What Is Your Current Obsession?

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Eating copious amounts of junk food appears to be my new obsession.

Sure, I'm up for a conversation about those. Nobody I know cares about those sorts of things at all.... just the typical reaction of "ZOMG you can solve a Rubik's Cube? HOLY SNORKELS that's amazing!! !! !!111" and other eye-roll inducing comments. Show them a higher-order cube or something like a Megaminx, or worse, the exploded mess of an unsolved windmill cube, and they just burst or something.


And I see a couple of people in here mentioning math... ho boy, I'm never gonna get that one. Give me even just a simple division problem and all you'll get is a blank stare. Just cant do it at all, never could. I've seen more than a few people on this forum that are really into it though.

I can't get enough of it. Unfortunately I am in 3 classes right now, and although math is my favourite, I have to spend the least amount of time on it, because it is the easiest for me.

Choose Your Own Adventure books! I loved those as a kid, my mom ran the children's section of a bookstore at the time they first were published and I had a great collection of them.

My current obsession - guitars - and music.

Science, especially, but not exclusively, research focused on understanding human mentality, neurology and behaviour. I'm on phys.org several hours a day, whenever I'm not reading a book about cognitive psychology, neuroanthropology, mental health, neuroscience, or history. Along with others too numerous to list, Daniel Kahneman, Wray Herbert, Cordelia Fine, George Lakoff, and Nicholas Christakis have turned my own mental world upside down and inside out - and I'm grateful for it.

Science fiction, which is a lifetime love I'll probably never give up. I fell "in love with" Isaac Asimov when I was 10 years old. Now, among many others, I have a fascination with the work of Cixin Liu. CJ Cherryh is another favorite, but really, there are just too many to list.

tig welding aluminum, mold making and casting, melting crayons into sculptures of fungal fruiting bodies and slime molds, and hypothesizing about playgrounds

*want*

They usually last a few months or more. The intensity depends on how much I like whatever I'm obsessed with. Like the Powerpuff Girls are probably the most extreme I've had so far. I've probably spent $1,000 so far on merchandise and gaining quite a bit of stuff. I haven't a lot of money, or I would buy more stuff. Living with my parents who give you a hard time about money and get scrutiny when they see you receive a lot of packages in the mail is another.

The seven deadly sins anime.
I binge watched it two nights ago and it completely obliterated my obsession with Final Fantasy xIV

currently im obsessed with smashbros

It's interesting to see how varied in duration, topic and intensity special interests are. Sometimes when I read about AS special interests are presented as some sort of problem, but it seems to me that is often not the case. Though, I do hope you do not spend more money than you have The Powerpuff Girls. But from your quote it seems you stopped buying while waiting for more income. In which case I think what you spend money on is no ones business. I feel lucky that my work coincide with my interest. In my previous job I was kind of unhappy because my spare time wasn't enough to both pursue my interest and spending enough time with my girlfriend to make her happy (I chose the latter).

As for me I try to avoid accumulating things. I think it is difficult to throw away stuff and if I buy more than I get rid off it accumulates (continuity equation) which means there are more things to tidy up. I like order (not compulsively), but I do not like to clean. I also think very thoroughly about what I spend my time on and the way I see it all things I own I must spend time on, at least it will take a few hundred milliseconds each time a need to lift it up to wipe dust under it. Each object in itself is not a problem but the multitude is. For this reason I have a big project right no making sure I only own stuff I need, and making it as efficient as possible, so I can spend my time on what makes me happy, yet not having to look at a mess.

I may very well find other peoples collections fascinating, though.

Finding myself proper employment.

Autism is my current obsession.

It's gotten to the point were just hearing the word makes my "mind" feel sick. I can't describe it. It always happens when I get too obsessed with things.

Well this actually sounds a bit unhealthy to you. Thinking about mental conditions (although not disability) too much probably is not healthy either? Parhaps you could channel it into something less worrysome that feels productive?

My current obsessions are; Structures/logical systems and enhancing my ability to focus for longer periods of time. I also make music and play guitar, but lately it has become more of an part time interest than obsession, but I would still call it an obsession since I play/write on nearly a daily basis and have done for 7 years(with a few weeks exception).

I can link you to the stores I got these from, if you'd like.


There's TONS of these things.