Feeling Embarrassed after obsession has past

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I always thought "being embarassed afterwards" was what obsession was FOR?

No?

M

PS I MAY have done the "embarassing romantic interests" once or twice, but a VERY long time ago...honest

The "Outlander" series by Diana Gabaldon, which didn't seem embarrassing at the time but now looking back...

Obsessions with people, definitely. Especially marrying my ex-husband. Egads what was I thinking.

Currently mildly embarrassed by obsession with celebrity trash gossip blogs.

Not really, except when I liked certain heavy rock. It was embarrassing after that.

I have been obsessed with reading catalogues over and over(Especially Argos) and when people bring it up today it can be a bit embarrassing.

Well that book has changed my life and carry it, wherever I go

I don't choose my obsessions, they choose me. -_-

I pick them up as I go along. Each one has seemed to last about 5 years.

I have been embarrassed about some of my obsessions and I am so ashamed couple of them are mentioned in my medical records when I was being assessed for AS and I just cannot read it all. I will never post the papers online either. I had only posted the last page of it and the other page where he talked about he had been doing a follow up on me for Asperger's after he diagnosed me. I will never share the papers with anyone either in the autism groups if the leaders decide to have us members bring in our DX papers to share with the others. Maybe I will just rip off the last page and share it.


Now I have an obsession now I am trying to keep a secret and I told my husband to not tell my parents. I just feel embarrassed about my obsessions now and don't like talking about them. I also don't let myself go on and on about them. When my mom came over to visit, I remembered to shut the music off I was listening to that had to do with my interest. I did forget when she came over and then I realized it was still on so I paused it and she didn't say anything.

I also went through a serial killer phase too. I was also embarrassed about it.

One time I was obsessed with Chuck E. Cheese's.

Yeah that was the first thing that came to my head. I get embarrassed about like 99% of the crushes I've had. See once I stop liking them, I dont understand what I saw in them? I finally get to see them for who they are.

When I was aged 13-16 I used to be obsessed with some people who I really regret being obsessed with now. I used to stalk them because I was just so obsessed, and I lost friends because of it.

Now I just cringe when I get reminded of those people. I'm obsessed with better people now who I don't cringe at, and I don't stalk them either or do any other embarrassing behvaiour like that.

I hate everything I used to be and love.

Not really about the obsession itself but rather about the quick rate my obessions changed and maybe about my harry potter obsession cause i used to walk around with my wand wherever i'd go pretending i was a wizard and i had to protect everyone(that happened till i got 16)

...or make me cringe.

Embarrassment aside, and at least most of the past obsessions have been put away into the personal "vault", the main regret now is the time wasted unnecessarily.

My wake up call on the social implications of this was I went away to college and was tossed into a dorm with a roommate, et al. I quickly figured out that the "odd" obsessive habits weren't going to cut it and sorta went into a cocoon for awhile while sorting out what was within "normal" limits. Didn't sleep more than a couple hours the entire first week there, though.