Interest In Disasters/Crime?

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I have interest in crime. I like watching movies about it and reading about it. My Dad jokes about me wanting to become a serial killer. I even have books on crime too.


I was obsessed with the Titanic when I was 12 after the movie came out.

I seem to get very excited by emergencies and disasters and occasionally develop an obsession with the event.

I have some books on true crimes/serial killers/disasters.

The Holocaust (though much more when I was younger, I've read a great deal on it and WW II in general--some of the best works are my all-time favorite reads, like "Night" and "Maus") and nuclear war. The Vietnam war too. Stories of horrible man-made disasters tend to attract me, not because I enjoy or am interested in the suffering as a good thing, just because it tends to weirdly attract...

Ah yes, the holocaust was one of mine also. But I am Jewish by blood and most of my mother's blood relatives died in the camps, so I suppose that partially accounts for it.

Well, I have always liked watching murder mysterious on TV and I also have a fascination with famous murders like the Kennedy assassination.

I'm interested in disasters, crimes, plagues, natural disasters and so on since I was a child. I always derived a lot of pleasure from my grandmother's stories about her experiences from the times of the Second World War, I used to prick up my ears when she started to tell the stories about all those dying German soldiers - one of them bled into death in that place where several years later the cellar was built and gran was afraid that his ghost was still haunting that place. For some time I even used to imagine that my grandparents' cellar was really haunted. I also find the story of the Third Reich and the WW II truly fascinating, two months ago I even was on the trip to Auschwitz concentration camp. I often visit the sites concerning serial killers and take delight in watching "Dr. G: Medical Examiner" and other programmes of this kind on Discovery Channel. I had thought to have psychopatic inclinations but some time ago there was a girl on the Polish AS forum asking whether it's true that aspies often like macabre, reading horror books and other stuff of this kind and she was informed it's caused by fact that "aspies don't react to those stimuluses which cause fear at normal people and thanks to this horrors don't seem to be so scary".

I used to have a aquaintance who was VERY Aspie-like (long before I knew what Aspergers was)...he was an intense and interesting fellow...lived alone in an apartment that was completely and meticulously decorated like it was from the early 50's...(this is besides the point)...it was just amazing the attention to detail.

Anyway..he was a freelance writer and had been a crime reporter for the newspaper in a medium-sized town.....so anytime there was a murder or death or what-have-you...he was there on the scene...so he had alot of gruesome stories....and anytime I would talk to him, that's all we would talk about...his various crime scene adventures...or serial killers or other various and sundry aspects of the macabre...

I was in my early 20's..I guess I was more interested in that stuff back then..and not so much now...i was always reading serial killer..or faces of death..type books...was pretty obsessed with it as a kid too.