Ever felt that your obsession is a waste of time?

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Canyonwind....I hear a song in what that guy said..



"No car,no house....lives in a tent........not to good....for a white guy"thats going to bounce around my cavern like cranium for some time....


and 12 ways to bore people.......LOL

*agrees* When I'm in the grip of an obsession, I feel an almost manic need to pursue it.

Sometimes over the years I've ended up spending too much money buying things related to an obsession, and then regretted it afterwards when the obsession's over. I really try and fight hard not to do that now, and try and pursue it in other ways (the internet's hugely helpful for that). I think I'm also becoming quite good at reading myself now and distinguishing between something that might be a particularly strong obsession at that point in time but I know that I'll always be interested in to some degree, and something which might be an obsession today, but I'll have *totally* lost interest in in a month's time. It's hard to explain how; I just know the difference.

I'm 32 and I act the same way.

Is that what AS is in a lot of ways, an inability to mature and instead get 'stuck' at a certain mental age? I'm thinking also of the way that children tend to be very literal and direct; how they will take things at face value and usually say what they think without realizing it might be rude.

Not really, I have had some really long time obbsession that i have had for years and years (baby thing / mountain bike / Computers) and i seem to go from one bit of thease in great detail to another. For example, about a month / 6 weeks ago i was obbsessed with gettting a Cot, then it was getting a Mac, now it back to the Cot again.

Before ig got my first decent bike i use to sit ontop of my bed and stare at a review of it, i memorised the review off by heart. Also at one point i got totally obbsessed with the song "blua aba dee aba di" and i played the tape i had made of it over and over and over for several hours. Untill i knoew the lyrics perfectly, and then for moth i quited them at epople, i did a similar thing with the lion king, and the matrix films!

^licks^

jammie & lion

People keep saying that their obsessions make them the person they are and make them happy. Good for them, I guess. My obsessions get me high until I crash and look at the wreckage around me.

I was working in a zoo a thousand miles from anywhere I'd been before. A guy came through the antelope exhibit and we got to talking about the animals; then suddenly he asked me, "You ever been to mexico?"

"A couple of times," I said, and told him when and where.

"I thought that was you," he said. We had gone there together on a student trip years before. What he remembered was one conversation. "You were sitting on the beach reading chinese poetry," he said, "I asked you if you did that a lot, and you told me, 'It passes the time between birth and death.'"

I guess he thought that was an unusual thing to say.

I do not think that my obsessions are a waste of time I sometimes think that they are not on my age level but so what I am enjoying myself and not hurting anyone. I think that several of my obsessions have been helpful as a lot of them have to do with information on various subjects and information is always usefull

I’m still having difficulty knowing exactly how much you have to be into something for it to be an obsession. But yes I think most often (at least in recent years) I get useless obsessions that are a complete waste of time, like various kinds of games, reading fiction, watching the Gilmore girls, and coming to this web site.

But if I’m into something scientific like psychology I don’t consider that a waste of time.

I wonder how much difference there is between,what AS refers to as "obsessions" and "addictive personality Disorder" label refers to as "addictions"....Long before I heard of AS,I assumed that my "obsessions"....reading,biking,art,rocks,herbology....were an extension of my chemical addiction.I assumed that the same function that "made" me an Alcoholic" also made me use these things as escapes from "reality" and socializing(as they were all solo pursuits).Alcohol was an escape from my social phobia,as it allowed me to be around others with out over loading(or getting bored).Now,that I am learning about AS I have to re-examine my prior assumption's feel like I can stop "beating myself up" for my "obsessions"....allow myself to enjoy them without shame as long as they dont keep me from getting my daily"responsibilities" done.

krex

That one really got me wondering.

It's strange how everything in my life revolves around my obsession (currently Damon Albarn, lead singer of Blur, Gorillaz, The Good The Bad and The Queen). It makes me feel like I'm 14, having his posters on my wall, drawing pictures of him, listening to his albums, imagining we're in love... when I'm turning 23. But aside from that, though... I think I've accomplished more being obsessed with him than what most normal people accomplish not being obsessed with anything. I'm one of the types that has obsessions for quite long periods of time (with a few short ones), so I've been obsessed with Damon for about 5 years now. It taught me to draw, play piano, play some guitar, study some basic British pop music history, travel to London, formulate some ideas about art (which I studied in college, where my Professors were very understanding of my need to make and obsession with Damon Albarn an art process).

I don't think it's a waste of time. I think I'm lucky that I've got a passion for something, even as it appears silly to others.

And when it's over? Ebay.