Who else can't watch something without getting completely obsessed?

[Laytwir024]

I honestly embarrass myself! Being at home all day with a toddler and the horrors of covid can't have helped. I am a real introvert and the kind of person who if I decide to start a TV series, I get completely hooked and have to binge watch the entire thing every day until I'm done. I'm constantly thinking about it, replaying scenes before I go to bed , dreaming about certain characters (there's always one I like far too much) and getting far too emotionally attached. I tend to try things years too late so I end up watching six seasons and being really upset that I didn't watch it when 'everyone else was' and that I can't look things up when I'm watching in case I find out all the spoilers.

Then it's finished, I go a bit mopey and I move onto something else and it happens all over again.

I don't tell anyone of course.

This is me! It’s all consuming when I’m in it but then when I’m on to the next it’s like the old thing fades away. Have you got any good suggestions that I can rapidly become obsessed with?

Girl same!!

It doesn't make me feel great though!

I have a very accommodating husband who is prepared to humour me by listening to my show theories and learning about the world of whatever it is I’m into - he will even quiz on me whatever I’m currently into when I ask him! That must be love.

Oh and writing this down has only now made me realise this is all part of the wider ASD picture I’m beginning to put together about myself.

Not so much with tv, but books I'm really enjoying I have to finish! That can become a bit of an obsession.

OP, I could have written this except the 'obsessing about the characters' bit. I've done the rest of what you wrote with basically most popular movies, books and TV shows.

I just wish I could join in the marathon chat sessions with others while they're still going, instead I have to read the old threads about them on different forums, as extra entertainment when I'm finished.

I'm like this. I've always been like it. I've just accepted now it's how I am

I am like this and I am a really normal and boring middle aged woman. My DDs who are adults now are the same! We get super obsessed then it wanes until we find the next thing. It is Line of Duty for me right now and it is painful having to wait weekly for episodes.