Special interests?

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My special interests include languages and word etymology and just "collecting" words in general (I prefer them to numbers). I also really love research, as in searching for answers, general knowledge seeking. I can be obsessive about it sometimes. I am an avid google user and look up just about everything and everybody. I also really like scifi (tv, books, movies). I love music and instruments. I really enjoy dreaming (I typically remember all of them or have lucid ones), so I sleep sometimes just for entertainment purposes. I don't typically bring up these things but I do have a tendency to get excited and prattle on about a random fact if its relevant to a conversation people may be having in my presence.

My special interests varies alot in subjects and intensity. However some things that I´ve been inerested in since I was 10 is history (especially grim parts like punishments, witch hunting, Black death, WW2 and so on) and couple shipping (rooting for two people to be together). Right now my biggest interest is Phantom of the opera (the musical/movie, not the original book by Gaston Leroux), shipping Erik (the phantom)/Christine from that and also Gerard Butler/Emmy Rossum who play them in the movie.

I was monologing (spelling?) more when I was younger, now I know people can get quite irritated when I do that. So if people don´t talk about something I´m interested in, I usually remain quiet silent in conversations.

I'm still searching my special interests, I love Plant Biology and even if I work on it frequently, I can stop it for 1 week or 2 and try something else.

But since we're talking about intensity, well I couldn't LIVE without Adam Young's songs (Owl City). I listen to these songs when I'm painting, when I wake up, when I'm having a shower, when I'm thinking, when I'm studying...and that's like the only music I listen ! I know all the lyrics, the songs, and most of the singer's life. Don't know why I'm obsessed with that (maybe part of a my daily routine).

I love languages : English (quite well), French (native), Russian (little bit), Italian (fluent), Spanish (new).

But I think my special interest is definitely NATURE. This is all my life, and if I could talk about it every minutes, I would. Trees is what I really love and I'd die for any animals. I walk in the woods 1 day/week and I can have tears of joy in front of a beautiful plant or when a bird is next to me. Call me hypersensitive, but I'm just protecting my only home, this planet

That explains myself, VERY WELL...though, I used to 'monologue' a lot when I was younger.

I never really thought that I had any special interests, or at least ones that seem obvious. When I think about it, the things that I can do for hours obsessively are watching my favourite tv programmes, going online, reading and playing videogames. My special interests can change, I tend to get obsessed with one particular tv programme for a while, and then get bored of it and move onto another one. I can also sometimes get obsessed with one particular thing e.g. bento boxes, and spend a long time researching it online until I get bored and then find something else to research.

I get these researching obsessions too... I sometimes lose sleep because I don't wanna stop learning about whatever I'm fascinated with at the time... But then it just... goes away... and I move onto something else.

My special interest was tarot, astrology, occult, mysticism, ancient religions, angel studies, new age guru's, archangels, starchild, sirian star system,
This all was couple of years ago when i had not read about asperger...
when i realised that i suffer from asperger and i came to know about special interest etc
i reduced using these subjects and going into them heavily.

Yep, I spend hours on Tumblr looking at pictures of things. I always enjoy it though so I don't feel like I'm wasting my time. My boyfriend likes it when I send him pictures of things or links, and then we discuss them. He thinks it's cute when I get excited about something and infodump, which is lucky cos I do it a lot.

Like one of the posters above, I have multiple special interests...

Some are lifelong, like languages and linguistics, reading the dictionary as a child, and the encyclopedia.
Crime, and forensics also feature in my lifelong special interests.

Others are of the 'total focus on a new topic for about 1-2 weeks' variety, until I basically learn it all. Some of these have included 'cemetary and burial customs and habits of victorian london', and geneology.

Since I am basically a professional researcher, I can pretty much devote all my free hours to things for a few weeks and educate myself on the topic, but the transient obsessions are the ones that mean I lose sleep, forget to eat, etc.

The long term ones, don't provoke that nearly as much.

In terms of talking about them, I do sometimes, but with a very limited audience. I was repeatedly told as a child that talking so much makes people not like me....so I learned to just keep it to myself, which is fine, no one else gets it anyhow.

