Are any of you compulsive researchers?

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I love to research anything and everything. Right now I'm fascinated with my ADHD, Tics and OCD. I've been doing nothing but researching them for days now. And now my research is mixed in with Autism in general. I've only had 17 hours of sleep this week. And to think I'm not in school or have a job right now. IT KEEPS MY MIND ACTIVE!!

Yes. I just assumed it was one of those Aspie things.
I have a love/hate relationship with the Internet for it. While the Internet is convenient for searching... it's also fraught with distractions at every turn:-/ Then again this happens with books in libraries too:-$
I'll often veer off on one tangent after another unless I'm paying special attention to avoid it. I find taking scrupulous notes help:-}

Judging by the amount of posts I guess we're both not alone!! I can't get ENOUGH research...thank GOD for the Internet so I can research anything I want anytime I want. It is definitely one of my hobbies. I research anything from psychology to mathematics (i hate math, but my boyfriend is a professor/researcher so I tend to want to know what the heck he's talking about even if I don't understand a word...) and like anything that comes to mind that i want to know more about. Time tends to FLY when I'm researching.

Guilty

With me, for several years, it has been about health related topics, e.g. diseases, nutrition (including beneficial herbs), genetics, epigenetics, population migrations, etc, all very inter-connected stuff. And, when I'm on here and see a term I don't recognise or understand, I'll open another Outlook page and google it. A couple of times, I've just ended up back at WP (methinks some people have just made some things up).

Absolutely. If Wikipedia had existed when I was little, I would never have spent any time off the Internet. As it was, I did manage to spend most of my childhood reading about one thing or another.

Oh, I am most definitely a compulsive researcher. I love learning new things, and finding out more about things I know little about. I work in IT, so if there's ever a problem I can't immediately fix, I'm all over digging up facts and fixes. Ever since I self-diagnosed myself with AS, I've been trying to find out everything I can about the subject. Sometimes my researching gets in the way when I'm supposed to be getting things done, though, as I have the tendency to do something I call "train of thought surfing."

Some more! : Leprosy, Extra-solar planets(Love the 'Net!), Observational astronomy (a hobby now)& telescopes, computers (back in the 80's, I was early into cyberspace), Jim Morrison, Cancer (because I've had a couple of scares!), Crohn's disease which unfortunately I DO have.., Human evolution, Theology., venomous snakes...
This trait allowed me to practically thrive in college. Being a compulsive researcher certainly has advantages as an adult!
Ask me anything about Roswell. I can tell you the Real from the Bovine Scatology. LOL

Sincerely,
Matthew

The bolded section sounds eerily similar to what I do on a daily basis.
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I research things quite a lot, though it depends on how tired I am at the moment.

If I don't have access to the internet or any other source of my information I run things through my head to come to a feasible conclusion. I love my active mind!

Whenever my internet or electricity gets shut off, I just scour my dressers and closet for things to read, or I just go through old boxes and look back and my childhood while...not putting some of the things back in the boxes. Hehe.

Yep. I binge on information, reading obsessively everything I can about a subject I'm interested in.

Could you elaborate on that? What is sounds like to me is that you're researching one topic, and within that topic there is a description of some other topic that catches your interest, so you research that, and so on. Like, say I'm researching just movies in general, then I read about silent films and want to research those, then while researching silent films, I read about German Expressionist films, and then research those, etc, etc.

Is that what you mean? If so, I do that all the time!

That's it exactly. I can start off researching some chemistry subject and in the course of wandering through information, find myself researching classical Greek mythology. I've written a lot of short stories based on information I picked up that way.

bless you!:)
I pace around ruminating. Offlate I've thinking a lot about evolution. things like how it helped us and also how it is actually turning into a bane.

Totally. I am trying to turn it into a career (marketing research), but I have a feeling that saying "oh, I am a compulsive researcher" during an interview might not be beneficial...

Very yes.
I've been trying to come up with a better answer for a while and failing, so, well, simple answer of 'yes'.