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[gala_apples]

So when I get new info I like to really In Depth it. In an unhealthy OCD "I must know everything or bad things will happen" way. At least with fandom people expect you to marathon tv or stay up until 6am reading HP the night it comes out. Informational info is sort of different though. When you know too much about random things like the kind of

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[luvscharlie]

Um, you're not alone. I did this last night. I watched every freaky thing I could find on Netflix, Hulu, regular television, Amazon-- EVERYTHING on JFK. I feel like I have about a million theories in my head right now, and I'm dying to know if that part on the JFK movie about those documents being sealed until 2038 is actually trufax.

I did this two weeks ago with 9/11. Watched every theory show that there was out there. I felt like I was less watching them, more absorbing them, and kind of freaking out about them at the end.

Fandom is where we obsessives go to feel perfectly justified in our obsessiveness. I was just discussing this last night with a fandom friend. My family will never understand it. Fandom friends do seem to get it though.

Love you, girl.

[gala_apples]

I think it didn't help in my case that before last night the only thing I knew about JFK was 'something about a grassy knoll' (no idea what that even was), that he was a democrat president, that he was assassinated, and that EVERYONE EVER loved him because his kids still do speaking engagements for stuff like Obama's campaign. So not only did I learn all these different theories, I was also learning stuff like Alabama was the last university to be segregated, and when two black kids tried to enrol he had to send the national guard, and he was pretty much CONSTANTLY cheating on his wife. It was an information overload that for some reason triggered the OCD in me. Not a pretty sight