Your most obsessive obsession...

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Lets see....I was really obsessed with trains when I was really young. Then it was video games, and every few months I get really obsessed with Warhammer 40000.

I really annoyed my friends last school year with the last one.

Video games, unfortunately.

That has be Pokémon. I became obsessed with it when I was about 9 years old and I'm still extremely obsessive about it at age 18. The second would be Japanese culture. People always seem to be amazed when I tell them facts about Japan.

Last edited by nekoguy on 24 Jan 2008, 9:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.

My most enduring obsessions are:



Theoretical Physics (Superstring Theory, AKA M-Theory, especially)
Came from reading a book on theoretical physics called Hyperspace by physicist and futurist Michio Kaku, which concentrated on superstring theory in the later parts of the book, in my early teens.

Phylogeny (evolutionary relationships between species), especially microbial phylogeny
Developed out of my childhood interest in paleontology when I started reading about molecular phylogeny, using gene sequences to make evolutionary trees.

Long term historical trends, patterns, and cycles
Started after I read A Study of History, the late British historian Arnold J. Toynbee's famous book on world history and the patterns of social development in civiizations.

I used to be obsessed with Pokemon too! I even had a stuffed Pikachu.

LOL I have a stuffed Meowth, Pachirisu, and Weavile.

Awesome! Pokemon was so cool when I was a kid.

Elementary school
1] Pirates, and especially treasure maps(I used to draw the same one over and over)
2] Dinosaurs
3] Disney
4] Animals
5] Insects
6] Peter Pan (the book)
7] Drawing (usually repetitively)
8] Nintendo games

Jr. High
1] Chimpanzees
2] X-men
3] Weapons
4] Astronomy
5] Chaos Theory (every book I could find for laymen)
6] Sega games

High School
1] Magic cards
2] Warhammer
3] Poetry
4] Final Fantasy
5] Anime
6] Books written by Tad Williams
7] Mozart
8] Star Trek
9] Star Wars

College to present
1] Animals
2] The Mars Volta (a band)
3] Kingdom Hearts and Zelda
4] Fantasy and Sci-fi in general
5] The Golden Section (a math principle)

Football (Soccer)

Serial Killers

Lord of the Rings

Football (American)

Computer programming (A living! )

Bloodbowl

GAH!! !! *I* am the resident serial killer obsessor! anyway yeah. murder shows, and serial killers are my biggest obsession, Next to one-winged-angel. I think he's the biggest obsession i've ever had.

John Wayne Gacy is my favorite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy

I think Serial killers are extremely talented creative individuals. I think that if they sought therapy, and put their creativity into something else, (say painting, for example) they wouldn't need to kill.

Main ones in order
Spiders
Cats
Colin Dan books
Climbing trees and buildings
Fire
Gypsys
Survival
vampires
The Damned
A person i liked
Ghosts and the paranormal
Myspace
Vikings
tetrus
Autism
The Sims

My greatest obsessions were.

Desert Storm
Oil well fires and how to put them out
WW2
Cold War
Missles
Astronomy/Universe
Outdoors
Building
Volcanoes

Crystals and rocks, simple meteorology, simple codes (around elementary school)

Since then:
Wikipedia, Internet, constucting languages and alphabets, and to some extent the Young Wizards books (Diane Duane) and Opeth (band).

I have also liked quails since middle school, despite not having researched them. I think it's the sound of the word.

My biggest one was cats when i was about 9 years old i thought of little else and knew all kinds of breeds and behaviours even there sensory system.I think it reached its most obsessive when i behaved like a cat and sought there company even licking there fur.This was bad i got worms .

When I self-diagnosed the one thing I thought was odd was that I never had any obsessions, and I was going to post that in reply to this thread, but then I had second thoughts. I always think of obsessions as having no obvious use, and I've never had those, but I do get obsessive about things that I think are important. For example, at college I got very disillusioned about academia and for several years I rather obsessively studied Noam Chomsky and also the 1960's counterculture. I didn't memorize facts, I was just looking for a way to re-organize my mind. It worked very well.

Also, a few years ago I started knitting and I did that obseessively for the first year or two. I still do it but much less. I remember reading in the women's forum that craft obsessions are common among female aspies (I lurk a lot more than I post).

When I was twelve or thirteen a lot of girls obsessed over pop stars. I never did, I didn't mind them though. Is the difference between ASD and NT obsessions that ASD obsessions don't have a social component? But that doesn't sound right because a lot of people on the spectrum bond over their obsession with computer games for example. But I guess the obsessive focus is more internal to begin with and that's the difference.

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