Aspies: What are your Special Interests?

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Specify Past and Present obsessions by ranking if you want ^__^ (topmost = biggest obsessions)
Also I want to know your reasons for said obsessions! :3

PAST:
*Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Personality Inventory~ A BIIG obsession of mine for mannyy years. I didn't understand myself well or other people (at all) so I'd give them a mini test upon meeting them, haha. I have ENTP / INTJ tendancies for the curious. I also was a regular at the ENTP/INTJ forums
*Psychology / Disorders
*Debating / Intellectual Topics
*Conspiracy theories~ I've had depression over this =___=
*Personal Websites

PRESENT (some of these started in the Past and are still relevant):
*Internet / Computer~ all day er' day, especially researching stuff that interests me
*Video Games~ all day er' day
*Anime~ mostly shounen
*Aspergers Stuff / Self-Improvement~ to understand and improve myself and to help me interact/understand others.
*Art~ my interest in this started when I was a kid, and has developed into an 'entrepreneurial profession' for a game I'm working on
*Supplements~ to stay healthy and because I've always felt inept
*my Exotic Pets

There's more, but this list is already long =___=

past-
rocks
seasonal mugs
latin
math

present-
rocks
geology
math
religion
birds
potato heads
board games

this is just a small amount of things I can think of at the moment

Past-
Dinosaurs
the Universe
Primatology
Arachnology
Type o Negative

Current-
Skepticism
the Universe
technical juggling
the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack
Art (painting and sculpture)

Currently hockey cards. I have a feeling it's going to be a very long term one.

Previous ones have been collecting coins, dinosaurs, Thomas the tank engine, cars, skis and a variety of others.

Video games, animals, space, history, music and computers.

past: greek history, dinosaurs, gundam seed, naruto, dragonball z

present: computer, internet, video games, tacticsarena, league of legends, diablo 2 LoD

Past:
Coin/Stamp collecting (started very early at age 2)
Antique collecting
Poisons (chemical, biological and radiological) and their combined effects
Chemical separation methods
Nuclear chemistry reactions (fission/fusion)
Video games (playing arcade versions)

Present:
Quantum Chemistry/Physics
Annihilation reaction processes (matter + anti-matter)
Non Linear Optical (NLO) properties of materials
Energy conversion methods between materials
Video game collecting (vintage consoles and arcade versions)

Past

Cars
Addresses (still lingers to an extent)
Diseases (also lingers)
Books (I still read a lot, but not every waking moment like I did when I was little.)
Asthma inhalers (I don't have asthma, but I thought they were so cool and wished I had asthma. I now realize how ridiculous that sounds.)
Backyard Sports computer game series

Present

Grammar/spelling
The Simpsons
Geography
St. Louis Cardinals baseball
Pokémon (obsession comes and goes; when a new game comes out, I'm obsessed with it and other Pokémon games for a few months or so. Then when I don't have anything left to do in the game, I stop playing and forget about it until the next game comes out.)
Stephen King novels

Past
Rock and minerals
Disasters
Shipwrecks
Video Games
Sports

Present
Cars and Transportation
Books
Movies
Coins
Collecting
Theatre
Re-selling

Mind you that past interests aren't entirely dead, they're just not as big as they used to be.

Always has been the weather. The 1938 hurricane that hit the Northeast US has been a particular interest the last few years. Past special interests in baseball and hockey have dropped down to regular interests replaced by ASD and in particular how Autistics are represented in the media and viewed by the public and how we view ourselves.

china(countrypeoplehistory)
agriculture, animals, herd & cattle, cooking, food, plantes, biology, environment,
antropology, ethymology, literature, history, geology, maps, education,
neurophysics, biophysics, art, music, patterns, (british) comedy,
folklore, children's literature, africa and it's people,
politics, gnosticism(alchemy) and religions, complots,
comics, bees, sheep, border collies, photography,
stones, buidings, landscaping, poetry, puzzles
the little ppl & elementals, trees, water & air

once an interest, it will come back when activated again

You guys are encouraging me to get back into some of my old interests.
There's some interests that I've always had such as drawing, writing, playing video games, the internet, etc. . But if you want some specifics, then here they are:

Past:
Sonic the Hedgehog.
Motion Picture Rating System.
Computer Viruses.
Psychology/Disorders.
Collecting Bottle Lids.

Present:
Adult Animation (Rick and Morty, South Park, Superjail, Moral Orel, etc.).
Sociology/Social Justice.
'Girl Interrupted' (1999).
Radio Shows (Mental Illness Happy Hour, TED Radio Hour, Hack, etc.).
Webcomic Reviews.

Past top five in no particular order...
Classic Rock and R&B (collector and promoter)
Wrestling (amateur freestyle participant)
Ballet (non partnering dancer with productions like Nutcracker)
TV DX'ing (analogue days)
Period costuming (design and/or model)

Currant top five in no particular order...
Classic Rock and R&B (now considered "oldies")
Various sports (mostly as spectator these days, but I still enjoy assisting athletic trainers)
Live performing arts (mostly as spectator, but will appeare if time permits)
Live streaming television (I collect English language TV realtime channels from around the globe)
Advocating fashion freedom for males (and females too)

I'm sure none of these categories will surprise anyone who regularly reads my posts.

Past:
Dinosaurs (memorized every species I could find)
Physics (obsessed with nuclear physics when I was 5-7 years-old; quantum physics as a teenager)
Astronomy
Star Trek
Star Wars
X-Men
Video games
Computer programming

Current:
Fantasy books
Number theory
Parasites
Politics (statistics and trivia)
Film and television (I'm often called "the human IMDb")

PAST:
*Aircraft~ I will sometimes research about aircraft and keep up with new aircraft being released.
*Drugs~ Not doing them. I was curious about the composition and how they affect people over long and short term periods.
*Engines~Started with aircraft engines but branched out to others like car engines and steam engines

PRESENT:
*Knives~This has been a constant for me since I was 12 years old(I am now 16).
*Psychology/Mental Disorders and Diseases
*Games
*Electronics

video games, 3d modeling/animation, rubiks cubes, flight sims, sudoku, archery