Your most obsessive obsession...

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Hopefully soon - guitar. It's a needed obsession that I have to get back to now it's College again...

Tae Kwon Do - that's become somewhat an obsession.
Building up my physical fitness and strength, but only to the extent of what's strong but still agile.

Depending on which mood I'm in also depends on obsession of how to feel - sometimes I'm obsessed with having to feel tough and strong, but then I go crazy after a while... lol so that don't help.
And the other one is feeling no shame in expressing my vulnerability, but then I go too vulnerable...
Gah! lol

But I don't feel too bad atm... I've got nothing to lose.

Reading
The internet
Texas Holdem

I did have a bit of an mmorpg addiction (particularly world of warcraft) which I am glad to be rid of.

I had a Routemaster obsession, last year that's faded away for many reasons. I still collect the replicas, though. They're a symbol of the London that I've gotten used to over the first years of my life.

Cats, especially Siamese and other Oriental breeds
The Beatles
Asperger Syndrome, autism, and other medical subjects
Roger Bannister

My brother-in-law was also OBSESSED with serial killers. He had rows and rows of books about this and that one, tapes of their interviews, etc... and he'd get very animated talking about them and the gruesome details of their deeds. I didn't even know there were so many! I mean, I have trouble carving a turkey at Thanksgiving dinner because it looks too much like an animal, so I simply cannot imagine...

I was obsessed with Andy Warhol as a teenager. So obsessed I felt I truly was part of the "Factory" life (minus the drugs). Edie, Billy, Niko, Lou, Joe, then Halston, Liza, Calvin,Liz, were more real to me than people at school. I dressed like them ,played their music, I even took a 12 hour bus ride to go to New York to see an overnight showing of his 7 hour movie, "Sleep", where he clumsily filmed someone sleeping (!). That meant I had now seen every single one of his movies.
My favorites were the ones he did with Edie Sedgwick, because she was so beautiful and hip and hot and cool, she just lit up the screen with her youth and dazzling smile.
I've seen "Ciao, Manhattan" countless times.

I still think that along with Picasso, he remains the most influential (not the best), artist of this century.

He must have been an Aspie.

- Salvador Dali
- an obscure psychobilly band from Brighton called the Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster ( their myspace to explain ) I've been to see them twenty times and they actually recognise me now - 'oh god not you!!'
- collecting old magazines, especially the NME
- another band called the manic street preachers. I should point out I was in my mid teens and it's now a bit embarrassing, they are really awful these days. I think I read every interview they ever did...

That is me, too! Is that more to do with OCD or with AS?

They effing rock.

I have a question for those with, or who have had, obsessions with Serial Killers. Where does the interest come from? Someone said that she wanted to know what they were like so she could avoid dating someone like that. But what about everyone else? Is it exciting to think that you could be kidnapped and have bad things done to you? Or is it a matter of being in awe of someone that gets away with those deeds? Is it something you'd like to picture yourself doing? Or is it just something exciting to study because you're bored?

I really am curious to know why some people get so heavily involved in that. Inquiring minds want to know! hehe

AND ME!! !! !! !

I spent years researching OCD. I am confident that I do not have OCD and I have many people in my life that DO have OCD. I cannot imagine that it is an "obsessive interest" so much as a "special interest". Thing with OCD is the compulsive behaviours are driven by anxiety and would otherwise cause major distress, if they did not follow through on a compulsion/"ritual"...my interests are driven by my complete and utter interest, nothing more...nothing less

and....did I mention how fantastic this here internet truly is???

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN THIS WORLD I HAVE TO WONDER ANYMORE!! !

I first got obsessed with serial killers because I was walking through a book store and found a book on them, looked interesting and then bought it. It first started as just a book I occassionally read, then once I finished it I read it about 10 more times. Then I started to take notes of what I was reading, comparing how each killer killed their victims with eachother etc. Then I started to research information on the internet about them and then looking for pictures of them. Then I started to write my own article about each of the serial killers explainin their ways in which their victims were killed.

It's not exciting to think that I could be kidnapped, no way do I want to be kidnapped, or worse, killed! I don't actually know how or why I became obsessed, I just found it fascinating to read about them.
And no, I do not picture myself becoming a serial killer. I could never do that.

I wish I had some obsessive interests then I would have something to do... but everything bores me after a while

I used to be able hyperfocus on anything with numbers like statistics on the spot, but not for any longer than about a half hour at the most. usually more like 15 minutes

As a lad, it was antique automobiles. Just any antique auto, I loved pictures of them, and still have a book that catalogs some of the rarer ones that mum gave me when young.
Then that became Yank cars of the fifties, particularly the Edsel.
Now it's Exotics, mostly Ferrari.

I sometimes read about serial killers, like on Wikipedia, I think it's a bit of morbidity, really. I become fascinated that a human being could do such things to another human being. It frightens me no end...

You didn't ever post on their old official board that got closed after Island dropped them did you? I used to post on that too.

From when I was a toddler up until I was around 10 or 11, I was completely obsessed with dinosaurs. Other major obsessions for me have included animation (particularly adult animation), Starlight Express, (those two are my current main obsessions), ReBoot, wolves, robots, Asperger Syndrome, astronomy, Naruto, DragonBall Z, Yes (the prog rock group), and sexual diversity studies (I'm still into that one, but I'm not as obsessed with it as I used to be).

THE BRAIN. And collecting information on THE BRAIN. My life circles around reading journal articles, school, eating, sleeping, etc., getting up, reading more journal articles...

Life is good.