Do your interests have a patern?

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I mean as in do you do the same things for each new interest you get, for me I first sort of explore the subject then one character then their background and any relations they have to family or boyfriends/girlfriends etc. after that I start drawing them then writing about them and drawing what I write about.
This has sprung up because I've had an old interest return for about two months now and I'm writing two stories but I feel like I've ran out of research and because I have ADD normally if I've got no research to do I have no interest, sort of wondered if there would be things other people do which I could try.

Kind of. I've learned how to sew, knit, and make jewelry because I wondered how hard it could be to make certain things that I want and can't afford to buy.

I do research in little bits. I stop when it does not compute. I go back when I am curious/wonder about something. The only pattern I notice is that there are triggers that make me crave my interest.

As a child, my interests were always series of things, and I would often be seen lining up and grouping objects in categories. This was how I played as a child.

It probably has to do with interests and sub-interests - someone who spends a lot of time on a computer is more likely to gain a technology-related interest, while someone who goes hunting is more likely to gain and interest on animal body structures.

My interests also revolve around fictional characters. Whenever I become interested in a character, I learn as much as I can about them through wikis and TV Tropes. Then I watch montages on Youtube or on DVD of the scenes that they're in (I will only watch an entire movie or TV show if the character I'm obsessed with gets a lot of screen time). Then I will think of a way to incorporate the character into my imagination and then they become my imaginary friend.

I'm not sure. The main ones I tend to pay most attention to are cultures, congenital disorders, mythology, crime, some other things. I guess they all have to do with human beings?

My interests tend to repeat like clockwork- so, yes, they definitely have a pattern!

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An Asperger's man who has Autism Spectrum Disorder level 1- mild, with a sprinkling of Synesthesia.

Absolutely. I get interested, I do research, I learn how to tie it to my prior interests, find common ground between them, draw and read about them, engage in them, apply them to other interests . . . all my interests end up interconnected.

My son's definitely have a pattern, they are generally fictitious character, based - and then he learns how to draw them (really well).
It started with toy story and monsters inc (when he was 2-3, so not really drawing) and then batman, Dr Seuss characters, Mr men, now super mario characters.

Since childhood, mine has always been with movies and it evolves from there. I used to day dream about them and then it went onto writing. Now I like to do research on a movie I get fixated on and look at photos of them online or go to the boards on IMDB. Now I like listening to music from the movie. I also get interested in movie characters too. I have tossed out one of my special interest pictures and I regret it now but oh well, I can go online and look them up. But somehow I held onto the Benny & Joon pictures. I have been into London and dinosaurs and they came from my movie obsessions as well. I was even obsessed with Spokane and that came from Benny & Joon. I have watched other Johnny Depp movies I liked and Mary Stuart Masterson. I will go after other movies that have a actor in it that played my favorite movie character and I may end up doing research on those. I don't see them all as obsessions. More like fixations. Oh yeah i will also go on youtube for my favorite movies. Pretty much like how Idahorose described it. But I have not had a imaginary friend in over ten years nor do I dream about my interests anymore.

Yes but it is a broad concept. Central theme is escapism, for me. So fiction books, video games. At one time movies, but I've lost interest in those in recent years. If being engaged in it, whatever form that may take, allows me to shut out everything else going on around me at the time, that is the kind of thing I can sink a lot of time into. I guess I'm always trying to recapture a particular feeling of being so drawn into something that nothing else matters to me right at that moment. Books are the most effective.

edit---- upon further review of thread, it seems I didn't actually answer the question proposed. I do have a specific pattern on how I find new books to read, certainly. Usually I will see a book mentioned on the internet somewhere. I will write it down on a sticky pad next to my monitor. Once my to-read queue starts to get low I will make a trip to a brick and mortar book store with my sticky notes in hand. If some books are not available at the store I will order them on amazon. I like to have at least three books in the to-read queue at all times. If it gets below that I start to get anxious. Because the world will end if I run out of books to read. <--- not a joke.

This isn't in relation to how I learn about each new interest but rather, almost every single on of my obsessions involves some variation of 'largest, tallest, longest, heaviest, strongest, fastest etc.' It always revolves around attaching numerical values to scale and power. For reference, my interests are: weather (strongest wind, deepest snow; you get the picture), old-growth trees, skyscrapers, paleontology, bodybuilding, ships, cars, guitar. I mean, when I picked up guitar, I didn't think 'hey, I want to play the most beautiful guitar solo' or 'I'm going to get girls with my great music' - it was 'I'm going to be the fastest guitar player in history!' And here I am, the fastest guit - just kidding .