Special interest marathons 48 hours straight no breaks

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Does anyone here sometimes go for 48 hours (or longer) in one stretch doing their special interest, with only bathroom breaks, only stopping when you crash from exhaustion? Are special interest marathons a common thing with Aspies?

A friend of mine once timed me as obsessing in my special interest (Dungeons & Dragons) for 52 hours straight with no breaks, and wondered out loud if I was tweaking out (on drugs).

Nah, I'm too old now.

I have a bad habit of burning the candle both ends though.

Often I do, yes.

No. I have too many things going on.

I also have too many things going on so a full 48 hours is unrealistic for me. I could easily do it though if I wasn't so busy. My farm is my special interest, so I will often go all day without eating, checking email and messages and just ignoring reality if I can get away with it.

Wow, perhaps for six hours, but not for forty-eight!

Nope my eyes hinder that. Are we talking about the dice game? How is that possible?

My record is somewhere in the mid 70's, although marathons that long are not that common for me. Breaks for bathroom, food, caffeine etc yet no sleep.

It was a group project, building a student made electric car, so did the work with many NTs. Although they kind of came and went during the 3 day process, commenting it was strange I refused to stop, sleep or socialize and skipped meals.

I was forced to stop when someone distracted me while working, causing me to drive a drill bit into my hand. I do this less right now, but more because my special interests are not as strong at the moment.

I have done one 72-hour marathon plus a few 48 hour ones in the past, but not these days.
The best I can manage now is 24 hours before I get too exhausted, and I try to limit such adventures because it takes a couple of days to recover from them.
That 72-hour one was amazingly productive though!

What was the marathon on Cornflake?

No.

I would hope not league what with you having a cute baby and all.

WOW, Molly? On DnD??? OK, that's just crazy!! !

I wish I COULD do that, though. Getting married and having children does tend to crush those kinds of things. I'm music-obsessed. My favorite things to do are composing music, programming synthesizers (currently working on a Korg X50, but also other toys like a Roland aJuno1, Akai S2000, 3 flavors of Yamaha DX7 FM synths, and the mighty Synclavier--not to mention all the software I use such as Reason, Absynth, and others). I'd love to go more than 48 hours at a stretch behind the Synclavier, but unfortunately they put out a lot of heat AND my Synclavier studio is also my bedroom. My sweety wouldn't be able to handle the heat, the noise, AND taking care of the kids by herself for that period of time. The X50 (which is really just a repackaged and less expensive Triton) is a sweetheart little synth, much more portable than the Synclavier, and amounts to little more than an expanded M1 (I've lately been writing a lot of patches for Korg's emulated M1).

I also enjoy reading the Bible--I'll read the Bible while taking a bath and end up staying in there up to three hours.

And, of course, WrongPlanet PPR forum. I'm trying to avoid that lately, as I will eventually just start going to the site and hitting the refresh button over and over and over again when no one else is really posting.

The circuit design, construction and programming of a small stand-alone computing module for use as a specific but reasonably open-ended data logging device. It was part of some work done for a client.
I started off with a rough idea and ended up with a working prototype, which included its own basic operating system (all written in assembly code).
There is something absolutely magical in having what was previously a bag of assorted components responding, exactly as designed, to commands sent through a serial link and "doing stuff".

Yes! I've gone on special intrest marathons for months on end, only taking brakes to go to the bathroom and sleep.

Sleep? Pfft, what a lightweight. That's cheating...