Special interests?

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Aspie isn't my speciality, but what is might give you insight:

We have 3 brains: emotional, rational and primal.

Emotional, is associated with women, for they had to practice it raising children.
Rational, is associated with men, to build shelters and hunt...

Primal is usually taboo... like getting angry and defending yourself...

But while it is accepted for women to be shy and shut up, and even encouraged... they are strongly discouraged to show any kind of aggressiveness.

And while men can reply on that primal instinct, for sex drive or ambition or self defence... using their emotional side is strongly discouraged... harassed as gay otherwise... and being shy is considered like not having balls.

So someone who is an introvert, aspie, autistic... will stand out way more as a man.. I believe this is why they are less diagnosed...

While women gets in life with a head start for having emotions... which is very useful to understand people, relate, and participate... for it's usually their speciality.

Also... strong interest... perhaps men, for being more rational, will be more easily engulfed with obsessing over accumulating data... for they have an extra push toward it from their usual speciality...

While women can't help but get touched by many things... so they might develop interest for a wider array, thus splitting the obsession in smaller less noticeable ones... or will be required from fellow females to engage emotionally... allowing her less time to indulge...

So that's my 2 cents~

I'm not diagnosed, and I don't know if my interests count as "special". Also, sorry if this is very long and the thread is kinda dead but I thought this could help me rearrange my thoughts.

When I was a child I was really obsessed with animals. I consider myself obsessed with something when I spend most of my time doing activities related to the topic and neglect homework and other things like sleeping. I collected scientific encyclopedias and I read them over and over again. My favourite ones were the ones about dog, cat and horse breeds, which I memorized entirely, but I also read the ones about mammals, reptiles, insects and fish more than once. Even now, when I take one of those books to consult it I end up reading it all over again... I just can't stop. This lasted until middle school.
In middle/high school I started being interested in music. I was very very much into Guns N' Roses. Other than listening to their albums over and over and over again (I watched "Live In Tokyo" approximately 30 times) I researched the band members' lives, collected pictures in a folder, made drawings and read books.
In high school I also learned that I shouldn't talk too much about what I'm interested in, and that's why I don't do it as much now. I only allow myself to talk about it freely when someone who is aware of my encyclopedic knowledge asks me a question about it.
In the same period I was obsessed with blindness (I know it's weird and I really tried not to be obsessed about it but I couldn't help it).
In the last three years or so, there hasn't been much that interested me with the same intensity. I occasionally start watching a movie repetedly (for instance, last october I watched "The Fall" 17 times). My interest for animals has evolved into an interest in biology and medicine but it's not as strong as it used to be. My only real obsession in the last year has been about asperger's syndrome, but I don't know if that counts. Also, during all this time I've been really keen on drawing, which I can do consecutively for days (excluding very little amount of sleep/food/shower time).