Another obsession/special intrest thread

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I don't really know what started this obsession. My obsessions always came up on me gradually. I suspect all the You Tube Poops I watched played a role and also this Brain Regan skit put to Sonic X clips: [link] And also a real life hedgie hissing at me when I tried to pet it. I also had some very weird dreams with Sonic in them for no apparent reason. The ghost of obsessions future? My dreams were always vivid and a lot of them seem to predict the future. Anyway, I don't think I will ever know the exact reason.
I remember when I first realized it was an obsession, we were moving back to Ohio. I think having a new obsession to focus on helped me keep it together during the move. I also remember trying very hard to keep it a secret from my family. When I was younger, I was always told things such as my parents needed a break from hearing about such and such for a certain amount of time. It made me feel as if my feelings didn't matter but my mum swears it was in my best interest. She would also tell me I needed to "widen my horizons". That hurt me too.

My mum once asked me why I never looked for Sonic shirts at the mall. I lied and said it was because I never thought about it; but in reality I didn't want her to know about my newest obsession because of her reactions to my other obsessions. My mother has actually been very accepting and encouraging of my obsessions; but telling me she needed a break from hearing about them or that I needed to "widen my horizons" hurt my feelings A LOT.
Lion King used to be my biggest obsession for years. But I realize there are too many negative, and even traumatic memories associated with that obsession. I've gotten quite good at repressing them so I don't want to have to bring them up again. Maybe I can forget them once and for all now.

Sorry, do you have a new obsession now or have you tried to repress all of them?

What do you do with yourself if you don't have something like that to focus on?

I made up a Beatles obsession to hide my love for The Kinks between the ages of 12 and 15 and that's left me with some very painful memories. Let's just say that I don't listen to The Beatles as often as a person who loves the 60s should. I'll listen to three Beatles songs in a row on YouTube, every three weeks.

I have a new obsession. I still like Lion King and nothing is ever going to change that. I think I'm just too distracted by Sonic right now to pay attention to Lion King. Plus Sonic and his friends are so much easier to draw than Simba and his friends.



Come to think of it, fan art on DA did have a lot to do with getting me into Sonic just as much as those Brain Regan skits.

I don't know, I've always had something to focus on.

Hello?

Hello?

I have a couple of questions about your special interests, if that's OK. Do you think that meerkats and The Lion King will always be a lifelong obsession for you? What about Sonic? Have you ever felt like you had to pick one over the other? Sorry if that's too many questions for you.

By the way, I really like your drawing of Tails, MagicMeerkat. The way you shaded it makes it look 3D!

Nope. I LOVE answering questions about my special intrests as long as they are not condesending.

Yes, I think meerkats and Lion King will be lifelong obsessions. When I was younger and I was quite obsessed with a movie called Titan A.E., I felt quilty because I felt as if I were "cheating" on Lion King and meerkats. Invader Zim was a short lived special intrest and I felt as if I were cheating on Lion King, meerkats and Titan A.E.. I don't know why, but with my new Sonic obsession, I don't feel like I am cheating. Maybe it really is because there are too many negative memories associated with Lion King. Maybe it's becuase I'm older. I don't know for sure.

Thank you! I never noticed it looked 3D before. Here is the first picture of Tails I ever drew...I doodled it in the hotel when we were moving along with 3 other pictures of him.

Oh so you're still into sonic.

I know a few people who seem to like it a lot. I never understood it to be honest. I get that people might like it but it just seemed to me that the level of obsession they would have over it wasn't normal. Oddly enough I think if someone with autism or asperger's or whatever likes something, it's fine, but if someone I consider to be 'normal' likes it I think it's weird.

You seem to latch on to a lot of cartoons. You'd probably like anime if you watched some. I don't get why you got this idea into your head that you were 'cheating' on other cartoons lol (sorry it's kind of funny). I may have felt something similar though I'm not sure how comparable they'd be... when I found something that was holding my interest that wasn't my special interest I definitely felt uneasy. Unfortunately my memory has faded and I don't remember specifics. I'm just going to make up an example.

Lets say my special interest was sonic and at that general time I was 'occupied' with one of the videogames they made for it or something. Then let's say something else came along and caught my interest, like another video game or a tv show or something. Even if I was really enjoying it at the time I'd feel incredibly uneasy about it and my mind would constantly think back on the videogame to the point where I'd almost feel compelled to go back to the game even though it was less interesting.

If I stayed I'd feel uneasy, if I went back I'd feel okay, but disappointed that I was missing out on the other thing. If that makes sense...?


edit: sorry about the delay btw. was busy

What were some of your negative experiences with the Lion King? Were you maybe too enthusiastic with it or something?

You mean there are more people who are "unhealthly" obessed with Sonic? That's not really a surprise. Two of my Sonic friends on DA also have AS. I secretly suspect half of the Sonamy and Sonally shipper fan brats to have a touch of it as well.

I got into Sonic via the cartoons and fan art. I never really liked the games. I was more into Super Mario World as a kid but I never really obsessed over the characters or anything. I made up my own storylines as I played certian levels such as pretending Yoshi was a champion show jumper horse. Who says autistic people don't have imagination? What I liked about it was that no matter how many goofy storylines I made up for it, everything pretty much stayed consistant.

You couldn't pick the levels with Sonic and the storyline was too dark for me. Bowser may have kidnaped the princess but that's all. I think he was just lonely and wanted her to be his friend but didn't really know how to make friends. Eggman/Robotnick kidnapped animals and turned them into robots. I've never played any of the newer Sonic games such as 2006 or Unleashed. After hearing about them, I'm personaly glad I haven't. I perfer to make video games as opposed to playing them anyway but I think I would be destined to work for Legacy Interactive as opposed to Sega.

