aspies, at what age did your obessions begin?

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There were only seven years (the hardest seven of my life, I think) where I was without cats. I did have dogs, however. I was fascinated by dachshunds and did a report on them, on which I got a good grade. I have had two dachshunds over the course of my life.

3 yrs old.

My obsesssion with insects started when I was 8 years old after reading a book on bugs.

I work with kids and DingoDV is right, almost all kids do become obsessed at some point. Dinosaurs are a big obsession, I know several 4 - 6 year olds who are so obsessed they can tell you anything about a diplodocus or which is a carnivore. Children have different minds and it's not at all uncommon for them to get stuck on one thing.

For me I had the typical kid obsessions, the difference with me is they did not go away like most kids.

Reading was my earliest obsession. I started reading when I was 3 and became hyperlexic. Didn't want to talk much, just read all the time. After I discovered dinosaurs by reading a book about them, I was hooked. I memorized everything I could about them. After that it was transformers. Then it was strange but true facts, then origami, etc. All it took was a bait and a hook, and if it set then I was caught for a while.

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My first obsession was at about age 4. It was rocks and minerals. I still collect.

Once i learned how to read, you could not pry the books from me...I could not go on a cer trip without bringing a huge stack of books...if it wasn't for that..I might as well have been ret*d when I was a kid.

That's my son NOW. We keep books in the car and there is always a big pile in the bathroom. My husband got home from work this morning at about 6:50am and he was checking on everyone and my son was sitting up in his bed reading his Prehistoric Park book and it's still half dark!

I cant really remember what my earliest obsession was , I know my obsession with all things dog started at about 4 and I got my first one for my 5th birthday , I read about dogs , collected books about dogs knew all the different breeds , kept a scrap book or several of dog pictures cut out from papers and magazines .
Then there was witches ..... and potions I loved mixing stuff up and collected strange and curios things that I thought looked magical , even things like shells and sea worn bits of broken glass and animal bones found in the woods.
Then it was lego I had enough lego to cover my bedroom floor when it was all built into buildings , I had that obsession from around about 7 but it could be earlier . Then there was polishing and taking apart my biycicle that started at 7 also . and gerbils which started about 10 , and reading books like the hobbit , swallows and amazons and those books that showed you how to be a detective or a spy , I cant recall the name of them but I had a whole collection which I loved for many years . I cant think of any other obsessions I had as a child , I never even considered them obsessions , but i guess they were because im still fascinated by or have the stuff now and im 34 .

bb natty

I've been obsessed with order and cleanliness for as long as I can remember.

Birth (can't remember if I posted here before or not).

I was five when I started obsessing over dinosaurs.

My first obsession was dinosaurs too, but I forget what age it was. Probably around 3 or 4, since my Balto/wolf obsession started at 5.

My obsessions:
MUSIC
I have been interested in music as long as I can remember. I have always been thrilled at the chance to play an instrument, and when I was 8 I taught myself to play a simple song on the piano. When I was 6, I had to go to school at 8:30am, and that always disappointed me because there was a Looney Tunes cartoon on called "Merry Melodies" which I liked the idea of because of the word "Melodies.".

Music became my primary obsession at the age of about 9 1/2 when I had been playing the clarinet at school for a few months. I decided that I was going to make a career out of music. I am 23 years old, and I have not changed my mind.

PSYCHOLOGY

Began at around age 11.

AUTISM:

Age 12/13-ish.

I used to sit in my room for hours (maybe days) building stuff with legos. And cardboard with duct tape or masking tape. I would build pretend VCR's, computers, cars, etc. I remember making a pretend nintendo with cardboard game cartridges It had a battery connected to a little dashboard light that ended up melting the thing when I left it turned on. Legos were always my thing until i was 12 or 13. I was also -crazy- about "The Simpsons" and I would always find a way to watch the show's intro, even though it was past my bedtime and my parents wouldn't let me. I also went through my jet fighter years and my race car years (I'd kick up dust and gravel in our driveway and ride my bike through it real fast, like when nascar cars would crash and leave clouds of smoke on the track, although now I can't stand nascar).

I did do a lot of stuff with legos when I was much younger.

But I think my only true obsession has been computers. At first it was limited to just computer games but has been expanded to almost everything relating to a computer since.