My special interest is an english post-punk band. It's very intense. It's so intense that on the 11th I will fly across the Atlantic to follow them around Europe for two weeks. I don't know any other aspie females but feel like I am more like a male aspie than female. I am not shy and talk quite a bit but have learned to rant a little less.

My other interests are lack of religion, Older men,Food and traveling. I am also facinated in the process of making beer and trains are pretty awesome.

Excuse me if I'm missing something obvious, but which band?

Wow! That's amazing. Did you just randomly choose the letter 'K' ?

I too have a love of dictionaries. I have an humongous dictionary, 3,195 pages. Webster's New International, 2nd Edition (copyright 1959)
When it's closed, the pages form a beautiful multicolored paisley design and there are gold-leafed halfmoon indents on the side so you can open it
to the desired letter. I like to open it randomly, shut my eyes, and let my index finger land anywhere it chooses on the page. Whatever
word it lands on I investigate thoroughly, including other words that word leads me to. I'm fond of archaic words and there are plenty of them
in this dictionary. It's a prized possession and I keep it on a special desk in the hallway.

I also love vintage clothing, and since really good vintage clothing is becoming harder and harder to find, I plan on finding vintage dress patterns
from the 30's and 40's and making myself a few dresses. I watched 'Grand Hotel' (1932) last week, and the dresses worn by Joan Crawford
and Greta Garbo were fabulous. Watching this film is what inspired me to make my own dresses. Classic films are another special interest
of mine. I have many obsessions in addition to the 3 I have just mentioned.

Just curious: Why do you suppose my post is dated Sunday, Dec 16? The post I submitted just minutes before this one is dated Sat, Dec 15. Very odd.

ha Finnish! me too

My overall special interest has been the same since I can remember. Fiction. The specifics have changed, going from Thundercats TV show at age six, to Stephen King at age eight that still continues today. along the line there has also been Star Wars, the Evil Dead movies, horror movies of any type, Dean Koontz, House, MacGyver, Stargate, Star Trek, Friday the 13th, recently Marvel comics, the shows Bones and Supernatural, and a revival of the Dean Koontz obsession. I have taken to collecting books, and for my last birthday, my wonderful husband fond a copy of my favorite book signed by him for me. Anyone who will listen will get and analysis of characters and setting and the neat technique of music and the Impala in Supernatural as characters in themselves.

My special interests include

religion - I have not actively pursued this recently, but in the past I did a lot of reading on various beliefs
psychology esp. Jungian and dream analysis
writing fiction - usually with a romantic aspect, so romantic fiction, also mystery and fantasy/sf
occult - specifically tarot, astrology, but at one time I had vast interest in all aspects of the occult, extending to an interest in UFOs
knitting and needle arts - including tatting, crochet, sewing, lace - today mostly just knitting
animals - especially cats - at one time when I was young I wanted to be a veterinarian or zoologist


I'm usually quiet, and I tend toward low self-esteem, especially around strong thinking or materialist types who insist on logic and proof of everything. Because many of my interests don't lend themselves to a demand for proof and logic, and because I don't really consider myself an expert at anything, I tend to shut down and back off from discussions of them. I'm also not adherent of any specific religion, so even with religious people I shy away from discussing religion. But one on one with someone I'm comfortable with, I do sometimes lapse into monologues.

It makes sense to me if a lot of female aspies tend to have more interest in domestic or relationship related things, since that's more socially acceptable for a woman. But I'm sure there are others - esp those strong in math - who have interests more like those found in aspie males.

For me, my special interests are usually anime, paranormal or Alice in Wonderland. I'm not an aspie though. ._. Still, it is less obvious from what I've seen since I don't always constantly revolve my life around those special interests. There are, in fact, other things I enjoy that I can get obsessed over quickly. Like, playing pokemon games for instance. It will last for a while until I move onto something else like, Tales of the Abyss and then I obsess over that.

But it's not as obsessive as a male aspie or autistic person, since I can somehow talk about anything really well with my father, depending on what topic interests the two of us.