What was your first special interest?

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First one I remember: knights.

My first interest was cars, remote control cars, mecano set, handheld computer games. I started collecting erasers and pretty glitter pencils, pencil cases, gaming and star trek memrobilia when I was 12 in the 1980s.

Wooden building bricks. I remember I built a lot of upside down towers, inherently instable but I needed to figure out when they'd drop down.
Thus constructing them such that they wouldn't fall without touching them.
I was always satisfied with my inverse pyramids, I guess even proud.

My first special interest was Barbies. That lasted for years.

Totally forgot about that. I was into plate tectonics at age 5. This would be such an obvious diagnosis if I was born 10 years later...

I had forgotten about my interest in witches and folklore...not my earliest, but persisted through college, hence my anthropology major. Stupid major choice!! !! !! !

Game shows, IIRC.

The earliest I can remember was appendicitis, at the age of 3. I used to play surgeon with my dolls... they spent all their time wrapped in bandages, with red-markered incisions on their bellies. Yes, I was a strange child.

Though you might also count my lining up dried beans and pasta in rows, or drawing hundreds of stick-and-circle trees. That I did when I was younger.

Or possibly reading. I don't know how old I was when I learned; I was reading fluently at four, and I can't remember ever not knowing how to read. The written word has always been irresistible to me, even when I had no idea what the words meant. It was just wonderful to have the words right there in front of you. Writing is so much neater and more organized than the noise they call "language", that they babble at you so quickly you can hardly pin it down before it's gone. Thank goodness for printed language; I think without it many of us would have taken much longer to get the hang of communication.

I had memorized a bunch of these stories at kindergarten age too. My reports from kindergarten said "she loves listening to stories and has memorized several of them!". The Mr. Men were some of my favorites (I didn't know them by number though or alphabetize them) I used to go around reciting them. I liked the little miss books...little miss sunshine, little miss bossy, little miss naughty ect the best. I'm 27 years old so these were the first "wave" of Mr Men books.....they've published new ones again recently and when I saw them displayed in a book store a couple years ago I bought 3 of them out of loyalty to the series (Mr Daydream, Mr Lazy and Little Miss Whoops).

When I was 1-2, I became intensely preoccupied with trains (no, that's not stereotypical at all! ). My interests have shifted around a lot since then, save for my lifelong love of movies and their soundtracks (the Oscar Telecast is my Superbowl...I have to watch it every year, and I get really depressed if I miss it).

Marine biology.

Fish, turtles, sea anemone, stuff like that. Speaking of which...

Traffic signals, I think. It was either that or bridges. I don't remember the exact timing of those two, since they sort of ran together. My obsessions over supermarkets and point of sale equipment came later.

Medicine.
Still is my special interest (ever since the age of one or two. I used to read books at that age without understanding the words, just looking at the pictures)
It's my MAIN special interest. It sometimes goes down a little, leaving room for things like Sherlock Holmes.

dog encyclopedias

I could name all dog breeds when i was 8 years old

The interest stopped when i have leared them all