My Strange Addiction

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I'm thinking about auditioning to be on that show. I could be on it for my Lion King obsession or my meerkat one. The most dangerous place in the world is between me and my meerkat obsession and I enjoy it. I want to go on it because I can't leave the house without my bearded dragon. When she brumates, I am basicaly a shut in. I'm going to need to go to college sooner or later and I have severe PTSD from being bullied as a kid and can't even watch TV shows that take place in a school enviroment.

I'm considering auditioning for that show Would they just try and make me look like an idot?

Off-topic, but I think you can go to college online...

I'd also like to go on that show, and talk about my Kinks fixation on national TV, dressed in the same stage uniform that they wore when 'You Really Got Me' hit #1 on the charts. The red jacket, frilly yellow shirt and the black slacks. My mum would have a heart attack. "My obsession had to come out sooner or later, mum. Too bad it had to happn on TV, instead of your home!"

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I think the title of that reality show should actually be My Strange Obsession, as the meaning of addiction is that it is physically necessary for survival, like being addicted to heroin, cocaine and the like, where if the addictive substance/behaviour was removed suddenly, the result would could be death.

On the Hoarders reality series, the hoarders suffer from an obsession. Everything is saved, including food wrappings and rotten edibles After receiving counselling many are able to kick their obsession with collecting junk, as they choose.

I do not like going out without my keys dangling from my belt. I have a hundred in my collection, in a couple of cookie tins. i am very attached to them but I know I would not physically suffer and die if they were suddenly stolen from me. This is the difference between obsession and addiction. Collections themselves are not lethal, unless they get to the hoarding stage.

I saw a TV advertisment for this show and the examples given were one woman who could not interact/function in public wihout her ventriloquist dummy. The other was a woman who seemed to suffer from pica, in this case she craved eating Comet cleanser powder. Both of these obsessions did not involve life threatening addictions. That the two women did not want to give them up did not involve a physical addiction, but a mental obsession. Not to be taken lightly, but there was no danger of death (unless you count the Comet eater, who risked severe health issues if she did not get rid of the cleanser fixation.

People suffering from bulemia and anorexia, though, have severe food issues, and this is more of an addictive behaviour due to the physical harm resulting from vomiting, binging and starvation. The extreme obesity depicted in such shows as Half Ton Mom is an example of food addiction that has put the person at risk for death. In the case of this mom, she died in hospital after complications from adipose tissue surgery, leaving her two daughters parentless.

The word addiction is a loaded word, and the title alone would entice people to look and watch the show, which is, of course the point. I suppose the addicts featured get paid as well.

I think TV land is running out of ideas for reality series. We are scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Good luck to all who want to audition. Though, I will not be tuning in.

Just don't go on the Jerry Springer Show

I hear he makes a fool out of people on there and has the audience laugh at them and mock them.

It's too bad that MTV doesn't make new episodes of Totally Obsessed anymore. That show was more about special interest-type fixations than My Strange Addiction is. My Strange Addiction is more about weird habits people have, such as eating non-edibles, strange sleeping habits, exercise addictions, etc.

As an example of the differences between the two shows, if I wanted to talk about my Alice in Wonderland obsession I would audition for Totally Obsessed, but if I wanted to go on My Strange Addiction, I would have to talk about something like my dermatillomania (compulsive skin-picking) instead.

I think they might take only people who want to be "cured" of their addictions/obsessions.

The problem is that your obsessions aren't particularly strange or interesting. The Lion King was a massive Disney production that has millions of fans worldwide and everyone's talking about meerkats these days as well; if they're not on the TV in silly commercials, they're boring us to death in wildlife documentaries.

Ouch.

You still have to go into classrooms and physical places for tests and labs. I don't think you can get a bachlor's or master's online. I don't think one can attend vet school online.




