Childhood passions

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I was visiting the library in my old neighborhood and got to thinking about my various passions/obsessions when I was younger. I don't recall them all, but I remember being very interested in:

Greek mythology
Ancient Egypt and Egyptian mythology
Prehistoric cats (anything with teeth as long as my arm)
Anything Lord of the Rings related

In Junior High I added:
Quantum theory
Evolution
Astrophysics

Who else has fond memories of childhood obsessions that maybe they no longer pursue--or do pursue, but in a more grown-up sort of way? (Personally, I no longer know the names of all the nymphs Apollo ever chased around, but I at least remember the names of most Greek and Egyptian gods--with the Romans thrown in for good measure. Although the Roman gods were nowhere near as cool as the Greeks, IMHO

Present:
Video Gamer
Star Trek (and Star wars to a lesser extent)
Mythbusters
Political Comedy

Past obsessions:
Dentistry
Meteorology
US History (still somewhat follow it to this day)
Algebra (in 1st-2nd grade, prepped me very well for HS algebra when that came around...)
Astronomy
Plate Tectonics
Big words (I had the vocabulary of a college student when I was 4)

Preschool: paleontology
Elementary school: Astronauts
Middle School: Ben Franklin/other Inventors
High School: Colleges. Civil War, Pre-World War 1 submarines, especially the Turtle (and I recognized the replica of it immediately when I saw the pic on yahoo)

Past:

Shells
My little pony
Insects
Butterflies
Birds
Dictionaries
Ghosts
Star Trek
Horses
Tintin
The Dark Is Rising books
Tetris
Jigsaws
Stickers (had them stuck over everything)
Gameshows
Poetry
Salvador Dali
Music
Disney
Bladerunner
Rutger Hauer
Ladyhawke
Vampires/Dracula
Christopher Lee
Rollerskating
Puzzles

Current/Recent past

Serial Killers
Spirituality
Paranormal
Madeleine Mccann
Natascha Kampusch
Anastasia(Romanovs)
Titanic
Doctor Who
Star Trek
Harry Potter
Aspergers/autism
Tudor England/Elizabeth
Music
Antiques
Photography
Vintage camera
Old Postcards
Gemstones
Final Fantasy VIII
Quantum physics
Crosswords

I've always been interested in mythology too, especially Greek mythology. It started when I was about 8. Our teacher used to always end the school week with a tale from the Greek myths and I was spellbound. I still am.
As a kid I was also obsessed with cats and peacocks and that's not changed. The intensity of the obsession varies but the interest is always there. I think I'm stuck with them forever

Childhood/teen passions :

- Video games (mostly RPGs, quests or strategy)
- Cars (I used to know the 1/4 mile time of most manufactured cars)
- Dungeons and Dragons (even if my friends would rarely play)
- General culture (I used to read the dictionnary and encyclopedias about various topics)
- Science (mostly physics)
- Guns (I wasnt violent or psychotic, but I learned about anything there is to know about guns when I was playing Rainbow Six games)
- Legos and other construction games

Current passions :

- Psychology and philosophy
- Science, science and more science!
- Genuises (from Einstein to Mozart)
- Music (I play the guitar and learn a lot about the history of music)
- The punk/hardcore culture from the late 70s and early 80s
- Computer games

childhood:
- faeries (and drawing them)
- fairy tales (and illustrating them)
- my little pony
- barbies
- legos to a degree, though I never had a huge set
- marbles
- old pennies
- foreign currency
- The Narnia Chronicles by C.S. Lewis
- when I lived in Paris, and my family owned a clothing design company, I was obsessed with a community of cork people, whom I made with wine bottle corks and miscellaneous thread/fabric that I found around the studio. I created first and last names and ages and a family tree for everyone, showing who was related to whom and how, and who was dating whom, and whom they'd ever dated in the past (I was 10).
- photocopying (circa 1985, also in Paris), especially body parts
- Michael Jackson's Thriller
- Weird Al Yankovich
- stickers!
- Garfield the cat, in all His forms

adolescence:
- Mario Bros & Zelda, on the original Nintendo
- watching spiders spin their webs, from beginning to end
- my cocker spaniel
- playing viola

teen:
- not much time for hobbies outside of high school, so I just got really into my classes (esp. art and biology), and obsessed over certain boys

adult past:
- college/indie radio--dj'ing and producing
- philosophy (majored in it)
- French
- German
- Tolkein
- voiceover
- acting
- improv comedy (performing)
- certain boys
- cat psychology
- improv message boards
- thrifting/antiques

now/recent:
- the damned internet
- gardening, especially digging things up
- my dogs
- my architecture coursework, and also complaining about it
- learning about AS
- this website (damnit!)
- psychology and learning differences
- wandering aimlessly through bookstores
- books
- light bulbs (but I've got more than I need, so I've toned it down--there's just something about the "right" quality of light--maybe it's an architecture thing)
- netflix
- itunes

The ADHD/Asperger's combo isn't so great though--Jill of all trades, Mistress of none...

Dolls
Stuffed Animals
Cats
Computer graphics
Stickers
Hello Kitty
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Weather Channel
The internet
Taking photos

(I still like all those things)

Books - many different ones over the years. I've been obsessed with:
Goosebumps
Baby Sitters Club
American Girl books
Animorphs
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Let's see if I can remember back that far:

Historic Costume
Archaeology
Roman Empire
Historic Architecture
Great houses
Churches
Music
Dinky cars (yes, I AM a girl)
Dressing up

Books:

Anything by H Ryder Haggard
Anything by Robert Graves
Gothic Romance (the REAL stuff by Edgar Allen Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu et al)

There were no such things as computers then

Pre-K to Grade 2:
Toy cats, real cats, cat books, cat posters, cat anything.
Books
Skating

Grade 2 to Grade 5
Cats, cat books
Original Nintendo
Skating
Medical books (started around age 8 with that)

Grade 6-8
Skating
Medical books
Cats

Grade 9-10
Skating
Medical Books

College
Psychology
Medical Books
Skating
Programming HTML
Reading
Fitness

My interests are basically the same as college now, except add on Asperger's and scratch skating.

As a boy:

TRAINS
stuffed animals (only my few favorites)
video games
drawing

Now:

replace stuffed animals with music & composition