aspies, at what age did your obessions begin?

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First, I was really obsessed with Pokemon from 3-5. Worst years of my life.
Now, I am obsessed with movies.

There are pictures of me stacking wooden blocks taller than I was at about 16 months of age. I would just stack and stack and then stack again. And then at about 2 it was animals. That one is still going

Apparently, when I was a baby, I used to pull books off the book shelf just to look at them. I think I learnt how to read before I went to school, but I'm not sure. I still enjoy reading about whatever interests me. I also love to read things that have lots of puns and word play.

Word play is a beautiful thing. The Mars Volta is incredible for that and their cryptic writing.

when I was 4-5 I used to sing the songs to the musical Oklahoma at every family get together-I'd think I'd have to be pretty obsessed to learn all of the words to all of them without flaw, lol. When I was 10 or 11, my grandmother got me some seed beads to string and make things with, but it quickly turned into a thing where I just dumped them into a bowl, mixed all the colors very well and then sorted them-after I finished, I'd do it again, and I still can't stand looking at the beads mixed up-I've actually gone to the store and bought the packages of mixed beads just to sort them out because it bothers me to see them on the rack like that.

I talked to my Grandmother not long ago to get answers to a couple questions I couldn't remember and she said that before I was nine months I was obsessed with Letters and Numbers and stacking things.

This aside, I'm still a little hung up on why no one noticed, they all just thought I was extremely smart.

meh, I'm guilty of that-my son is 5 now and he's done things like that for a long time... it wasn't until I saw how he interacted with other children that I really noticed it.

I do wonder why my mom never noticed anything with me-I'd go to someone's house, and ask before I did ANYTHING... if they were busy and I didn't get a response, I'd keep tapping their shoulder until they turned and answered me. So in other people's house, I was just "well behaved"... she shoulda noticed though when I was doing it in my own house too.

I think mine have always been there, but the earliest I can remember for all three of my main ones is around 7. That's the earliest I can remember for anything though really.

To reiterate: when I began...actually, before that even.

My ma said I'd sit down and watch Battlestar Galactica over and over, day in day out. I do not recall doing this....

all of you fascinate me! I love the post from nobodyzdream, the bead thing sounds so much like my 6 year old! He is always doing things like that. I remember last summer we were doing this activity with clothespins where he would have to clip them to the outside rim of a shoebox (fine motor skills) and he was so upset one day because there were only 49 of them and there used to be 50 and I had to find the missing one!--which of course had been taken by his younger brother to use for a rocket ship! He also had them lined up exactly straight and some were slightly different in color and they were from lightest to darkest! He still blows me away with how smart he is!

Gads!! I did the exact same thing with Oklahoma..I guess i was 6
Then is was Annie...
Singing is one of my main things and I have been doing it since i was really little.

umm..

I first started trying to make dolls and things when i was about 6 or 7....and that is a pretty big deal to me to this day..I have always had a thing about dolls and stuffed animals...though there was a long period where i wasnt making them..and during that time I was focusing on my band.

I've liked sorting things into categories for as long as I can remember. I especially liked sorting things into categories by colors. I was always very picky about colored things (such as the money in the game monopoly) be sorted into a particular order of colors.

Wow that makes me feel old.

My first obsession I remember was dolphins. I was two.

i was fascinated by celluloid film from about 8 onwards, and camera negative strips because they where like film clips. not easy to come by when your a kid though. i got a cine camera eventually.

This sounds awfully naieve of me, but doesn't every kid obsess over the things they enjoy - I thought it was the way the young brain works. I'm not downplaying stuff here, its just everyone I know has or had obsessions as a child, and truth be told, I cannot see much difference between the descriptions given here, my own experiences, and those I have seen of the people around me.

From 1992 (I was 5) till when ever Space Precint stopped showing on BBC2 around 1996(well whenever they stopped showing any Gerry Anderson material) I had an obsession with Gerry Anderson products, for those unitiated, that is Thunderbirds, Joe90, Captain Scarlet, UFO, Space 1999 and Space Precinct.
I know he did others, but they weren't shown on the Beeb so I never got to watch them.
I had alot of the Thunderbird toys, my mum even tried to make me a very big TB2.
I get this kind of branched into scifi as a whole, with things like Space Above and Beyond.

Ultimately though, it led onto my Star Wars addiction, which has slightly waned recently as I realised I cannot go and spend all of my money on action figures, but I still get great enjoyment looking in the window of the local collector shops and have my computer guarded by Boussh and Bossk!

yes. me too.