one or two week long obsessions...

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Yes, i used to be obssessed with certain online games, and i would play them all the time but I'll get bored after a while.

yup. sometimes mine goes on for 3-4 weeks. right now it's minoan and mycenaean art. the one before that was diy beading and wire jewellery. sometimes it's just book i read or a picture i see and all of a sudden i get it into my head that i need/want to know this stuff.

yup. sometimes mine goes on for 3-4 weeks. right now it's minoan and mycenaean art. the one before that was diy beading and wire jewellery. sometimes it's just a line from book i'm reading or a picture i saw somewhere and all of a sudden i get it into my head that i need/want to know more of about a specific random topic.

Guilty. Ironically, I'll periodically obsess over whether I have AS in the first place, since I'm still trying to get an official diagnosis. I'll spend countless hour for days at a time reading up on it, take a break, then end up falling back into it. It's stupid, since I'm already approximately 97.8% sure that I have it anyway, but I can't help it. I have to know for sure, somehow.

Also, when Jurassic Park first came out and I was really young, I was OBSESSED with it. I had many of the toys, and even long before the movie I'd already been obsessed with dinosaurs themselves. I was probably among the few fans of the movie (both kids and adults) who knew that, in reality, dilophosaurus didn't actually have the neck frill, nor did it spit venom. (Come to think of it, I guess few people would be aware of that even today.)

Anyway, that obsession lasted for years, then fizzled out for reasons I don't recall. But then, several weeks ago, I finally saw the movie again, and I've been constantly obsessed ever since--not so much with the dinosaurs themselves, but with the movie as a whole. I listen to various songs from the soundtrack (or the entire soundtrack) pretty much every day, and I know a lot of the cues in the soundtrack for events in the movie, some of which I playfully reenacted for my little cousin just a few hours ago. I've since watched the movie once more as well. I guess that doesn't entirely fit into the category outlined by this thread, but I just wanted to say it.

I often have main interests with lots of little satellite interests. I find I feel happier if I am more focused on the satellite interests. One of them was Gossip Girl a few weeks ago. Now it is dogs..

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Yep, i've had a bunch of short obsessions. It seems to me like my mind pretty much works in obsession or repetition. It seems like some things are even micro-obsessions that may only last an hour or two.. My mind just gets stuck on things. Some are big obsessions that affect my whole life... some are particular topics i think too much about for a few months or weeks.. and some are just little things that i'll analyze in my mind for a couple hours. The bigger-scale ones are always there, and get interrupted from time to time by the smaller ones.. But my mind just keeps finding things to stick on to.

Yep. My main interest for the recent years is music. I want to be a musician. Badly! But from time to time my interests will shift. It is usually rooted in my music interest.

Examples:
Music => (music and non-music) marketing => entrepreneurship
Music => english interest => language interest => japanese and spanish
Music => singing technique + marketing => my own singing technique web-site => CSS and HTML
Science => psychotropic drugs => nutrition => medical stuff => AD(H)D => Aspergers*current*

No wonder some people call me a walking encyclopedia. Darn. My dad wants me to become a nutrition phsyiologist. I want to be a musician. Why doesn't he realize that I would be bored heart-less in a study situation with this subject at the moment?

I find that returning to these "old" things can be cool, but they don't take up a lot of time. Currently I use most of my time reading about aspergers and playing Kingdom Hearts 2(re-read the joke in the last paragraph). Prototype suddenly got really boring when I had almost completed it. Pokemon got really boring after getting a pokemon to lvl99 in a couple of days. (Okay, I used 7x speed hack. But still.)

Does anyone else think that these temporary interests suddenly become boring? Like really out of the blue? Like when I read, I can read a book constantly almost through and suddenly put it away and not care about it anymore.

Yes, definitely. Different obsessions - things that I have been really obsessed with, rather than just interested in - have lasted different lengths of time for me. Some I have been obsessed with for two years or more. Some have only lasted two weeks.

I seem to have different kinds:

a) I discover something new, become obsessed with it, then it goes away and I never have more than the vaguest interest in it again.

b) A 'cycling' obsession; I always have some interest in it, but every so often it comes to the forefront of my mind and I become completely obsessed for a while.

c) A mutating obsession where I go on to become obsessed with anything remotely connected to the original interest.

The obsessions that last for a week.... with me it's a certain song.
This week it's Breathe by David Gray.
All I have listened to this week is that song.
I'm actually listening to it now.