Have you ever obsessed over someone's life?

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I started getting obsessed with the writings & lectures by Temple Grandin. It started when I was told I should begin the diagnosis process. One nice thing about being an alum of CSU & having lots of friends from CSU is that I can just pass it off as, "Oh, well, my friend had her as a professor." <-- which is true and I watched a documentary she made in one of my classes.

As I learn to find my own way post-autism spectrum disorder diagnosis, I'll still see her as an example, but I won't cling to her example as tightly because I'll be walking down the unique path God has me go down with it's unique challenges etc. Also, her life has given me some interesting ideas for interventions that would be really cool to develop if I became a grant-writer or researcher.

Just curious, has anyone done anything productive with their people obsessions?

I enjoy following online trainwrecks, like Chris-chan or Kevin Havens.

I used to be obsessed with basically every old celebrity you can think of: Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Julie Andrews, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Liza Minnelli...I was like an 80-year-old trapped in a teenager's body, lol! I used to annoy my classmates at the private special education high school I went to by talking about Judy Garland all the time. I couldn't help it, though. To me, she was fascinating, and her voice was beautiful.

Queen Elizabeth I.

It's a rare sort of obsessing over something in my case but it does happen. Some famous serial killers, mobsters and dictators mostly, besides them there were only J.M. Barrie, Michael Jackson, H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King and Fryderyk Szopen among them who were ordinary, law abiding citizens.

King Baldwin IV The Leper now.

Yes, I had a really big obsession with Laura Ingalls Wilder when I was younger and I still do a little. I know so much about her I could work in a museum about her.

I also tend to get mini obsessions with people that can last anywhere from 2 days to around a few months. My obsession with Laura started when I was six years old and continued until I was twenty one years old. I read the books everyday until they fell apart. Even to this day I still have a small obsession with her life. I still watch the show repeatedly.

I've been getting obsessions with people ever since I was 11, and it was over both genders. But being obsessed with a woman does not mean I fancy them because I do not swing that way. I know that because I'm obsessed with the bus-drivers that operate my bus, and I talk to two of the men, and I fancy them and feel really brilliant after talking to them. But when I speak to the woman, I don't get these same feelings as I do speaking to the men, even though I love talking to her. It's just obsessiveness.

Getting obsessed over people is not a very good thing, especially if you can't keep them to yourself or if you can't help making yourself obvious to them by frequently appearing and trying to engage interaction with them. It can get embarrassing, especially if you end up being sussed out. The other day I said, ''more buses around this area are in your company at week-ends more than any other day of the week'', and she was like, ''is that why you come here at week-ends?'' I said, ''no!! !'' But after that I wish I had of said, ''I've been getting the bus here at week-ends since before your company ran these buses'', but unfortunately those words did not enter my head at the time. But those words are true, I don't just come to this particular town on the bus just because more buses are being ran by this company, but admittedly it does make the journey better, that's all.

I just hope these bus-drivers who I talk to don't go around thinking I'm some sort of stalker.

L. M. Montgomery as well.

I think I may obsess a little bit about curtain aspects about different people. For example I may obsess over curtain personality traits about in people and how they might handle curtain situations if they have similar or parts of their personality that is like mine. But I have never obsessed over someone completely to the point where i'm interested in learning everything about them.

I've done this since I was a kid...and they are always people that I've either known in person or are friends with people I know. It's limited to the point where I just check their online activities and I do not contact them in any way. They also vary quite a lot in intensity, although they are not as intense as they used to be, in that they were the primary thing on my mind. I just got over one of my biggest ones that interfered in a way with my personal life and interests over the last three years.

This girl with Aspergers at school was Obsessed with Judy Garland and Liza Minelli, and each day would tell us how many days it was to Judy Garland's birthday.

I hated her.