When Others Share Your Obsession What Do You Do?

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Calm down, they're smallish lizards (real basilisks as opposed to mythical ones). Smaller than iguanas but bigger than water dragons. But they're still really cool. They look like some kind of little dinosaurs, and I mentioned they can run across water. Some people call them Jesus lizards, because of that. I'll try and find a picture if I can.

Oops i guess not. Just look them up on an image search.

So how did anyone get this



confused with this...



and what were the Harry Potter people thinking when they made that snake in the film?

Yeah well dragon bird lizard thing I can see. It's nuchal crest can appear wing like. I don't get why J.K. Rowling used the name for a giant snake though.

hold on..... you mean the picking up an intense hobby for a lil while and then putting it down and picking up something new is a symptom of Aspergers?

(I am in the midst of trying to Self Diagnose before i go to the Doc and ask her about it. I know I have issues, just trying to pin it down as much as possible. Then i can go in and go, "I do this, this, and this." Well truthfully I'll have a written list but still)

The question was so fundamental that I wasn't sure if that was supposed to be sarcastic or not - I'll assume it's a genuine question...

um.

yyyeeeessssss!!

Definitely.

There is the "Special Interest" which consists of two types of interests;
1. Lifelong interests which change in importance but never actually go away
2. Side-interests which appear out of nowhere, become really intense for a certain period - sometimes years - then disappear as suddenly as they came.


See my blog: The Dreaded Special Interest (on Life-with-Aspergers).

Hear, hear.
I don't think I've met another aspie outside from the internet to begin with, much less one with my same obsession.

yeah. don't worry, i am just catching on too. everyone talks about special interests and i thought i don't have any because i didn't know it could be like dragons or a comic book charcter or something, and also i only stay intensely interested for short periods of time-- like what gbollard calls side interests.

and gbollard, you asked about dragon books? i think there is better stuff in the young adult section rather than regular sci-fi/fantasy. and also from other countries... i guess the usa doesn't turn out as many dragon authors-- like Dragon Rider by funke is orginally german, and The Last Dragon is an italian translation. but then i also like books with more humour, so like, the Dealing with Dragons series by patrica wrede is more appealing to me than that earth/air/fire/water dragon quartet, by i forget who, which is more serious and melodramatic.

NOW, to adress the post topic--
if i like the person, then i love that they share an interest. however, i get very angry when insipid, fake, stupid people profess a like for something i also like. with music especially, i can remember getting really mad when some sluttly airhead giggles that she likes a band, and i feel like she can not possibly have the capacity to understand any of the lyrics.

I would eye them suspiciously, shrug and be on my way.

Komodo dragons are Australian...

Hmmm, Berserker, I have a fixation with dragons myself. I saw an illustration of one in a book our class picked up in the fourth grade and I fell in love head over heels.
I also have my specific image of them; bipedal, and intelligent like a human. I get distressed whenever I see them being portrayed as quadrupedal and being ridden because that for me is synonymous with being domesticated, and the fact on how I was introduced to dragons myself made that an atrocious idea. I kinda became obsessed with them because they were just not like that in my head, ya know?
Being said so, Patricia C. Wrede's series is definitely the one I've liked best.

Even if someone shares an interest with me, we're never interested in the same aspects of it or see things the same way, so for me it's useless for bonding or making friends.