What were your childhood obsessions?

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The US Space Programme.

Let's see

Alladdin, The Simpsons, China, Dragonball Z, maps/globes/flags of the world, ZOOM (TV show on PBS channell), Gilligans Island, Nazi Germany.... Thats most of what I can think of.

Road maps and globes, rocks, Antarctica, astronomy, the state of Montana, writing, anything and everything related to ELO/Jeff Lynne

king tut, pinnochio, old keys, doll making, ghosts.

Cats-always has been my number one interest

I have always been interested in learning about other cultures as well. At 12 years of age, Greece and Japan fascinated me.

dinosaurs/rocks

Mainly electronics and aviation. I didn't move to computers until I was about 17. Then again, they were VERY expensive prior to that. By todays standards the average personal computer was VERY primitive!

Steve

Mineral collecting and astronomy - they were mutually exclusive, I would spend a few months on minerals and a few months on astronomy. I'm still into minerals, thus my nick name that was given to me by my classmates in Uni. Here is one of my minerals on Flickr - is is Dioptase from Kazakhstan.

Reading "Readers Digest", baseball, basketball, native american artifacts, coin collecting, rock collecting, Time Magazine, The Adams Family, Doctor Dolittle books, BB guns. I'm sure that there were a lot more, but that's all I recall.

Well let's see...

Legos(i'd build a lot of my own model buildings, spacecraft and mecha), Star Trek(especially ships and tech manuels, I designed a few of few of my own too), Final Fantasy games, books on paranormal stuff, creating my own stories, Transformers, and a few girls

Cats, until I was ridiculed for it enough by my family (why eludes me) that I did everything possible to avoid anything cat-related.

Then medical books, from about the time I was 8. I read them for fun. I still do. We all have a body, might as well know how it all works.

i've collected many Atomic particles

if i had any collecting obsessions, i went thro' them fairly quickly too.

my mum said i collected carrier bags, but i'm sure i didn't, it's just easier to squeaze them all into one box than rather than taking a stupid cheap piece of plastic half way across the house to throw it away! i could squeaze a hundred carrier bags into any box, i'm sure! i've seen many more OCD people collecting many more carrier bags than i ever did, or do they call that recycling these days!

everyone has collections of some sort, and could easily be said to be obsessive...

Compact Discs/Records, clothing, shoes, handbags, makeup, ex-boyfriends, STIs(STDs/VD)