Is Anyone's Secial interest "Aspergers"

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I've only known about it for a few months, but I've been obsessing about it enough that I've made it the topic of my next research paper in the hopes that I'll actually write the paper this time instead of getting bored halfway through.

It certainly has pervaded my thoughts and monopolized my computer time. I just don't talk about it with other people because I don't know if I'm an Aspie and I don't want to bore people any more than I do now.

It has been since I was diagnosed, a year and a bit ago, but I'm trying to wean myself off of it. It stopped being a useful thing to think about a while back.

Can't quite help myself tho...

I haven't been able to take my mind off it very much since I discovered I had AS. I desperately could do with an official diagnosis if just to convince my family, employers and everyone else. I don't really trust the NHS to do good job. I desperately need closure so I can start focusing on other things and get on with my life.
My mind is in constant overdrive thinking about it, and as a result I've realised I've probably got a bit of ADHD in me too. My attention obsesses over over just a handful of things which define my lifestyle for several months at a time. I'm disorganised and appear to unmotivated but my problem is I can't plan or organise or complete tasks so DIY, housework and filing/storing things away properly doesn't happen very much - when I attempt it I get panicky. I want to produce an album and play out and about but I can't complete my music as the anxiety/panicky feeling sets in when I'm faced with lengthy tasks in my projects.

I feel more comfortable sitting at a computer looking into whatever my mind wants to know about.

I don't obsess over it as a "special interest." But the subject is somewhat one of my goals to embrace in life.

A friend of mine is an Aspie, and I notice that we both have excelled in certain areas within the aspect of social protocol. But while one exceeds over the other in one area, also fails in another area in which the other reigns supreme. This is really peculiar to me, and I'd like to work with this concept.

We both help each other out where we have trouble, and its interesting how that works. Another thing is that I've had more NT friends than Aspie friends, and this is the only one I've been friends with while I am aware of the other's being an Aspie. My main point is that I'm not used to this, and I want to find out what makes one Aspie tick but not the other.

Example. One Aspie I knew back in high school would have an extremely annoyed tone of voice when saying "Hello?" while answering the phone. It wasn't just his tone of voice, for some reason that is how he genuinely felt when answering a phone.
When I call up said current Aspie friend on the phone, I sometimes imagine that he is annoyed. Although he isn't, this is what I am used to. This just goes to prove that all Aspies really are different.

Eventually I plan to extend my Aspie circle, just to experiment with one's social behavior over another. Like I said, it might not be a "special interest," but is an interest. This will serve a purpose far later down the line, I plan go somewhere with it. I want to use my experiences to help others, as well as myself.

That is how i found out i am autistic.I was in the 8th grade,when i started studying psychiatry for a hobby.I spent two sleepless nights in a library,reading when i came to the ,,Pervasive Developmental Disorders-Autistic Spectrum Disorder".I instantly realized i was autistic.I ran home,found my mom and told her ,,i am autistic".She made an astounded face and said ,,how did you find out?"

The most dramatic scene of my life.

,,We couldn't continue the diagnostic process...we were already in debts".

It would seem logical to me that anyone who was diagnosed with, or has had a history of feeling different, and odd, and found out about a pervasive disorder that described them, would instantly take a huge interest in finding out all they could about the subject. I would think this would be true of NT's also, but I could be wrong.

All the literature basically says the same thing so it's pretty redundant and rather repetitious.

Same here.

Yes, it's one of them, I don't watch documentaries about it anymore though because I know it all anyway, I live the life for god's sake how much more do I need to know?!
I just spend ages on forums and stuff like that. And I'm always trying to find out more and more about what I was like as a child and get my mum to tell me about stories and memories that I'd forgotten.

I'm currently fixated on something called "Ziggurat Model". I borrow books from the local autism centre. Right now, I'm reading "Asperger's and Girls" by Tony Attwood, but that book about the Ziggurat Model is the next on my list.

I don't know how much more I can learn about autism spectrum disorders. It seems to be quite a vast field to explore, actually... along with the neurological, genetic research that has been done, controversies, various OT approaches, ways to teach people on the spectrum...

I went nuts about it when I first learned about it, still am.

But my psychiatrist says I am not an aspie... so now I'm just weird 8O

Yeah, I totally went through that when I first found out about it. I drove my then-partner nuts with my incessant monologing on the subject