Whether you believe that you have AS or not is sort of
irrelevant.
Please recognize that this hobby isn't exactly normal, and has a good
FWIW, I have no desire whatsover to be 'normal'.
chance of irritating a wife or girlfriend. If your
collection is
overflowing into the rest of the house or overflowing the finances
(guilty), marriage and family or even a rudimentary social life are
more important than our hobby, even if it feels otherwise. Believe
I don;'t have a wife (spending my time with on the lathe or with a
soldering irn probably has something to do with that...), I have no
desire to have what you call a 'social life' if it's what I think it
means. Put it this way, I've met many more _true_ freinds through my
eccentric interests than most people seem to have.
me, it's not worth getting divorced over a
computer collection.
-tony