Is this AS behavior?

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In 7th grade I had to do a science report on the Solar System. I got REALLY into it and just kept working on it. It wasn't done on the due date so I didn't turn it in, I just kept doing it. The teacher kept telling me that I has to turn it in. Every week I didn't turn it in my max letter grade would be one letter grade lower. When I finally turned it in he told me the best I could get was a D on it. But it was over 100 pages with illustrations and diagrams and detail. He ended up giving me an A anyway. It may have been the only A I got in the 7th grade in any class.

In the 10th grade I got it into my head to make a sleeping bag. I wanted one of those fancy down filled super warm ones but they were really expensive. So I bought a kit and in like 3 days I sewed together this great sleeping bag, warm enough for serious high alpine camping. My mom got really mad because it's the only thing I did from the moment the kit came until I finished it. It lasted for years and I had never even used a sewing machine before that.

In the 5th grade there was a hatching of lady beetles and the bushes on the play ground were swarming with them. For a day or two lots of kids were hanging about the bushes, counting the spots, letting them crawl on their hands, etc. Two weeks later I was still there at the bushes fascinated with the lady beetles. Everyone else was doing something 'more interesting'

Definitely! When I do projects, I go all out like that or I get so into what we are talking about that I do research about everything I need to know even though it is not required and then I find myself at times answering questions for the teacher...

Absolutely!

In grade eight, my obsession du jour was forensic science. We were given a language arts assignment to create a twenty-minute presentation on any subject we liked, along with one prop, which we then had to present to the class. I worked literally around the clock on it (as in, I did not sleep), ending up with a twenty-page presentation (on which I kept shrinking the font so that it wouldn't go over twenty pages) full of technical details. My "one prop" was a complete on-site forensics outfit, with the closest possible analogues (as determined by research to see what alternatives could be used) standing in for any item I couldn't actually obtain.
I remember that as soon as I said what my topic was in front of the class, they all groaned and asked why I couldn't do something else for once. I got through about three pages of my paper before the teacher told me to wrap it up by showing something from my kit (which I just about couldn't do - how do you only show one piece of a complete set?).

The point being that yeah, that's what we do.