Adults age 35 and above - What are your special interests?

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Genealogy
History
Law
Politics

These are the same interests that I enjoyed when I was age 13 years. Does that make me a prodigy?

Turtles
Pokemon

Botany
Ecology (woodlands especially, ancient woodlands in particular)
Trees
Triumph motorcycles of the 1960s and 1970s

Video Games
Tabletop Roleplaying
Star Wars and Star Trek
Science and Science Fiction
Linguistics
Psychology
Sociology
Computers
Anime
Manga

Paleoanthropology
Autism

That would be covered in the context of the whole statement:
I'm familiar with how the history unfolded and the major players from people like Winsor McCay with his "Little Nemo in Slumberland" and his experimentations with animation with his "Gertie the Dinosaur" and how those early strips morphed not only into collected works and then into comic books with their own characters invented or transitioned into the new format, but also into animation.

I was just trying to not be all 'aspie' about in the listing LOL

And, that is still the 'Reader's Digest' version.

But, I do have a special fondness for the Golden and Silver ages for different reasons. The 80's and 90's have a different experience applied to that period.

I've liked Paleoanthropology since I was about 11 years old.

50/60's music. I enjoy watching kids from that era dance to the music!

Listening or watching old baseball games. Listening to someone like Red Barber or Mel Allen on Yankee/Brooklyn Dodgers broadcasts.

Late Medieval English history--especially the Peasants' Rebellion of 1381.

Many others that I can't think of offhand.

I don't like: Going on shopping trips, "professional" wrestling, "reality" TV, present-day pop culture (I like 1960s pop culture, though).

'Middle-aged' is just a label and the number I picked, 35 might as well be random. You don't have to think of yourself as middle-aged if you don't want to.

Lately, I've been dredging up past incidents in my life and analyzing them in minute detail. It is more of an obsession than a special interest but it has been consuming almost all of my time.

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I bet Zkydz would like "Moon Mullins."

My great uncle wrote the first score for "Felix The Cat."

This isn't the style of music you mentioned, but, if you like to watch someone dance, this guy is worth watching.

It's weird: from the 1920s to the 1960s, the main dance for teenagers was some variation of the "Lindy Hop."

i won't i'm only recently not completely dumbfounded when a late teen at a grocery store calls me ma'am. My head says "ma'am!!?! I'm at best old enough to be your sister!" And then look at them and realize...wait...

I love this post and the lists here; the uniqueness of each makes me happy.

I just turned 55---and I don't think of myself as middle-aged. I think of myself as a young adult. I act like a young adult, too--though I look middle-aged!

My mother wishes I would grow up already!

Not a big Moon Mullins Fan but a huge Felix the Cat fan from way back. Not quite the special interest territory though. Just a fan. Did like strips and cartoons like the Katzenjammer kids, Betty Boop, Popeye, Tarzan (Burne Hogarth Art), The Phantom, Brenda Starr, Lil' Abner, Prince Valiant..etc. Mostly from about the late 30's onward though. More into the animation from the early days like the Fleischer Brothers, early Warner Bros, and then the early works of other, independent animators like Ub Iwerks, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, etc.

I actually got to see an original Hal Foster (Prince Valiant) Sunday Page. It was unbelievable. That man was a genius. He just very, very lightly blocked in the page (which was huge...like about 2' x 3' (had to fill a full newspaper page and from a reduction at that) with a light pencil. Then just put the final ink drawings right on top of it.

One of my prize possessions is an original drawing done by Sergio Aragones. He did the "Mad Magazine" 'Marginals' and all sorts of other cartoons.

I like Popeye until about 1939 or so---then it got more commercial.

Gasoline Alley is still in comic strips--even though it started in 1919!

I think I like Popeye because I was on the 'Skipper Ed' Show once when I was about 5. That is what they showed then on the show. That and Bozo.

Kinda burned out on Gasoline Alley a while back. Dunno why.