What is Your Longest Running Intrest and Why?

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I would say Tangerine Dream Music but that's on the wane...

Probably Psychology and Communication.

I've been obsessed with the concept of time since I was quite young. Everything about it - physically, philosophically, psychologically - I find it fascinating. I think it might be so long-lasting because my curiosity has never been satisfied.

Evolution, because it applies to nearly everything and looking at the world from that perspective makes everything come into sharp focus for me.

Probably animals and environmental issues/sustainability. I've been interested in these things from my earliest memory, long before "green" was trendy.

Photography, although it comes and goes depending upon how frustrated I am with it. I guess when it comes right down to it, I don't know why photography appeals to me. I'm good at it and I guess that's one reason. Maybe it's a way of making sense of how I see the world. But the photographs I take don't tend to make sense. Does that make sense?

Science in general has been a longer interest, but not as deep as photography. But I have had a pretty long term interest in both evolutionary biology and particle physics.

I guess optics is a nice intersection between photography and physics. Every now and then i get obsessed with trying to understand how lenses work.

I guess I like science because I am fascinated with how things work. I like the way evolution helps to explain how complex systems can arise from relatively simple systems. And I guess in the same way, particle physics helps to make sense of the structures and forces that make up the universe as we experience it. I think it would be really neat to have a better understanding of how gravity and time relate to matter and energy.

I've been into dietetics for years. I believe it started out cause I wanted to cure my acne and feel better, but manly acne. I could go on forever about vitamins, minerals, foods and how your body reacts to them. Since Ive gone gluten free, and pretty much lectin free, I have reversed so many problems Ive had, mental and physical. So, I feel justified being hardcore into diet and food. If I didn't change, I don't think my mind would have been capable of figuring out that I'm aspie. I love to just go to Whole Foods and be around quality food.

Animals --> Mammals --> Canines --> Domestic dogs --> Dog training
Uhh there's an infamous family video of the first time I went to the zoo, I was 2 or 3, that was my first real interaction with animals. I was "talking" to a mountain lion, and she was talking back. I watched it recently, and I was really amazed at the, I guess "complexity" is the word I'm looking for, of the conversation. I guess it's stuck for so long because I feel really connected with animals. I understand animals better than I understand people, and I understand animals more than most pet owners, so my specific interest in dog training is helpful to other people.

1. Star Wars
2. I do not know

Books, just books.

I also find people fascinating. Don't necessarily like interacting with them, but really love watching them from the distance and speculating what's on their mind.

Right now I am obsessed with Sodium metal though it's not my longest running interest.

Girls probably lol...I was looking at them thinking they were cute (sometimes told my mom) when I was a toddler and I haven't changed much.

Video games only came in when I was 7...also around the same time I watched Star Trek for the first time and got my hands on a computer

Video games and writing.

But mainly writing, trying to become a writer.

The story of writing and being a writer is kind of dear and personal to me. All my life, my childhood was the power and struggle to fit in. I was bullied heavily and I was never helped my authority. I was the kind of kid who was stuck in the middle intellectually. Education kept me very close to the average kids and I was always seeking a challenge.

When I was in 4th grade, I found Edgar Allan Poe and found the inspiration of this is what I want to do.

Writing for me is escapism. But its also my way of having a voice. All my life, I have felt like a nobody. Somebody who people don't listen to. But I want to write so I can have a voice. So I show people that I am a somebody and that I can do great things.

I want to encourage people with my non fiction writing and I want to take people to new worlds in my fictional writing. I want to share my voice, I want my voice to be heard. The voice people tend to ignore.

I want to be someone. I want to be someone whom people look up to. And I want to do that with my writing.