads clse to my chest. I have a cart that I wheel around to pull part. Since I am tall I have to slump down to roll the cart, I taped a 1 foot box to it so I wouldn,t have to slouch my back. Inside of my box I keep 2 pieces of foam to use if I am leaning my knee on the floor to count parts that are on shelves low to the ground. I have even counted the 19 steps to go upstairs since I sometimes carry heavy parts down it and always want to know exactly so I know which step completes the steps. When I'm working in the shipping dept. I also use a box to sign all my documents. I also felt the need to start stretching at work to release all the negative energy of repetitive motion. I also have learned to write with my left hand since I am writing so much and do not want too much stress on one side of my body. This is my crazy current little obsession.

I was obsessed with Afghanistan for six months when I was twelve. By the way, this was way before most people had even heard of Afghanistan--I was twelve in 1995, six years before 9/11.

I have been obsessed off and on with torture and martyrdom--the physical, psychological, and cultural aspects of it. But that might have had something to do with my having to survive abuse (which, incidentally, didn't really get up to the "torture" level) and trying to figure out how other people coped...

At the moment I am obsessed with phsyics, psychology, biochemistry, psychopharmocauticals and AS.

When people are doing obsessions do you get like this really nice feeling inside, almost a bit like sex?

Notebooks and boxes, no idea why.

ooh yes me too!

I've listed my obsessions here before. The ones that never change are rock & roll, animals/nature and art/crafts/design/architecture.

Hey, I'm from Indiana!

Unfortunately, mine seem to be people.

And even worse (or better, I'm not sure) it always seems to be my friends.

The strange thing is, I know when it's going to happen.
I can recognise the feeling, and I could (if I was strong enough in this area), stop it from developing into obsession.

It's bad through and through, I end up really scrutinising the actions and motives of the poor individual.
That winds them up ... and of course, I am disappointed with what I 'see' within them.

In the end, I just have to hate them to break free.

Very sad when it's your friends, and sometimes feels like some sort of curse, a friendship curse.

I had an obsession with puzzle magazines I was doing hundreds of word puzzles and entering competitions hundreds of times, code breakers are my fave, went through a sudoku phase too. Yet to win anything, I've cut down a bit becasue I was spending to much cash on stamps!

I assumed that I had such strong interests in certain things when I was young because of reincarnation(one of my interests)So I was reincarnated.....

Native American,witch burned at the stake,Pagan,Anne Oakly,Kung Fu,polar bear,tree,rock,many bugs..
alien,writer,poet,artist,cat....I consider my people obsessions "normal"lots of girls worshipped John Travolta when I was growing up....not as many worshipped....Woody Allen,,Starsky(Not Hutch,yuck)
Columbo,Baretta,DeNero,Pachino,Hoffman and Spock.

I've got a few obsessions, some I posted here already. Another one I have are Ford Mustang cars but 1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1's to be specific, beautiful cars. My dream car.

I also have a bit of an obsession with all things 'goo' like. Like playdoh or silly putty, I can sit molding that stuff for hours. I've been through pots and pots of the stuff.

British comedy, World War I, royal families, rare diseases (I used to want to be a doctor), law, people (mainly crushes, but until recently I didn't think my AS had anything to do with it), mythology, alternative comics, punk culture. And those are just a few. Some of them are long gone, and some of them are still around.

I'm sorry my english is bad tonight !

When I did my request form to get an appointment to get a diag I had trouble with that question about obsessions.

I didn't knew that those obsession can be short time, so I answered No.

For around 10 years I had a obsession for music bands, I collected posters, interview, video, bootlegs, guitar partitions, learned songs on guitar, I thought about those bands all the time.

I can have big interest about computer things (programmation, theory, learn a software ...) over and over for 1 week and after that, I stop completely to think about it.

I didn't knew that it could be enough to answer yes to that question.

Am I wrong ?

Cause when I met someone for that, she told me that if I don't have obsessions, I shouldn't ask for a diag.

Is it possible to be Asperger without having obsessions ?

Thank you !

Yes to an extent though sometimes people dont even realize they have obsessions or they can last such a short time they arent particularly noticable.

Is there something you always go back to thinking about when your not doing anything?

Obsessions dont always have to be research or collection based or long term. An obsession can last a year or 10 minutes. Generally speaking it is a strong desire to know everything there is to know about something (not necessarily even to act upon that impulse) and/or an inclination to give it a disproportionally large segment of your idle thought.

Personally one of my main obsessions is theoretical particle physics.. but the way it works for me is Ill read just enough to get the general idea then Ill think about it for a while and come up with my own theories and ideas then go back and see if anyone else thought of it the way I did and what the "official" stance is.

Same thing with philosophy though in that regards I dont look anything up either before or after I simply think about situations and derive "truths" from them.

Thats my most common obsession its something I think about and reflect upon all the time.

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Sorry no it's just HFA then

My strangest one I can remember is, I had an obsession with albino animals for a while -- a few years ago now. I've seen an albino echidna, wallabies, rodents (of course) and on TV and pictures I saw an albino hippopotamus, humpback whale (a bit like Moby Dick except he was a sperm whale), and kiwi.

Sometimes it's certain characters on a TV show or even one episode of the show that I would watch over and over until I could quote all the dialogue.

(Or obsess until I can get out on DVD and then watch again and wonder what all the fuss was about.)