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27 Jun 2010, 5:34 pm

I found this study in case anyone is interested. It's about obesessions in people with ASD's.
http://autism.bibliomaker.ch/BM_DIRECTO ... /BAR12.PDF



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27 Jun 2010, 8:57 pm

Demographics
Blimps and zeppelins
Library science and information design


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27 Jun 2010, 9:09 pm

Also physical anthropology esp. primate studies, and human behaviour
Parasites- weird to some people


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28 Jun 2010, 12:27 am

Alcyon wrote:
With the utmost of good will I say that maybe we're trying too hard to impress ourselves with our "differentness"?


actually i thought the point of this thread is to prove we're not (necessarily) as weird as the 'textbook' kid who's obsessed with deep fat fryers?

this might be, however:

Alcyon wrote:
I just today happened across a mention of a club in London for those interested in stick insects. It's doing quite well, thank you, and it can't be all AS members.


but ...

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Tony (Attwood)'s own wife has described him as 'single-minded, mildly eccentric and dedicated to the good of humanity' - but he denies that he has any form of Asperger's himself! "No, I'm British! And the British have understood eccentricity. In any other country, if you are interested in toilet brushes, or collecting old washing machines, you're referred to a psychiatrist. In Britain, they make a documentary about you and call it the Antiques Roadshow!"


:lol: England, here i come ...


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28 Jun 2010, 12:39 am

katzefrau wrote:
...and i get easily attached to objects and collections of objects. and i hoard things. i make lots of lists of quotes ...


I put quotations all over the walls of my bedroom.

When I was younger, I collected TV GUIDE articles. I know that many people kept old TV GUIDEs for the possible antique value later on, but I would cut out the articles that interested me and store those.

I even went so far as to clip the little summaries of TV episodes I particularly liked (case in point, all of the STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION and STAR TREK: VOYAGER eps featuring Reg Barclay :D ) and tape them to pieces of notebook paper.

When I moved a few years ago, I forced myself to get rid of them. I hadn't looked at them in years, and taking them with me would have been impossible.

I never thought about this as a "special interest," but I guess maybe it was.

Currently: time travel (since I was very young), literary concepts like dystopias, fictional locations, etc., and logos (Love the CLG Wiki!). Also, the site "TV Tropes."


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