Aspie girls & rituals or hobbies

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My 7yr old daughter has a diagnosis of Aspergers and she doesn't have the stereotypical obsessions either. She does have obsessions and they range from lizards to Doctor Who and she has a continual obsession with dogs, but she doesn't learn lists of data about them. She's just very curious and thinks about them a lot. When she has a topic at school that interests her (and so far, they all have), that will be on her mind a lot. The last one was 'under the sea'. Everything she did seemed to relate to this topic, e.g. pictures she drew, books she read, TV shows she watched. But, to any onlooker, the obsession does not seem odd. I don't see the obsessions as harmful in any way. As her topics are so wide, she learns a great deal and it fills her with enthusiasm and joy (see my signature line ). I can see this leading to some sort of career potential (which career I don't know yet), as she gets so engrossed in certain topics, but not to the detriment of other aspects of her life.