Obsessive interests now and odd play as a child.

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My husband says we're out of Soy Milk (my daughter has a milk allergy)
Suddenly I'm wondering what ARE soy anyway? And then I get the compulsive urge to Google.

According to my husband he can tell when I want to Google something because I get a different look on my face. I look happier, giddy, and driven. I have the need to stop WHATEVER I'm doing and Google what I need to know. If we're out when this happens, I won't be able to concentrate on anything until I can get home and look it up.

Then it seems I get lost in the information. Of course I share my news of what Soy beans really are with my husband. How they're grown, harvested, packed, what they're in, what color they are, average prices, etc.. And then it leads to another wiki link, and another... and before I know it, I've been on the internet lost in pages about soybeans for the entire day... And the worst thing is, I'm aggravated when anyone pulls me away. I NEED to look up soybeans and glean everything I can from this RIGHT NOW.

Then it seems as suddenly as it was important, it no longer is. I have this new knowledge and now I can let it go.

Something quickly replaces it. One day it might be posting here on WrongPlanet, even though I'd been gone for nearly two months without even bothering to check here. Or refreshing my Gmail button every minute. But it just as easily could be Googling the death penalty, or pedophiles, or researching past relatives, neighbors, or Googling random things and then again.. become obsessed with finding THE answer to whatever is floating in my head.

Does anyone else experience the internet this way? Or experience this very super intense interest? Sometimes it lasts for days or weeks, these obsessions. Other times, like in the case of soybeans.. it was over in two days- replaced by something else. I do have long term interests as well but those are less concerning to me.

Is information/knowledge seeking an Aspie trait? The thought of Googling something makes me literally giddy.

I seem to take it to another level as well. Like, I get SO caught up in something and learning about it.. that I want to adopt it and make it part of my life. So for 4 weeks my family went vegan. Until... you guessed it, I wasn't interested anymore. At one point I was obsessed with planting a garden out back, and then after months of obsessing about it... the desire was just gone. So it not just internet things, its real life things as well.

I can trace that back to childhood. I was the one that came up with crafty ideas. Like, we made a whole town out of cardstock and my cousins and I drew in roads and houses, etc. Then I wanted another town next to it, so we did more. And then more. And then more. Until we had L.A., Pasadena, Alhambra, and an airport. (Yes, I had to make sure the towns were connected appropriately and named as they were on the map) It took a few weeks for this matchbox car project to finish. My cousins SO wanted to play! But.. I had no desire to play with it. You know those toy commericals? The ones where they show Barbie in different scenes, or cars and trucks outside "driving" through the water and roads. I LOVE the backgrounds. The set up. The SCENE. That makes me just as giddy as researching something. The thought of SETTING UP makes me soooo happy! Playing with it? Meh. No thanks.

Anyone relate to any of this?

I made library cards too! I even tried to make a stamp thingy so that I could "stamp" each book on the card with the date and time it was due back. LOL