Adults age 35 and above - What are your special interests?

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Am curious to know what kind of special interests do adults, specifically middle-aged and older adults have?
Or do you not have any and if so, why?

The weather especially the Long Island Express/Great New England Hurricane of 1938
New Wave music
ASD's especially portrayals of us

Hah, that's funny..never in a million years would i have thought of myself as middle-aged...nor really, an adult.

At the moment, it's probably medicine..not specific, more the world of medicine, neurology, pharmacology, etc

I do struggle though as i am someone who seems a jack of all and master of none. I wish i could stay on one as i could then have a happy career or actually do something worthwhile..I'll get super interested in a topic and research research (maybe research is my special interest ) and then go cold on it and be lit by something else. Quantum physics one day, bumble bees the next.


Rugulach, what are yours?

Vaccuum Cleaners

I think every single one that I see is beautiful.

I just love how they are all different.

My compulsion to gaze one out in the world is irresistable.


And Synthesizers

It is impossible to describe the vast range of images they trigger in my head.

Old newspapers (like this Baltimore Sun from Sunday, May 17, 1987 [the 150th anniversary of the Sun's debut in Baltimore]; it had 300 pages' worth of news, sports, business, the works-- practically everything you could ask for in a paper).

Aircraft (since i was child), in particular MIG-29
Books about autism.
Lately I like again LEGO
Watch (i have only 18 watch, but i like them!)

I want to buy a Death Star LEGO

Hello,
I could be interested in a book about Asperger, not describing the syndrome, but one giving advices for adult Aspergers’ self-development.
I can't resist to ask you if have any book in mind that you would recommend. (Sorry if slightly off-topic).
Thank you.

Mark Twain
Travel narratives
History, mostly American
Aviation
Scale modeling, my hobby

I tend to go all in with the musicians and authors I like. That is, I don't just have a couple Rolling Stones albums, I have ALL of them, and despite the expense I finally went to a concert last summer. Not sure those really count as special interests, though, as I'm not interested in their personal lives, just the music or books.

I've had a number in the past, but right now, nothing in particular beyond my two hobbies---cycling and singing.

As a young adult in my 20s, one I remember was collecting railroad and airline time tables.

Mine will vary. But skiing has been a long term consistent one.

In no particular order: quantum mechanics, composite nanomaterials and "super cold" fusion processes (ie. at or below BEC temperatures).

When I was growing up, I used to love reading the Rocky Mountain News (now gone ) and the Denver Post newspapers. Sadly most of them ended up being recycled after I was done reading them, but I think I may still have a stack of them out in the garage somewhere. I bought a large box of old newspapers at a local auction last year for $5 and the people around me thought I was off my rocker to want them. (I arrived late to the auction and did not have time to look at them before I bought them on a hunch. Some of my friends are into classic comic strips.) It had some complete editions of some major city newspapers from the early-late 1960s, primarily the assassinations of MLK, Robert Kennedy and JFK, mixed in with cut articles about them. I am glad that I bid on them.

Roads/highways and related stuff.

My top five most favourite interests:
1. Ballet and performing arts
2. Wrestling, Boxing, and certain other contact sports
3. Classic Rock and R&B (like 1960's and 70's)
4. Collecting live TV stations around the world (to watch online)
5. Travel

FWIW, a bottom five list of my LEAST favourite interests:
1. Gardining
2. Religion and mythology
3. Mathematics
4. Non-technological sciences like anthropology
5. Politics

In no particular order:
A) Model building
B) Astrophysics
C) Maths. I really need to bone up on maths and get my butt in gear. I have crap that's banging inside my head and I need to find out if those ideas are just fanciful or something interesting.
D) Anatomy (Special interests within anatomy itself...doesn't help with the staring at all)
E) Art and music (To me they are the same. My head lights up with certain music. Not synesthesia though...actual choreographed images and light shows)
F) Animation (history and all through current), Comics and cartooning up to about 1995 and preferably the golden and silver ages and early newspaper strips

Most of mine are interrelated and coexist at the same time quite peaceably. When I get into model building or painting mode, they take up most of my efforts due to the nature of the mediums.

Full of useless trivia on each one of them and always on the lookout for more information on each.

Right now, my current diagnosis and learning about Aspergers may constitute a special interest at this time. It's been interesting because I NEVER post on forums. So, we shall see.....

What about the platinum age of comics (ie. pre Superman)? Many of the comic books of that era are reprints from newspaper strips put into various book forms.