What are your obsessions?

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Current: the Internet, websites, domains, content management systems, programming, startups, etc.

Past: languages, music, survival, art, travel, search engines.

 

[rx7chick]

I have 2. Marilyn Manson...very intense and long term. I drove and flew all over the US and the world to see him. I was always the oldest person at his concerts and other concert goers were either curious or freaked out by me. I didn't care...just there to see him in all his mad glory. I have a MASSIVE collection of memorabilia, vinyl, and CDs. Second, computer games, especially first person shooters. I am obsessed with the original Half Life and I have been playing it steadily, using mods, 15 years. I collect any kind of first person shooters, and old abandonware games.

 

[shakeitup94]

Earthquakes are my big obsession and have been for nearly 14 years. But that is always supplemented by a TV show I like at the time. This switches about once every year or two. I've had 6 TV shows in about 10 years. Also always supplemented with one of my favourite actors from that TV show but that switches within the show.

 

[amusic20]

Animals -- all kinds, really, though lately it's birds, because I volunteer at a bird rescue.
Movies -- though not so much now that the Oscars are over.
Music -- playing the flute, though usually only obsessed when I'm practicing or have band rehearsal
Food -- certain foods, like peanut butter, chocolate, & other sweets, cause me to overeat and/or binge

 

[Gratiaetnatura]

Im surprised i didnt find a thread about what everyones obsessions are, since thats the one characteristic that defines people on the spectrum. so thought i would start one

For me, I have an unhealthy obsession about books and japanase manga. I have a huge library of books ranging all the way from The Godfather to Clarke's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are a ton of others i have collected but havent gotten around to reading them yet, for some reason just owning them feels like ive completed my goal. As for manga, i mainly read them online (cause they are sooo expensive where i live) and have a digital library of over 300 titles.

So what keeps your mind occupied?

I have many obsessions--the Eastern Roman Empire from the fall of the West to 1453, ghosts, horror fiction and movies. I'm obsessed with death, probably since I had a fraternal twin brother who died two hours after birth. My biggest obsession is the heart--I have always been fascinated by its beating, to the point of having a fetish to hear a woman's heartbeat. But my interest is also expressed in reading all I can about the heart. I've often felt like a freak for this fascination--it is what helped lead my therapist to diagnose me with Asperger's Syndrome.

 

[CloudDog]

Changes all the time... Theatre at the moment - writing and producing

 

[Tycho Berglund]

Im surprised i didnt find a thread about what everyones obsessions are, since thats the one characteristic that defines people on the spectrum. so thought i would start one

For me, I have an unhealthy obsession about books and japanase manga. I have a huge library of books ranging all the way from The Godfather to Clarke's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are a ton of others i have collected but havent gotten around to reading them yet, for some reason just owning them feels like ive completed my goal. As for manga, i mainly read them online (cause they are sooo expensive where i live) and have a digital library of over 300 titles.

So what keeps your mind occupied?

I appear to be obsessed with building my vocabulary, and with feeding Corvus Brachyhynchos(the American Crow). In reality I am interested in too many things to list(too lazy). I have some wet boards with words I enjoy hanging on my walls.

 

[fredvizsla]

Have you heard? The PENTAGON has diagnosed Putin as Asperger. Some of my obsessions are "negative," that is, I obsess about stuff I can't stand - like Broadway musicals, mimes, clowns and neurotypicals who screech and jump up and down for no reason. I also can't stand psychologists who claim to be scientists. On the positive side I too love Ancient Rome and if I could have anything I wanted in the world, it would be to time travel to watch the Pantheon being built. I would set up a lawn chaise at the site, drink Margaritas, and watch the entire process - ten years I believe it was.

 

[Judge]

Have you heard? The PENTAGON has diagnosed Putin as Asperger.

We've heard. You might find our discussion amusing.

Sensitive Topic - Vladimir Putin Said To Have Aspergers Syndrome | AspiesCentral.com

 

[Tom]

My wife!

And also my dogs. But to a significantly lesser degree. Almost measureable in fact.

