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is this an autism trait or not

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can anyone tell me if this is an autism trait or not.  often i get thoughts in my head and i go over and over them and i cant get it to stop.  recently i saw an acorn on the ground and my mind went into over drive as i then needed to know what came first the acorn or the tree and how it cant be either coz acorns come from the oak tree and oak trees come from acorn. this drove me mad as it got stuck in my head,  i had to look into this to find some sort of answer and eventually i did.  anyone else get random stuff stuck in their heads and cant move on until a solution iis found or is it just me.  thanks

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  • I have a similar issue. In my case, it often seems to revolve around actors, musicians, or songs. For example, sometimes I'll watch a film and I recognise an actor, but I can't remember their name. It will bug me to the extent that I will search online for the name of the film, so that I can then look for the name of the character they are playing and find out their name. I cannot relax until I know, but I can almost always guarantee that within a day or so of reminding myself of the actor's name, I'll have forgotten it.

    It's even worse if I hear a song that I like, but I don't know the title of the song, who sang it, or what the lyrics are (it's the music I tend to focus on, more so than the lyrics).

    I find myself thinking, "Why do I need to know, when it's not important in the grand scheme of things, and I know that I'll just end up forgetting it anyway?!" Laughing

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  • I have a similar issue. In my case, it often seems to revolve around actors, musicians, or songs. For example, sometimes I'll watch a film and I recognise an actor, but I can't remember their name. It will bug me to the extent that I will search online for the name of the film, so that I can then look for the name of the character they are playing and find out their name. I cannot relax until I know, but I can almost always guarantee that within a day or so of reminding myself of the actor's name, I'll have forgotten it.

    It's even worse if I hear a song that I like, but I don't know the title of the song, who sang it, or what the lyrics are (it's the music I tend to focus on, more so than the lyrics).

    I find myself thinking, "Why do I need to know, when it's not important in the grand scheme of things, and I know that I'll just end up forgetting it anyway?!" Laughing

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