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 Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:30 pm Post subject: What do you think causes you to become obsessed with a topic |
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What drew you to the topic you became obsessed with?
I have no idea why I became obsessed with astrology and now I wish I had become obsessed with something more practical like calculus or string theory. quantum mechanics, stuff like that.
I was obsessed with Astrology.
I researched sun signs, moon signs, rising signs, the 12 houses, the planets, their astrological significance, the aspects to the sun, moon, rising sign, planets in the natal chart, ascendant, descendant, midheaven, nadir, Arabic parts, fortune, spirit, marriage, friendship, karma, calculating these parts and then seeing if Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Chiron,Pallas-Athena, Ceres, chart angles or conjunctions, oppositions, squares, inconjunctions, trines, sextiles, semi squares, semisextiles, quiquintiles, greenwich mean time, transits, mundane astrology, synastry, declinations, midpoints,
I studied these things for hours, days, weeks, months, years. I wanted to do each of my friend's charts. No one I knew liked astrology and wouldn't discuss it with me because they read in the Bible that astrology is not a good thing.
So when I talked to people I knew about it they became uncomfortable. I wish they would have liked astrology more because I really enjoyed discussing it. |
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krex
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I don't understand the process but it usually starts with a tickle in the brain. Some piece of information strikes a spot and makes me want to understand more about it. Often it is a branch of something I was first interested in as a kid, but sometimes it can be more random....a movie that makes me curious about a person, time period , place.
I really have tried to focus this as an adult but it doesn't seem to be in my control. The best I can do to continue to function is to try and relate something I have to do into something that is related to an interest. The rest of the time I just try and avoid engaging in the interests that I know are not going to help me in keeping food on the table but it is very, very hard. My interest in AS and WP have sucked most of my free time in a very nonproductive way.
Have you considered joining astrology web-sites and offering to sell charts to people ? Some people will pay to have these done.
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I don't want to sell any charts. I don't believe in astrology. The sun, moon, planets, etc cannot impact life in that way. This is why I think it was such a waste of time to become obsessed with that particular subject. I realize that now but at the time it was all that mattered and I couldn't be argued out of studying it.
That is why I wanted to ask this question. I don't know why I was drawn to this subject in the first place and wish I had been drawn to something that's more plausible. |
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CyclopsSummers
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In my case, it is mostly influence of my mother. Unrelated to my autism, I was a very impressionable child by nature. My main obsessions were prehistoric animals/natural history, taxonomy, and classic mythology. My Mom's an animal lover and she's interested in ancient Greeks and Romans quite a bit... I wasn't interested in their culture as much as I was in their mythology, however.
I think my interest in natural history specifically is a combination of my interest in animals and the 'fantastic', which sort of comes to life when you read about dinosaurs.
Transformers was just an interest turned obsession early on in my life.
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sartresue
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:20 pm Post subject: What do you think causes your obsession with a topic? |
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The need to know it all topic
I said it in my topic title. I have had a forty year plus obsession with Genocides and war. Philosophy has been another for over thirty years. New obsessions, sometimes related to these, crop up now and then, eg: Victorian History/architecture, biography World War Two tanks, Time travel (Sci-Fi), futuristic/horror, Franz Kafka (late Victorian, philosophy, futuristic/horror fiction, biography, for almost thirty years).
As can be seen, Franz Kafka is a compendium of related topics. All my obsessions cross reference each other, eventually. 
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I think I became obsessed with cars while my parents were looking for a new car. I would look in to the competing brands for them, letting them know which cars is the biggest, gets best mileage, is best rated etc. This wasn't a futile effort, either- my parents ended up buying the car I wanted most based on the reviews I showed them  |
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I've changed obsessions during my life. The first one I can remember was with meeting people from other countries. Then traveling, then writing, then Photography and nowadays I have an obsession with discovering off the beaten path places in Jerusalem. I'm just back from a lovely day in the Mount of Olives visiting some of the churches and monasteries. Going again next weekend. 
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I don' t know what causes my obsessions; I only wish I had some control over them. In some ways, I turn to my obsessions when I am stressed or overstimulated. It is more relaxing for me to delve into an obsession than it is to rest or watch tv.
Basically, it's an intellectual curiosity and a need to understand followed by cathartic (and addictive) feelings of accomplishment and control as I learn more and more.
If they ever need a writer for "Trivial Pursuit: Random Obsessions Edition" I will be the first in line. |
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Greentea
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Oops, I forgot to answer the question.
For me it's not just intellectual curiosity. Usually it has a practical end. Eg the reason I research my destinations to death is I want to make sure I'll take advantage of the little time and money I have to see and enjoy the most.
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| Well it depends on the obsession I didn't about AS until recently but remember obsessions from childhood such as TMNT,Power Rangers,and Goosebumps,writing stories etc. but I can't tell YOU WHY! An obsession I've developed over the past couple of years is Psychology. (and no not one that diagnosis AS ) (Maybe study it?? More on the whole behavior aspect of it OMG you are drunk REHAB! NO ME: Let's analyze your brain and find out what parts ARE affectted BY THE ALCOHOL! "Holiday Behavior" Grinch,depression,happiness etc., Financial Psychologist you get the idea. so it's the vastness of the aspect of being SO MUCH ONE CAN STUDY BEYOND YOU HAVE X DISORDER! Do you ever wonder why that clerk you saw today was rude to you? I do the understanding of behaviors around me not just the DSM stuff. |
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| Greentea wrote: | | I've changed obsessions during my life. The first one I can remember was with meeting people from other countries. Then traveling, then writing, then Photography and nowadays I have an obsession with discovering off the beaten path places in Jerusalem. I'm just back from a lovely day in the Mount of Olives visiting some of the churches and monasteries. Going again next weekend. |
I took a photography class in college and really enjoyed it |
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It's like when my dog catches the scent of something carried past on the wind and suddenly, she can't think about anything else except finding out all about it.
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Good question. I don't really know why some things capture my interest while other things don't. It might go back to what sort of things fascinated me as a child. Canyon mentioned that it's like a dog catching an unusual scent and then following it to see where it's coming from. It is like that, I suppose. Good analogy there.
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I guess having grown up around aeroplanes, going to airshows and spending every waking hour around them helped. My father was a licensed aircraft engineer so ive been around aeroplanes for as long as i can remember now.
My mum has always enjoyed photography so i guess it was natural i would pick it up and now i combine the two and could spend hours taking pictures of aeroplanes. |
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| GuyTypingOnComputer wrote: |
If they ever need a writer for "Trivial Pursuit: Random Obsessions Edition" I will be the first in line. |
Yep, I'll be right behind you on that one. I do quite well on Jeopardy questions because of my random obssesions.
Let's see, something will catch my interest in school/tv program/random observation, and I'll have to research it to death. I have to know about things, otherwise I'll sit up at night pondering and trying to figure things out. Wikipedia/google is a blessing and curse in some respects; available all the time, and it sucks me in for hours while I research new topics. Unfortunately I can't get my obsessions to be interrelated, as I'm interested in so much, but not interested enough with some of it to become obsessed about knowing how every little part of it works. Thank god no one gave me a chemistry set or tool set when I was a kid. I would have had to take things apart/conduct experiments to see how things worked, and would have been yelled at a ton more!
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