What's your obsession?

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Some of my obsessions...

Finding spelling/grammar mistakes
Counting everything (brushing teeth, stairs, words in a sentence, etc.)
Religion vs science debates
Dates of historical events
Cosmology/Astronomy

Some are more OCD related I guess.

I like Politics, especially when it has to do with really intricate quirks of law. I also really like History -- y'know, the obscure kind -- and Trains. Because trains are awesome.

Video games and the Internet.

*Armored Core and Final Fantasy games - generally any games based around numerical values.
*Transformers - Marvel comics only, thank you very much. I can recite the entire storyline for memory.
*Writing - Not telling stories or putting together poems, just writing itself. Making every single letter unique and beautiful, and perfect in its own right. Sometimes a single page in my diary can take an hour, but the satisfaction makes it worthwhile.
*Fancy Dress and Costume Design - especially costumes involving bandages.
*Muscles - anatomical drawing, and general obsession with the way they (plus the tendons and ligaments) work.

That's a select few.

I represent two aspies, therefore two lists!

Myself:

Pinecones,
(collecting, cleaning, organizing/ catagorising and packing away)

seedpods,
(stalking flowers developing "pods" collecting ripe seeds, organizing seeds for storage. Rarely actually try to grow the seed as I prefer nursery quality/ grade seed)
flowers.

My sons Acedemics (definately a good thing for him)

Teaching my other two children french (don't speak it myself, have infiltrated the Francophone community using my barely french speaking husband as a pawn!)

Guinea pigs

My Son:

As a preschooler,
Stacking items,
Thomas (What Aspie Toddler can resist Thomas?)

Around 6 years of age:
Ghost Busters (he is only 12 now, so this was very odd and out of date)

Around 7/8/9
The Titanic
The Lancaster (a WWII plane)
WWII weponry and battles

Around 9/10
Continued interest in above three, not as strong.
Terminator films.

Around 11 to now:
Star Trek
The Hida (WWII Canadian Dystroyer)
James Bond.

Lifelong (or near enough) Obsessions:

Writing
Wildlife
Vampires (with a sub-obsession in Buffy)
Mythology.

Current Obsessions:

Asperger's
Poetry
AdventureQuest
Heroes.

Previously:

Animorphs
Skycat (don't ask)
My cat Phoebe, Bast bless
Chronicle-network (a forum)
Normality
Wicca
Goths
Pokemon
Many, may more (will edit and add as remembered).

This is a fun topic!

My obsessions are:

* American West history (migrations): more accurately, the Chisholm Trail, Bonnie and Clyde, the Dust Bowl migrants, Native American removal in the Southern Plains
* Human geography (movement of people): more accurately, vernacular cultures, city development, categorizing regions
* maps - I study them for hours and hours, and I collect them (I've got some old ones)
* Holland's RIASEC typology: categorizing people with certain intrests and traits
* Route 66, Diners, Old Motels, Neon Signage - I go on a lot of road trips
* Collecting photos of calabooses (one-room jails)

My husband doesn't understand these interests, as his passions are tangible - electronics, vintage video games.

My child, who has AS and is the one who got me to come to terms with my own AS, started his obsessions with water towers when he was 2. He then collected street reflectors, and he could even name the street he got each reflector from (we have over 100 of them). He collects American coins. Right now, he's interested in Hot Wheels cars, which is an "acceptable" interest, I suppose. He gets in trouble at school for picking up bottle caps, and he brings all sorts of "debris" into school to show his teacher.

My son is 8 and is the most fascinating person I know.

Krystal and Kalli, the two characters I made up to use in role-plays.

well, i have lots of obessesions, or "specialist subjects" as luke jackson says in his book about aspergers syndrome. mine are:

computers
books
tidiness
control
cats
english
french
welsh
aspergers itself
namer of the above
....and many more

Mines are:
Cars
Computers
Photoshop
Graphich design/automotive design
Photography
Games
Motorsports
Rock
Drawing

some of mine:

colour
transparency
reflection
shape
eyes
bodies
patterns
sound
voices
movement
computers
pressure
beads
textile
water

im New here but ill spill the beans on my obsessions:
Warhammer 40k
animals (all kinds, bugs, reptiles, mammals, you name it)
the environment (global warming, pollution effects)
hiking, bushwalking, camping, any any other outsoor activitys
Archery
TV: House, Lost, family guy, simpsons, mythbusters, and Australian comedy shows.
discusing politics and religion
vidio games, FPS, RPG,
researching old celtic culture and beliefs