What is your LATEST obsession/special interest

Post Reply New Topic

Aspergers Syndrome as I'm newly diagnosed

The avatar that I'm using, now. I've brightened up an old one, by scanning the exact picture from a book, and than "Playing favourites." I mean, cutting Mick out of the picture and sizing the image for WP. Perhaps, I should just stick with it. Many people keep their avatars, for years.

meerkats and Lion King

I'm interested in language and learning Arabic at the moment. The differences to English I find fascinating. I've been told this is inappropriate with the cultural climate at the moment, but I'm afraid that prejudice is kind of lost on me.

Music.

Needlefelting and creating art from tin cans.

Story structure, particularly;

The concept of the"story mind", which examines a "premise", and explores, one after another, or at the same time, ( through the characters and what happens to them ), the arguments for and against it as "truth"/a useful belief/approach to life.

The "subjective story" throughline relating to the crucial relationship/interaction between the Main Character, ( not necessarily the same thing as the protagonist ), and the "Impact Character"; think Red and Andy respectively in "The Shawshank Redemption" or Scout and Boo Radley in "To Kill a Mockingbird".

How to build plot, character, and theme on a premise, eg. "Unconditional sacrifice leads to freedom", in which "sacrifice" provides the plot, an absence of freedom is the main character's initial condition, and "unconditional" ( what that actually means ), becomes the theme, ( NB. I think that the ring in LOTR was "the premise"; I've been trying to work out what it was! :lol ... something "awful" seeing as it gets binned? )

Dramatica Theory, at: http://www.dramatica.com/theory/index.html and http://storyfanatic.com/
.

My latest obsession is something I'm sure a lot of you are into too.

It's internet Por....Just kidding, I do InnoCentive projects.

I focus on something that helps and I get money if my research/idea is the best.

For an Aspie, it's pretty obvious hu?

http://www2.innocentive.com/

Inventing conlangs and conworlds, and writing short stories about them.
Lucid dreams.
Re-watching "ER"

Still happens to be Star Wars and Transformers, but these have taken a backseat to a revived obsession, Duke Nukem3D. It appears that Transformers might get replaced by this, but I'm not sure. I don't have as great an interest in Tfs as I once did. Maybe once the new movie comes out...

mathematics, science, writing and computers

I'm very jealous of anyone who has an obsession that's actually useful in a career, because my obsession is sports (Yankees and Knicks). Still, Sports is the one thing that Neurortypicals can have Aspy like obsessions about lol, so it's a good obsession socially.

Hmm.... cooking, herbology, my health.... never ending obsessions!

at the moment, i would say that my main interest is women's and gender studies, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender/Queer studies and activism, and other related things. mostly due to my recently coming out (at least to a degree) as a transgendered/transsexual woman. who is also attracted only to women, so file me under "lesbian" too, as well as "queer" since i really don't care much for conformity in general and gender conformity more specifically.

As for past and other areas of interest:
--sports...in the past it was more focused on men's sports, i still am a fan of them but have become MUCH MUCH more interested in women's sports in the last 5-10 years or so. i feel like this is at least in part related to coming out as trans and etc, detailed above.
--music, particularly folk/blues/rock and combinations thereof. Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, were among the stuff i liked as a teen and still do like. i became a major Grateful Deadhead just a few years before Garcia passed away, and also like Bob Dylan a lot. 1960s and early 70s hippie/socially relevant music in general...Phil Ochs, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, to mention just a few that have not already been mentioned. Lately i am really digging the Indigo Girls and Ani Difranco, once again see the first paragraph regarding my emergent transfeminine self, making me more interested in women musicians.
--left of center politics and social actiivsm more generally...more and more i am convinced that the world needs some fundamental change of a socialist/anarchist/feminist variety if we humans, our animal relatives,and the world in general is to survive and maybe even thrive in time.
--as a child i was really into commercial signage and logos (seems to be contrary to my socialism but there you go) particularly gas stations (Sinclair dinosaur, Standard/Amoco oval and torch, etc) and Coca-Cola. i still kinda like this, although i am now generally cynical about the businesses that the logos represent.