Do women really have more normal looking special interests?

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My special interests have been all over the place as a child. I've been seen as wierd for two of my long-standing special interests, one because of age. People thought it was quirky when I was 12, but I got made fun of for it.
My other one is reading. I've always read higher than grade level in terms of comprehension, but I get mostly "wow you're reading that" and "is that for reading", or even "that sounds boring". I love older works, especially ones with intense character development. Ironically, my first interest got me into this.
I was obsessed with drug side effects when I was 7 or 8, and would read preachy anti-drug things that were around the house. My parents thought it was wierd, and actively discouraged me from doing anything related to it.
I don't remember much else from childhood, except my ongoing Beanie Baby cat collection, due to the fact that I was heavily medicated through most of elementary school.

My interest is Disney and Tinkerbell which normal for little girls but not normal for adult

normal IMHO is highly overrated.

1. Cats (I believe this was for several years when I was really young)
2. Gore make up
3. Serial killers/murderers - not in the, I romanticise them way, in the wow I can't believe the human mind can be so dark and this is so outside of what I'm like, I want to find out more!
4. Creepypasta
5. Anime and Japan
6. Body language
7. (My current one) The science/psychology of attraction

These are the only ones I can think of that I've had but there were definitely a few intense short lasting one in between these. I wouldn't really call them normal looking but that's OK. With the right person I can have some amazing conversation if they don't mind repeatedly hearing the phrase "fertile window".

no but i’m a weirdo anyways. the closest i get to normal is maybe animals? but i like rats, spiders, slime molds, and fungi.

Please define "normal"? I'm a woman in my 40s who is absolutely fanatical about anything Oldsmobile related, including: having an actual classic Oldsmobile of my own, hundreds of diecast model Oldsmobile cars in various sizes, shirts, hats, metal signs, tote bags, banners, keychains, artwork, etc. Even took an airplane (despite my HUGE phobia of flying in planes) to Lansing MI to visit the Oldsmobile museum, a giant Oldsmobile show and visit the gravesite of Mr. Olds himself. Made several trips to GA and TN in my Oldsmobile to attend National/regional Oldsmobile shows. I know a lot of men are highly interested in cars, even specific ones. So I don't consider this as abnormal, to me anyway. Also extremely interested in theropod dinosaurs, of which many had feathers (like their descendants, BIRDS). Also other paleontological creatures, like trilobites. I collect fossils and teeth and dinosaur models/action figures/artwork. Plus I have parrots, which are modern day dinosaurs.
Other severe interests of mine include: medical conditions and diseases, boots(in the shoes category, so perhaps a bit more normal), crows and other members of the corvid family, bears, World War 2 (Pacific AND European fronts), and more recently battle tanks. Maybe I'm not like other women, but this is who I am.

lmfao I would say no. I am obsessed with the porn industry recently, but not for sexual reason just the whole field is so bizarre and people talk so shallowly.

I even built a statement of income for a freelance porn star just to see how much money he can earn a year.

Before that I was obsessed with NPD (narcissist personality disorder), the dark net and jeffy epstein. All very twisted topics I'd say.

I don’t like the term special interest. Everyone has different interests. As long as people don’t force their interests that I don’t like on me I don’t care.

I've read that sometimes the special interests of females on the spectrum can appear more "normal" and like the interests of NT girls, like music groups (my best friend's Autistic little sister is obsessed with BTS), fashion, and dolls. I once did a research paper for a psychology class about females with ASD and it was mentioned and also said to be a reason why females don't get diagnosed as often as males.

My special interests are almost always TV shows and occasionally books or musicians. This has been the case my whole life. I really love Sci-Fi and computer stuff, which I have often been told are "boyish" things, but I don't think that's really true. I know a lot of girls who are into those things, especially the Sci-Fi part.

I don't know.. maybe our special interest might be more useful or more acceptable? Or what is meant with that? Depends on what "normal looking" means..

My special interest since many years are nutrition(+othomolecular medicine and acutally everything that includes the brain and the human body from the perspective of nutrition) and Psychoactive substances aka drugs.

When I was younger it was playing videogames, drawing, my own fantasy and my cats.

Childhood:
Stamps, My Little Pony
Puberty:
Penguins
Later, some until today:
Bands (I got obsessed with certain music genres)
Coding
Languages (I pick up a language to learn, get obsessed for a while, get bored, pick up the next one, and repeat)
Video Games

I also played soccer for some time and liked to watch it. I like to watch a lot of shows, but I think some of them are general very popular (Supernatural, Sherlock, Star Trek, True Detectives, The Walking Dead, to name just a few).