Fascinated by unusual things?

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I'm, for example, a bit fascinated with water. Not all water but for example water in a bottle. When there's just a little water left in the bottle I quite often sit and tilt the bottle back and forth and look at that water going back and forth. I also shake the bottle and observe how the water (and the bubbles) moves. Does anyone else do this?

Sorry if that made no sense. It's difficult to explain it in English.

I'm certainly no expert, but isn't this more or less required to have an autism diagnosis? If not actually required, isn't it basically so common that anyone with ASD who doesn't do this would be the exception?

Well I actually meant this thread to focus specifically on the fascination felt for certain sounds or (human) movements. Yeah, a lot of Aspies obsess about water flowing, or spinning things, but I never read anything about other people feeling the same about the movement of an arm or a certain voice saying something.

I didn't know a lot of Aspies obsess about water flowing. Oh and sorry if my post was a bit off topic.

I just meant a tendency to obsess over unusual things in general, not particular, specific items.

Ok..now I want to know how that works..

I know what you mean OP, but it doesn't interest me enough to find out how something works, I just like to observe it.

I was always fascinated by the different facial expressions of cartoon characters in books, TV, and movies. Whenever I saw one I particularly liked in a movie, I would pause the movie and just admire the character in that pose for a few minutes; then unpause, or if I found something in a book, I would just stare at it for awhile, trying to commit it to my strong visual memory so I could mentally visualize it whenever I wanted to and make myself happy. Now that I have a digital camera, I take pictures of my favorite illustrations in books and load them onto my laptop, so I can see them there, as well. I still haven't figured out how to take a screencap of, say, a Youtube video yet tho, booooo.

With the pictures I save on my laptop, I like to go to my Pictures library, pull up a few favorite ones, and then take turns admiring each one. Right now my favorite pictures in my library are some of concept art that Disney animator Jin Kim did for Ralph in Wreck-It Ralph. I have a feeling that when the WIR DVD comes out and I get it, I'm gonna be doing the whole "pause-unpause" thing I described above as I watch.

I find company logos rather interesting, and often try to find ones that look alike.


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[quote="Sauceball"]I find company logos rather interesting, and often try to find ones that look alike.

Logos are indeed interesting. They even have a game about what company a logo (or even a portion of a logo) represents and what "hidden meanings" are contained within a logo (like the well-known arrow in the "Ex" in the FedEx logo or the smile from "a" to "z" in the Amazon.com logo). Band logos are quite intriguing, especially industrial and death metal ones:

I REALLY like the look and feel of metals. I especially like various steel alloys and titanium. I have a lot of high quality knives because I like steel so much but I like bars, rods, ball bearings, and even just pieces of metal objects.

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I have echolalia and what you just described is when I want to repeat something someone has just said. This seems like echopraxia, meaning you would do the opposite of what I do; repeat movements other people do.

I do it with words too which is why I am quite taken with making co-relations for databases and try to integrate snowflake and star schemas when possible. (No I don't work in the field but I would love to . Do the object relational a for fun!).

I do he word repetition thing thing thing and I didn't know it had a name!

The majority of items I stim with are metal. The smoothness and coldness are rather desirable as are the objects themselves.

Do bookmarks count? I've started a collection of them.

I think in the end it all depends on what you classify as unusual. Is it beyond the normal scope within the society you belong to? Unusually genetically, for your age? For your community? For your gender?

Too many variables need to be put into consideration when we wish to categorize the word "unuual"within the context of individualistic tastes and preferences.