Obsessions we do not know we are obsessed about

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Have any of you ever had a special interest and or obsession that it did not occur to you that it was a very intense pursuit? At least for a while?

I have very defined special interests such as art, certain music and shows and books genres. But today I realized, I think WP has become a new fixated interest. I share all my art here and get kind of upset when I do not have the time to do such. I also just caught myself systematically monitoring my favorite sections (art and gen).

This ever happen to anyone else?

They all start that way. I'm in really deep before I really even notice.

Yes. I have always known that my special interests revolve around movies and TV shows, but I have only recently realized that I have another special interest that ties into it: crossover pairings (two characters from different TV shows/movies being a couple). I love coming up with my own pairings, especially if they are pairings that no one else has thought of before, and I spend hours lurking on DeviantArt to look at pictures of crossover pairings that other people have come up with. I have been doing these things for years, but it has only recently occurred to me that it probably qualifies as a special interest.

Oh, and another special interest that I probably have is taking my favorite characters from various TV shows/movies and making them different species. Whenever I am into a TV show/movie with stylized animals in it, I like to imagine what human characters from other TV shows/movies I enjoy would look like as those animals. For example, I have tons of sketches of my favorite movie characters as My Little Ponies. I did the same thing with making my favorite characters into hamsters when I was obsessed with Hamtaro when I was younger. Again, it's something I have been doing for years, but have just now realized it probably qualifies as an interest in and of itself.

I had an obsession with money at one time, without knowing that I was obsessed. My mum pointed it out to me about 15 years ago when I was talking about what I was planning to do if I won the Lotto 6/49 jackpot.

Almost evey one, actually. Some become hobbies in time. Others fade until something revives my interest in them ( dinosaur fossils with feathers as well as other spectacular fossils, Lt. Walter Haut's Roswell confession being two excellent examples). I always re-visit them, too.

Sincerely,
Matthew

Glad to feel I am not alone! Although some of my obsessions lessen and increase in cycles, I think they all revolve around similar themes.

I've always had "projects" but they have almost always been artistic / musical / literary. My (card-carrying) communist phase I soon recognized as a literary extension, thus another project. My transgendered "real life" year, though, seemed like the real deal. Only years later, when it evaporated like my communist fervor, did I acknowledge it for what it was. That realization was the beginning of my understanding that I am AS.

I've had interests that have crept up on me. The most recent one is botany. It started with a mild interest in cycads after reading a book by Oliver Sacks, then spread to all the gymnosperms, then one day I suddenly realised that all days my brain had been going "Trees, trees, trees" and that I'd just spent 2 hours on the internet trying to identify a particular tree species that I'd seen.

I know how that goes.

Like my glee phase (which I am not completely over). Although this is a natural extension (borrowing words here) of my own special interest in musical films, it started because we heard the word a great deal and my roomate found the first two seasons on netflix, so we where going to "watch one" to see what it was about. Next thing I know I had seen both seasons in three days >,<

That's how it's supposed to be. Same with paranoia. You can't say you are paranoid about something if you know it's paranoia.