What are you're special interests?

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He seems too nice to be a Grammar Nazi.

I cringed when I saw the subject line of this thread but I didn't say anything either.

My special interests are trains, road maps and flags.

Ooh I like flags too. Forgot that one.

Main obsession: SpongeBob SquarePants (This is the obsession that has the biggest effect on me)

Minor Special Interests

- The Simpsons
- Computers / Internet
- The Fairly OddParents
- Nickelodeon

I'm not sure if I have officially had what can be considered a "special interest" in the aspie sense.

There isn't anything that I talk endlessly to other people about, but that's because I don't like talking to people about things that I'm interested in unless they are just as enthusiastic as I am.

I have a few subjects that I often crave thinking about. One of them is knitting. I don't always feel like physically knitting, but I like to look at yarn, or imagine working on a project. I keep thinking about making a wool fisherman's sweater, with lots of texture and cables, and being able to wear it in the rain because it's a dense wool that the water just beads up on. Once in a while I go through a phase in which I want to do the actual knitting, and then I have three or four projects at a time.

I think a lot about my Lego movies when I'm making one, and do tend to talk about that a lot. I've only completed one, but it's pretty long, and took ages. I thought of little else while making it. Now I'm making another, but I've been taking an indefinite break from it, because of other obligations. But when I'm working on that, it's hard to think of anything else. It's a remake/spoof of a movie that really exists ("Dark Harbor", 6000 point to any of you who have actually seen it.) I'll be lying in bed, with my husband falling asleep along side of me. Then all of a sudden I'll think of a funny scene that I have in mind, and start laughing like a nut.

My other subject that I just have to think about is my favorite actor, whose name I won't mention, despite an overwhelming desire to do so. LOL! I'll be unloading the dishwasher or something, and I just feel like I need to stop for a moment and think about different roles he's played, and imagine different lines from movies. I'll think about a role that he did back in 1981, and then think of a completely different role that he did in 2006, and I really, really want to be able to say to someone, "Isn't that cool, how he does that thing with his eyes and then he kind of pauses, then draws in a breath there AND there, and even though he's 25 years older in the second one, and playing a completely different character, it's just the same?" and have the other person go, "YES! I do see it! How awesome! How wonderful! Let's get out all of our DVDs and find all the times when he does that!" I guess that's an aspie thing, because it feels kind of frustrating and empty NOT having someone to share that with.

I suppose if I were a bit more AS, I'd talk about my interests to everyone without being aware of the fact that it's driving them nuts. As it is, I am acutely aware of people's reactions, so I know better than to mention anything I'm TOO interested in. When I have to focus on something else, but I WANT to think about a special interest, I feel kind of twitchy inside. I wonder, do NTs ever get that? (Because I'm not diagnosed, and still not 100% sure about myself.)

my interests change around a lot...

but here's current:

mystery novels, criminal psychology, forensics... etc.
books in general.
making lists.
clothing
yellow (the color)
coraline (the movie)
mental health... psychology... autism/AS
food labels / nutrition

past:
vegetarianism
animal rights
downloading music

sportscars/car design
architecture
tornadoes/hurricanes
space
the ocean
coin collecting
football analysis
cryptozoology
countries/geography
origami
anime
action movies
drawing

I can discuss all of these at length. Not always a good thing.

- Paris Catacombs
- Parapsychology
- Victoriana
- Old Computers
- Shamanism
- Conspiracy Theories
- Insane Asylums
- Quantum Physics
- Industrial Music
- Retro Videogames
- Painting
- Dystopian/Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Books & Movies
- Zombie Movies
- Steampunk
- Comics
- Collecting Goggles and Gas Masks
- UFOs
- History of Animation
- Ukuleles
- Urban Exploration
- Making Lists

Oh wow, too bad we can't have threads in each person's interest. These are interesting!

Well mine are in my profile but here goes:


Music- I play some guitar and piano.

Mythology- obsessed esp. with Celtic and ancient Egyptian.

History- Especially ancient civilizations.

Looming- beading jewelry.

Painting- obsessed with just painting anything on canvas as well as sketching.

Mysticism- Even though I don't believe in most of that stuff, I still have a strange fascination with the occult esp astrology!

Dolls- esp antiques, been doing it since I was a kid....

Mathematics and intellectual vandalism. Socrates was my role model.

ruveyn

During childhood: car dashboards and instruments panels; beavers; the Smurfs; digital watches...

More recent: Mellotron keyboards; watching street lights switching on (or off); learning the year (and preferably month) a particular single or album was released; public transport systems (including the old bus route numbering system, replaced nearly ten years ago now); maps (right down to marking the main bus routes in my street atlas)...

Last edited by BPalmer on 18 Mar 2009, 4:56 am, edited 3 times in total.

My two special interests are:

-Alison Krauss (I cannot get enough of her singing and fiddle playing)
-Playing my Fiddle (I also can't get enough of the bluegrass music and I love to play it!)

My special interests are:
-video games, one I have been into for ages
-Mythology, favirouts are Greek and bits of Celtic and Nordic
-Anime, fairly new interest, but I curently have about 50 under my belt, and a usb with about 50 of my favirout anime songs
-Vampires (though I generaly wear black and start sleeping at dawn does not mean I am into some occultic vampireis)
-I have interests in occult, have some family history in gypsy and tarot though I am not realy sure I am a beliver in it.
-psychology in a way that I like trying to understand people, I have been starting to be able to manipulate others on certain things, though just for fun or to pass work onto a sibling.

I guess I also have negative interest being that I have minimal absolutley no interest in music, sports and cars where most people have these.

wohoo, let's start the list!

Main:

• Massive attack (music)
• Fight club (movie)
• Ben X (movie)
• Hellblazer, Sandman (comics)
  
  Writers (i've read all or almost all of their books)
• Chuck Palahniuk
• Ken Kesey
• Douglas Adams
• Philip K. Dick
• J.D.Salinger
  
  Actors (i've seen or have in my collection all/almost all movies)
• Edward Norton
• Gary Oldman
• Keanu Reeves
• Jim Carrey
• Simon Pegg
• Sam Rockwell
  
  Everything Alice, Mad Hatter and McGee related:
• American McGee's Alice
• Lewis Carrol's Alice and The hunting of the Snark
• American McGee's Grimm
• other McGee's works
• Chris Vrenna's music project tweaker
  
  And others:
• AS and OCD
• Ubuntu Linux
• Half-life series
• p0rtal
• internet before social networks
• digital art
• other countries: China (in past it was Ireland)
• The Cooper Temple Clause (music)

since 2002 music became one of my leading interests and by now my list of groups that i used to listen to is HUGE.
but because of stress i had t ogive up many of them, and now Massive attack are the only ones who can rescue me from sticky hands of darkness

i have (and know) TONS of info and stuff about all these people and things.. so, i guess this is what special interests are? )))

I just found a website called "keepers of the list." It's fun. I think they may be part of some weird role model thing or something, but I don't care. The lists are fun to read and vote on and add too. Just check it out.

http://www.keepersoflists.org/

I LOVE Tweaker
and thanks for the site link Tantybi, I'm looking at it now I don't think I'm going to get anything done for a while, hehe.