Well, isn’t this interesting. A number of people (myself included) mentioned a Doctor Who fixation. I wonder if there is a statistically meaningful link between obsessive behaviour and watching Who. Which, now that I think about all the Whovians I’ve known over the years, I would guess there would be.
Could it be the style of old Who that draws us in, where a single plot could take several episodes to wrap up (not to mention the larger arcs)? Or perhaps only people like us understande and appreciate the technobabble?
Just out of curiousity, how many of you follow anime/manga?
Oh, and on the music topic, I can listen to certain songs on a continuous loop for hours. Not kidding. And I’m still not bored of the song at the end - in fact, when I finally stop, it just feels… weird.
Feel free to fight my ignorance here, but I was under the impression that ADD manifests itself in someone by that person not being able to focus on anything for a significant length of time. I have no problem buckling down when it’s time to get serious, but in my free time I (like many others have admitted here) tend to fixate on new interests to the exclusion of other, older ones for a week or two. Is this really a symptom of ADD?
The first thing I thought of when I saw this thread was John Laroche, the flower-poacher in “Adaptation”(Charlie Kaufman’s re-imagining of Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief). Before his obsession with the ghost orchid, he was all about collecting fish:
I do this too. You can look at my Amazon Wishlist, which I never edit, and plot the timeline of my former hobbies like rings on a tree. When I get into something I have to have every book on the subject, a folder full of bookmarks, etc. But once I’m done with it, I’m pretty much completely over it. (glances at dusty telescope, folds laundry on the still-unfixed pinball machine)
