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Strange obsessions

Lotus

Sometimes I get strangely obsessed about something that would probably sound odd to most people. 

I've recently been doing a Sims 4 alphabet legacy challenge, which is where you play a household for 26 generations and give the sim for each generation the next letter of the alphabet. I thought you started by naming the founding sim with a name beginning with A, then their child a name beginning with B, then B sims child gets a name starting with C, and so on until the Z child is born/adopted, at which point you complete the challenge. It turns out that I was supposed to start the alphabetical naming with the first child, not the founder, so when child no.26 was adopted I had already used all the letters of the alphabet.

Sorry for the long story, but it's to explain how I got to the latest weird obsession. I decided the final daughter of the legacy challenge and her future partner should have names that included all the letters of the alphabet, and I set about obsessing over trying to find two first names and two surnames that between them have all the letters.

Finally got there yesterday - the names are:

Jacquelyn Kempsworth & Alexander Von Fitzburg

What strange obsessions have you had?

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  • I've just been thinking about our obsessions a bit more, and I feel that maybe this is a major difference between us and NTs - they do stuff, like going to the pub with friends, we think about stuff, like whether you can have two first names and two surnames that include all the letters of the alphabet, or the penetration depths of armour piercing shells, or how our society's rules were created.

    I believe It also feeds into our communication problems, because when a colleague or acquaintance asks what you did at the weekend, they are not usually interested in hearing that you researched about aliens, or the history of religions, or AI, or whatever your latest obsession is. They expect you to say "I went away for the weekend, I went out for a coffee with a friend, I went out for dinner with my partner, I went to the cinema/a party/ a concert/watched football, etc. You can't think about stuff properly in those social situations.

    " I think, therefore I am" - perhaps Descartes was on the spectrum?

  • in reply to Lotus
    Lotus said:
    " I think, therefore I am" - perhaps Descartes was on the spectrum?

    Or maybe for us it's, "I am, therefore I think."

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