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What are your obsessions?

SciFiGreg

Apparently it's common for Aspies to have unusually focused or niche interests so I figured I'd find out what other peoples interests are.

I'll go first.

Mine are:

  • Sci-Fi TV (Trek, Stargate, Babylon 5, The Expanse - Trek was my gateway drug, which I started watching at the age of 5. I even remember episode titles from a few seconds of viewing or starship registry numbers)
  • Trance & Progressive House music - not commercial bilge you hear played on the radio - underground stuff you'd hear at a proper club or event rather at your local meat market (I pretty much exclusively listen to these genres)
  • Cats (If I see one in the street I have to make friends, if it's a timid cat I have to try and win its trust - for some reason a friendly cat makes me super happy, perhaps I have toxoplasmosis)
  • The Simpsons
  • Technology (I work in IT support and am always using or fiddling with tech)
  • Science - I listen to a number of podcasts and find things like advances in genomics interesting
  • Religion - more specifically from the view of an atheist (me) - trying to understand how people are duped into believing such things from a neurological and psychological perspective (this stems from being raised by fundamentalist evangelical Christians, who've turned out to be massive hypocrites)
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  • Autism is my main special interest. It's all I think about, read about, talk about really. I work as a specialist mentor for the NAS at the University of Hull and for Matthews Hub mentoring autistic people into employment. I am also an autism trainer. I rarely come into contact with anyone who is either not autistic or who works in the field. Outside of autism it's The Fall, as in Mark E Smith and Manchester's finest post punk group. I have over a hundred pieces of vinyl, mostly LP's, around 300 live live recordings. Then there are the books, videos etc. I have seen them over a 100 times live. When Mark died on the 24th January this  year it as like the end of the world. I have followed them since 1979. There was my ferret phase, lasted around 10 years. Again ferrets were all I thought about, talked about. We even had a glittery ferret on top of our Christmas tree. Astronomy, huge for most of my life, since I was 5. I sold my last telescope to buy a new laptop after killing my last one. I am doing a Masters Degree in autism and I needed a laptop and I had no money so it had to go. I will get another at some point. 

  • in reply to Carl

    I'm not obsessed with The Fall, but I've always got the 7" "The Man Whose Head Expanded" on from of my single collection so that Mark E Smith's facial drawing is always looking at me when I'm in the room, so you could say he's a familiar face in my home. He's looking at me as I write this.

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