An obsession that you DON'T want to be obsessed with?
My obsession is currently NASCAR...as it always is during the season. I'm obsessed with the sport as a whole, and one particular driver. I have no problem with it, I enjoy it, but my husband and daughter have both mentioned it to me. My daughter even told me I was obsessed with my driver, and she is 7. Hubby just gets pissy when I change the channel to something NASCAR related.
I also get obsessed with death from time to time, which can be a pretty big problem.
May I ask the object of your obsession?
One of my special interests, about 2 years ago, was a teacher. I felt uncomfortable having a special interest in him, it eventually faded. I didn't "stalk" him or do anything that made him uncomfortable at all, as I asked and he said no.
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Canadian, young adult, student demisexual-heteroromantic, cisgender female, autistic
Is this abnormal? Has anyone else ever experienced this?
I feel that way about The Cure, it's like I almost want to know more about them, and then I think 'No!! !! Another band!! ! It'll be time-consuming!', so RN I like them, but I'm mostly ignorant about them, I probably don't know more songs than anyone else who's reading this thread now.
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I've run with that one, in addition to being a 'face' guy, it's being out in public and seeing black nylon or spandex, and if they're wearing flats or Maryjanes, my brain almost overrides whether their face is attractive enough or not to mindplay the whole "I see/I Like/ I approach/I'll be rejected anyway' sequence.
When I am alone in the small hours and artificially fornicating, lately I've been zooming in on that part of the leg where the shin meets the ankle. I've always liked certain leg coverings, shapes and been a retifist, but this particular area confounds me. I don't see it ever screaming to get out if I were to get into another live relationship but while this is all going on I keep wondering 'OK how do I explain this one if it ever does get to that stage?'
belly button lint. i am going through withdrawal because i haven't seen any in so long.
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You would think with all the bunnyhug wearing in that place of haute couture there would be, in any case an 'outie' would be Sure Outta Luck. Would a poster of an early-80s-era April Wine singer Myles Goodwin suffice as a placeholder for the lint?
As with flying, I have an unusal love/fear relationship with Canadiana
^^^ we call them "hoodies" in my city. they would make awesome lint, yes. *sigh*. girls don't really make lint - belly fur seems to be a prerequisite.
i didn't know myles goodwin was canadian!! !! i am from alberta, the birthplace of k.d.lang
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OMG, same age as me and not knowing more about them, and me being a 'murricun!
I figured Canadians thought of April Wine as their Aerosmith, or the Tragically Hip of the 70s-80s
But MG was born in NB, when he joined the original band it was a pair of brothers and a cousin. They started out in Halifax and when they got established based themselves in Montreal, He lived in the Bahamas in the late 1990s according to Wiki
From Calgary you;ve got Loverboy, they ended up in Van after they took off
Only other thing I know about Sweet City is where You Can't Do That On Television was filmed
Other unwanted obsession? Not following clocks and calendars, even though I just have to be early to everything
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Obsessions takes too much time/money/space, but it seems all Aspies are cursed to have them. I could mention many, many obsessions, but I wont. I will however mention one I have in relation to the topic starter.
I have watched the entire show of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in one big marathon, and I have done so with other shows I fancied aswell. I cant do it anymore, with wife and kids, but I still have the urge to do it. I manage to suppress it somewhat these days, and stick to 20 or so shows I'm up to date on, and watch 1-2 episodes each night with my wife. 20 may seem like a big number, but with 10 on hiatus at all times, and only 1 episode per week, its only 10 episodes to watch each week, which is managable.
I do watch myself so I dont get hooked on too many shows, cause I have been down that road before.
TBBT is one of the shows I follow, its awesome!
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Yes, last year I had the worst obsession: Serial killers.
Which led me to the psychologist, and then I got the diagnosis.
I have an obsession with the number 18 since about 5 or 6 years ago.
I'm trying not to think about it, because I get extremely... odd, and if it's in public, WORSE. I get the classic autism look: writing the number, while rocking, while talking to myself, and sometimes humming. I can't hear anything but what is inside my head. My sister worries very much when it happens. I wish I could erase this obsession too.
My obsessions tend to be too extreme.
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Which led me to the psychologist, and then I got the diagnosis.
I have an obsession with the number 18 since about 5 or 6 years ago.
I'm trying not to think about it, because I get extremely... odd, and if it's in public, WORSE. I get the classic autism look: writing the number, while rocking, while talking to myself, and sometimes humming. I can't hear anything but what is inside my head. My sister worries very much when it happens. I wish I could erase this obsession too.
My obsessions tend to be too extreme.
I have the serial killer obsession, too. I think it's wonderful, if only because there's plenty of material available about it and it can easily branch off into something else if I start to get bored. It's also fun to sit on a bench at my university and compare the people who walk by with murderers I've read about. I have some amazing hobbies.
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Sometimes I go through phases when I wish I wasn't obsessed with my main special interest, Tim Burton & Johnny Depp movies, anymore. Sometimes I get frustrated to the point of tears that nothing else I try to get into really "clicks" with me. These phases typically last a few days to a few weeks.
It makes no sense as to why this happens, especially considering that the rest of the time, I am perfectly happy with my interest. However, I think I have a pretty good guess as to why:
There were two specific, unrelated incidents that happened either last year or the year before in which I treated other people with similar interests in a mean, nasty way - on this very website, no less. In both of these incidents, I started feeling remorse immediately after hitting the "send" button. The more I thought about it, the less justification I had for behaving that way. I apologized profusely to one of them, but was so ashamed of the way I behaved that I haven't made an attempt to apologize to the other.
Many times when I do something related to Johnny Depp - from using avatars of him, to watching his movies, to even just thinking about him - I start thinking of the way I treated those other Johnny Depp fans on this website. My mom says that I keep reliving the embarrassment of behaving inappropriately. She says that this embarrassment is helping to keep me from behaving like that in the future.
But I also think that these feelings of shame and embarrassment are also preventing me from fully enjoying my special interest and making the most out of it. I feel like I don't deserve to enjoy this interest anymore. If Mr. Depp himself knew the way I had treated other fans of his, he'd be very disappointed in me, to say the least.