What was your wierdest obsession growing up?

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I was also obsessed with Taco Bell commercials and nightmares.

Same here. I'm still obsessed with them.

When I was younger it was trains. Not that unusual, except at the age of 10 I knew model numbers and specific details about all eras of steam and diesel engines - and I could draw pictures of them in incredible detail. I would look dumbfounded at people when they saw a picture of two engines with their noses facing opposite directions and they say, "Wouldn't they be pulling in opposite directions?"

Have they never SEEN trains drive by before?? They've never had to face one direction to go that direction.... dummies.


On a very weird note, in the 80's after seeing the movie "The Day After" I became obsessed with nuclear warfare. How it works, best strategies, survival techniques, blast zones, everything.

I suppose I think they're the weird ones, since the only thing they like is the same stuff everyone else likes. Sheesh... sheep!

When I was younger...younger than two I thought/wanted to be a cat, slept in a ball, woke up on all fours, purred... that went on for a long time, not so much pretending to be one though... the weirdest thing is i didn't have or even know a cat back then

Also I had a long lasting(to this day) obsession with boxes...not all boxes though, but you used to be able to give me a box and i wouldn't bother you for hours playing with the one box

"Twin Peaks". At 12. It got a bit weird.

The wierdest one had to be Xmas grottoes (you know, the things they have in department stores with Santa Claus in!)

I used to design them endlessly, and then arrange them all in a particular order.

And every October I would go to the stores and check to see if they'd started building the grotto yet!

Not sure if this is applies, but I was once obsessed with sports cars. In high school, I read car magazines, books, etc., and learned alot of the specs on all the fast cars out there, from the American cars(Camaro, Mustang GT, Corvette) to the European cars(Ferrari, Porsche, etc.) Not sure why, I just liked knowing all that stuff.

Car washes- yes I loved them too
Making lists- well I still do that
The Middle Ages- I loved to read about the Middle Ages and I built towns in Lego. The wierdest thing was that I had this gallows hills and all kinds of those torture things they built to control "strange people", the people in my towns got the plague as well.. it should be realistic... My class mates was a bit scared of me now and then. I still love swords and I would love to own a replica of a Longsword..

Satellite dishes.

C-band. Every transponder on every satellite. Audio subcariers. Arc spacing. Angles, frequencies, launch dates,
capacities. Noise figures, gain. Braoadcast schedules. Encryption schemes. Obsessive about alignment.

I honestly cant remember ever watching a tv show.

Rolling around in my cot as a baby (according to my parents. This is why I'm called roland!), a phase in my youth when I would suddenly say "Weeee!" with enthusiasm because I enjoyed the Sound.

Sexology. Maybe not so strange but at times when I started to develop this interest I was 8 It's very interesting field. I never had ANY superstitions and prejudices concerning this sphere of life. I am not interested in having intimate intercourses with anybody but I have a big theoretical knowledge.

I remember also that at the age of 11 I was collecting photos of women cut off out my mom's illustrate magazines. Doesn't matter whether there was a young woman on a picture or a lady already stricken in years, whether there was only one person or if there was a gathering of the representatives of the female sex or whatever; there had to be a woman on a picture as to that photo joined my collection.

Wanting to see a tornado in real life. In fact, thinking about this I think I will get my CPA license in Oklahoma.

Me, too. I know it doesn't seem all that odd of a thing to do, but judging from the reactions from my friends that have found my lists it is pretty weird. In my young teens I'd try to get my friends to help me make lists of things. They would participate some, but they got quickly bored. Not only did I make a list of all the boys in the entire school, but I ranked then on cuteness by percentages, and other stats, and categories. If I had had access to software to make pie charts, and bar graphs I would've been in heaven! lol BTW I still obsessively make lists, just not quite as detailed as I used to.

I had a similar obsession at one time, TV channels. I knew the TV channel numbers, network affiliations, and in some cases, program schedules of TV stations in alot of different cities around the country. Made my parents think I was a TV addict and all my problems were caused by watching too much TV. TV was one of the only escapes I had from the realities of the life I was forced to live and taking it away from me hurt.

One of the reasons I think I memorized TV channels was if I lived in one of those other cities, watching TV would be one of the things I'd be doing there. My mother used to constantly complain about what a horrible place the city we lived in was so I ended up thinking perhaps if I lived in a different city my life would be better. I know now that probably wouldn't have been the case.

I never really had a weird hobby, I was just obsessed with astronomy, mineral collecting and science trivia. Even at the age of 3 I knew all the planets in their correct order.

When I was older, 5-12 years old, I would go up to random people in my school and say "Hi, I know everything, ask me any facts, figures, dates or times, ask me anything...I know everything!" They would then ask me a few easy questions about science or other facts (I collected the Guinness Book of Records). Thus, I learned to make people laugh by being my eccentric self - which is better then being bullied. Also, I was double jointed (I still am) and would do my "Magic Leg Trick", I would twist my right leg around backwards and prove that I was really odd.

In 1984, I was put on a Christmas Stage play as a space alien, that was what I was called in school. I made people laugh at being me and it raised myself esteem considerably.

At the age of 6 the weirdest one was Nazi Germany. The World War II era is still a favorite obession of mine but people, including my grandmother and teacher, thought it was highly inappropriate at that age. Before that one it was the TV guide. We never used one in my house because I memorized it every week.

The one that most annoyed my parents was the word 'ick'. I liked the way it sounded and it was the only thing I'd say sometimes.