So, what ARE the most common special interests?

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My special interests:
-Medical, especially pharmacology, neurology, and psycology
-WWII and concentration camp history, especially the Screaming Eagles 101st Airborne Division
-Knitting
-Animals (all kinds of critters except spiders)
I'm always the one at the party who is in the corner petting the dog/cat.
-Wine (dry red please )

I'm sure I have some more that come and go, but these are the most prevalent in my life.

I started with trains and trucks when I was younger but I moved on to music. I still enjoy it today.

I'm just getting started with Cornish so I have no idea whether that's ungrammatical or not. I've wanted to learn a Celtic language for a while because I think their grammar and phonology is really cool, and I'm partial to endangered languages. It's really cool to "meet" someone who learned it! Are you in the UK? I'm in the US and most people have never even heard of the Cornish language, although the region I live in got a fair number of Cornish immigrants and pasties are a local favorite food.

Gothic rocks. In addition to parts of the Bible, there are also a couple of real estate transactions in the Gothic equivalent of "legalese". They're really short, though, so not all that informative.

It's great to meet another language geek! What other languages have you studied?

I mainly look at which names are used, but I'm also into "collecting" obscure names, like weird saints' names (Radegund? Lutgardis?). I also like looking at names used in semi-obscure cultural groups. Baby name books often have lists of French and Irish names, but not Sardinian and Chechen names, for example-- so I compiled lists of Sardinian and Chechen names, among others. I like looking at naming trends over time, too. The SSA website is great for that because it goes back to 1880, and there's a German site that has similar statistics for Germany. For whatever reason I find girls' names more interesting than boys' names. Not sure why.

Cornish is a Brythonic Celtic language, most closely related to Breton and Welsh (more distantly related to Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx) spoken in Cornwall, which, depending on your political leanings, more or may not be part of southwestern England. It more or less went extinct sometime in the 18th or 19th century (when exactly is debated) but there's a revival movement and there are now several hundred fluent speakers, including a couple of dozen native speakers.

Down Syndrome, Genetics, Neurology. Medical Feild!! ! In that order.

Me too, I love minority languages. And no, I live in Washington state. I used to have a friend from the UP in Michigan, and he told me all about the Cornish settlers and pasties, and stuff. It's cool to see someone interested in Cornish (og norsk, jeg har mange norske slektninger).

Oy vey, I've studied over 20 languages since I first got into them 3 years ago! The ones I'm currently studying, and really the first ones I got serious in learning, are Basque and Latin. Basque I speak at an intermediate level, probably an equivalent to B1, almost B2 (if you're familiar with the CEFR levels). I am thinking about adding either Scottish Gaelic or Faeroese though.

This times a billion! I really hate it how they re-do the classics. I mean Gulliver's Travel with Jack Black...don't get me started. I might just explode.
I've even told people if they re-do 2001: A Space Odyssey I will shoot someone. Even if at my current attention span that film can be agonising to watch.

What I like about these interests is that we might not get into these things as soon as they start (I just got into Stargate) but when we do we catch up pretty fast and I'm actually thinking about the next interest I'll get into. I don't know what it is but something tells me it will be an old series like Doctor Who or Stargate and I'll have all this background history to catch up on. I keep thinking about Star Trek but I find it overwhelming. I don't think I could catch up in my lifetime. I still haven't seen every Doctor Who or Stargate epiode yet. I'm trying to see all of Stargate and it gets tiring. Some days I watch 5 episodes.

I actually saw the preview for Nightmare Before Christmas at school and I've loved it for many years. I never got into it as intensely as I did other things, but I will always love it.

I made a few odds and ends, a few bracelets and necklaces, most of a coif and about half a bracer.... I would like to keep going but I'm out of wire and I never remember to get more.

Philosophy, religion, language in general and learning languages, psychology and psychiatry, music.

Since the age of 7 stop-motion animation.

My modern interests are electronics, networking, c band satellite reception, commercial satellite receivers, Weatherstar 4000, the Mario franchise especially super Mario brothers 3, vintage electronics, and dill and other gardening interests.

I've always felt my interests were unique and very few if any ate interested in. I use expensive cisco enterprise routers and switches at home for my hobby, have a few c band satellite dish antennas and have an operating Weatherstar 4000 that's hooked up and doing what it does best. But who else really knows what a Weatherstar 4000 is or spends hundreds of dollars on QAM modulators for his mini cable tv headend in his clothes closet? I have never really been able to find others except one or two, if that, who shares some interest in my more obscure interests.

I do find the mechanics of languge interesting, and from watching tv and listening to radio from Deutsche Welle, I've wanted to learn German, but since I get anxiety from saying words that are not familiar to me, it kind of dampens my progress.

But I love science of any kind, that's common to most Aspies anyway

My special interests have varied over the years. When I was very young I had an insane obsession with snakes. In more recent years I have gotten into Astronomy, Physics and a little Mathematics.

I am also very passionate about playing guitar but I am dismayed at what aspects of guitar intrigue me. Most musicians have a love for music and music theory and seek to write songs to express themselves. Sadly, my love of guitar is completely technical

But without a doubt the special interest I have held since I was a child and still feverishly hold today is in UFOlogy. It is the greatest story in the history of mankind - most people think it's a joke, literally everybody you meet has some opinion on it and sadly, hardly any of them know anything about it. Some of the documents released under the Freedom of Information Act contain some of the most incredible information I have ever laid eyes on. Today everybody has access to this information. How many people know anything about it? Very few.

To me UFOlogy is one of the few subjects in life that is truly worth learning more about. It has certainly given me better perspective.

I voted animals, because that's my main special interest. I also have a special interest in medicine, neurology and psychology, and in languages.

cats, super mario and all the characters, houses, books, and astronomy/physics. Thats pretty much all I like in life right now.

People think i'm really strange for my super mario obsession...

my special interest is a fictional character, psychology, and homeopathic medicine, but the strongest is for that character

Wish that it were multiple choice for interests over the years:
* Computers - #1 most persistent interest so I voted that
* Math
* Music, particularly trombones
* Cats
* Sci fi / fantasy / fiction, primarily Piers Anthony, Tolkien, Greek mythology, and Hardy Boys at various times
* Philosophy