The Un-obsession

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It would be too easy to dismiss this as attention issues, but not all aspies have those.

What do you think of the concept of an un-obsession? Something so strongly disinteresting that you cannot focus on it?

Its perhaps a bogus statement, only useful as insight into true obsessions, and what the mechanism is behind them.

I've never seen it said that AS obsessions are stimulation issues, nor that it directly involves low levels of dopamine.

So why do certain things grab us so strongly, and others repulse equally?

something strongly disinteresting; as in something causing significantly more disinterest than usual as to be a noticable anomoly... is likely to be something pertaining to ideas buried in your personal unconscious or indeed the collective unconscious...which disagrees with what your conscious mind is happy with...

since the conscious mind could be compared with the bit of the iceberg thats out of the water....unobsessions may be as important to take notice of and become fascinated with as obsessions themselves..

Foreign languages are my unobsession. No matter how hard to try to do well in those classes, I fail.

not sure these school ones can count as 'special cases'

i found school to be generally disinteresting eheh!...

ENGLISH AND HISTORY LESSONS are my unobessions.

I don't like it!

unobsession = blindspot ?

sports... in particular-- football/soccer.... i dunno why, put i just can't see what they're doin... i never know where the ball is (in football) and i can't understand their plays... so i never understand the score... and am always lost.

not so much for soccer.... if i can get to a live game and hear the players yelling to each other what to do... then it's better

I have no particular interest in anything other than my obsession, even activities that I enjoy. But there are certain things that my mind completely refuses to deal with. This can be certain activities but mainly it is data of the type that I can regurgitate endllessly if it concerned one of my obsessions but in these certain areas I simply CANNOT remember anything.

A good example is at my current job our parent office is in the UK, throughout a typical day I will send a dozen emails to various people in the UK and after working here 6 months I still have no idea who takes care of what. If I send three emails in one day that need to be addressed by the R&D staff I have to ask everytime "Who handles the development in the UK again?"

I would have to agree about sports.. Ive tried to get interested in it before but every time I sit down and pick up the remote to turn on the TV and watch a game I suddenly hear the sound of a million brain cells screaming in terror at the prospect of their imminent doom and I just cant do it

My mind refuses to become interested in business/finance. I used to have an obsession with numbers though.

Math and writing are my un-obsessions (but I love too read)

So it is fair to say that there is something to this, and it is not simply ADD? Would you say it is the reverse face of obsession, or something else?

I want to thank you all for your insights, and ask that you continue this interesting discussion.

You're welcome!