List Your Special Interests ( including duration)

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I am curious to see what special interests people have had an how long they have lasted. Obviously, not everyone will remember ones from their early childhood, but do your best.

Mine have included:-


collecting buttons (2 years)
collecting erasers (2 years )
Music ( lifelong)
Star Trek ( 4 years )
Doctor Who (including collecting, watching, reading)- 3 years
Harry Potter (4 years)
Cruise liners (6 months)
Antique dolls ( a year)
Aspergers ( read everything I could get my hands on)- still going strong- 30 months
Second Life (1 year)
Native Americans ( 2 years)
Disney ( included watching, collecting, going to disney parks) - 3 years
Paranormal ( almost lifelong)

I have always always collected different things to an extreme, so havent really listed all of that.

Hmmm... I have a lot of them, most are quite on/off, so I really can't say how long they have been... best bet is to say most of them have been ongoing on and off since I was probably 15 or so.

Paranormal

Serial killers (not being one or anything, I've always just been interested in the individuals for some reason)

Beads (not doing anything with them, almost always has been just sorting them)

Making binders full or random information I've found on the internet... don't remember most of it, but I have it if I ever, for any odd reason, have a need for it

Music

Anime

Harry Potter

World of Warcraft

collecting candy flavored/scented lip balms (no clue why.. I don't even use the stuff, lol)

Gosh, thanks for reminding me.

Serial killers is one of mine too, I have so many books on it, but I tell few people as it seems to cause nervousness.
I just find something so fascinating about them, reading about their backgrounds, their words... I even once wrote to a murderer on death row to try and gain some insight into their minds.

Football- been following liverpool FC for 6 years
Power Rangers- Watched on TV and collected the toys etc(6 years)
Doctor who,watched on TV(4 years)
Pokemon games, TV and cards(5 years)
Digimon- TV(2 years)
Games consoles i.e Nintendo 64, Gamecube, PlayStation 2, Wii and Xbox360.(12 years)
Star wars (6 years)
Lord of the rings Films (3 years)
The simpsons (4 years)

Can't think of anymore at the minute but i will add more, as you can tell i really have had no life so far(outdoor activity's have never really been my forte).

Last edited by Mike-09 on 11 Nov 2009, 8:46 pm, edited 6 times in total.

Same here... it's all just very interesting. I find it kind of funny that people get so uneasy about those things and I find it so interesting.

Have you seen "Dexter" yet? It's actually pretty interesting... one of my fav shows as of lately.

Dolls, until I was maybe 12. Cats, my entire life. I love cats.

Kites (age 4 or 5 to 9 or 10 but I still enjoy them from time to time)
Yo-Yos (age 8-10)
Computers (Since I was about 9)
Calligraphy (age 11-13)
Surfing (Since I was 11)
BBS RPG (11-13)
Dungeons and Dragons (14-18)
Design (Since I was about 13)
Ultima Online (age 14-16)
Photography (Since I was 17)
Gardening (2 years or so now)
Aspergers (About a year now)

Music (22+ years)

Languages (18+ years)

Harry Potter (I began reading the series when book 4 came out)

Crime, including Historical Crime (and Serial Killers) (10+ years)

Medicine/Health Topics (15+ years)

Animals (as far back as I can recall)

Routemaster buses - 30 years
The Kinks - 25 years
The 1960s - 20 years
Swinging London - 15 years
Austin Powers - 10 years
Autistic spectrum disorders - 20 years
The Olympics both summer and winter - 25 years
London, England - 32 years

Love dolls 3 Years
Andriods 3 Years
Artificial Intellagance 3 years
Chobits 2 Years
Horror movies 25 years
Quiz shows 20 years
Playing trivia at bars
( even though I don't drink)
Six months
Heavy metal Music
25 years

Dinosaurs - 6 years
Pink Floyd - 17 years
Classic Rock in general - 17 years
Ford Trucks - 14 years
Traffic lights - 17 years
Collecting bottlecaps - 2 years
Vehicle spotting - 4 months
Don Bluth films - 15 years
Terry Gilliam films - 3 years
Red Dwarf - 15 years
MST3K - 12 years
Legos - 13 years, though I stop collecting them in '04

Yay for Doctor Who and Harry Potter. X3 I've always been a huge Harry potter fan.
And eraser collecting, lol. I spent a whole year stealing all my classmates' erasers. D: D: I still have them in a big tin somewhere.

