Aspies: What are your Special Interests?

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Past:
-mamals (particularly monotremes & marsupials)
-miniature polymer clay sculpting
-any anime (generalist)
-skateboarding
-collecting beanie babies

Present:
-insects (particularly hymenoptera)
-sudoku
-karate
-watching sumo wrestling
-making indy comics
-reading indy comics
-anime (selective)
-learning various languages (or trying to lol)
-playing ukulele
-making flutes

Throughout my life:
-hiking
-camping
-painting
-webcomics
-playing & collecting flutes

I just remembered.
When I was little, 3-6, somewhere in that range, I used to listen to casette tapes over and over and over again, a LOT.
I could forget about everything around me when I listened to them, and I also did know many of them by heart and used part of them as scripts.
That must have been my first special interest.

I'll do my best here.

Past-

Paleontology
Pro wrestling
Mythology
Demonology

Present
Computers and Internet Technologies
Art Appreciation
World History
Religion and Philosophy
Movies which span many genres
Video Games
Simply learning about different people and places.

Past:
- dinosaurs,
- lego technic,
- maps,
- drawing
- religion,
- trains,
- chemistry,
- medicine

Present:
- Computers, internet technology, windows 8.1,
- medical science, neuroscience,
- religion, Bible, politics and psychology
- trains,
- autism spectrum,
- self improvement.

I don't really have any special interest now that my OCD is treated. Before that I was obsessed with my 1st & 2nd girlfriend & was obsessed with getting in a relationship when I was single. I was also pretty obsessed with pron even thou I didn't really enjoy it a whole lot(I was obsessed with DLing it & organizing it)

My special interests:

Past:
3D modelling (lil' bit of animation, but more so modelling)
The Russian language
Computers

Present:
The Russian language! FTW (been going on for at least 5 years, and won't stop, loving it)
Computers

Due to my strong interest in computers, relatives and the like know to come to me for help before paid specialists.

Recent past:
- MBTI and enneagram types
- Baking

Present:
- Borderline Personality Disorder (which I have)
- Shrek
- Collecting plastic cutlery
- Curating my aesthetics-based blog
- Virtual pet games like Neopets

5-12 years old:
- Neopets
- Certain anime series
- Collecting BB gun pellets
- Swings

Understanding the base foundation of a thing
Problem solving
Programming
Dancing
Watching or seeing the workings of individual’s energy’s and brain functions

Thanks to a forum friend it's currently Lord of the Rings Online. I have two characters, a Hobbit and Elf I'm consumed with developing.

Outside of that, forums, reading, photography, exploring, art, crafting, history and biographies.

I'm guessing that special interests and obsessions are relatively the same thing? In any case here are a few special interests.

Past:
Airplane models, the ones you stick decals on, not paint. And those around 1:24 scale because that's all I could afford.
Perpetual motion machines
Poetry
Luthiery
Foreign films
Animation & modeling software like 3DS Max, Rhino, etc.

Current:
Cubase, music sequencing software and anything related to that like keyboards, VSTi's, digital effects, etc.
Guitars
Jainism
Autism
Torture, punishment & executions through the ages. This interest in researching violence is probably an obsession because the sheer acquisition of knowledge about it, and anything related to it, occupies my time day and night.

When you say special interests, I assume you mean things I am really interested in, that I know a lot about, that I really like to talk/read about for hours, that typically have little to no meaning or relevance to other people... and cause problems for me when I try to socialize.

Past:
Dinosaurs
Insects (specifically beetles)
Types of teeth structures
clocks, gears, machinery, etc.
Word etymologies

Current:
Types of leather (most current)
bass guitars
Word etymologies
Mars
Anglo-Saxons
Fungi

Interests as a kid:
-Animals
-Goosebumps books
-Pokemon
-Video games/Game Boy games

Interests in high school/college:
-Harry Potter
-Three Days Grace and Linkin Park
-Psychology (mainly the MBTI test, HSPs, and social anxiety)

Current interests:
-Sleep paralysis/lucid dreaming
-Psychological/neurological disorders
-Psychoactive drugs and their effects on people
-Breaking Benjamin
-Yoga/meditation

I'm sure there's more of course, but these are the ones I can think of for now.

Model railroading - HO scale. My nephew and my grandson think that's cool, so I have someone to share my interest with.

Becoming a better human being. In every aspect imaginable.

Other than that it's computers (games, youtube, music) and cars. Love driving.

My current special interest is "Ginger", my 1974 Plymouth Duster survivor.

Past:

Lord Zedd (Power Rangers)
Ronin Warriors (anime)
Full Metal Alchemist (anime)
Borg (Star Trek)
Weather
Astronomy
Goth Subculture
Doomsday/Armageddon stuff
Time

Present:

Weather (still)
Prisons/Jails
Doomsday/Armageddon stuff
Beards/Facial Hair
Sunglasses
Zentai Suits/Mummification
Animosity in general
Astronomy (Mostly events like meteors, comets, solar flares, ect.)