What was Your Biggest Special Interest?

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I like to see how "places change over time" Not only the nature, but the manmade stuff aswell.
There is a youtuber(herve attia) who travels to the filming locations of his favorite films. Realy enjoy the comparison of before and now in his videos.

mosaic chimerism of plants

Lego

It used to be Pokemon and now it's going online.

Mine change every few years, first really strong obsession was plants/gardening, then 1970's coffee pots by j&g meakin, then old vintage tshirts, then metal detecting, then mud larking, then small mono coloured figures 1960's - present day (look up little rubber guys forum) then it went on to street art since 2012. I've just started going to the gym, we'll see if I get obsessed.

My obsessions are amateur radio, emergency medical care, and fire fighting trainig and tactis . The good side is these are right in my line of work, I work in EMS and serve the community as a volunteer fire fighter.

I have three areas of special interest with equal levels of enthusiasm.

1. Video encoding, specifically telecine patterns.
2. Collection and organisation of video media, I currently have 26,399 television episodes spread over 30TB on my home network. I've watched very few of them.
3. Politics.

mine were probably pokèmon and stuffed animals! ive been fixated on cartoons and video games for as long as i can remember as well

*pokémon, oops!

ASD: Self-diagnosis at age 26 sparked initial interest, assessment and professional diagnosis at age 33 intensified it. Every book, every documentary, every YouTube video, every blog, every forum... This seems to be a common interest among WrongPlanet users.

Photoshop: I have been told that I use my camera to distance myself from other people and/or my surroundings. Photography is a coping mechanism of sorts -- I have been known to return home from being out-and-about with several hundred photos. (Long before Instagram was a thing!) The more social expectations and sensory input, the more photos. I can spend hours upon hours -- losing track of time, forgetting to eat, refusing to sleep, etc. -- labelling, categorizing, and editing digital photos, most of which I am the only person to ever see. I have tens of thousands.

Autobiographical Introspective Writing: As above, my primary literary audience is myself. I can simultaneously lose myself and find myself in my writing. I have more than 6,000 [locked] blog posts.

Thrifting: I visit thrift stores somewhat obsessively, typically without a purchase goal. I am so familiar with one thrift chain that when I am in one of the stores and I notice an item out of place, I divert my focus from treasure-finding to organizing items throughout the store (ensuring clothing is hung in the correct section, reuniting separated multi-item sets, ordering series books chronologically, collecting like-items and placing them together on shelves...).

1970's Television Sitcoms: Especially the Mary Tyler Moore Show. This was more of an intense interest as an older child and teenager (in the 1990's), waning in my 20's (in the early 2000's), but I still have boxes of VHS tapes and DVDs, the actors' autobiographies and biographies, old TV Guides purchased on eBay, and so on. Although I no longer watch the show every day, I cannot imagine parting with my long-ago collection. And truth be told, I still light-up whenever someone happens to mention one of 'my' shows, sitcoms that went off the air a decade or more before I was even born, and I have been known to happily rattle off (unsolicited?) information and trivia.

Definitely visual kei. This is just one of my many special interests. I also find myself taking great pride in disabilities more than anything. I love learning about people who have varying special needs, aside from Autism Spectrum Disorders as well. I even like to try and write about them, but I can never finish my stories. Writing is also a definite and top special interest for me as well.

Turtles. I've always liked them, and they've been my number one special interest since I was about 14. I don't see that changing.

It used to be LEGO Star Wars and Star Wars in general. Now, it's singing.

Reading and language. I'm old fashioned, see.

Also, cultures. Neverending fascination.