Yes, but I doubt everyone else insanley collects anything to do with meerkats and considers body modication. I'm considering having my ear lobes swen so they will look more like a meerkat's ears and having them tattoed black. I've wanted meerkat stripe tattoos on my back ever since I can remember. I seriously dobt that people have considred sucide because their parents wouldn't let them talk about meerkats anymore. Compare the Meerkat aparently is a UK thing. I'm in the US. I've NEVER seen a Compare the Meerkat comercial on the TV. Meerkat Manor hasn't had any new epposodes forever. I wanted to be on VHI's Tottaly Obsessed for my meerkat obsession. I don't want someone trying to cure me of it, I just like to show the world I am proud to me "weird".

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Another obsession to add here involves body modification. An interesting example is the Lizardman, aka Erik Sprague, who works as a Freakshow performer in the US.


http://www.thelizardman.com/faq.html (Not a link).

Fact can really be stranger than fiction. I suppose what he does and has been done to him pays the bills. We all gotta live.

Is he obsessed? He would deny this. Do I care? Most definitely not.

sartresue's definition of addiction is incorrect.

Anyway, I recall one time while my cousin was visiting, she had a test to take for a college course, and she took it online. It was a multiple-choice quiz and she just had to fill it out at her leisure, the only restriction being that she had to submit her answers before a certain time. She aced it and passed the course.

Does he actualy have an obsession with lizards and reptiles like I do? Does Stalking Cat, aka Dennis Avner, have an obsession with tigers and felines? Somehow I don't think they do. I think I am more of a "furry" because I've always felt as if I was born the wrong species. Stalking Cat has even admitted he dosen't consider himself a furry. I want to have a meerkat costume/fursuit made but I don't think I could wear it constantaly. My parents are so against me being a furry, because it's "not normal" but I think they are still under the faulse idea that furries are synomous with "yiffers". Anyway, I'd rather spend the money and go to the Kalahari Desert and make friends with real meerkats as opposed to spending so much on a costume and befriending people who pretend to be meerkats.

I would only wat body mod if it were functional in some way. By which I mean:

Cat ears must at least be able to move almost exactly like cat ears, preferably through actual nerve impulses, if not hear. I worked out very young what muscles in my body corresponded to the muscles that move a cat's ears. Only recently did I find out I was right.

Tail likewise must move like a cat's tail in all possible positions.

Whiskers should at least be able to move into the real positions of cat whiskers but very preferably should somehow create enhanced touch sensation to be able to feel air movement around objects and other things like that.

Otherwise I can just strap these things onto my body a lot cheaper.

Would also be cool if my face protruded in a similar way to a cat's -- when I am nuzzling with my cat that's how I feel it anyway. Whatever body map I have internally has a lot in common with a cat. Possibly because I have very poor body sense and have been connecting with cat's since infancy.

But I totally understand your desire. I'm just figuring if I were going to pay all that I want the alterations to be more than cosmetic (I can do cosmetic without the money). I would express emotion so easily if I had ears, whiskers and a tail like a cat's actually responsive to my thoughts.

I had no clue any of this was weird until someone called me a "furry lifestyler" for this and other things. I don't really identify with that community though.

It would be cool to look like a Na'vi from the movie Avatar. It would be even better to be able to do the same things they can and to be as tough and strong.

The furry community seems as if one big joke. Why do furries draw pictures of female animals with breasts in the same placement as humans? Horses DO NOT have hands. If you want to have a horse hold an object, give it extra wrist strength. And about the breast thing, humans are the only species to develop them before getting pregnant. The furry community is just too human focused. I remember feeling like I was born a cat or not a person as young as four. Forget body dysporphia, I have species dysporpia. I've just learned how to "pretend" to be a human after 23 years.

The Na'vi make Fur Con addendees look plausable as animals. They may have tails and cat ears but they are still humoniod. When I first heard about the book, The Island of Doctor Moreau, my mental image of the cat people expirments looked like the Na'vi, only instead of blue they were diffrent shades of brown.