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06 Aug 2009, 4:58 am

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Here goes my confession...

I'm not really sure whether this qualifies as an obsession; I'd say it's rather a recurring thought I cannot get rid of. I can't stop thinking about people's navels. I find outie navels absolutely repulsive, and I can't really feel comfortable with a new acquaintance until years pass and I find a chance to find out whether that navel is a neat, clean, undeformed innie. I know this sounds stupid, and it ashames me to be under this compulsion to check navels (sometimes I think this is a ridiculous form of lookism), but I haven't been able to stop thinking about this.

OK, that's it. I said it finally.


Human navels are pretty gross! Have you heard of the guy that got his navel surgically removed because he thought they looked ugly? I think I read about it in Ripley's Believe It or Not


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07 Aug 2009, 4:42 pm

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The most macabre/weird interest I ever had was with famous 'freaks' and sideshows of yesteryear. I went through a special interest in Nazi Germany a few times, that would include the holocaust.


I had an obsession with Nazi Germany in general for about a year, and I still pretty much have one with Hitler. It continually puzzles/fascinates me how he could be clearly of high intelligence - Mein Kampf is the work of a social and political genius - yet something in his fundamental viewpoint so wrong.

It has been debated that he was mildly autistic, and although I don't think that that is correct, it does hold true that he seemed to understand people only in the way that someone understands a machine. This action logically causes this result in them, and so forth. Not understanding in a true sense; not able to really relate to them.



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07 Aug 2009, 6:28 pm

I at one time studied the guillotine in depth and the possible horror of being cognizant of the act .



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07 Aug 2009, 6:41 pm

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I still kind of enjoy watching videos of the WTC collapse on 9/11.

I was at home when it happened, and I obsessively video-taped the next 12 hours of news coverage, glued to the TV with grim fascination, secretly eager for something else to be destroyed.


wow! something similuar with me too. Its fashinating just because its real and not a fiction blockbuster actionmovie

and good to know Im not alone around the serial killers. The more extreme they kill the more interesting and fashinating it is....but for me this is old interests of mine I havent digged in for many many years
When I was a teenager I totally fell in love with a murderer who was exposed alot in the media and the whole country hated him for what he did, but not me....that upset everyone around me to the very extreme...

I have also been very intrerested in so called "freaks", like deformed people with very unusual disorders, like siamese twins, elephant man and similuar...


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07 Aug 2009, 11:17 pm

Let's see my morbid interests are methods of execution, the Holocaust, suicide, human and animal diseases, human birth defects, human mental illness, and serial killers.



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07 Aug 2009, 11:43 pm

I like shows that deal with haunted houses that kind of thing. Like Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures


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08 Aug 2009, 1:41 am

Acacia wrote:
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I still kind of enjoy watching videos of the WTC collapse on 9/11.

I was at home when it happened, and I obsessively video-taped the next 12 hours of news coverage, glued to the TV with grim fascination, secretly eager for something else to be destroyed.

Same here. In the aftermath I felt some anger in the vein of "how dare they do that to us" but at the same time I was secretly excited whenever the official death toll went up and slightly disappointed when it went down. Not that I was happy that any specific person died in the attacks. I felt sad about that. I just found the high numbers exciting. I guess I'm a horrible person. :oops:



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08 Aug 2009, 3:54 am

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I have been there with the suicide thing. I would spend a lot of time at the alt.suicide.holiday group.

It's not as bad as my current one though - traumatic brain injury. I met a guy in class who has been in a car accident and suffered TBI. I am particularly fascinated with the accidents that cause it. I have been making an effort to talk to this guy so I can hear about his story.
dont expect he remembers much though..my friend crashed a pole 80km/h and just says all blacked out 1km before crash place and next thing he remembers is that doctor was talking to him he was perfectly ok :P anyway most weird from me migth be medical restraints


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08 Aug 2009, 4:56 am

Hmmm... nothing too horrible for me, I guess. I really like child murderers. Mary Bell is my favorite. And along those lines I just saw that Esther movie, that was pretty cool. I like the idea of a child seductress.

I am also interested in plane crashes. Kind of mostly in the idea of something really big falling out of the sky. I keep having dreams about it. (not just planes, lots of different things involving stuff falling from the sky) I'm always on the ground watching it though, so I don't see the gory aspect of it. I love seeing it in movies too. The TV show Lost has some great plane crash scenes.

You guys are not alone in enjoying big disasters. They are very exciting. I don't think it's too horrible to think so. I mean, we all know it's too bad for all the people who died, (and I'll totally help out afterwords if the opportunity comes up) but, you know.. as long as it's happening, there's no sense in not relishing the excitement and anticipation, you know?


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08 Aug 2009, 7:05 am

and I cant help thinking this thread is cool. I would never dream I could share my oddest obsessions with other aspies...
and I have also been into childmurderers and disasters....

so....once we are all into it, why not share more of it, like....links...?


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08 Aug 2009, 8:05 am

Economic crises especially hyperinflations (see my avatar) and sharia law.

Not as strange as other obsessions here, but I can't exactly mention them around many people.


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08 Aug 2009, 8:21 am

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I still kind of enjoy watching videos of the WTC collapse on 9/11.


You wrote my secret shame... :cry:

I have an obsession with buildings being destroyed by any means though, I wasn't really thinking too much about all the poor people inside the towers (I never really thought about it until more recently) because I was too busy studying the shape of the structures and how they collapsed... I watch buildings on fire on the internet for some reason (would never start a fire myself you'll be glad to know) and I have an interest in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster which my mum says is a little morbid, but again I am more interested in the explosion and Pripyat, the ghost town that is near the plant. I love watching nature re-claiming the land.

To finish this, I am obsessed with cutesy wutesy bunny wabbits (please remember me for this! :lol: )


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