Whats with the steryotype of us liking trains?

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Trains, particularly their routes and schedules, are highly systemic, and as a result some of us cannot help but be drawn to that aspect of them. It didn't take me long in New York to learn the entire subway system, or the Underground in London. I also have a strong tendency to "collect by doing" and like to travel by just about any means (preferring trains and bicycles). This has led me do such things as travel to all 50 US states and ride every line of the New York and London metro systems.

As a child, I enjoyed watching trains - it was a pleasant escape from the confusion and anxiety that dominated daily life. I imagined where they might be going, and found myself compelled to count the number of cars on the huge freight trains common in those days.

Most stereotypes have at least a small foundation in truth. It is the extrapolation of the observation from "Some X do A" to the stereotype "All X do A" where people drop the logic ball.

I had some interest for trains as child but only for the train himself and not for his routes and schedules (I only used train very rarely in my childhood... The rare times I did it I was really very very happy !). I still love to travel with it (if not to crowded and noisy ) but nothing that could be called obsessional !

Trains are awesome, and it's their systemic aspect that is the main factor in drawing me to them. Also, they are big, fast things with motors, which is incredibly cool (contrary to all appearances, I'm actually an 8-year-old boy...).

I was obsessed with them before Jurassic Park came out, Dino Riders were my favorite toys and then Jurassic Park came out my head exploded, joy-excitement overload.

I noticed that in the show, The Big Bang Theory, the Sheldon character, whom most agree is a dead-on caricature of an Aspie, didn't develop his interest in trains in this show until after a lot of people started commenting that he displayed many traits of Asperger's. The writers claim that they didn't intend to write the character as an Aspie originally, so I suspect they started reading the diagnostic criteria after all of the feedback and added the interest in trains as a result. Just an observation.

Somehow I fit the stereotype. I used to like trains as a kid, and now it's dinosaurs. Watching Jurassic Park countless times in middle school science had me fall in love with them.

Tee-hee

I have the original plushy from 94', and Simba to.

Dino Riders were f**king great, those were some of my very favorite toys too. I was obsessed with dinosaurs at a VERY young age, well before I even knew anything of Dino Riders. I don't even really remember because I was like 3 years old but my parents have told me I knew crazy complicated things about dinosaurs (by 3 year old standards) like being able to read their names, and recognize morphological differences between similar species in models and pictures.

I was never too into trains, but I did really like airplanes, and, to a lesser degree, cars.

Holy crap, my favorite childhood film. I drew one for that too http://maddino89.deviantart.com/art/If- ... -103921466

ohhhhhh snap! cool

Love trains. Love traveling on trains. Would love to live in a vintage train car or in a caboose in my back yard or up in the mountains. If I had the money I would spend my life riding trains. Trains are a great place to read, think, write, meditate, meet interesting eccentric people. Great food in the dining car. Nothing beats sleeping on a speeding train and waking up hundreds of miles away from where you were the night before.

you make me wanna train so bad

I used to be a thorough rail buff. I love electric railroads, especially subway and commuter lines.

ruveyn

booooring!! !! !! !! !! !!
my dad likes trains lol

when i was a kid, i could, not only list up dinosaur genera, but species by the hundreds. when i was 14 i went to the university shop, to spend fortunes on dinosaur books there, cus even the best books at the library were too colorful and juvenile.

theres always a way to notice when a kid's interest in something is a taaaad bit extreme
my parents just found it charming tho, they still think im perfectly normal, despite my crap life :]

does he have AS?