Have you ever obsessed over someone's life?

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People on the Autistic Spectrum usually have obsessive interests. Whether they last for a few weeks or whether they last a whole life time, they can be very consuming, making the person think and talk about this obsession for a significant amount of that person's time.

Obsessions, or special interests, span across an aray of subjects. But has anyone ever found themselves obsessing over a person or a persons life? Now by this, I don't mean someone you are in love with that you can't get out of your mind. I mean it as just the same type of interest as with the subjects. Maybe it's a celebrity or sports personality. Maybe it's someone who runs an activity that you attend, a community figure or even just a friend of yours. Whoever it is, you are perhaps interested in how they live their lives, their activites and what it must be like to be them.

So yes, have you had a special interest based on a person and their lives?

Only to the point of online-stalking them.

Yea my friend is.

Yes, famous people and otherwise. Usually, post-humously. For example, Sylvia Plath. And this girl I barely knew from middle school who died at a young age and kept a journal. Anne Frank.

Like lovecholie, I get obsessed with post-humous people.

For scientists and inventors, I have obsessed over the following: Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Isaac Newton, and Leonardo da Vinci.

I find myself obsessing over Mick Avory's life, every now and again. I also find myself obsessing over the life of Michael Jackson.

Obsessing over living people IRL is creepy. I couldn't even imagine having an obsession like that.

Never obsessed - but a lot of people in my life and in history are subjects for sometimes intense data collection.

Yeah.....the lives of Aleister Crowley, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Jacques Cousteau and many others.

Yes. I've had strong obsessions with people (always friends or aquaintances of mine) for years...they come and go but they are very intense and powerful. I'm good at hiding them, though, and the obsession is limited to stalking them online as well as having them pop into my mind over the course of the day.

For almost a year (even as I was going out with another guy), I have been obsessed with a guy I used to be friends with benefits with who is into a lot of indie electronic and hip hop music. I check his last.fm and his FB for what he's listening to and then download some of the tracks. I'd never tell him that I do so, though.

Earlier this year I was obsessed with Johnny Depp. I stopped when I realized it was more about the roles he plays in movies rather than who he is as a person.

Sometimes I obsess over Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter too, but like with my Depp obsession, it's more about the movies than anything else. Though sometimes throughout the day, I do catch myself wondering what Tim and Helena are doing at a given time...

I also have a minor obsession with the life and works of Henry Darger. I identify with him in a lot of ways, and I find his artwork to be beautiful.

I've never been obsessed with people I know, but I have been obsessed with a few famous people. Not mindless celebrities you see in the media every day, but people like Steve Jobs.

I was obsessed with Sun Ra for a little while. Oh, and Wilhelm Reich.

I obsess more with childhoods and music careers, than I do about what the people that I obsess over at any given time are doing.

I would say I have always [since I discovered] been quite attracted to [is obsessed the right word] the life and work of the late/great radio presenter/disc jockey John Peel who was perhaps the worst [technically] and best DJ... he was like the father I never had and is sadly missed...

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967, until his death in 2004. He was known for his eclectic taste in music and his honest and warm broadcasting style. He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock, reggae and punk records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in various genres including alternative rock, indie rock, pop, hardcore punk, grindcore, death metal, British hip hop and dance music.

Peel's Radio 1 shows were notable for the regular 'Peel sessions', which usually consisted of four songs recorded by an artist live in the BBC's studios, and which often provided the first major national coverage to bands that later would achieve great fame (These 'sessions' are similar to 'Live Lounge' sessions recorded today for the station). Another popular feature of his shows was the annual Festive Fifty countdown of his listeners' favourite records of the year. Peel appeared frequently on British television as one of the presenters of Top of the Pops in the 1980s, and he provided voice-over commentary for a number of BBC programmes. He became popular with the audience of BBC Radio 4 for his Home Truths programme which ran from the 1990s, featuring unusual stories from listeners' domestic lives.

Grigori Perelman.