Are there any other reasons to explain obsessions?

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TutankhamonAngry
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06 Oct 2012, 5:19 am

Since I was little, i've always had some kind of interests that taked a large part of my day: could recognize almost any kind of car, and say the prize. I always drew future car models, and I have hundreds of my car drawings here. After that, I was obsessed by aliens, and i knew evrything about area 51, S4, ufo crashes etc... Now my passion is music and I spend in average 5 hours of my day playing piano.

Are there any other reasons to explain obsessive passions excluded AS ?



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06 Oct 2012, 5:25 am

S1 is what you really want to get into. Not get into the base. But learn about.

I think we have obsessions because we have an attention to detail because we process the whole environment at once, and it's too chaotic for us.


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06 Oct 2012, 5:53 am

pensieve wrote:
S1 is what you really want to get into. Not get into the base. But learn about.

I think we have obsessions because we have an attention to detail because we process the whole environment at once, and it's too chaotic for us.
sorry, maybe i've not been overt: my intention was to ask if are there other psychopathologies that in the context of obsessions are similar to asperger.



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06 Oct 2012, 12:18 pm

It's just "my thing." NT's get that reasonably well.

But, I don't think anyone but us has such obsessions. Maybe people with OCD, just their obsession being cleanliness??