If an asperger's asperger obsession was social situations?

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What would happen if an asperger's asperger obsessed was social situations? We all know that one thing aspergers have in common is they like to obsess. What if their obsession was social situations? Would they even be considered to have aspergers since they will spend so much time studying social situations they will already know what to do? I wish I was obsessed with social situations instead of japan. Life would be so much easier :)

Wouldn't that be like a blind person obsessing about color?

You would be a sociologist. Good at understanding it academically but still challenged in the real world.

I think they would definately still have Asperger's as it wouldn't change their symptoms. After a lot of study and practice they might get better at socializing, but it wouldn't come naturally. They'd also still have obsessions and sensory issues and the underlying neurology wouldn't change.

Japan is a cool obsession

That would be me

I'm not obsessed with social situations, but I am obsessed with reading people and their signals, and trying to figure people out by the second time I hang out with them. I've been pretty successful so far.

What would happen if a deaf person obsessed about music?

I thought there were some famous deaf musicians..?


back to the question, I've been struggling to single out my 'obsessions' in recent years and i think that social situations may well be it. I'm very good with people because i love people - but believe me it hasn't made any difference to my aspiness. I still need as much solitude, meeting new people is still potentially a terrifying experience, and well, other stuff - i've learned not to dwell on detail;)

Good point. Maybe that's why I studied Psychology and Criminal Justice.

We are not completely socially blind, we can understand what is happening in movies, don't we?

Of course we are not completely blind to social cues. But autistic perceptions are fundamentally different. You can only make conclusions based on what is perceived.

They'd be like Professor Lightman in "Lie to Me."

Actually, you're right. There have been many deaf composers, and anybody can write a song.

Social interaction has been a big special interest here for many months. I can also recall earlier phases of my life in which I was acutely interested in social matters.

What happens is that I seem to get tired of it. Currently I've been pretty much a hermit for a week or two.....before that I was involving myself with people a lot, and athough nothing particularly bad happened (in fact I seem to have done quite well), eventually I found myself preferring to stay in. It's not that I dislike being with my friends.......I'm only guessing that it's a fatigue problem - I've never consciously noticed any tired feelings associated with my social activities, which have typically felt exciting and effortless. But I've long wanted a "switch" on socialising, to feel I could just ignore everybody for a while without losing them or upsetting them, rather than building up lots of expectations, having to be there for people (at inconvenient times) because I've raised their hopes by making friends with them. Definitely there's something I run out of if I put too much of my time into "live" social stuff.

We are not fundamentally different, I have always felt that autistic (I had no word for this before) traits fade slowly in the population, like a gradient. Asperger's is to my opinion the visible tip of the iceberg.


And the perception can come on many way, just imagine you would use your inner world like a theater for dummies, simulating a whole range of intentions, if you connect this to what people say and how they say it, there is room for another kind of perception.

He'd compose Beethoven's famous 9th sympony. True story: he was deaf when he wrote his greatest work.