TOP 5 Obsessions

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Starting from my current obsession...

UFO's/aliens
weather and severe storms
Global warming
serial killers
photosynthesis

1. Looking for a girl with good math grades
2. Friction coefficients
3. Aircraft industry
4. Telepathy
5. Justice

Roger Bannister
Asperger's/Autism
Medical topics
Greece
Cats

These are my current obsessions:
1. music/guitars
2. animals/taxonomy (a long list of specific animals)
3. brains
4. medicine
5. murder, and death in general

1. making things. could be costumes, sculptures, carvings. to be able to make something new is always satisfying

2. dr martens i own about ten pairs i need more

3. cats four of them to be exact.

4 cooking especially desserts

5. my husband no, not in a creepy way.

Most obsessed I ever was in my life was about:


1. Clinical depressives (not clinical depression)
2. Airport security
3. America's Most Wanted
4. Myst series (Myst, Riven, Exile, Revelation, End of Ages, Uru (To D'ni and The Path of the Shell)
5. School shooters


My obsessions now are basically just disasters, people in them, and that's basically it. People in any kind of disaster, any kind of stimulating experience.

Fire Emblem.
Fire Emblem.
Fire Emblem.
Fire Emblem.
Fire Emblem.

1) Go
2) Various philosophers
3) Computers
4) Sci Fi Books
5) Fantasy Books

I'm sure most people have similar obsessions. Anyone want to play Go?

Some people seem to be confused as to what an obsession is. I definitely know - obsessions to me give me an intense mental/physical rush and consume me like nothing else. They're very different from normal interests that everyone has. Lots of people like to cook or garden or learn about history. I would say it veers into obsession when it's thought about constantly, and all known facts about the topic are learned, and you want to talk about it all the time. I can't possibly claim to know whether someone is obsessed with something or not, but it seems like a lot of people sometimes blame relatively normal interests and fidgeting on AS, whereas I can recognize the difference between AS and normal quirks in myself easily (picking at my nails v. hand flapping). Sorry if this is the wrong thread for this.

I agree quirky. A very broad interest is probably pretty normal, that is, NT. But although Aspie interests are often narrow and idiosyncratic, I think the main thing that makes them different from NT interests is the role they play in the Aspie mind. For me anyway, the 'interest' becomes the only thing that really matters in life--other activities are just income taxes that one must pay on the commodity of time (for my interest). An NT might be intested in, say, golf, but would continue to enjoy and value other activities as well. In my case, at any rate, this is not so.

Songs, the artists that wrote and performed them, related trivia
Scrubs, relating it to my life
Improving myself in terms of social skills, confidence, self esteem
Dogs and dog training
Being loyal to the one person I feel empathy for

Considering I am constantly thinking about things, it is hard to focus sometimes due to the myriad of activity going on in my head. Once focused, I am away. Until a fricking distraction comes along.

music (and collecting)
shopping (and hoarding)
scrapbooking (downloading maniac and Michaels coupon fanatic)
facebook/computer
mine and my son's Aspergers

The most intense obsessions I've had which have saturated my life completely are:
1) Mathematics (I read book after book every night as a kid)
2) Geometry (I wrote pages and pages of algebra solving geometric problems)
3) Programming (Reading lots of peoples code, writing pages upon pages, It's the only way I know how fill my mind with something to stop thinking about other things right now)
4) Running things backwards, inverting processes
A lot of other things have taken over me for short periods so I won't try to list those, above are the things which I cannot stop thinking about.

-Cars. mostly european and japanese.
-Sportbikes. mostly kawasaki, and suzuki.
-4x4s. Jeep and Suzuki.
-Forza 2 for the xbox 360.
-Fantasizing about real estate.

In no particular chronological order...

--reptiles (especially constricting snakes)

--classical music

--guitar (a constant-It's been the #1 interest my whole life)

--Politics

--Astronomy

Looking at the list I notice that some of them I don't have nearly the interest I did, while others (specifically the guitar and classical music) are just as intense as always. It's strange, because when I was into snakes I was totally into them--I had many terrariums, I bred my own food, and I could have probably charged admission to my room to look at the pythons, boas, and monitors. Now I don't really care.

Astronomy is a recent one, I've always been interested, but I've taken some classes, and now I'm getting that familiar feeling. I'm buying optical equipment, taking trips to observatories, and generally going overboard once again...

Asperger Syndrome
Transcendentalism - authors writing in that time
Sandman comics
Satanism
Anne Rice's "Vampire chronicles"