No problems with global processing

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I tried Navon figures and I can't tell which letters I noticed first. I noticed that E is composed with A's (it's really hard to tell in which order). Then I tried to read other big letters (I didn't really notice them before), hovewer, smaller letters interfered.

Now I find Navon figures all the time. Sometimes I see the whole first, sometimes the details, for example, here I saw the strips before I noticed the "9": http://fashionablygeek.com/wp-content/u ... -watch.jpg

However, I wanted to try to do embedded figure test (which doesn't seem to be very difficult), so I found this site:
http://aheadd.org/blog/creativity-and-a ... th-autism/

I saw K letters making T letter (which I noticed after a while), however, I didn't expected the Navon figure here, I didn't expected K making the bigger letters (I was in "text reading mode") and it wasn't similar to other Navon figures I know. I'm sure, that I saw K-letters first here, but I'm still uncertain about original Navon test.

Example figure in which I noticed the whole first (I immediately knew that the heart is made of smaller shapes, but I started to analyze them later): http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/artic ... header.jpg

So, enough to say, I'm confused (which triggered my new obsession). I certainly can see the whole, I also can search for interesting details (and sometimes fix on them loosing the whole image). I know, that if the ASD is more severe, then the global processing tend to be more affected. Still, this thing injected some uncertainty to my head and I started a new obsession. I see Navon figures everywhere: in logos, diode displays, objects, just EVERYWHERE. I'm really tired of it, so I'm writing this post to help getting rid of it.

I'm obsessively afraid of losing my AS diagnosis because of this, it explained everything about my life. Still, I'm uncertain which way I prefer to perceive the world.

I even tried to stop stimulating my obsessions. I tried to avoid WrongPlanet, avoid conversations about ASD and tried to think about other things. But it didn't worked. My brain just shouts obsessive thoughts louder and louder and, finally, I just couldn't afford it. I just had to share my problems here.

About my official diagnosis: I'm diagnosed with very mild AS (even my psychiatrist, who diagnosed me, said that I was normal, but with differences).

Whether I see the details or the whole first differs for me all of the time. Sometimes I think it depends on what my brain is more familiar with.
I don't think you should worry about losing your diagnosis so much, not everyone fits the mold exactly.

Well, I know that, but my obsessive-brain-part doesn't want to listen to my rational-brain-part.

Well personally I'd find that very convincing to myself that I'm an Aspie.

My mother says that I see trees, not the forest, but in context of life situations (i.e. I can fixate on my interests and forget about other aspects of life or treat them as unimportant) rather than visual processing.

And typical dialog:
mother: you're regressing your development!
me: why? I'm mastering my programming skills and discovering new things about it!
mother: and nothing more, your peers will master it later and be better than you in other areas.