Negative obsessions?

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In the thread “Was Hitler autistic?”, engineer writes (about Hitler): “His hate against the jews, which noone has found a plausibly explanation of. If he was asperger, it might simply be an obsession started by some trivial event.”

We’re known to carry grudges to a greater degree than others, but that itself is not an obsession.
So I wonder if any of you have hated something and then become obsessed like suggested by engineer?

All my obsessions have been pro- something, never anti- something. At the time of the obsession I’m very positive to the subject of my obsessive interest, fascinated, wanting to know everything about it, reading and thinking about it from I wake up to I fall asleep.

Does anyone else have other experiences? (Note, I’m only talking about the nature of the obsession itself, not whether or not you dislike being obsessed.)

Well, I wonder if he means there was some event that happened and he just wasn't able to get past it, so it became an obsession to him.

For instance, I find that on here quite a bit, if NTs are brought up in certain contexts, there can be quite a few that seem pretty outraged by it. Now, I'm not saying anyone sits around and obsesses, but just as one could "potentially" become fixated on a person they like, could they not also become fixated on someone they do not like if a trigger response is brought up consistently enough over time?

At the beginning of this decade, I had a friend who was in the British army in the 1960s. I became obsessed with war and I supported what the troops were doing in the Middle East. I even had a pair of camouflage trousers that I wore at that time. I was even excited that the oldest of my younger cousins was in the US army. God forgive me. I think that I'll just put on my peace-sign necklace and forget about it.

anxiety, that sounds more like being biased or prejudiced to me. It's not quite the same

I've neve rhad an obsession abotu hating something. I have had obsessions with things I feared (eg. venomous animals), but then the fear gets less with the obsession.

It could be... I'm not positive to tell you the truth, as I've never really had an anger thing towards any group. I know that often a lot of people who are like that really have absolutely no reason for it besides "I was brought up this way". Personally, I'd rather hear them try to explain it than leave it at that... but that's just me.

I'm just thinking of it... I've seen many aspies on/off over the time I've been here talk occasionally about being obsessed with a particular person and whatnot, and figured, if they can become obsessed in liking someone, why couldn't they in not liking someone either?

I've actually had it happen before.. in my own little imaginary world, this guy I knew was my best friend. I never really talked to him in RL though, just observed quite a bit in high school, and he had a lot of the same interests as I did, and when he spoke up to say anything to the teacher, oftentimes it was basically what I was thinking. When he passed away, I had to call my professor and tell him that I couldn't make it to class... because I was mourning for my best friend whom I'd never really met or talked to before in my life. Of course, I didn't say the entire part of the latter, I just said a friend passed away.

Now, how it would branch off into an entire group of people is beyond me, and really isn't anything that would particularly interest me enough to go looking up answers on. Then, when it spreads to actually hurting others... I definitely can't delve into that one.

It was just an idea, a concept is all.

That being said, I've never had an obsession that was anti anything either. But then again, my obsessions don't usually go into the area of actually learning everything I can about them. They only go so far, then I'm content, and nothing else matters to me after that.

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I was fascinated with the subject of race for a good while, because I didn't understand that kind of hate, and still don't. And maybe because the entire human race seems like a different species to me. But I have obsessed over human rights violators of all kinds, probably because I loathe the stronger picking on the weaker. I see issues like torture, bombing civilian areas, and overthrowing democratically elected leaders in a very black and white way. It's wrong, don't do it. The end. And in the past, I was obsessively furious at the people who do these things. I still think they should all be lined up and shot, but I'm pretty sure that would be a violation of their human rights, and then we'd have to shoot the shooters, and so on, and we'd run out of bullets pretty soon.

Worse things could happen!

My obesissions is that of no use in RL, it is videogaming (mario, zelda, sonic, pokemon, you know, those lonely games with no multiplayer, but i enjoy playing mario kart, mario party and super smash bros melee with my 4 nt friends and 3 friends, movies, and music, I play in a aspie band consisting of my 3 aspie friends, one bass player, one guitar player, singer, and i'm the drummer, i use drums to calm myself down so i do not get meltdowns after quarrles with my parents, teachers...... I let my wrath go out on the drums, hitting them as hard as i can with my trommestikker and not on obstacles, peolpe. (One time i broke my trommestikker >.<)

Yeah, but then, you know how people are. You could destroy every bomb, gun, and knife in the world, and people would just pick up sticks and start hitting each other over the head with them!

I can't remember ever having hated a group, but there have been at least two individuals I've hated. One was a senior manager who lied to get me out of my job (I was very good at it, but difficult to control: it's not the issue I hate him over, it's the dishonesty), the other a customer who assaulted me. I've speculated briefly and occasionally about inventive forms of revenge against either: one of my convictions is that I may be very hard to provoke, but if it ever comes to it, I'm a lot cleverer than any enemies I've had so far, and could seriously interfere with their lives. But it's never even threatened to become obsessive, so I would guess there's probably not a propensity.

I don't know if this counts, but I'm a compulsive spender. I went literally broke not too long ago.

In a very a propos turn of events, I am currently fascinated by Nazi Germany--don't get me wrong, it's not out of agreement--if that counts as a negative obsession.

I became obsessed with destroying myself, hating myself, and thinking I'm worthless.

I've never had an obsession that I myself found negative, but other people thought my obsessions were very negative because they found it strange.