What was your first special interest?

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I think it was Barbies. I am not sure. I played with them all the time and spent most of my time playing with them and would do social games with them mimicking the behavior I saw. Mom told me in 6th grade I was obsessed with them. All I did was played with them and I remember having to take them everywhere with me. I even remember I got tons of Barbie stuff for Christmas and almost all of my Christmas presents was Barbie stuff. It was the first year I was introduced to it and I only had two Barbies then and then I had another one so I ended up with three dolls.

I think my very first special interest was cats it probably started when my dad brought home a little fluffy kitten and we had her for 13 years.
I became obsessed with cats and also the big ones wanting everything on them.
I still like cats even now I think they're amazing Animals.

I remember nagging my Mum until she took me to the museum to see the Pompeii exhibition. The glass cases with mud covered Mummies fascinated me, I pushed through barriers of adults legs because I was only tiny, so I could press my nose against the glass.

I also was obsessed with animals, not so much learning about them. I was in a toddler at the time. But I wanted to live at the petting zoo, and tried to feed the piglets with my bottle.

Earliest I can remember was cats, but since that was when I was about 8 I think there must have been others.

Cars, which is totally different from my current special interest which is...okay, it's still cars! Is it odd to have the same special interest from when you were a toddler until middle age?

Drawing pictures of women in ancient costumes (like those in movies and shows). I started from age 3 or 4 and drew beautiful girls everyday. Nobody taught me anything. They started having ears when I was 6 and never had any boobs. I paid special attention to hairstyles and ornaments. From age 8 I started taking art classes and my drawings varied and people started having all features.

I also liked collecting rocks, though not very obsessively. I imagine my interests might be different if I had toys to play with. (I had one hand me down doll an one teddy bear, none of those interested me.)

I don't exactly remember what my very first special interest was. It could have been one of several things that I was interested in between the ages of 3 - 5, which were cats, dinosaurs, The Lion King, Beetlejuice (animated series) and Super Mario Bros. (animated series).

With cats, dinosaurs and The Lion King, I collected toys of them and liked playing with them by myself. I also liked to watch the Dinosaurs puppet sitcom and had to hear the theme song every night in order to fall asleep.

With Beetlejuice and Super Mario, I liked to pretend I was Beetlejuice or Mario. I made my mom be Lydia (if I was Beetlejuice) or Luigi (if I was Mario). If my sister played too, she was Princess Peach (again, if I was Mario).

As far as I can remember, my first special interest was iguanas.

Books was my first one. My mom was a bookworm and she was in nursing school and had obstetrics textbooks that I would page through over and over every day when I was about 3. And then her cat books led me to cats, cats led me to Ancient Egypt, Ancient Egypt to costumes, etc..

And although it wasn't a special interest exactly, I could tell you the make and model and year of every car in a parking lot until about age 17, when they all started to look alike.

Time for some nostalgia...

Playing the Nintendo (NES) was probably my first "special" interest. Zelda, Super Mario, Bucky O'Hare and Dracula were my favourite NES games. I never played through Zelda, though, despite a lot of time spent in front of my old TV screen. I never found the last World.
As a teenager I sold my NES console, which I today regret. I'm thinking of buying a new one just for the fun of it. And now I can search the web to find the last World in Zelda. Yes, I will buy the console by the end of this month.

Foreign Countries, I think?

I went through and got about 2000 National Geographic Magazines, at the time.

My first interests were futuristic technology, science fiction, space and video games. That being said, one of the movies that I really enjoyed when I was little was The Fifth Element because of how distant the technology was. This expanded to other sciences like Neurobiology, Genetics and Information Technology.

Astronomy.

Dad bought me a telescope at about age 10 or so and we used to climb onto the garage roof and look at the constellations together. Have very fond memories of 'Cosmos' the TV series, used to talk about space and the universe for hours. Mom was a waitress and Dr. Sagan had stopped into her restaurant; she actually got me his autograph, which in my young'unness lost immediately.

Still love to hear of advances in space exploration and astrophysics. In another universe I'd be atop a mountain with my peers searching the night sky.

I've always had multiple special interests, and about 90% of my special interests are lifelong. I think my first "true" special interest, though, was Garfield. That began when I was about 18 months. Road signs also began around this time. (I asked for a stop sign for my second birthday, apparently.) Around age 4, road signs faded out and were replaced by amusement park safety/height restrictions. Full House also began around 18 months.

My first FACTUAL special interest was the human body/anatomy, which began around age 3. I had a big special interest in pregnancy/obstetrics that began around age 3. I wanted to be an obstetrician when I was 4-5. I still have an interest in high-risk obstetrics. Pink Panther replaced Garfield when I was about 3 1/2. I used to put my Pink Panther stuffed animal under my shirt and pretend I was "pregnant" with him.

But those are all of my earliest SIs.