Did you ever wonder about your obsessions??

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The tactile stuff, yes, but I never thought the special interests were all that weird. In fact, I'm surrounded by so many people have have all these tangible hobbies and interests that sometimes I feel like I have absolutely no personality whatsoever beyond sarcasm and mental problems.

*a tiny violin begins to play*

Ahem, I mean, I feel boring.

I almost wish I had more perseverations, because right now it just seems to be psychology that I know and talk extensively about; but it doesn't even seem to count properly as an Aspie perseveration since it's my major and I'm studying it. I can go off on tangents about it for much longer than is probably ctually interesting, but my other major aspsessions are net surfing, reading and writing, all solo activities which seem less tangible to me than other hobbies and obsessions my friends have. I just basically have to keep telling myself that I'm younger than almost all of my friends and I might actually start fixating on something interesting someday, but...

It suddenly occurred to me that I'm obsessing about obsessing, or rather obsessing too much about not obsessing enough. That's depressing.

I didn't discover AS until age 39. I never thought of my obsessions as anything unusual, mainly because they've all been so darn practical. I never got into collecting bizarre objects or studying arcane subjects -- my interests have always been aviation, maps and (since the late 70's) computers. I now have a career in aviation where my main task is maintaining computerized map systems.

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