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Why do we obsess?

Eponine

Hi all,

I have been thinking a lot recently and I've begun to wonder why we obsess as Aspies. A lot of people say it's "a control thing", but I think that sounds horrible, like we're all manipulative and playing power games. I prefer to think of it as anaesthesia, because life has been so wicked to us we need to feel something that takes us off into our own world so we can keep the pain a bit under control. I know that sounds ridiculously negative but that's what I think. What do you think?

Hope you're all well,

Eponine <3 xx

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  • The qEEG is referenced against control studies of a database of a cross-section of "the normal" population.  This will include NTs who have all sorts of traits, including obsessive ones.

    I agree that NTs can be obsessive, although they are likely to do it for pleasure whereas we do it for control, filtering out the outside world and other reasons as well as pleasure.

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  • The qEEG is referenced against control studies of a database of a cross-section of "the normal" population.  This will include NTs who have all sorts of traits, including obsessive ones.

    I agree that NTs can be obsessive, although they are likely to do it for pleasure whereas we do it for control, filtering out the outside world and other reasons as well as pleasure.

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