An obsession that you DON'T want to be obsessed with?

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College. Seriously. I am obsessed with colleges right now, so much that I'm not doing *homework* or projects in favor of spending hours every day to research colleges (how amusing)- which isn't that unusual, except that this has been going on for a while. I'm spending all my time thinking about colleges.

Yup, I've been through a murder phase as well. More specifically, the murder of young children. I even had "favourite" cases.
I remember one time I went with my Dad to buy a Christmas tree, and as the guy was putting it through the baler, I said something like, "That would be good for putting bodies in because it would stop their arms and legs flapping around". They both just stared at me and I realised I'd said something weird, so I tried to clear it up by adding, "I mean dead bodies".
I still cringe when I think about it.

I've had this obsession since I was at least 12. I'm now 23 and still have it.

It's nice to know I'm not alone in having this obsession.

Hehe, I love that comeback!

I've never had more than a mild interest in serial killers, but for a godawful long time I was convinced I would become one, talk about unwanted obsession. I'm more of a mafia buff but that interest is enjoyable

(Once I was watching a slasher movie with a cousin, and the creep was getting his murder tools ready. My cousin said "what's the matter with him, wouldn't he rather be riding his motorcycle or playing his guitar?" I felt the same thing, so I thought 'maybe I'm not such a wacko after all')

I also tend to be obsessed with serial killers. But it's not like I want to emulate them or anything--it's just interesting to try to understand how a predator sees other humans as prey. Plus, I'm convinced that I've been in a R with someone who's mildly psychopathic, and now I feel like I have to be able to identify psychopaths. I used to worry that I might be a psychopathic killer (a soon-to-be), but through my research I have realized that that's not possible. I generally dislike violent psychopaths, but I still have a fascination with them.

I know what you mean xD. I've always been very quiet... so I never had that kind of troubles, but now I remember something, and it's very funny. In 2009 (because I forgot how to say the last year of the first part of high school), my maths teacher, wasn't coming to school because her father died. Of course I was glad, not for the death, but for going home early. One month later, she wasn't showing up again, and I said something like: "Please tell me her mother just died". My classmates stared at me and Then yelled "NO!" one friend said : "are you crazy?" Oh damn, that was so embarrassing...



Reading about serial killers is such an amazing hobby !

But l write, I write until I'm done with my thoughts and feel tired of blinking. Last year, I suffered the worst bullying I could ever imagine. I was so depressed and that obsession "ate" me. I was constantly thinking about serial killers, and scenarios. I thought I was going crazy, but it was all mixing up inside my poor head. I wrote a blog describing the feelings that if I was a serial killer I would use to kill. Sadly, one of my classmates found it out, and told to the principal. I have a huge and notorious record. I went to the psychologist, and well... that's the story of why did I get here.

This describes my current feeling to a tee. As a matter of fact I am on WP right now, as an attempt to take a break from perseverating.

It's the same for me. Technically, this is actually my parents fault. During the early 90s (I think) there was magazines out called Murder Casebook, which my parents collected and kept in a box in a loft. I would spend hours reading them. Unfortunately, I think they've now thrown them away. They were interesting though.

In 1998, it was the Titanic.

Right now, I am in the midst of an obsession with the World Trade Center. Not so much 9/11, but the buildings themselves. I liked the buildings because they were simple, dominating, and devoid of fluff (I don't care too much for bells and whistles, just give me a simple building!)

I made a paper Twin Towers out of notepads. My coworkers think I'm weird (but exceptionally gifted at computers!), what else is new?

I've been there, sort of. I would create fictional characters in an alternate universe who felt the same things I did and used them to act out things I'd learned about in serial killer encyclopedias and documentaries and the like. The thing is, though, I wrote everything in a different alphabet I created in sixth grade so no one could read it. Glad I did, too, because people continually stole my notebooks and tried to read them. I would've gotten into a lot of trouble if I'd been caught.

It's funny, you see. I'm going to go to medical school to be a medical examiner.

oh, another one: facial transplants (and the accidents that necessitated them).

Seeing the David Kronenburg "Crash" in the 90s sparked off another round of Canadianmania for me; I had to note all the differences in cars and roads from the US. Well that and the leg brace action

I'm not opposed to film companies making movies in Canada, but for F-s sake don't film in Toronto and try to tell me it's Chicago, or pass Vancouver off as Portland

AGREED!

My obsession about things we can't explain, which is stupid because if the best brains in our world haven't discovered those things yet, theres no chance of me doing it :o It's not like i go ghost hunting or something, its more just thinking about stuff endlessly, but now i have new medicine and i think its going away because my mind is more calm but i wanted to say it here anyway ^^ I hope nobody minds!

10 years ago the 'best brains' hadn't invented a phone yet that could out-process the Space Shuttle's controls at 1/100 the size, doesn't mean doors were shut to them

OTOH sometimes when I go to fab a tool or part my mom will say 'you should patent that', only someone else already did it 50 years ago or the application fees would be far more than I could ever make on it. If I had a dad like Howard Hughes had, he'd rent the designs out to companies and the only work involved was driving to the bank to pick up the checks

Musically I've sort of done that; discarding a riff or a set of lyrics on the the basis of sounding contrite or overdone, only to hear part of it somewhere else later on.

As an Aspie thank God we've got those special interests and the ability to think outside the box, how else would technology be at its current state?