How strong are your obsessions?

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As in autism-related special interests.

Do you forget to eat? Drink? etc.

I can read textbooks for something like 9 hours a day on my special interests.

However my meds increase my appetite so sometimes I get hunger, but I usually ignore it until it is unbearable and then I eat a snack. I don't really eat proper meals anymore.

Hello.

My hygiene has always been bad, mostly due to my special interests. Sometimes i'll skip a meal unknowingly but I don't actually skip it, just eat a bit later. My sleep schedule also has quite a big impact due to my interests.

I've never really had such strong obsessions I think. Most I would do is keep working on a programming project till like 3 AM.

I wouldn't skip meals or anything like that but that might be just because I still live with my parents and dinner is served at set times. I could see myself being too lazy to make a meal if I live on my own, regardless of any interests.

If I am alone I can get absorbed in something for many hours--usually until my bladder demands a bathroom break or plummeting blood sugar results in mental fogginess and forces me to the kitchen for food.

I have sometimes set up food ahead of time and situated myself near facilities, and then been able to lose myself in my interest for 18 - 20 uninterrupted hours. I suppose it is not entirely healthy, but it's one of the best feelings I know--like post-orgasmic bliss, but much longer. I can't imagine how impoverished life would be without that feverishly intense mental activity. I feel sorry for those who have never known it.

Yup. I eat at my desk.

I hate it when one obsession interferes with another obsession or an important routine. Like when I get so wrapped up in working on a drawing, or a writing project that I lose track of time and end up skipping my daily workout. Doh!

It's not uncommon for me to get up at 4:30 in the morning to work on my programming interest. I'll work on that untill my eyes go blury about 4:00pm in the afternoon. Then I'll call it a day.

On many occasions I've finished a bit of programming and take what seems like my first breath in 10 minues.

I put an mp3 album on in the background, and I sware 30 seconds later it's finished.

When I was into cars, I would buy every magazine with a car on the cover every week. It was sending my broke, and the worst of it; I would read the magazine cover to cover in an hour and a half. After several years, the articles started getting all the same, and I finaly put this obsession down.

same here

Well i think its quite strong but it doesn't interfere with my eating, sometimes it interferes with my hygiene and excursive and responsibility.

and i cant do school work anymore because im so obsessed

Strong enough, to say the least. Rarely do they interfere with my life.

I'd forget to eat if my mother didn't call me for lunch or dinner

I have the same problem.

I can be bad when it comes to my hobbies sometimes as absolutely nothing gets done (tidying up gets left, washing up gets left, I run out of clean clothes, I forget to shower...I love food so I rarely forget to eat but my eating is erratic and last night I left someone talking to themselves online whilst I got distracted by one of my hobbies again...I must not leave people talking to themselves they tend not to like this!). Society does not like this tendency in a 38 year old woman.

I am not supposed to spend all day researching sharks instead of getting my housework and whatnot done.

On saying that for anyone who is anti shark finning you can campaign against it here: http://www.sharktrust.org/en/stop_shark_finning

You can also find a number of fact sheets about sharks found in UK waters: http://www.sharktrust.org/en/british_sharks

If you feel so inclined you may also adopt a shark or donate or buy something from the shop there (they have cuddly shark toys, I want one, I collect cuddly toys..usually penguins but I want a cuddly shark now).

You can find lots of links to shark related stuff on my face book page and I have also set up a new blog for them but have not put much in it yet. I shall work on correcting that but I am supposed to be getting some daily life stuff done instead. That's the plan anyway.

I HATE GERMS
when I make my own money I will where latex gloves whenever I leave the house ugh people are gross (I'm obsessed with being clean)
I never forget to eat or drink but do forget to sleep

I can't go without WRLLing for long. But I do eat/drink regularly, sleep regularly, and take showers everyday. I can WRLL in my sleep so I am not with out my special interest. If I don't eat/drink, sleep, or take showers regularly WRLL doesn't have the same impact as when I am satisfied emotionally and physically.

Um, no, I don't forget to eat or drink or go toilet or any other essential things like that. But my obsessions are strong. It takes over my mind, and I'd even put them before work if I could.

I am also a slave to my passions. Originally, I would watch cartoons, play a few online games, and occasionally read a book. Now, I'm into looking at fanfiction, fan art, fan-made videos, and webcomics. The strength of my obsessions is really taking its toll on my life now because I'm out of school and in need of a job, even though I freak out when I even think about work.