Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to know if some of my behaviours and interests are things that I should have grown out of by now, or if other adults still have bizarre behaviours too.

I guess the strangest thing is that if I am having a very bad day at work e.g. lots of noise and lots of people phoning me etc, I like to sit under my desk. I feel quite comfortable and since I only share an office with my manager who is away on meetings very often nobody has ever seen me. It feels kind of safe and comforting, and since I have a large desk I can sit up and read for a little while and calm down. Sometimes I go into an office of a consultant( I work in a hospital) - one of only three people who know I have AS, and since she is so busy she is never there, and I like to sit under the desk there as well. Writing this I know how crazy this sounds, but it really helps.

I like numbers, and memorising consultant codes really helps me relax, consultant codes are a seven digit unique number that each consultant has. I have memorised nearly all of the hospitals consultant codes.....it makes me feel kind of calm and relaxed. My favourite number is the value of pi....I like to repeat it to myself....even when I'm not stressed.

I like memorising odd facts about the weight of the world in tonnes and the speed of light or the Planck constant. Can't explain why, numbers like pi have a rhythmic pattern that I find so relaxing like watching waves hit the shore.

I like patterns, and can sit and stare for ages just looking and contemplating them, I like hyperbolic geometric patterns - they're kind of magical.

I like music that repeats itself, for instance minimalist music is great, I would recommend anyone with AS to listen to Phillip Glass's soundtrack to THE HOURS. The music repeats itself with subtle variations; again I find it peaceful and relaxing.

I like things that are symmetrical and neat, I'm not naturally tidy in myself, the way I dress etc, but I like a neat desk. However my love of symmetry extends to things like equations like the equation (or map) x(next) = ax(initial)(1-x(initial)), which is so simple and elegant but yields such interesting results beyond the point a = 3.99.

Finally I like to examine how things work, the more simple yet useful the thing is the better, like a hole punch or a stapler or an electric fan, I like to examine something until I know exactly how it works.

Anyway I don't know if this is the kind of stuff I should have grown out of. Perhaps if I was married and had children things would be different I don't know.

Anyway, I've been honest no matter how odd this makes me sound. Anybody still got odd behaviours?

Your behaviors sound a lot like mine, except that I deal with words and facts. I am obsessed with the Olympic Games, an obsession I have been freely indulging in for the last week and a half. My favorite sport is track and field, especially the marathon. Perhaps this is related to my passion for Greece and Greek culture.

My overriding passions for words and facts help me in my job at the library. Very often, I think that my interests are strange, but I am lucky enough to have been able to parlay them into a job I love.

I have a lot of bizarre behaviors, which seem perfectly normal to me. Does that make sense?

I too have passions for words... I'm told my line of thought is broken and fragmented but that's only by people who don't listen to my complete conversations -- because inevitably, I like coming *full circle* and wrapping everything up. This brings me great joy.

As for the Olympics, I too watched but my particular obsession in that was gymnastics, artistic, women's. Same for ice skating (mmm... Sasha Cohen).

PHILIP GLASS IS THE SHIZNIT!!! ahhh i'm so excited

Okay, here's my connection between the Olympics and Mr. Glass: I saw a recent cellphone ad aired during that time, for a Samsung brand device I believe, and the music played during that advert was maddeningly familiar. It sounded GLASSLIKE. So I had a mini-obsession with that and went on the Net and soon found that indeed, it was from PG's Mishima soundtrack.

Nah. To be blunt, screw that -- you're unique and you're you. I believe that generally, if human behavior is safe, sane, and consensual, then it's good.

I'm convinced I'll always be the way I am (for more info about me, the URL to my website is below)... over space and time a fully-formed personal "motion picture" really starts to form about YOU and you know this is who you are as a unique individual.

I celebrate this!!!