Hobbies others might consider "Strange"

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I enjoy psychology and looking at architecture pictures. Interestinly, I can notice patterns for pictures better than some professional photographers and know quite a bit about various psychological conditions.

I read in calculus books.......try solving the problems, I pretty much read only 2 types of book genre.... fantasy and supernatural, I sometimes read forensic case books and I collect so many things.

I build k'nex sets and I read/watch any and everything about WWII that I can get my hands on.

I like to study criminology.

Studying drugs, recreational ones mostly, how they work, why interactions can happen and just anything drug related really. why LSD causes such bizarre behavior in such a low dose (100 micrograms) a teaspoonful of LSD is enough drug for between 50,000 strong trips and 200,000 weak trips and how a drug like that can give you such long lasting positive effects (in most cases)


Also the future of medicines, and research chemicals (new recreational drugs that have just recently shown up on the market)

I collect diaries and notebooks. Obsessively. Though I do write in them, so it's not totally useless.

I also... get really, really obsessive over certain topics, and read about them for ages on end. Or I look up versus comparisons between two similar items (mac vs pc vs linux, Playstation vs Xbox, whatever) — not to be persuaded either way, nor even necessarily because I'm interested in either, just because I enjoy the comparison. I also love reading highly opinionated reviews, so I'll look up "why I love x" or "why I hate y". This could be something I'm interested in, like a game I'm currently playing or a book I've read, or something I have no interest in whatsoever — I just like reading people's thoughts when they get passionate about something. If there are comments sections on the articles that's a plus — I enjoy the arguments and discussions that go on there as well. I do this way, way too often.

Well, crap. I didn't realise until I typed it out just how much of an odd thing that was, or how borderline obsessive I was over it. Ah well — you learn something new every day!

Precolumbian economic history. Outside of academia I've never even heard of anyone who's even vaguely interested. But for me it's like crack cocaine.

collecting yugioh cards and anime plushies, watching anime, and reading manga.

I download albums from Mediafire and Rapidshare all day based on sonic proximity to My Bloody Valentine.

I eat/sleep/breathe all things Star Trek related; watch all the episodes from all the different offshoots (Voyager, Next Generation, Enterprise, Original Series) over and over again, inadvertently memorizing all the lines. Only one I haven't gotten to is DS9. Soon though.

I also study psychology, more specifically, anything Asperger's/Autism/PDD related. Like ChrisVulcan I'm fairly certain I know enough about Asperger's in particular that I'm capable of diagnosing it as well as your average clinical psychologist.

Bass guitar, touching leaves/wind, drawing (but more seriously than others), composing songs in my head (often with over 5 instruments)

colecting newspapers, magazines and yugioh cards. about 50% of my room is covered in those 3 things.

I waste my time solving rubik's cubes and memorizing random crap I don't need to know. Like the 1800 digits of pi I know.