I want my Asperger's obsession to be over!! !

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I'm like this too. It's quite annoying because it's cutting into my other obsessions which I find much more fun but I've learned better than trying to fight it, and just go with it, hopefully it'll calm down a bit once I get dx'd or not dx'd or whatever. For me, it's finally having an answer after years and years of trying to figure out why I'm as strange as I am so I guess developing an obsession over it isn't necessarily bad or unexpected.

For me it was almost 6 months of obsession (or 90% of my thoughts as you put it).

I've found that it does actually calm down after awhile. I reached a saturation point where a lot of the threads started sounding very familiar and I wasn't learning a whole lot that was new.

Obviously, I'm still here, but I only occasionally check to see what's going on. I have moved on to other things to learn.

I've got this too hahaha. I've been researching AS non-stop for the past few months and I keep telling my friends whenever I learn something new, even though I'm pretty sure they don't care.

It's starting to fade, but I think it's pretty clear I was quite obsessed with WP when I discovered it, as I already had over a hundred posts after 3 days of opening an account lol.

Same here. But for me, it's not about learning about myself anymore. It was so during the first couple of months, but now it's all about autism awareness and distorting the common autism stereotypes. I'm more interested in learning what is being done in my community when it comes to the accomodation of the needs of people on the spectrum, and how this contributes to the people's perception of people on the spectrum (and as a result, how they're integrated into the community).

I still really enjoy working with people with autism, especially children and the more severe adults. So despite the fact that imy interest has lost its personal focus, it's still going stronger than ever before. Me being more involved in the community now is the reason I've stopped posting on the forum as much. I understand myself very well already.

I wish my interest was more fun. Like anime. Or even a language. But the only way I've met people who share my past special interests is through Asperger's groups, and I've started joining these groups in first place because of my current special interest in Asperger's. So it goes in circles, like a cat chasing its tail but never catching it.

I've tried switching obsessions. Didn't work out so well. Now instead of not being addicted to video games and being a car head, I'm still addicted to games and now stuck with a piece of crap car that can't run anymore. D:

When you find something that explains so many events in your own life that it feels like the template framework around which your entire personality has been formed, it's hard not to want to know everything you can know about it. It still freaks me out that doctors who've never met me nor even been aware of my individual existence can describe my life and personal experiences with such uncanny detail it's as though they've been watching me for years.

I encourage you to continue the search. So many things about this condition only became clear to me as I became more and more familiar with both the terminology and others' descriptions of their own experiences that mirrored my own.

Sometimes the dry, clinical terms didn't mean much until the real meaning slowly seeped in and I realized that people writing research papers and articles on a condition they don't have themselves sometimes phrase things in ways that don't (IMO) accurately reflect the day-to-day Autistic experience they're describing.

Oh...is THAT what it is????

I'm OBSESSED with Asperger's?!?!?!?!

Not sure I really WANT the obsession to END!

I want to find out as much information as possible so that I can find out is AS is what this really is. Being so taken with this field, I feel completely at home...like this is what I've been searching for. Not so much a place to belong as a place that descibes ME to the highest!

Whether I have AS or not, I owe so much to WrongPlanet for teaching me about myself and why I am the way I am!

To the OP, RIDE THE WAVE and enjoy obseesing about AS in a place by, for, and about PEOPLE WITH AS!

I think we were all obsessed with AS/ASD's at some point. I was. I'm not that obsessed anymore. I still read about it from time to time. It's always going to be a part of my life so may as well give up to date with everything.

I hate it because I get triggered to obsess again. Today they were airing a celebrity Who is Smarter than a 5th grader and the guy was playing to donate to Autism Speaks... so I got triggered and came here to see if anyone was talking about it, lol...

The docs keep telling me the obsessing is not autism but just a part of my personality, but I keep coming back to it :roll:

I actually wrote this post a long time ago, but somone just dug it out from the grave. I still come on this website every few days but I'm no longer obsessing over AS. It got better once I got diagnosed with PDD-NOS and OCD. I'm not exactly an aspie, but I'm on the spectrum. Anyways, it ran it's course and now I'm back to obsessing about more useful things like my job. I guess everyone goes through an obsession when they first discover it. Or at least most people on this website.

Just was diagnosed a few months ago at 61 and have been obsessed both before and after the diagnosis. Part of the problem is my regular pydchiatrist of 34 years of therapy with me does not agee with thr diagnosis. This bothers me tremendously because I am second guessing myself and the therapist who diagnosed me. I was relieved and happy to get the diagnosis becsuse it explained so much of my life. Thr old psych won't even call the new one to see what's what. Has anyone else had this experience? The old psych says I am just very shy and that those with AS don't worry like I do over what to say in social situations -- he says they don't even know they are supposed to say something. I think maybe some Aspies are like but not all! Help, I hate my old psych!

I've been obsessed with AS since March 4th of this year. I always thought I had a boring life. Everybody has their own personal stories of major events that happen in their lifetime. Some people find out they're gay, or they're adopted, or their parents are evil sith lords. Everybody has all sorts of memories of being around other people and their relationships. But me? I thought I lived a boring life. I never really had anything to talk about other than my obsessions, which have always been about objects.

Then I found out about AS. With that, I realized that, for one, my life isn't all that boring, and in fact the very reason why I thought it was is the very reason why it isn't; because most people aren't like me. Not only that, but in some ways, I actually realized that I exist. I know that probably sounds crazy, but before, I had never really thought about myself as a person. I never thought about why I do certain things or why I act a certain way. I really never even knew who I was. After learning about AS, everything just makes sense. Closure, basically. I want to know more about it. I want to talk about it. And when I want something, I obsess over it. And there you have it. I wouldn't be here right now if I wasn't obsessed with AS.

I think the obsession ends when I have found out how to deal with living among NTs in a fulfilling way.

I guess having evil sith lords for parents would make one stand out from the crowd a bit......

Before you know it, this obsession will end, and another will begin.

I'm so relieved! That may sound strange, but I was really feeling like I was the only one who's special interest was AS itself and I was thinking " how weird is that"... While I've been excruciatingly aware of how different I am from most people for my entire life, the explanation of AS is still relatively new to me, and whenever I find that another piece fits, it's so great to know that I am not totally alone in a world full of strangers. I will be kind of glad when this interest mellows out a little, though. It gets in my way a bit; I'm not taking care of other things the way I should. Does anyone have any suggestions about how to handle your interests so that they do not cause problems with doing other things you need to do?