What is considered an aspergers obsession to what extreme
I am currently obsessed with WP to the point of reading and replying to posts with my cell phone when I'm away from the computer... even while driving..
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Control yourself, man! I was almost hit one time by someone who was text messaging while driving. Bad, bad idea.
Yeah, I do limit how much I spend on special interests, that's why my Amazon shopping cart has ten pages (at least) of "saved for later" items.
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I'd say in my case, I carried one of my special interests a bit far when I took my wife and a foreign exchange student on a 6,000 mile road trip across the USA just to buy a 1200-pound air raid siren for my collection of Cold War sirens. But I also have enough common business sense that I wouldn't have done that if it hqd been detrimental to our financial security, or somehow posed any harm to do that.
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The trick is the make your special interest something you are suppose to be doing. I love birds and nature and science so I got a degree in Zoology. When I was in college, I was either focused on Zoology, or Sonic the Hedgehog, lol. Nowadays, I love mental disorders and I spend most of my time in mental disorder chats or hanging out with people like that in real life.
But people without AS can have special interests too sometimes, that's what makes my case so complicated. Now I'm being told by one person that spends lots of time with people with AS that I don't seem like I have the problem, but the same person says I have obsessions. People with high IQs I'm told often form special interests too (though people say so, there is no evidence my IQ is particularly high).
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Only on Wrong Planet.
Yeah, I just told that to someone with AS in real life and he said "What the hell?"
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It's taken me away from my time and now it's just the internet that does it. I don't come here much but I am still online and I can't seem to get off unless I have to go to bed or shower or do other things or go to work.
Whatever I do seems to have this narrow focus inhibiting myself in moving on to another task ; it's as being in a closed loop almost locked in the moment of thought. Once/if you are able to shake it off through various means such as the above,^another fixation is waiting for you in this viscious cycle.
This is one major theme for my entire life.........this can be my special interest or not; it permeates into anything/everything I do.
Control yourself, man! I was almost hit one time by someone who was text messaging while driving. Bad, bad idea.
My wife works for one of the major cell companies, I always have the latest gadgets. In this case, my phone can read aloud from text, and I can used voice recognition to post.
(Although sometimes the voice recognition gets things very wrong with comical results: while using it to text my wife, I said "I'm turning on Cranes Nest" it wrote "I'm turning on Jane's breast" lol the 1st is a street, the 2nd is grounds for divorce!)
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Luckily I hate using the internet on phones because I don't like texting nor like the layouts of the place here and how things look everywhere else. So it sure keeps me off the internet and from here. But am I anxious to get back online? Neah. That's how I know I don't have a true internet addiction or I be going crazy out in public without it, same as on trips. I didn't even like using it on the Wii either so I deleted the browser off the hard drive and 500 points were wasted.
My husband even got rid of the internet off my phone because I wasn't going to use it so why pay the extra money? But he kept it on his phone since he uses it.
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I think another way you know if it's a special interest or not, is if you go on sites like flickr or deviantart and just look through pages and pages of special interest related pictures, and spending god-knows-how-long just flicking through pictures is your idea of fun and entertainment.
I was doing this yesterday, found some really good stuff on deviant art, saved loads of them onto my documents.
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