What is/was your most unusual special interest?

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It's a different style of thinking. When I was younger, I focused on bits of facts without connecting them into a big picture, such as specific locations and exhibits of Expo pavilions, without understanding how those details build into a larger picture. A conceptual understanding is something like how the design of each pavilion expresses the theme of the Expo, "better city, better life", from the perspective of the culture the pavilion represents. The latter is more abstract and holistic, like the theme is more abstract than the nitty gritty details and is more than the linear sum of the details. I have gradually shifted to the latter style in the fast few years as philosophy became a special interest back in 2015. So I would say I mean by "understanding" in my post abstraction and holism. I wouldn't say the former style of thinking is bad; it's still helpful in learning, but I benefited a lot from developing the latter.

My strongest two rite now are my girlfriend which isn't that unusual for some Aspies but the other one is a very BAD crush obsession with the iCarly star, Miranda Cosgrove. I know the two should NOT coexist together but I had the crush obsession with Miranda when I got together with my current girlfriend & I kind of put it away for a year or so but it came back.

Yes. Understanding why things are they are and how they fit together is part of learning a craft. It is the same thing when I study writing or stocks. I learn not just what happens in a story, but why the author did what he/she did. Stocks too I have learned why they are the way they are. Sometimes if you learn something deep enough you can learn about things that once seemed unrelated.

By the way, my strangest special interest is Paleocene reptiles. Learning about them has taught me much about how life works.

In cartoon land, Lois Flagston of Hi and Lois is the brother of Beetle Bailey.

When I was around 10, I had an obsession with watching YouTube videos of people connecting their Wii’s to WiFi in multiple different ways.

I don't think my special interests in turtles and canines are very unusual, but it might be a tad unusual with my special interest in Pokemon.

I've had some embarrassing obsessions though

This isn't unusual, but cat videos are my favorite thing to watch on You Tube. I especially love videos of Siamese, tabbies and calicos, because those are the breeds I have had.

I loved one particular video interview with Denis Istomin that has been removed. It was a really good one in which he talked about his childhood, his struggles after a car accident and his career.

Human behavior

Lambda diodes. Two complementary JFETs cross-coupled into a configuration that exhibits dynamic negative resistance at voltages higher than 1 volt DC.

Fascinating devices ... they can be used as oscillators, amplifiers, gyrators, and memory cells. Easy to construct, too!

I also went through a period where I was obsessed with weather forecasts. Fortunately, this was circa 2003, so I had access to the internet and didn't need to make phone calls. I just remember sitting at the computer and going on the Weather Channel site or Weather Underground and looking up the forecasts of random cities. I remember I had this children's dictionary that had a map of the US on the first page, and sometimes I would use that...I'd just close my eyes, put my finger in a random spot, and look up whichever city my finger landed on.

My most unusual special interest was a toss up between 2 things: the black death/historically significant pandemics, and the chernobyl nuclear disaster. To go along with those; I was also obsessed with the plague doctor masks, and all sorts of gas masks. I never ended up purchasing a gas mask. But my little sister did see how much I loved the plague doctor masks, and last christmas she purchased me a leather plague doctor mask. I love it. Since then, though, those special interests have died down a bit. I have consumed basically all media I know of regarding them. (every documentary, book, etc.) I often do have special interests that last about a couple years or so and then die down, usually they are historic ones. Another thing I did that NTs called me a weird for, well, its not really a special interest, but; I used to keep a miniature notebook full of human observations. I used to write notes for myself and such, to remember how NTs behave. I don't think it is weird I did that, but they got upset at me about it. you can't win with those guys, I swear.

Bonus: my most 'NT acceptable' special interest, which is also my special interest I've had since I was 3: Dogs!

My most "NT acceptable" special interest was cats. I still love cats after the special interest died down; I just no longer consider it a special interest. Nevertheless, I did something extraordinary about cats: My parents dislike pets in general and had never allowed pets at home until this: I kept a feral cat as a pet in my classroom for almost a month back in senior year of high school and bought her the best cat food I could afford. Well, the cat followed other students into the classrooms to begin with, but that didn't happen until I fed her, and I continued to feed her in my classroom. I bought her a litter box and put it under my desk and put her cat tree next to my seat, and studied with her sleeping on my lap (no matter how hot that was since she's so cute). Pets weren't allowed in the school, but my cat convinced the teachers to tolerate her presence by her sheer cuteness. The only reason why I removed her from the classroom was that once I found her injured and it turned out that the injury was severe (really long story on this); I took her to the best vet in the city, and after that, my parents finally agreed to bring the cat home out of pity; she's still living with my parents after I went to college. Before I met this cat, I also fed feral cats in my high school without bringing them into a classroom and held animal welfare campaigns. I also often meowed so realistically that I often fooled people into looking for cats and I can converse with cats by meowing. It's hard to think of a special interest for which I haven't done anything spectacular no matter how "normal" the topic itself may be.

Looking at your interests, I am rather impressed by their individuality. My interests (which I am very reluctant to call special interests) were and still are rather mundane in comparison; trains, weather forecasting (focusing on hurricanes), chemistry, Lord of the Rings to name a few. Sure I might have been more interested in these things than usual, but basically, they're more like hobbies than anything else.

When I was about 10, I had an obsession with Wi-Fi connectors. I would do extensive research on types of Wi-Fi routers and methods of connecting to Wi-Fi.

Animals aren't just a special interest for most of us. I think they are a lifeline in times of sadness and an endless source of entertainment in the good times. My number one interest is cats and always will be. I have had animals from the time I was a child and have also helped care for feral cats.

It used to be Gillian Anderson