Obsessive Compulsive Behavior

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Do any Aspergers/Autism people on this forum experience this?

I certainly do, a lot. And I am beginning to think that OCD and Autism could be related in some ways.

For example, being irrationally obsessed with a certain band, or book, or color, or area of knowledge, and etc. for a few weeks and then wondering why afterward.

Yes, to some extent but not enough for it to be really serious.

Does having tea at 2PM every day count as obsessive compulsive behaviour?

I thought that was just being British?

Well, until I learned more about AS I tohught I was bipolar and schizoid AND OCD and something else I had not found yet. Maybe I am, but AS is looking more like home every day.

Most definitely. I obsess *a lot*.

~Kate

Actually it is just me being British.

Yes. Have to do many things in 3's

I have been diagnosed with ocd as well as aspergers. I certainly behave obsessively and compulsively. I am still trying to figure out which of my compulsions and obsessive behaviors are autism or ocd or if it even matters... But yes, there are similarities between the two... the need for routine and things to be done the same way even if they are not the most effective ways to do them, replaying conversations again and again, the need to do things in repetitive patterns (mine are by 5 or 22)... you know, where do you draw the line and one becomes AS or OCD... I do not know... They used to tell me my pacing compulsion was ocd, now they tell me it is an autism type stim. Hell if I know. But I would imagine the intense short term interest would be an AS thing as ocd tends to be more life long effective and generally with the ocd you know it is weird and you do not get as much satisfaction from it as you do the AS related things, which are more of a necessity to function whereas the OCD becomes counter productive to being functional... like my table pacing... I think that is ocd because it used to piss me off that I could not stop until I walked around my table 22 times taking 22 steps. I did not find that pacing soothing at all. I do not know if I am making any sense... Sorry if I am incoherent...