be honest--politics aside, does that sound normal or mentally healthy? Sounds like OCD to me.
OK. I was exaggerating a bit. But, he was never interested in politics until this year and now he watches all the debates and brings up RP stuff almost every day in conversation. But, my husband and I talk about the election every day, too, so there’s nothing too strange there. No, he’s not OCD.
He’s was always the kind of kid who got interested in something and poured himself into it for a long time, but not to the exclusion of the things he had to do. He started programming when he was ten years old and was a consultant at the age of 16. He’s gone from chess to programming (still a programmer) to rock climbing to body building to electrical engineering (loved neural networks), etc. Right now politics is his thing. But, he’s still working at a full-time job and will be going to grad school at Carnegie Mellon in the fall. I have no complaints other than this hopefully-short-lived thing with Ron Paul.