What was your first Special interest?

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Probably lego's. I've recently dropped back into my love for them, even though I don't have any left My biggest wish right now to get all 2001 to 2010 Star Wars OT sets but I know it'll never happen so that's it. When I was a kid I only had the smallest sets like

and Vader's watered down Tie Advanced


Meanwhile I was fantasizing about the Endor bunker, Echo base and the Mon Calamari star cruiser.

Either Barbies or Home Alone. My mom says I was obsessed with my Barbies and I never saw it as an obsession. My first memory of what I would consider my first special interest was Home Alone when I was eight. Before then I don't think I had anything unless it was Barbies and I remember having a odd interest in bodily functions and peeing outdoors and blowing noses early as age five.

A S T R O N O M Y - Still is a Special Interest after 45 years or so!

I'm not sure what came first but some of my special interests as a child were fashion design (well, drawing outfits) Corey Haim (!) and menu planning for imaginary parties. There was this one cookbook in particular that I used to get ideas for party food from. I never made any of it and wouldn't have eaten most of it as I was a really picky eater and had food phobias, but I just loved planning these imaginary buffets and parties over and over again haha. I got that book off eBay recently and it was funny to look at.

I put on real food events now (pop up restaurants etc) and always love the planning more than the actual event, which I find stressful.

Ditto, I started with cars, still a fascination of mine though bow the space sciences are my primary obsession.

Books. I think I was 4.5yo when my nasty aunt, who gave us awful presents every Christmas, gave me a box of 5 books, each about 10 pages long, bound with string, and titled with the name of a country. She thought reading was a terrible thing to do. I had no idea what all this was. I think I already had a Golden Book but this was true stuff - other countries? other foods? other clothes? all illustrated. Mom kept asking if I didn't want to play with my toys, so I did, but I kept ending up back on the sofa with the little books. That's when Mom found out I was a bookworm like herself. I still am.

I eventually moved to books later in life, but during my childhood I was so absorbed by comic books that my family would make summer trips to the beach and I would stay in the apartment reading while they spent their day at the beach. It took me a while to understand that this was baffling to them.

For me it was water, i had a real obsession with it, any chance i could get was to be near it or in it, even to the point of jumping in the deep end of an outdoor swimming pool at 2 and sinking to the bottom waiting to be picked up! i apparently almost drowned a number of times, in the end my parents got me a body harness/leash, because under my own two feet they would be endlessly running after me full clothed into the ocean, or picking me up of the bottom of pools and streams! Still to this day i need to be near water.... Also Fire was and is another fascination, i would zone out with the flames and still do, Also got into events lighting as i loved lights, but the social aspect was too overwhelming, so after a number of years, sold my lighting rigs..

New old thoughts

Digging
Climbing between two buildings
Squirt guns
Small hardware stuff
Small different colored light bulbs
Highway signs light flashers

I had changing, but consuming interests over the years. I loved My Little Pony, and ponies in general when I was pre-school age, on through about 10. Knew everything about them. That waned after my parents GOT me one. I didn't actually want to own/care for/ride one. Accompanying that was weather/natural disasters, and my most persistent one: Books. I LOVE stories. So much so that my relationships with others sometimes suffer as I strive for the story they are telling me verses the person behind it. Books introduced me into my Holocaust phase, and finally Sci-Fi. I currently have over 1,000 books digitally, of which I have read them all, some multiple times, waiting for new releases (or the funds to buy them). That is my fall back thing. When all else fails, I will read.

My son, 3, has a very consuming interest in superhero's and the solar system. He can, and will, name all the planets and the dwarf planets and their characteristics. He knows their order from the sun, and will quiz US on them. Same thing with his superheros (and super villains too). Keeping an eye on this one.

That sounds a lot like me as a kid once I got over my obsession with trains, and I am still kind of like that. I gave up on knowing everything about every known planet, moon, and dwarf planet once exoplanets started to be discovered.

My first special interest was The Little Mermaid. Ariel was my first love when I was a kid and I became obsessed with her. She still has a special place for me even to this day.

I think my earliest was dinosaurs, though it may have been Chicken Little, I drove my parent's crazy asking for that story over and over.

I think my first may have been chemistry. I wasn't too interested in doing experiments, but I really liked all the little bottles and polishing the test tubes and putting them neatly in the test-tube racks.

A lot of you guys are making me feel old talking about cartoons and movies and games from the 90's or later. When I was a kid some of my earliest favorite cartoons were The Flintstones and classic Loony Tunes. The Flintstones were on TV every weekday back then, but I didn't see Looney Tunes much because we didn't have cable. I mostly saw them in comic books and there used to be a newspaper strip. I saw them more often when I was around 9 or 10 and we got our first VCR. We got cable when I was around 12.

I wish they still broadcast those old tv shows on the tv nowadays.