What are everyone's SIs?

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Birds, though it branches out into other nature things too.

Video games, mainly Sonic the Hedgehog and Pokemon

Pretty much anything mechanical, with emphasis on locks, planes, and trains. I love working with PLCs and building spreadsheets using logic functions. Lately I would have to include autism as a SI as well.

Video games, psychotropic drugs, and theology

I don't really like to use the term "special interest." It always sounded patronizing to me.

That being said, I love doing and watching martial arts.
I've also made a decent career out of my avid interest in insects (yes, yes, I'm that stereotypical bug-loving aspie).
I also really love learning new techniques in sewing and making things out of clay.

- Pugs
- Computers
- The Internet
- Industrial music

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Well, just when I am once again about to leave Wrong Planet these interest threads do make me feel like I am with my people. but I have yet failed to name my own MANY special interests which over the years have been very intense, verging on fanatical. I will divide then into these categories: art (painting), science (social science and the study of autism also being in this category and even applying a scientific approach to politics), religion, music and collecting. It all started with religion at age fourteen when I had an intense calling which literally began with hugging a tree, and I then dedicated my life to the aim of "touching God." Whaa? ha ha. But I didn't know where to start, so eventually began to read books on Christian mysticism, such as St. John Of The Cross's writings on the dark night of the soul, and at one point even slept in a nunnery with the nuns (I was on a sleeping bag on the floor and did not have sex with them:-) This was, by the way, the same nunnery where a few years later there was a famous case where a nun got pregnant and killed her baby (but got off due to insanity). Anywaaay, to make a long story kind of short, in my mid twenties I became an atheist, but did this stop my fanatico interest in religion? Nooo. To be continued. Actually before the interest in religion was poetry. Forgot about that. Am making this sound funny, but it is tinged with sorrow.

Blessings to the autistics and all of the other suffering creatures on this earth.

To be continued.

I remember always being interested in learning about different countries. Countries I have studied in depth include Greece, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, Serbia and Uzbekistan. Many of these have a tennis connection, although my interest in Spain long predated an interest in Rafael Nadal or tennis. I paid attention to the Spanish tennis players because of Rafael Nadal. My interest in Russia and Uzbekistan is an outgrowth of my interest in Denis Istomin.

Lately, environmental news and the climate. Upsetting? Yes. Helpful? Yes, because it spurs me to action.

Dogs and cats, too. I have more than one SI.

In the past, other countries, neurology, psychology, and the human body. Also, long-standing interest in plants.

At the moment it is birds.

In the past: Harry Potter, Twin Peaks (David Lynch series) many collections of things as a child, pin badges, postcards, cigarette cards, erasers, postage stamps, for a while empty drinks cans and cigarette packets...