What was your first special interest?

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I still have my giant stuffed animal horse I got for my fourth birthday.

The earliest ones I can remember are the Care Bears and a UK serial called Story Teller, which had audio tapes of stories and text and illustrations in the magazines. It was pre-school so I couldn't read yet, but I would listen to the tapes over and over while looking at the pictures. For some reason my parents stopped buying them partway through and I had to wait nearly 30 years to get closure on the stories I didn't know the ending to (happily, I recently found a downloadable version of the whole series).

As soon as I could read it became Enid Blyton books. I was so obsessed with books that I permanently ruined my eyesight at the age of six because when my parents put the lights out at night I would continue reading until it was too dark for me to make out any words. I had no idea at that age that doing that was damaging my sight, and I have been extremely short-sighted ever since.

Opera. Especially Magic flute queen of night aria. I was about 6 years old.

Barbie dolls!

I loveCarebears too! I as obsessed with the show for a short time, very short, but to this day I looove the carebear stuff my fav fleece blanket is carebear print.



That was my first one, until my mom decided I was too old for them <,< Oh well that makes three!

Are we all girls?

3 for carebears too .....I'm another girl who loved carebears.......I got into it when I was older than the average viewer though....an older child...... and it was not an obsession for me .....as I said earlier my collection of stuffed animal monkeys was my first obsessive interest but the carebears were awesome!

Mr Men books, I used to keep them in alphabetical order and read them again and again and again.

I remember playing at age 5 sitting backwards on a rocking chair, swinging a baton around pretending it was a sword to "Ride of the Valkyries". I knokced over a lamp. I learned the entire roles of Carmen, and Niklaus from the Tales of Hoffmann, at age 11. That's how I learned to speak French. Unfortunately, I can't sing worth a s***. I used to wonder if the parents of the kids in the childrens' choruses minded the naughty nature of Carmina Burana, too.

Die Zauberflote (or The Magic Flute) has always been my favourite opera. The overture is one of my favourite Mozart pieces.

My special interest was music. When I was a baby, I could play
the Gremlins theme song on the tiny keyboard that I had.
I could tell what instrument was what just by hearing it on
the radio. I listened to a lot of classical cause of the
religious cult freaks I lived with xD.
When I was 7/8 I was constantly making up a homemade drumset
made of pots, pans, boxes, whatever made a kewl noise!
I would annoy the foster family I was with; I would drum for hours.
It's a shame I never really picked it up as I got older, got lazy.
But I do play guitar and some bass, trumpet, recorder, drums...
but interest shifted since I moved and that would be way too
noisy for my neighbors.

I also was into fighting. I loved the Ninja Turtles, especially Raphael! Ha! Badass, dude.
I stole a ninja turtle action figure from a kid, but felt bad and returned it.. I never got anything,
just wanted to play with it. T.T Anyway...
But being that impressionable, whenever I saw someone bullying someone else I'd run up and
start fighting the bully (I was in 1st grade, they were in 3rd). I was called Karate Kid xD
(I was born in 1984, same year it was made, seems funny) but I was unaware of the movie!
So I was like... what's karate? xD
I was a real tomboy and kicked the crap out of others when I was way young.

Even then in middle school I got into some fights, not starting them... everyone picks on the strange kid that sits by themselves.
I had to keep them at bay by keeping an angry look on my face so no one would approach me. Get close to me or be smacked up!

Not like that anymore, fortunately. But I would still run to someone's defense!

Geology aged 8, i founded a geology club and had the satchel for putting stones in,then a minerals cabinet where I had all stones in order.The interest stopped suddenly due to my parents not buying me a stone polishing machine. End of geologist dream!

Dinosaurs. In preschool/kindergarten I wrote and drew in a journal every night before I went to bed, and when I read it now, I spelled words like "there" wrong (ther) and everything but I got all of the names of the dinosaurs right. I was absolutely obsessed with the Land Before Time too, but I didn't understand why they were called things like longnecks and threehorns instead of apatosauruses and triceratopses or why said dinosaurs existed in the same time period.
I had all of these pretty intense non fiction books and movies on dinosaurs too xD I remember in 2nd grade the librarian always told me, when I got non fiction books and chapter books, "Now go pick out something you can read on your own." And I was like, "I can read those on my own..." But I had to get one of those Step into Reading/Hooked On Phonics/Whatever-they-call-them-now little kid books since I "couldn't read my dinosaur books on my own."
Also in preschool, I wanted to be a paleontologist. There were only 2 or 3 other girls in my preschool class, and about 20 boys. But for some reason the girls thought I was the coolest thing ever for some reason and so they wanted to be paleontologists with me.
Ah, the good old days.

Then horses in middle school, and I got made fun of for that. Not sure why, but I got bullied by kids about horses.
Then playing guitar and music theory a bit later.
Then betta fish briefly.
Now dog behavior and operant conditioning.

Pinocchio!!

witches, magic.
like fairy tale witches

dinosaurs too, evolution, planets

Oh yes, DS also went through a serious Mr Men fixation. If you called out a number, he could tell you the corresponding book and draw the character - he was 4

i dont remember clearly. i remember being interested in esp, witches, paganism, greco-roman myths, saints in primary but i also know i was into plants and i keep finding bits and pieces that indicate i was into plants fairly early. photos, pressed flowers, scribblings and things.