What was your wierdest obsession growing up?

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Like as a kid, and for a lesser extent this became an obsession that I could go back in time and prevent seriously screwed up things from happening. Ie. perhaps steer the Titanic a few degrees in either direction, or perhaps provide modern saftey designs for ship structural engineerings for the designers of the ship so that people can get out in time.

Perhaps use some modern devices to freak out religious nuts, who are burning little children at the stake... I know this is a silly thing. But it keeps me going especially during low drag phases...

I had an unusual fixation of the skeletal structures of humans and animals. I had an immense collection of skulls I would take with me to school. My first grade teacher freaked out and said I needed help. I wonder if she feels this way toward anthropologists...

Same here with the Titanic obsession as a kid! I was utterly crazy about it...I still remember begging my Mom to buy blank tapes so I could record all the Discovery Channel shows on it, well before James Cameron's Titanic came out. It never turned into a phobia though and I'm sorry to hear that.

Hmm, weirdest one for me was (is?) my fascination with giant trees. I learned all the tree species, their locations, tallest specimens, longest lived and greatest diameter for most every conifer on the planet. Going to Lake Quinault in Washington state and Redwood Forest in California was like the second coming of Jesus for me. I went so far as finding, measuring and mapping the locations of the largest trees of each species in the huge greenbelt behind my yard despite the fact that none of them were terribly interesting or grandiose.

I tied knots in everything -there were trip wires all over the house.

collected caterpillars when very young (4 or 5) - I would go out and spend my days looking for as many of them as I could find and then kept them in a coffee can. (poor caterpillars! they'd have been better off in the wild, but I couldn't stop it)

I got briefly obsessed with certain lettering and fonts as a kindergartener, and used to stash some practice letter drawing templates into my cubbyhole so I could keep them

then marbles, which i had a well documented and catalogued collection of ..

much later on, identical twins separated at birth (unaware of each other while growing up) then reunited in adulthood to compare characteristics (nature vs. nurture)

the country Israel, Jewish holidays, the Jewish people, the holocaust, reading any books that had to do with Jewish people during the holocaust such as Anne Frank, Jewish music, I constantly thought about it and even cried over the fact about the holocaust and how many people were killed and i felt like it was my fault cus i think my ancestors are German decent. dont ask me why. Now i think why was i so obsessed?

now im really obsessed with dolls and toys! lol i love to dress them and set them up and stuff lol

Oh i forgot to mention tho before I was obsessed with Israel and the Jewish culture i was obsessed with Indians and all the different Indian tribes and i even had Indian dolls and i got the American girl doll Kaya who is an Indian for my 13 bday! now i always regret getting her because you cant hardly take her hair out because it is in 2 braids and she looks wierd with it down. So i just let her sit and occasionally dress her in her jingle dress outfit. I even had times where i wish i lived back in the Indian times and was able to be an Indian i would actually feel sad about that cus i thought it would've been neat to live back then with the Indians.

Lol I can't read through these, you guys are going to give me new obsessions!

I've had many from dogs to music. Last year I spent $3k on ebay on survival gear, military surplus equipment, and knives. I only had 2k in the bank though so that was a problem. I couldn't stop because what if I was in this situation in the woods and I needed this. I would search just to find things that I might need.

I have boxes and boxes of survival gear. A lot of times people ask me if I was in the military. I tried to join every branch of the military but they wouldn't take me because of my medication I was taking.

I'm thinking of getting into model cars or airplanes. If anyone knows of a good place for airplanes or American muscle cars from the 60's-70's message me! I'm just getting into it I hear Revel is a decent company. I can't afford much.

Oh and I got into collecting gold and silver. One day I just bought an ounce of gold! I also bought around 80oz of silver and all kinds of old US coins. Fortunately the price of gold and silver went up and I made a profit when I decided to sell 90% of it to go towards my V8 Mustang convertible I love that car and my dog. My dog is my best friend so I guess I'm obsessed with her. And I'm obsessed with perfection which is a horrible problem as nothing and no one is!

this happened long past growing up, but for a few years i was obsessed with getting every major [and some minor] audio restoration package and app that was available.

I was once obsessed with pretending to be a T-rex. And I know a fellow which is obsessed with public transport.

About the Titanic..... as it's brought up here like 3 times, mine included. I just read up on Rubber life rafts.... they had this technology then, Surly it would have fit snugly into some storage room..... WHY DIDN'T THEY USE THIS? The orderly shipmates could have easily just stood there inflating these suckers, and plopping them into sea one by one..... GAHHHHHHHHHHGH

Serial killers

Some of these aren't "weird" obsessions but...

Age 7-8: The Weather Channel and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Age 8-10: Dinosaurs/Paleontology. I had always drawn dinosaurs, read about them, and watch a bunch documentaries about them on the Discovery channel.

Age 11-15: Sonic the Hedgehog. Though Knuckles was my favorite, I loved playing the old Sega genesis and Dreamcast games, as well as collected an enormous stack of the comics. I would constantly draw Sonic and Knuckles which lead to another greater interest that is cartooning.

Age 9-25/present: Cartooning, comics (mostly Japanese and some American, I hate costumed superheroes), looking up current politics, and above all.....INTROVERSION and SOLITUDE!! !

I think every kid is fascinated by dinosaurs at some point, but my mom would take me to the library and I would only check out books on dinosaurs. I drew dinosaurs and knew all the names of the epochs and when each dinosaur lived and what species evolved into what. I told my mom, when I was 6 or 7, that birds were descended from dinosaurs and proved it by showing her a chicken foot at the grocery store. Have you ever seen them up close? You'd swear it belonged to some small dinosaur.

But even stranger, I loved to look at women. I just thought they were the most amazing creatures.

Ha I think a lot of us know what you mean. Seriously though, I totally understand from a completely non-chemically induced perspective; an attractive woman is, well, exactly how you put it, an 'amazing creature' Just aesthetically perfect and comparable to a perfect sunset or artistic masterpiece.

A team of real horses and a real wagon. But, now I collect backhoe loader models with me having 2 special ones. I have collected other things like space models over the years and they took a backseat when I got involved with backhoe loader models and even the real ones.