OK I was going to leave it there but actually I think I understand what you're saying now so I will clear this up. If I'm understanding correctly I think you were taking issue with me saying that I would understand if OP said to stop and he stopped. What I meant by that was, my experience with autism is that if someone tells me to stop doing something then I stop, no questions asked because I'm clearly doing something wrong whether it is an obsession or not. From what I hear about other people with autism, they do similar things because of the way we process rules. I would never say anything along the lines of "don't be depressed" to a depressed person because in the past few years I've battled mental health issues, I've encountered many people who have that mindset and they clearly don't understand how mental health stuff works but that's a whole different beast that I won't get into. Everything else I said was just my opinion from my perspective. Anyways hopefully that clears things up.