 

[Suzanne]

Reading Anne of Green Gables and so forth, at the moment.

Reading a chapter of my bible every night.

I go in and out of obsessions and no doubt when I finally get my colours, cross stitching will be an obsession.

A couple of month's ago, obsessed with ebola.

Love reading classic romances Jane Austin etc funny because I am not romantic lol

Oh and obsessed with Italian music

 

[Suzanne]

My wife!

And also my dogs. But to a significantly lesser degree. Almost measureable in fact.

How refreshing to find a man loving his wife so much. She must be in seventh heaven lol

 

[grommet]

Spent way too much time today studying rope and splicing techniques. Also some more splicing tools arrive today, Selma splicing fids. I think they are the best. I call it "rope porn" when I read articles or watch videos about rope. It's much more interesting to me than sex. I watched a great video today showing a technique for applying a chafing sleeve on to a piece of Dyneema hollow-braid. It was so beautifully done, you really could not tell where the work began and ended. I also watched a video showing how to do a tapered-splice with double-braid polyester cover/Dyneema core. The end result was good but I didn't think he worked very well with the line. He seemed all fumbly with it, like he was fighting it. I always respect the rope or try to. I'm sure this all sounds boring but it is my obsession and makes me very happy

 

[Rob]

I have obsessions about the weather, science, religion, health, and current events news.

 

[HermanHesse]

For me I think it's good and evil and the psychology relating to it.

I used to be obsessed with religion. Then I became obsessed with politics because there just wasn't any persuasive data in religion. It was all theoretical.

As James Madison put it, "What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?" I had a metric to measure both philosophy and practical application with in the history of human governments. This led to an interest in economics and war. You know what people actually did.

Now I am more and more interested in psychology because how people vote (and how they fight and die are motivated to fight and die) are based more on emotion and tribalism than on reason. Reason in alot of ways is easier to figure out.

 

[HermanHesse]

Why do you think you have these fascinations? What is the psychology behind it all?

 

[HermanHesse]

Always maps...but lately one in particular. The boundaries of Hungary circa 1941. Germany was quite generous to Hungary- largely at Romania's expense.

What's the interest here? Why this map above everybody else's map?

 

[gister]

Mine have been on and off : WWII And Hitler, pschycology, ancient history, collecting books (almost all non-fiction books but I have one Sheakspere's and one Charles Dickens collection just to feel good looking at and knowing they are mine ), music and musicals, medicine, biology, animals, tv-shows, movies, art , 50,s,60's,70's, muscle cars, Zelda, computer games, board games (Catan, stone age,risk), supernatural things, ancient religion, occult, conspiracy theories, asperger, schedules/timetables, death/dying, surfing the internet looking for articles,books,other...

Then, a bad one: I overanalize almost every conversation that I have had with people, trying to find out if I said or did anything wrong. Some times I feel like my head is blowing and spinning and I get very upset and confused and very overloaded.

 

[Judge]

What's the interest here? Why this map above everybody else's map?

While the borders reflect a degree of ethnic dominance beyond Hungary's original borders, they also directly infringe on virtually every political border surrounding Hungary. In particular, it reduces Romania's sovereignty of Transylvania substantially. These borders were the result of the "Second Vienna Award", arbitrated exclusively by Germany and Italy at the time. Understandable given Hungary was a political and military ally of Germany and Italy. However so was Romania.

In a time of war, does it make sense for a fragile alliance of Balkan countries held together by the Nazis and the Fascists? It just reflects a principal weakness of the Nazis- their hubris. But then Hitler also had no hesitation at launching a two-front war the same year. <facepalm>

Of course Nazi Germany has always been my number one "obsession" and probably always will be. Consequently any map of Europe between 1933 and 1945 fascinates me more than others. But this one in particular...

My most prized road map in my possession? Yeah. A 1941 map of Germany- by the Germans. Where Germany's outer most borders with France were undefined at the time. I guess Hitler couldn't decide how much of France he wanted to take back!

 

[gister]

Hitler wasnt always so sure, he was a fragile man with a lost ego

Its very interesting to take a look at his background and early years