What is your "special interest"?

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Currently, mental illness, the brain and astrophysics/cosmology. I'm fascinated by space and the mind.

this week

arts and crafts
wrong planet

in the last few weeks....

discredited personality tests
aspergers change in diagnosis

regular obsession

cults
quack science

I am interested in the properties of plants and chimerism, arbitrage, and the mysteries of the mind. I believe there are inward and microcosmic frontiers. I take on meticulous projects and find novel uses for ordinary things. If I could continuously cultivate or improve upon anything, I believe I would be happy with very little.

Helena Bonham Carter and the characters she's played (particularly Bellatrix Lestrange and Mrs. Lovett)

Harley Quinn, the Batman villain

Ever since I was a child I have loved entomology. I do not remember ever not liking insects. I purchase old entomology textbooks off the internet and read them entirely. I also had about a year long fascination with carnivorous plants in high school and unsuccessfully tried to grow a carnivorous garden. My minor interests include any video game I happen to be playing at the moment. I once tried to print out the entirety of the Halo video game wiki. I just got the Bioshock video games and I am currently obsessed with them.

DRAGONS!
Historical stuff,
Fantasy books,
D&Ds,
Magic Cards,
The coming Hobbit Movie,

European,
Asian,
South American,

Wyverns,
Knuckers
Wyrms
Oroborous,
Long/Lung
Quetzalcoatel (Dragon, not the god)
Hydra
Y Ddraig Goch

Love 'em all!

As a kid and teenager I was heavily into movies, computer games and reading about mythology and history

During my early twenties I got involved more with church groups, so that expanded my
social horizons. I stopped playing computer games and started teaching myself more
about computers such as programming.

Now, I use my spare time to work at a local radio station as a volunteer broadcast
engineer. Im hoping to pick up some projects working on video production or editing
as well.

Hmm tough question. I have had a few, but they sort of co-relate.

Female/29

General Umbrella: Fantasy non space-ish

Art (specific tibids)

Mythology (indo-european)

Drawing/painting (certain stuff and ideas and most co-relate to either foliage or mythology or video games with dnd-ish scenarios).

Video games with medival/dnd-ish scenarios

These special interests cycle and vary in intencity and usually cross-each other.

Edit: I forgot musicals. This is my oldest and never-changing obsession. I watch them, memorize storyline, songs and attires, etc. Never cared much about actor/actress names, the how-to, etc. If I learn them cool, otherwise I do not care much. fav musicals?

Singing in the rain
Top Hat
Repo the genetic opera (ok rock opera, not musical, but w/e)
Happy Feet
The Court Jester
Glee (XD totally awesome)
West Side Story
The Music Man
An American In Paris
Mery Popins
.. and i will stop here.

Hmm maybe this means that musicals are my main special interest? I don't think so but it is my most re-occurring.

My "special interest" has always been English(it´s not my second language) and reading books.

Psychiatry. I dare to say I know he same amount of things about some psychiatric disorders as the professionals themselves.

Rollercoasters and amusement parks, and more particularly the rollercoaster designs of Fred Church. John Miller was a genius, built dozens of rides, had many patents, and was basically the golden age of the rollercoaster all by himself, but Fred Church turned coaster building into an artform. He created rides with a sense of grace and beauty. Three of his rides still operate: the Giant Dippers at Santa Cruz and San Diego, and the Dragon at Rye Playland in New York. Here are some of his legendary and much-missed designs, all now demolished:

Cyclone Racer, Long Beach, California (1930-1968)


Airplane, Rye Playland, New York, (1926-1957)


Tornado (aka) Bobs, Coney Island, New York (1926-1977)




The plot for the Tornado was ridiculously narrow: 75 feet wide at the tower end, but only 50 feet wide for the curve coming off the lift hill. Lift height was 71 feet, length of track was 2,970 feet. One day I hope to have enough space to build a small wooden coaster by hand in my garden.

I have some special interests too;

VW Lupo 3L - a small very economic car;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Lupo#Lupo_3L
Of course, I have one myself with almost all equipment you can possibly fit into it..
I'm a lousy mechanic but I know all about this little fella'..


Bikes!
I know a lot about bikes. I'm a great mechanic when it comes to bikes.
Love to ride them too. This interest shifts a bit (along with the weather )
Races and riders I don't care about at all - just bikes.. I have four bikes.

Danish language
I'm obsessed with Danish grammar and language. I can't stand when something is misspelled.
My wish for this Christmas is dictionaries. More dictionaries (I've written a loooooong post about Christmas some days ago you can read if you want to know about my Christmas).

Computers and TV-production
Love computers and software, though TV production has taken over the last couple of years.
I work with TV production on a daily basis and have built our own SNG/OB truck.
Somehow people always come to ask me about their faulty computer. Oh my.

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Andreas, calling from Denmark!
Blog: http://aspieme.tumblr.com - in English: http://aspieme-english.tumblr.com

I'm 30 and have 3 interests, or obsessions music, science (with a really big obsession of astronomy) and anything to do with flying.

Photography & Psychology (specifically Autism for the last 6 months and counting).

I also come in and out of serious obsessions with interior design. I think this special interest frustrates me though because it can be expensive and difficult to actually do. My last interior design project (skim coating 1400SF of textured wall) ended a year ago, and I haven't looked back since.

I'm 28 by the way.

Whilst there are things that interest or fascinate me, such as space, physics, football, e.t.c. I'd say my MAIN interest would be Video Games


Ever since I first played Pokémon Red way back when I was three (I'm seventeen, eighteen in March), there was just something about Video Games that grabbed me

Dinosaurs, science fiction, science facts dominated my childhood. I was a bird watcher for many years with lots of lists and notes from all my outings. I became a scientist/zoologist in college, but gave up dinosaurs for fishes. I also picked up electronic music in college as a passion. I have managed to direct my OCD tendencies towards being meticulous about my data collecting and writing, which has helped my science career. In the last 15 years I started growing orchids, with my usual OCD data management - I have a large excel file with info on each plant (~125 orchids), when it bloomed, when I last split it, what parent plant it came from, etc. I still read science fiction and listen to electronic music today.