My interests and obsesssions - unusual for Asperger's even?

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I wouldn't call it an obsession, but I do like maps. As a child I used to enjoy looking at the the "political" maps & loved to try & find really small, obscure countries that no-one had ever heard of, e.g. Andorra, San Marino.

Nowadays I prefer to look at transport maps, such as tube, bus or rail maps. Every so often I have to check the tube map to see if there are any new stations!

I also, as a previous poster said, love to collect textbooks, and my ambition is to collect & complete all the series I used in school as a child. I am pretty far on the way to achieving this now - Amazon is truly amazing!

If as a teen, nearly 30 years ago, anyone had told me I would be able to collect school textbooks that had gone out of print even then with just a few clicks of a mouse, I would never have believed them!

As a child, my weirdest obsession though (and I haven't yet come across anyone else with this one!) was Christmas Grottoes. You know, the decorated fantasy lands where you can go to see Santa Claus in the large department stores (and these days, shopping malls).

Every October I would insist on going to the stores every week & looking to see if they had started building the grotto yet.

I also used to design my own (the shapes, not the decor) and had a whole pad, numbered from 1 upwards, of different designs, which had to be looked at in order. The simplest one was a boring "Santa in his chair' and the most complicated one was a tunnel system several miles long, going over & under itself.

Yes, I was a very strange child!

Geowhizkid:

I haven't seen those retro game shows in quite
a while, but I've still heard legends about the guy
who took Press Your Luck for a quarter million
in cash and prizes (he found that the game wasn't
random and hit on "$5000 and a spin" to his heart's
content) , and about that duel on Tic Tac Dough
between a USN officer and some civilian that went
through more tie games (at $500 per tie to the eventual
loser) than I could count. As for the original Card Sharks,
I particularly remember the verse by Jim Perry (the original host):

Aces and twos are really great,
But with my luck, I'll get an eight.
(emphasis by author)

You'll probably find others here with similar
interests, memories, and so on.

I'm not into maps, but I was indeed obsessed with several 1960s bands in the 1980's. The Beatles, the Monkees, and Simon & Garfunkel, in particular.

I like geography and music, too. I also like cats, particularly Siamese and tabbies, and English miler Roger Bannister.

I've very recently started to collect maps, only have 6 currently, but am planning on at least doubling that while traveling this summer (If gas prices don't interfere with that)