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<blockquote data-quote="ThriceBlessed" data-source="post: 3188333" data-attributes="member: 136571">I get you, Mitlov. I&#039;ve never been addicted to a drug...but I think I understand. My obsessions that came with my mild Asperger&#039;s symptoms were kind of the same. I thought I was being rational when I fixated non stop on one subject and wouldn&#039;t let it go even when I drove everyone around me away...To my mind, I didn&#039;t have a problem. My obsession was the only thing that was real, and if other people didn&#039;t like it, well, they were just different to me, they didn&#039;t understand. (One of my monomanias was death and mutilation, lol. You can imagine how much fun I was to be around...)So I think I understand...maybe I&#039;m wrong but addictions and obsessions kind of seem like two sides of a coin. I wasn&#039;t addicted to a substance, but I was &quot;addicted&quot; to something in my own mind.So I don&#039;t like the &#039;oh, just show some self control&#039; angle. I understand not being entirely rational over something.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ThriceBlessed, post: 3188333, member: 136571"] I get you, Mitlov. I've never been addicted to a drug...but I think I understand. My obsessions that came with my mild Asperger's symptoms were kind of the same. I thought I was being rational when I fixated non stop on one subject and wouldn't let it go even when I drove everyone around me away...To my mind, I didn't have a problem. My obsession was the only thing that was real, and if other people didn't like it, well, they were just different to me, they didn't understand. (One of my monomanias was death and mutilation, lol. You can imagine how much fun I was to be around...) So I think I understand...maybe I'm wrong but addictions and obsessions kind of seem like two sides of a coin. I wasn't addicted to a substance, but I was "addicted" to something in my own mind. So I don't like the 'oh, just show some self control' angle. I understand not being entirely rational over something. [/QUOTE]

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