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"Aspie porn" - stuff we really love

grommet

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Sorry for the title but I have heard many people use it before and it does seems to describe well the things we love.

I am very pleased to have my new Ilco key blank directory. It shows hundreds of key designs along with actual size diagrams so you can lay your key on the page to help identify it. It's very exciting for me.

Someone asked in another thread about what would you do if you had lottery winnings. I guess if I had the money to spend, I would love to get a Wenxing Compact Standard Key Duplicator with manual feed. It's the silliest thing and I know most people want other things like cell phones and I don't really know what else people get all excited about but I really want to make my own keys.

I have a list of locksmithing equipment I would love to have.

The things we love really make us (aspies) happy. They don't seem to make sense to other people but we love them. I remember seeing a woman who was a contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Asked what she would do with the money she only talked about one thing, wanting a an unabridged full-sized Oxford English dictionary. She seemed really happy talking about it and the host seemed bewildered. The woman said she would put the book on it's own stand and show it to friends.

I don't know, some stuff just really makes us happy and it's not the stuff that everybody else seems to want.
 
The key directory sounds very interesting, if I was fascinated with keys and locks I would find it exciting too. Happen to be interested in locks a little because of the way they work, their mechanisms and their history.

Have several locks that I still use, one is a piece of forged metal in the shape of a U with a flat piece of metal hinged to it at the top of the U, it's cleverly forged so that the hinged part fits into the top of the U and you secure it together with an elaborate but small internal bolt. I've used it on my bike for years, and the only way a thief could remove it is with a hacksaw or blowtorch. I once saw someone through a store window consider my bike for stealing, he touched the locking mechanism and his face looked puzzled. He had a large bolt cutter at his side, as he turned away I ran out, and stood by my bike. He walked away quickly.

I like paper, of any sort, as I do quite a lot of collage art. Once went to a paper making factory, where they make both art paper in large sheets and vellum and newspaper. The textures, the feel of the paper and the sound of it when you touch it or mark it or cut it or rip it, is what enthuses me, as anything is possible.

Suppose that the things that fascinate some people are often simply useful objects for others. Unappreciated and somewhat unknown to them in detail.
 
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It's funny how some words are reused. When I used to hear the word "porn", I would think of dirty pictures of naked people. Today, we use it as a means to describe something that gives you great pleasure. Funny how times change.
 
It's funny how some words are reused. When I used to hear the word "porn", I would think of dirty pictures of naked people. Today, we use it as a means to describe something that gives you great pleasure.
In that context, it usually means an obsessive collection of images.
 
I have access to to both an Ilco and a Hillman key directory I do love my keys and cutting them, it's one of the best things about working at a hardware store. But my preferred pornographic material is knife catalogs, especially case knives.
 
A collection of electronic equipment for making and repairing gadgets. I love to tinker
 
My books, especially my reference books. I have over 70 medical books with various degrees of usefulness but some of them are absolutely book porn for me.
And I love my cookbook that doesn't contain that many recipes but mostly lists ingredients and cookware instead, with detailed background information about pretty much every type of ingredient and helpful tips on what to look for when buying.
Plus it describes how to prepare squirrel. Useful knowledge.
 
My porn books are service manuals and parts books. I own a whole library of these kind of books, that I have collected over the years. They are mostly automotive and equipment. Reading these books is almost (but not quite) as good taking the machine apart to see how everything works.
 
My people :)

Thank you for responding. I am choked with emotion. As an aspie I feel lonely every day because I am not like anyone around me. But when I am with my people I feel great, I feel like I am okay, like this is who I was meant to be.

I felt awkward about the thread title, but a few years ago I found a website with high-end electrical connectors. I had never seen such high quality stuff. And I felt it. It was my porn. I got so exited I was floating. I loved each connector like it was a person. Odd I know but it's who I am.

I know how much we love things. I understood when one aspie from our group showed me on Skype what she loved so much. For privacy I won't give details but though the objects my have been ordinary to someone else, they were life to her. I understood so well.

People don't like us. I may be wrong but after a lifetime being aspie, it's what I think. I don't know why they feel that way.

What Nitro did, when Nitro machined the candle to fit the holder he wanted to use .. I wonder if NT's could understand the genius of that. It seems simple but it isn't. We aspie don't mind work, we won't stop doing something hard if we see what we want at the end of it. We will go for what we want. People see us as shy but we are determined in a way that is incredible.

Nitro made things be the way he wanted and he did it beautifully. I love that he did that. One of my proudest moments as an aspie. They laugh at us and don't understand why we do what we do but, we have superpowers. They change their minds quickly, we never give up. And the love we feel for what we do is so honest.

We get picked on and ignored, but we make the rockets fly to the moon. We translate the poetry from dead languages so that it comes back to life in the world again. We cure things, we care for things and we don't forget things so that when people again take an interest in them, we the caretakers made sure they can have them.

We are quiet and we are smart and we, never give up.

In my mind I go to a meeting of aspies, a big room. People each have their own tables set up with all their interests. We go from table to table learning. What a wonderful thing.

I know we aren't like them but we are like each other and thank you for being my friends.
 
When I started getting interested in TV shows and movies I began a collection of cut out articles of TV guides. I kept recent TV guides and then cut out all the summaries about shows or movies I liked, I wanted to see or which featured an actor I was interested in. I also cut out other articles and collected them, such as book reviews, interviews or texts about other topics I found interesting.
There are various categories and each article is sorted to one and put on the right place.
I have some folders full with these articles now and still keep doing this. It's a fun thing for me to do and I could do it for hours.
I don't have that much time anymore sadly, so I don't do it as much as I used to when I was at highschool and I also have periods when other more changing interests catch my attention and I rather do something else for a while. But then I still keep the TV guides unitl I find the time to engage in this process of cutting out and sorting again.
I really like to look through the articles as well and I'm happy when I get the summary of an episode of something I haven't collected yet, so I can complete this part.

Side note: Once I got a book for my birthday about a TV show, which included, besides other information, a list of all the episodes up to the point of publication, sorted into categories, just like I did with the articles regarding the TV show. I immediately started to compare that list with my collection and took some notes about what I already had collected etc.
 
Verb charts for my favorite languages
could look at them all day
We have all been there, right? I mean, who hasn't snuck a peak at a cholan or yucatec grammar and thought to themselves "Whoa, would you look at the adverbial particles on that one!"
Don't lie. We all do it.
 
I consider myself asexual, so our "porn" is jokingly described as "The plumber comes to your house and your drains actually work when he leaves."

Otherwise, friends accuse me of "Food Porn" (because I like to look at, watch, critique and sometimes taste), AND ..... the best of all ..... is INSTRUCTION MANUALS!!!

I love learning how to do something, and I'll keep manuals for years, because I can read and refer to them at leisure. Other than obsessing over the event (and other) logs on my computer, the way to my heart is food and instruction manuals.
 
Quantum physics. I am not a physicist, and don't have the depth of knowledge or expertise of mathematics to fully understand all of it, but I love reading about it. Any mention of the Standard Model, Super Symmetry, M theory... don't get me started on superconductors, Bose-Einstein Condensate or particle accelerators... (Oh, that's why they call it 'porn'!) But the weird obsession that I can't seem to shake is reading TV fan fiction (which I hate) simply so I can correct the grammar and spelling. I am so ashamed.:eek:
 

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