I always hated anime because it seemed like it was okay to be obsessed with that but not okay to be obsessed with meerkats. I think Sonic X is considered anime. I hear it's ten times better in the original Japanese too.

Perhaps "cheating on" really does sound funny but that's the only term I could think of. Perhaps "neglecting" is a better term.

MagicMeerkat, was there ever a time when you got bored of being obsessed with The Lion King/meerkats? Do you still like Titan AE and Invader Zim, or have you completely gotten over them? Have you ever mixed your separate special interests together (for example, have you ever thought about writing a story where Tails meets Timon)?

Widening obsessions won't make you "win" it's just gonna like, make you have more obsessions. I have many obsessions going at once, which I always referred to as hobbies. I know a ton about cars, so I can talk about cars, and be super knowledgeable. I know a good deal about cooking, ice skating, inline skates, cycling, more than average about computers, I know about Chinese medicine some, anime, foreign films, the Bible and religion in general. The list goes on and on, and I won't get started about music, I tend to completely alienate EVERYONE with my musical taste, as it's so diverse.

What I've learned is, people most of the time in conversation, etc, aren't conversating to get information. Me, I usually think of a conversation more as a transfer of information than a transfer of feelings, whereas most people think the opposite. My friend, my first friend I ever had with diagnosed Aspergers, before I got my diagnosis of NVLD, we were one time talking about burgers. He told me he liked burgers with cumin in them. Next day, I put cumin in my burger, and told him about it. He told me he was surprised that I listened to him about that, and then brought up that most people in conversations simply view them as taking turns to talk, and don't actually listen.

I think that's the difference. I see information most of the time, not feelings. So Aspies telling the world about our "obsessions" at least for me, it wasn't and isn't just because I like hearing myself talk. I felt like I am/was doing people a favor by giving them right information or more information to help them, I can understand how it'd get narcissistic to a point, and probably at times I'm like that. My problem as I go through life, I find out people don't care about the right knowledge, they care about feeling good. So, now I'm learning not to, as Jesus said "Throw your pearls before swine."

Anyway, if you'd like to learn more "obsessions" it's actually not too hard. For me, it just took being open minded and trying more things. Also, too, things sorta just happened. I got a car, I ended up learning how to do many repairs myself just because I couldn't afford a mechanic. It's interesting, actually, as aside from being like 5, through my adolescent years, I thought cars were dumb. I had no "general interest" about cars like my peers. However, I watched the anime Initial D, I liked anime at the time, and though I heard it was about cars and racing, I figured I'd give it a try, and I've been "obsessed" ever since. As you can see, one domino fell from me removing myself from my comfort zone somewhat, then another, and I like a lot of different things because of it now.

So if you're like "oh well I only like _____ and _____" just try more things and see what happens. Obviously, we're going to like some things more than others, but diversification isn't very hard imo. Just me, my diversity seems to make me weirder, as the combinations don't fit very well with preconceived notions people have, so don't think that by diversifying you'll suddenly, I don't know, drop girls panties and get multimillion dollar jobs or something.

And how ironic, I wrote, and consistently on here write like 5 paragraph essays giving advice to people on a single messageboard post. Professor....perfect...

If you want to call it unhealthy, fine. I don't know if these people have AS or anything. They may have for all I know. It just seems like there's a lot more people into something like Sonic or anime for example than other things. I guess I think of it as something like a 'nerd interest', like you might see with something like Star Trek or whatever.

Personally I don't think it's okay to obsessed with anime OR sonic. Or anything. At least at my age anyway. I doubt meerkats were ever popular anyway (Sad but true). Then again there was that tv show like a year ago based solely on meerkats so who knows. If you haven't heard of it it was called Meerkat Manor I believe. If you like meerkats I'm sure you'll like it..

Can't believe you think Sonic has a dark storyline! I usually like dark stories and I can tell you that Sonic's is weak at best (though I should add that basically all I know about it is what I learned from the game Sonic the Hedghog 2).

Most of my best ideas come from dreams of this nature, both in sleep and in my waking hours. They usually start off as something rather obscure and sometimes even downright strange, but you need to let it take you where it will go.

Mabye you have an idea for Sonic Fanfiction story. Mabye the character itself posts insights within your brain. Maybe the idea of speed becomes all too clear in the form of a running blue hedgehog. Or maybe the video game itself inspires you somehow.

Or maybe your are just strangely fixated. I don't think anybody but you can say with certainty. If you figure it out feel free to reply to this post directly. I'm all ears.

No. I can't recall a time where I was ever bored with Lion King or meerkats. I like to wear Invader Zim clothes but I think I am officaly done with Invader Zim. Titan A.E. kinda died when I finnaly got my bearded dragon. The "lizard thing" in Titan A.E. is what got me into lizards in the first place. I think I am officaly done with Titan A.E.

Oh yes, I often mix my seperate special intrests together. I was writing a story where the cast of Titan A.E. met that of Lion King. I lost it to a computer virus and never really felt the need to re write it. That's a cool idea, Timon meeting Tails. I might have to draw a picture of that. Thanks for the idea.



I am planing a Sonic fanfic. It's about me (go ahead and call my character a Mary Sue) accidently discovering an entrance to the Hallow earth. It turns out that the hallow earth and Sonic's world are one in the same. Sonic, Tails and the other animals are "hyper evolved" because it turns out they are the desandants of animals the Nazis expirmented on. Yeah, I know the Nazi's probably weren't THAT advanced, but they did break the sound barrier before we did. And besides, when you write a story with blue hedgehogs in it, reality kinda gets thrown out the window.