Can AS obsessions come in the form of thoughts?

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Just wondering. Even though I've been professionally diagnosed (unexpectedly) many of my friends and family members don't believe I have AS partly because I have a wide range of interests/hobbies. Though, in an earlier thread, someone mentioned that sometimes AS obsessions or interests can come in the form of thoughts, and my mind is very repetitive. It travels 500 mph and is like a broken record. I've had the same thoughts every day, sometimes lasting for years. My repetitive daydreams have often been related to interests, but this hasn't been the case all the time. Sometimes, if I have nothing good to think about, I'll do repetitive worrying just for the sake of dealing with stress or keeping my mind busy, unless I find something else to do. Also I have a tendency to repeat certain songs or CDs over again everyday, and in college I was once playing the same CD (for an hour or 2, I think) every day for a month, because the music was like bliss.
What do you guys make of this?

I would say yes. Happens to me all the time.

I have had this happen to me as well.

Actually there are only 2 possible state of my mind: Thinking with very intensity on a subject or space out. If I don't have anything to think about I usually focus on strange things, that's why a doctor (when I was young) said to me:

"You should always focus on a real problem, try to avoid not thinking or thinking on a spare argument, find a topic (an "intelligent" one) and try to think/solve it". It worked pretty well for me, but I don't know if many people are able to choce/drive their obsessions.

Sure it can be so. I think it's called perseveration when it's in the thoughts.
I know that from myself, where a (worrying or sad) thought can stick in my mind, and the longer I repeat the thought, the harder it is to stop it again. If it goes on too long, I might get depressed.

Have just had such a kind of thinking in the last days, but realised I had to talk to someone about them, so they wouldn't set too deep roots and fill all my mind, as they tended to do. In this time I need to find a new place to live and figure out what kind of job to seek, and that's a problem already because of executive dysfunction, let alone when those obsessive or perseverating thoughts fill it all up.
Now it's going better.

That is my life. Extremely obsessive in thought over key issues. Debilitating in a way.

Thinking about negative past events can be a pitfall. It's happened to me before, still does. I have repetitive thoughts and narrow interests, both.