Has my Aspie obsession started to fade???

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So for the past 4 years, acting has been the absolute center of my life, period. I used to eat, sleep and dream about acting... I couldn't help it. I was completely in love and it was literally the only reason why I was alive.


As of a few months ago, I've started taking an interest in folk singing.... which is something that I like a lot, but I don't think I would say that I'm quite as obsessed as I was about acting. Ever since I've discovered this new interest, I just haven't been thinking about acting as much. But now I'm starting to worry that my love of acting has been pushed aside for the folk singing.



Is the fact that I'm so worried that the love for acting has died away in itself proof that it hasn't died? Does this type of thorough, obsessive love ever truly go away?

Last edited by EternalSunshine on 08 Apr 2011, 1:50 pm, edited 1 time in total.

My strong interests sometimes fade away for a while when I become occupied with something else, but eventually, always resurfaces with the same, if not more, force than before.

I cycle through interests too... I never lose my love of them, they just fade into the background and pop back up repeatedly.

I think it's normal for interests to cycle. You are on one interest, it peaks, then it is replaced with another. I never lost any love for my interests, they just cycle and peak at different times.

My obsession used to be videogames, that gradually faded, I still enjoy them but now my obsession is music.

That's exactly what happens with me. It's almost annoying that I can't hold an interest for more than a year or so; it's not something I can force, so it's better to just go along with it.

At the moment my S.I is also acting.

I think that you feel bad about your acting interest fading shows that it isn't really fading, it's just coexisting with folk singing, you can have more then one SI.

You know, I went through the same thing as you quite recently. I was worried that my special interest in Tim Burton films was starting to fade, but when I tried to live without it and find something new to replace it, I fell into a terrible state of sadness. It even got to the point of crying over it. That was proof enough to me that I still care deeply about it and that I'm not ready to let it go at this time.

So my interest in Tim Burton films lives on, though now I've also gained a secondary interest in Adventure Time with Finn and Jake. The two of them go surprisingly welll together, at least in my own twisted mind!

I used to have lots of little obsessions. Most of mine come in small, intense bursts. I am pretty obsessed with playing the pokemon video games, and I always have been, but I used to be absolutely in love with another anime called Dragonball Z. I still love it, but I really was morbidly obsessed with it a couple of years back. I couldn't imagine life without it, but eventually I moved on.

You can love two things at once, there is no reason for you to miss acting because of folk dancing. You just need to try and find a way to balance the two.

Adventure Time is an awesome show! I dressed up like Finn last Halloween.

I think that's fairly normal; well, I am assuming so based on personal experience, as well as others' experiences.

Sadly, some do cycle away. I have obsession cycles, or periodic obsessions, usually aside from one main obsession, but even my main obsession is fading. I think that it makes sense for it to happen sometimes.