Do your obsessions change?

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Do your obsessions (or fixations) change or rotate at all? Or have they been the same throughout your life?

Mine seem to do both. The previously mentioned vintage snowmobile thing has been the biggest one of my life so far, going on 16 years with no sign of slowing.

I've also had some that seem to be really strong for awhile but then fade away (Great Lakes shipwrecks, serial killers, celebrity death, etc.). Some come back later on, while others aren't ever as interesting to me again.

What about you guys?

My thing about singing has been with me since I was 5 or 6...if that even counts...My sock creature thing started out as a hard-core obsession, and now it comes and goes in cycles..But regardless of whether or not I am making them, I still...am overrun with supplies to make them and continue collecting more supplies...

I have definitely passed through phases of obsessions that are no longer with me....I still like the Beatles, but I am not obsessed with them the way I was in my early teens...to the point of ridicule...I still like vintage hats, but don't collect them obsessively the way i used to..

Mine change AND rotate.

I've had an obsession with serial killers for 3 years that has come and gone 4 times.
The first time was the most obsessed. I would spend on the weekdays from 4pm-8pm, reading/researching/writing about them. On the weekends would spend all day 9am-8pm researching/reading/writing about them. In between those times, I've been obsessed with collecting buttons and stamps, snakes, the end of the world, neurology, learning first aid and a very odd obsession...collecting lisence plate numbers from cars that i see on the road.

I've been obsessed with London, since I was 5.

Yes, my obsessions are very subject to change/rotation. I love it!

- D

Yes, my obsessions change all the time. And when I "awaken" from one, I feel as embarrassed as somebody who's misbehaved at a party. What can I say, except - it seemed like a good idea at the time?

My obsessions were shades of the same thing for many years (history related). In the last three years I've added genetics, brain development, and the autism spectrum. Talking about that stuff is lots of fun at parties.

Z

Yes mine change and rotate, my big time ones generally end up being long term and end up costing me a lot of money as well all the research etc. When I was younger it was Beanie Babies, I had hundreds and knew everything about all of them, now its films, again I have hundreds. Those are long term obsessions, my smaller obsessions are shorter term and rotate and swop a lot more, they also depend on my mood, when I was really really bad my obsessions were self harm/piercing/performance art when im better they are things like Dr Who, Disney, Buttons.

My most intense obsessions don't change, but I have moderate and mild obsessions that change a lot.

Same here.

It does change cos i used 2 have an obsession wid da weather when i was 8 but since i was 10 it was trains all da way although i like road maps trains have always been in my life.

I'm in the process of getting out of a political obsession. I know all 100 United States Senators and the majority of the House of Representatives, but I am slowly trying to get away from politics because of all the obsessions you could have, there are not many as depressing as politics, although I know there are some. I am trying to actually reignite an old obsession I have had for Geography as an alternative to Politics but it isn't working out to well. If I actually come to an analytical choice that I want a DIFFERENT obsession and really put my foot down I can often find a DIFFERENT obsession probably within the next year, but things don't change overnight or right away. But I know I will always be fixed on something, I just want politics to stop being that thing.

I have had past obsessions with animals, the NBA, Texas counties, World War II, Theology, Aspergers and of course Politics. This list is not exaustive.

I also have a fascination with the counties of Texas.

Yes. For me, they do change. Typical "major" obsessions (which for me are relatively mild compared to what I've heard of many other aspies) last a few years, gradually waning. As an example: in my teens I was obsessed with Tolkien's writings, but by the time the LotR movies came out the interest had waned so far that they were little more than a curiosity, a remnant of another time. I did go and see them in the movies (the first one four times and the rest just once), but I didn't bother buying the DVDs (as I would have just a couple of years earlier, along with all related paraphernalia I could afford). It was never about the philosophy, or the characters and their interactions. Instead it was the action and all the lovely facts about the fantasy world to be memorized.

What's more, when a completely new obsession hits, the beginning is usually extremely intense (especially with stronger obsessions). It can be hard for me to concentrate on anything else for a while, and immersing myself in the fresh obsession can bring on an incredible "hyper" state of mind, almost like a "high". Then after a while the waning starts, and it's much easier to concentrate on things like my studies and such.

Tim, how many counties can you name on a map of Texas?. Unfortunately I don't know all of them but I know a lot of them, particularly South Texas counties. Lot of info to work with for the brain when there are 254 of them.

Also, whenever I travel in Texas if I am going through a county I have not been through WHILE BY MYSELF, I always have to stop and stand on some grass in that county to feel like I can say I have really been there. If I am with someone else I don't stop, but when I am by myself I stop and stand on the grass often outside some gas station or somewhere. This means that for first time travel routes I often take a while to get where I am going, but once I have stepped in all the counties on that travel route the second time I take the route I don't stop as much.

For example, the first time I traveled by myself from Corpus Christi to Austin I had to set foot in Bee, Karnes,Wilson, Hays, and several other counties. (Hays is where San Marcos is if I recall.)

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