How the Autistic Mind works...

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I have a question to people who have Aspergers, like me. With the "obsessions", if you will, how do you find yourself focusing on the day to day tasks?
How do you keep yourself focused on one task when you're working? Like, keeping thoughts of relationships/obsession/etc...

I found the advice on this website to actually work for me. I hope you find something here that works for you. Also, you might want to talk to your doctor.
http://helpguide.org/mental/obsessive_c ... er_ocd.htm

I try to keep a strict schedule of all my activities. When the things I do are ordered, they're much easier to do.

I try to choose tasks that involve or compliment my obsessions. If I had to work at a job that didn't hold my interest, I'd go insane and/or kill myself.

As far as day to day around the house stuff, I'm bad about putting things off, but I get to them eventually. I can't live in disorder, so its easier to keep things neat as I go than to clean them up after they've gotten out of hand.

Gettin a job in one's interest seems like a good idea to me.

I have allowed myself a time limit, restrictions, and places for my obsessions. Because they have always been kind of weird, I have learned to limit them. With the guy I like (current obsession), I write down poetry and thoughts about him in my notebook so I won't have to talk about him to other people. If I get thoughts of him at an inappropriate time, I visually redirect myself by picturing a red stop sign in front of my face and think 'stop'...then quickly change the subject in my head.