Re:It all made sense when we found out we were autistic
by bluetomcat on Monday March 26, 2018 @12:39PM
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Deep interest about any topic which is considered "uninteresting" or "impractical" by "normal" people. Might be the history of a particular aircraft, or a car, or an event in the distant past. Your brain is consumed by it for completely irrational reasons and you feel obliged to dig even deeper.
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Re:It all made sense when we found out we were autistic
by mercer on Monday March 26, 2018 @12:43PM
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One thing that I'd say makes it more specifically an 'aspie' thing is that it's often obsessive to the unhealthy point of severely neglecting other aspects of life, and it can be weirdly temporary. Something like being into sudoku's for weeks on end, and then entirely forgetting about it afterwards.