Special interests

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As we all know one of the biggest signs of Asperser’s Special interests. What are your Special interests?

Alice in Wonderland. I first became interested in it in March, because I saw Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and fell in love with it. Though that version remains my top favorite, my interests have also branched out to include different versions and re-imaginings of it, such as Lewis Carroll's original, Disney's animated version and American McGee's version. The other day I ordered a copy of the first volume of The Looking Glass Wars on eBay, so that may become an interest as well.

I have recently started a collection of Alice in Wonderland merchandise. It's pretty small right now, but I plan to collect as much as my room will hold, if not more. I love going on eBay and seeing all the awesome things people are selling, especially if they're no longer available from regular stores or commercial websites. I'm certainly looking forward to Christmas this year!

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My interests are gardening, books, and Rwanda.

Designing and building electronic circuits and robotics. Steel guitar is aslo a special interest of mine, but it has been turning into and obsession so I am ( tying) to lay off for awile.
I also love reading about Antarctica.

Human Behaviour atm, but suspect it won't take long before I'm done with that.

Space travel and astronauts, science-fiction, cartoons, animals

photography, drawing, building something out of nothing, horses, research, helping special needs kids

meerkats and Lion King

Wow. Thank you for asking. Popular ceramics of the 1940s and 1950s. Christmas decorations. Tudor history. Prisons and prisoners. The homeless. Japanese, Chinese, Indian and Balinese classical music. The Hippie era. Books and reading. Gardening. Frugality. Folk Catholicism and African diasporic religions. Antique and thrift shopping. Lost and little-known British palaces. And so on....

Several duplicate threads, but always fun.

Although I had some concrete interests as a child, I no longer have any 'classic' AS interests, where a person memorizes all of the facts around a concrete obsession. My memory is terrible, although my long-term is about average with a normal IQ NT. Instead all of my interests are dedicated to the spatial part of my mind, in particular how to understand, analyze and model textures.

This manifests in several different ways. I love cooking (taste is processed as a texture in your mind) brewing beer and wine-making. I love growing things, gardens, mushrooms, trees and livestock. I love analytical modeling, econometrics, statistics, data mining and financial forecasting. I also love world-building: writing and role-playing.

Every one of these is a texture of cause and effect, reinforcement and mitigation. Bay Leaves add a mild earthy/evergreen tone and make umami taste more round - early season broccoli is harvested by frost-free + 6 leaving space for late-season, fast-growing melons or lettuces - classic vintage models are useful in survival cohorting with high substitution where cox-proportional models are best in discriminant systems with truncated time frames.... ETC.

The texture of non-linear cause and effect is my fascination.

The performing arts which includes film, theater, TV and music. Along with animation, Harry Potter, The Phantom of the Opera, and CATS,

Philosophy (particularly philosophy of science) and railway networks are the latest in a staggeringly long list.

The Kinks
The 1960s 1964-1968
The summer and winter Olympic
Drum sets
Music
WrongPlanet

a particular band.

thinking.

Philosophy (especially existentialism,) chemistry and Dostoevsky.

Web Design, Doctor Who, Music, Physics, Astronomy, Stage lights, Android apps.