What was your first special interest?

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Ghostbusters.

I think that it was probably an absolute fascination with dinosaurs, although there are a few things I can remember that might go back further (I was fascinated by ponds at one point when I was very young, and by the aliens from Independence Day). These all kind of bleed together, though, because I was about 3 or 4 years old at the time. Dinosaurs composed the first interest that I know for certain was really abnormally strong, even though the topic was a lot less unusual for a toddler than all of the others. I got into other science-y things as time went on, and they still occupy the majority of my special interests.

ah I forgot about horses! they were one of my first special interests too. I read so many horse books and had so many horse toys. my dad promised to get me a horse for my 13th birthday and I waited seven years... no horse! my interest had waned by then but it was still heartbreaking in a way. I think some of the interest is still there even today. the neighbors have a horse that I like to go visit and spend time with. horses are special... I feel like I understand them better than humans sometimes

Battlestar Galactica

Watched the original over and over again when I was 4/5.

Geological phenomena. Expecially volcanoes and minerals. I still have a huge collection of minerals in my room.

Mine was pirates from about ages 3 to 6. I had a map that I would use to go on a treasure hunt in my yard. I made a little pirate flag to go on my bed like it was my pirate ship. I got a little pirate book that showed all about how to make pirate things like pirate cookies and accessories and it came with toy pirate stuff like a eye patch and ear ring. I made pirate cookies with my grandmom. Also, around age 6 when I was mad at one of my friends, I told her that when I was older and was a pirate I was going to cut her with my pirate sword. I even decided that my favorite football team was the buccaneers, not because I actually liked them ( I didn't even care about football at that time) but because they were pirates.

It must have been collecting stuff: scrabs, nabkins, stamps and Fossils. I was a late reader, but when I learned reading, I was the best in my class. After that I became interested in horses, dogs, perennials(?), history and archology.

I guess the facination of touching fur does not count as a special interest? When trawelling with the bus or in the supermarket I would sneak up to ladies wearing fur, just to feel the texture of the fur. I must have been really young when I started that, never stopped

Rocks (which I collected) and mummies (which I first saw in National Geographic). Then it moved on to The Lord of the Rings, which is an obsession I still have today.

When I was a kid, I loved rocks, dinosaurs, and cats.

The first one I can remember was Garfield the cat in fifth grade. I pretty much turned into him for a while... my parents thought it was weird. My mother tells me that my very first special interest, at the age of 3 or 4 was Noddy, a British children's TV program about a little man that sort of looked like a clown. Weird considering I'm now afraid of clowns.

That's a fantastic program, I'm obsessed with dinosaurs at the moment and I love that film I also have the one that came after it called Walking with Prehistoric Beasts

Trains and tunnels
Riding on a train going through a tunnel = most amazing thing ever!

While I'm at it, I might also add ferry boats (specifically the large RO-RO type...that carried trains!)
Growing up near Wellington, NZ, I had a healthy exposure to all three. I loved going to visit my cousin. Not did he have a Lego train set and the Duplo ferryboat (Lego set #2649), but the house he lived in overlooked the ferry terminal, and I could watch them come and go.

So I'm not the only one whose first obsession was anatomy! I was always ranting about that stuff. I thought I was the only kid who enjoyed it because no one else ever really shared that interest.

My first TV show obsession was "The Dukes of Hazzard". For me, it wasn't about the characters, the horrible plots/acting, or even Daisy Duke in her...Daisy Dukes (I was a bit young to be affected by that). No, for me it was about a Vitamin C Orange 1969 Dodge Charger flying through the air at least once a week, running from a Dodge Monaco cop car.

There was that, and "BJ and The Bear" which was a couple of years before Dukes. It dovetailed with my interest in trucks. "The A-Team" - come on, who couldn't like improvised weapons and escape plots every week? Not to mention the contextual theme of justice in every episode

Books, cats, werewolves, electric guitars, CB radios and tape recorders are my earliest interests

Oh goodness! That is a hard one. I think the special interest that I had as earlier as I can remember was barbie dolls. But not really to play with them? I liked to dress them and put them in poses in the barbie gazebo and car I had. I would dress them in different ways and place them as if they where frozen in special scenes. That started when I was about 8 years old and lasted until I was 12, when my mom decided I was too old for dolls and made me give them away, in which case I started to use other items and toys as dolls for posing such as toy cars and random items from the house like cups, rocks, napkins . . . etc. By the time I turned around 14-16 I became obsessed with old musicals, art and European history that relates to art as well as everyday living of certain time periods. That one has persisted till this day, but takes different forms as time goes by, including actually doing art and singing.