You won't mind if I don't post the durations for these, do you? I'm horrible with time and some of these are sort of off-and-on or overlapping. D:

*art/drawing/sculpting (always) and anything art-related like art history and art supplies
*anatomy, evolution
*anime/manga (mostly just the art style)
*bugs (more hands-on than academic)
*floods
*pockets (I don't know if that's big enough to count as a special interest, but I aaallllways go nuts for pockets and have to the things with the most pockets, like pants or backpacks or whatever.)
*spooky stories
*organic architecture
*environmental stuff, rustic lifestyles, the outdoors, hiking, camping and camping equipment, wilderness survival (sort of all together)
*before and after pictures (and similar comparisons, like different-language versions of songs, etc)
*Paris

I like serial killers too, but maybe not strong enough to count.
And ooooh, anxiety25, I like beads too. I have a bunch at my mom's house that I keep meaning to retrieve. Sorting them is the best, but I also used to make little bead animals and stuff.

I'll try to do this one in order *L*

Art/drawing/painting/sculpting or anything that I can get my hands on (always)
Animals, biology and nature - especially horses, cats and Aussie wildlife (always)
Animation (always) most recently The Simpsons (17 years) South Park (10 years once I got the point of the crappy animation)
TV guides (always)
Stephen King (25 years - I haven't read his later ones as The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon was such tripe I've not branched back too far into fiction since)
Fantasy fiction (went so heavily on that for five years that most fantasy seems cliche to me now)
Collecting old coke bottles and collectables (six years)
Crime and serial killers (25 years)
Psychology/neurology/the nature of consciousness (ten years and now my main interest other than art)
The smell of saddlery, new books and stationary (always)

Great topic, so interesting to read everyone's interests

Oh so many. (Not in any particular order, and these are all ones I've had throughout my life)

-Poisons/venoms
-Anatomy/physiology/biology/virology/bacteriology
-Animals/plants (mostly of the deadly kind from serpents to bears, sharks to scorpions, hippos to owls, oh so many)
-Chemistry
-Physics (all kinds)
-Gaming (almost all kinds)
-Genetics
-Storms
-Weaponry from medieval to modern, along with tactics
-Computers
-Psychology
-Radiation (full spectrum from Radio waves to Alpha/Beta/Gamma)
-Sex/sexology (Ok, not full life, but 5 y/o til current age of 22 is close enough. The rest are all about the same cept animals/gaming/storms)

Last one is a bit controversial, Death. Simply so many fascinating things about it. How to cause it, why people cause it, what it is, the emotional and rational response, the efficiency of it, what comes afterward, if anything, what happens in the instant of it... just soo much. That and alot of my other interests tie into it. I mean, a cow just isn't as interesting as a tiger because a tiger can kill you so efficiently. But a big bull... that's interesting because it can also cause some pretty significant damage.

Have you ever used Perler Beads? You use this peg board thingie to put them on, then iron them flat to make things. I was on a kick making coasters of video game characters for a while there, lol...

I made my son a really neat R2D2, but we wound up giving it to his friend for his birthday... I want to make another, but the beads get all over the floor and hurt your feet, so I stopped with them temporarily, lol.

Music - 44 years and still going strong.

Computers - 26 years and still going strong

Science fiction - 46 years. I've sometimes felt I've been about to stop bothering with that one, and don't seem able to get really obsessed with it like I once was, so you won't find me at a Star Trek convention or in the collectors' shops, but every so often I find another good story and I get completely absorbed.

Photography - 42 years and still going strong.

I've also been a lifelong historian of my own life....computers are at last allowing me to digitise and restore my sound recordings, photographs, home movies and diaries, and I eventually expect to have the whole shebang in chronological order on data discs one day. There are a few gaps during phases of my life when I didn't record the dates and times etc. very meticulously (I occasionally reject some special interests for a while, but I usually find myself taking them up again later). I can get quite upset if I can remember making a recording or taking a photo that has been lost for good, and I bitterly regret throwing away my early diaries (~1966-1986).

Collecting 78rpm records - 40 years. I ignore them completely for ages, and have long since ceased to bother acquiring the actual discs and playing them with a suitable turntable, but I still collect them on CDs and from YouTube. I've also got tons of digitised wire recordings and MIDI files which somebody even more obsessed than I am created from piano rolls. And I'm still upset that I lost some of my old records when I moved house......most of them were already transferred to cassette tape, and I've found others on YouTube, but I haven't found copies of "I've Been Married A Year Today / I Will Have A Night Tonight" by Morny Cash the Lancashire comedian, or "They Didn't Believe Me / Settle Down In A One-Horse Town" by Dolly Catterick and Frank Butler. And I suspect I never will

Relationships (not necessarily sexual) - this evolved from an obsession with acquiring a girlfriend (~1964) into the much wider area of finding out everything I can about how people can learn to live together in peace and harmony. My need for a lot of time alone is very important to me, but I've never lost my fascination with the path of the community.