Periods of Obsession

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I don't know if this is my autism or just me. But do you ever go through periods of where you obsessed about one thing only? You can't stop thinking about it or rarely leaves your head. Because this happens to me a lot. It can last weeks to over a year. But I do it towards one movie, game, or tv series. I'm right now doing it towards a TV show on Netflix. It's an anime called Aggretsuko. And heck even my avatar is a character from the show. And he also has autism. It doesn't have to be just a movie, game, or tv series. But does anyone else go through periods of obsession with something? I wanna know if it's a common thing for autistic people to do.

Oh yeah. There's been several things I've become obsessed over for a period of time and then eventually pretty much totally lose interest in. Could be a band, or historical figure, or tv show etc. One time I became obsessed with Japanese swords. I didn't even want one, I just became obsessed with all the aspects of them. I believe it's an autism thing.

I thought this is what we do? A lot of my life I have gone from obsession to obsession, and they've been the first thing on my mind when I woke, I'd think of them all throughout the day, and often dream of them at night.
Sometimes they'd be a specific part of another interest or special interest. Then they'd go back to being that once the obsession was over.
Sometimes they came from nowhere like that, and then they'd be out of my life when the obsession ended.

The last 5 years I haven't had a single real obsession, just my special interests, which are not the same to me at all, although I know some people here use the terms haphazardly. I don't know why that has changed. The good thing is that I am more focused on my surroundings (read: loved ones) than I used to be. I still miss obsessions though. I wonder if I will know that kind of obsession again? I've never gone this long without one.

Yessss, this is mainly how I've operated since I was a little kid. It seems like it's harder for me to be interested in something unless I get really, really into it.. I latch onto things especially hard if I feel dejected about my "core" long-term special interests e.g. feeling depressed because I can't go to college to study particle physics like I've wished since 3rd grade.

I always thought I was weird for it, but it makes sense now.

It's a textbook symptom of autism

So what's stopping you from going to college now? There's age limit.

I'm a bit bi-polar, so I can do great work if I focus for as long as the run lasts. However, I would never focus on mere entertainments with the whole planet in crisis. There are real problems to solve, and they threaten to kill most of the younger generation.

I am very interested in my favorite tennis players.