Do you have any "abnormal" interests?

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! !! Frog tracheal epithelia ! !!

Pre-K - Flags and coca-cola

K - Super Mario Bros.

Grade 1 - Looney Tunes

Grade 2 - not much of anything

Grade 3 - series books (Goosebumps, The Boxcar Children)

Grade 4 - music

Grade 5 - Star Wars

Grade 6-8 - Wolfenstein 3D computer game (designing levels, hex editing, etc)

Grade 9 - city planning

Grade 10-11 - weather

Grade 12 - computers

I also have a wierd interest in things like radio stations and what you can get where and road signs.

Probably my strangest obsession was when I was three-four. In itself, it wasn't that strange, but it was strange for the age. I was obsessed with pregnancy/obstetrics. I also was obsessed with Pink Panther, so the two were combined. I'd go around the house in my mom's old maternity dresses with my Pink Panther stuffed animal under my shirt. Then, I'd randomly pull him out and say, "He's born!" My mom would get me all sorts of pamphlets about birth that had pictures of the fetus in utero. I also was fixated on Full House, Garfield, and road signs at this time. For my second birthday, I asked for a stop sign. My mom got me a three-foot plastic stop sign and a light-up traffic light. I also had little wooden road signs. They were meant to be put on one of those floor road playthings, but I just lined them up and looked at them. Height requirements for amusement park rides has always been big, too, more so when I was younger. I love reading how tall you have to be to ride something and how you can't ride it if you're pregnant or have heart, back, or neck trouble. This ties in with my big 12-year-old obsession of Cedar Point's rollercoaster statistics. I still love Cedar Point dearly, but it's a mild obsession now. I still get a Rider Safety Guide every time I go there. It's really awesome. It has charts of all of the different restrictions and says how you need a certain number of limbs to counterbalance the centrifugal force and such. Cedar Point also has different colored sticks to denote different height requirements, so I go through and write "red" or "blue" beside each ride in the guide. Now, my big ones are I Love Lucy, A Beautiful Mind, Frank Sinatra's music, FDR, American history, neuropsychiatry (especially OCD, Asperger's, and bipolar disorder- have the first two, not bipolar), and the Spanish language. And science in general has always been a big one. I get really excited when I get to talk about anatomy/physiology, biochemistry (I really like cellular respiration), and acid/base chemistry. I got to help with titrations the last time I TA-ed. I was so excited! I love watching the indicator turn color with just one drop.

And then there's the stuff that I'm not obsessed with, but I have always just found so intensely interesting that I like to play with it. One is ice. I don't know why, but I just think ice is fascinating. I used to collect Littlest Pet Shop as a kid. I never played with it, but rather lined up all of the different sets in a specific order. My favorite was the Antartica set. It came with an ice slide. That always went first. After I threw all of my Littlest Pet Shop toys away, I kept the ice slide. I wish I still had it now. It glittered. Another is raw eggs. I love cracking eggs, trying to make it perfect so the yolk doesn't break, and then I like playing with the albumin and seeing how it moves and is still attached. The funny thing is that I don't even like eating eggs!
-OddDuckNash99-

*scratches head* are you trying to gross me out or something? i'm not easily grossed out...

No - I just got excited. Biology lessons memories! Frog tracheal epithelia look truly fascinating under the microscope. You would like it.
Another fascinating biology lesson thing - DNA fingerprinting! I will be able to do it next year. *Cannot wait!*

Current obsessions - london underground trains and how they work. Also my human biology textbook (love at first sight!) and mathematics. I stay up into the morning hours doing maths and am up before the crack of dawn (its winter here in London) to do mental arithmetic before I go to school or revise.

*claps hands* i love fingerprints! they're so unique and art like. unfortunately, i don't do alot of experiments in biology

You ought to come along to my school - chemistry... Almost every lesson I have an experiment! We got to distil our own alcohol and use a category 2 carcinogen (sodium dichromate). Hehehe. Not to mention cracking of alkanes... The exploding test tubes were rather alarming!

I think the strangest intrest I probably have that people think is power rangers and super sentai.
Sonic is my favorite videogame character

My obsession with Routemasters isn't abnormal. It's just unheard of for a person in Canada or the US to love them as much as I do.

Early childhood: Cars. Counting them as the drove by, identifying them by make and model. This started at about 3.

From 7-9 or so, I was obsessed with maps and Geography. I could hand draw recognizable maps of states and countries from memory.

From, say, 9 - 12, I had an extreme interest in ancient civilizations. Particularly Egypt. I read textbooks, encyclopedias, etc, knew various dynastic periods, could ID art by periods, regions, and so on. I've forgotten a lot of it, but it comes back very quickly if I go into a museum. It was seen as a little strange, and I sort of threw the curve off in history classes from that point forward.

Since then, it's primarily been baseball. I've got well over 100 books on baseball, and know quite a bit about the subject from labor relations, to social impact, to stats.

The last time I told someone about an interest of mine I was criticized for it, so I don't do that anymore. These were my obsessions over the years

Before 7 years old-Obesessed with feeling the lines that were left behind from clothing on myself and my mom(still am obsessed with this actually, it's probably more of a stim though)
7 years old-Obsessed with built-in pool filters. I used to like to push the water into it and hear the "clunk" noise
8-12 years old-Obsessed with writing children's stories. I wrote a ton of these and would give them to my grandma who was a teacher and she read them to her class.
14-17 years old-My dinosaur obsession was during this time. It first started right before the movie Dinosaur came out. I got all the books I could on them until there were none left for me to find.
18-19 years old-I became obsessed with Tim Burton at this time. Joined a forum for it online, only to leave a little less than a year later. I never really felt completely comfortable at the forum.
19-20-I had discovered I had social anxiety at 17, but actually joined a social anxiety forum at 19 and became obsessed with that.
Now-Yep, now I'm obsessed with Asperger's and Autism mainly. With a few smaller obsessions along with it including: adventure games, fantasy books, paranormal, natural disasters, end of the world scenarios, classic rock, movies, and rollercoasters

For a while when I was younger I was obsessed with flightless birds, such as ostriches and penguins. Don't really know why. Birds that could fly did not interest me in the least bit.

I consider my interest in cats very normal. The people I work with are also animal lovers, so it's easy to speak to them about cats.

My interest in Roger Bannister is atypical for an American woman in her 40s, but I don't consider it strange.

Me too!I can't eat with a fork thats been bent out of shape even slightly.I also can't eat if the food on a plate isn't distributed evenly.

Apart from that, its the usual obsessions, ie license plates, TV shows, PS2 games.

I have got an abnormal interest in some video games and in Christianism.