"Short term" obsessions

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I'm starting to get the impression that I'm typically aspie, but here's another question:

Anyone else get short term obsessions?

I can hyper-obsess over something for days or weeks or months, and then ... gone. Nothing. Can't bring myself to care about it again.

But I feel so much guilt over it, and I keep that stuff around in case I get interested again, but that's incredibly rare. I end up hoarding stuff, and feeling guilty every time I look at it, but it seems that no matter what I do, when I'm done with something, I'm done.

Yes I am like this. My interests are almost always temporary and once I'm done I can't take it back up again. I've learned not to invest too much in a new interest because I will just end up throwing money away on it.

Yup... I hate it. There are some things that I've always been interested in, but it goes through spurts of intensity. It happens with individual projects within a certain interest mostly. I'll be really into something and then run into a couple problems or just lose interest and feel like I wasted my time. I rarely finish things like that. I often wish I had "special interests" like most people on here seem to that last much longer and seem more productive.

I have a pretty good balance... There are a few obsessions that have kept me interested for my whole life, but every couple of years I run into something that I throw myself into wholeheartedly and then suddenly lose interest... I dont know how common this is, but I feel great in the thick of it and hit a somewhat depressive wall when I'm phasing out of it. No associated guilt, though...

Yes but I can't decide if I might be aspie or not.

I am terrible at decision making, although when I do eventually make my mind up no one will be able to change it.

And is that a picture of the HULK in your avatar?

I used to be a fan of the TV series with Bixby and Ferrigno. Still am a little bit.

Ferrigno played guest roles in both the Ang Lee Hulk and the newer Incredible Hulk movie and I think he even did the hulks voice in the second one. In the series they would not let him do the voice and instead used either animal sounds, another actor or a mixture of both.

I don't like the CGI in the movies and prefer the TV series, especially as it used a real actor.

In terror in times square (I think series one but am unsure as its been a while since I thought about Hulk stuff) you can see ferrigno wearing green slippers. He did not want to run bare foot along the street and in another episode (I forget the name now) he is seen wearing green stockings/tights. Used to protect his legs but clearly visible lol. Not very hulk like either!

Ooo sorry to side track your thread but its been a while and I watched this series from episodes one in series one to the last episode (i think 7) in series 5) back to back for weeks!

http://incrediblehulkdiscussionboard.yuku.com/

Old incredible hulk tv series fan forum board.

Yes, although not so much because I'm a huge fan, but because it's kind of appropriate to my current frame of mind

Ironically, I was a huge Charles Schulz fan growing up, Snoopy

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Yes, my obsessions range from big and long to short and small.

I am exactly the same for weeks months it will be the most important thing to me then I can feel it slipping away and I am left with an indifference and even slight dislike towards the interest I put so much time into and got so much enjoyment out of, its disturbing. but my interests tend to go in cycles depending partly on new information about the interest so a lot of the time I will go back to it eventually.

I jumped between obsessions with things for years before I realized that no one else around me was having the same experience. My obsessions range from TV shows to illuminated manuscripts, goat care to physical fitness, and they have lasted from two weeks to two years. Currently I am in a "resting phase" between obsessions (the last one was L&O:SVU and related actors/actresses).

I get those, i call them "side obsessions"

i have many that come and go

Dogs
Invader Zim
Adventure Time
Hedgehogs


my main obsession is Sonic The Hedgehog which has been with me for 4 years.

I do this a lot. The only interests that stuck with me were Phineas and Ferb and Homestuck. Everything else I have had as a special interest has lasted from maybe a week to a span of months before fading out a bit.

I know what you mean about feeling guilty-- I do the exact same thing with my old interests.

I have a handful of interests I cycle through that I've had for years and years and years. Bridges, highways, traffic signals, supermarkets, baseball. My obsessions were stronger when I was a kid and would legitimately have only one interest at a time, but I keep returning to these handful of topics, so my interests are still restricted in that sense.

Right now, ASDs are probably my "main" special interest in I can spend hours upon hours researching the topic for days at a time. Which interest I focus on at any given time depends on whether there is any new information to learn about it. If there's nothing more I can find to learn on a topic, I'll set it aside for a while and pick it up again when there's more to learn.