obsession with knowing everything

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Two words: Monkey curiosity.

I might be considered a know it all when it comes to people who have met me, I don't really think I am, I do have a voracious appetite for information, news, strange news, science breakthroughs, I am always on wikipedia, I know it can be a bad source for information, but it gets addicting. I am always on Slashdot and Fark, they are the first websites I look at in the morning, I have the weirdest web addiction, for some people its porn, for me its all Info, all day

I get lost on Wikipedia :D so many pages linking to other pages. I can't stop!! :D

My husband just shakes his head... I have a lot of academic journals in the house. What's the point of being able to read Harry Potter in Latin? None. But it makes me happy... and I don't bother telling anyone about it because they just think I'm completely crazy or trying to make them feel bad. Which I'm not. I just wish I had the mental stamina to go back to university.

i am an aspie and i love to find out all i can about it and the best way i can do that is here because no guide can explain every aspie

Sometimes I have to know everything about a subject and will not stop for a while, sometimes consuming days and hours until I reach a point where it bores me and I move on to another subject. I have done this throughout my life in all subjects, when I thought I had mastered them I got bored and moved on to another. I find myself even doing that with TV shows now, I wait until a series has ended or has run along time, then go buy them all on DVD and sit down and watch them all pretty much at the same time. I annoy my family because I like to FF the movie while having the subtitles on so I can read what they are saying without having to wait through all that nonsense dramatic music or pauses, just so that I can know the story and follow along till the next one. And if a scene comes up that I like I watch it over and over again. I learn about the cast and crew, what other projects they are working on , even family history sometime, (no I am not a stalker or anything I just find myself wanting to know everything.) I too can get lost on Wikepedia for hours on end constantly clicking on the links within the articles to know more information.

I usually wait until they are marked down or I find them at Yard sales or flea markets, I got the entire set of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD for 20 bucks, Friends for 50 and so forth so not really alot of money into them

I have to know EVERYTHING.


love your av, by the way. :D

Yeah. I can get totally engrossed in learning ALL the details of some new subject. I have worked hard to keep it from negatively impacting the time I need to spend to subsist.

I have sat and looked at big bookcases (hundreds of books) and wished that I could sit down and learn everything that they had in them. Just the thought of it would give me a rush!

I get engrossed in all subjects, no matter how ridiculous.

I have not had any new obsessions in over ten years. Even my latest interests are taken from a store of knowledge I have accumulated over the years. I have been a cat lover all my life. My interest in Roger Bannister grew from an earlier interest in Olympic track and field that began when I was 20. My interest in Greece predated the Olympic Games. I learned about Greek history in junior high and have been fascinated with some aspect of it ever since.