Let's play: Name your Most Unusual Special Interest!

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I'll go first. :p
I've got so many that would fall into the category of unusual, but here's the craziest one that I've ever had...

You know how women have different kinds of bathing suit backs? From the ages of 7 to about 10, that was one of the things I was obsessed with. I would draw pictures of girls in bathing suits constantly (always the front and the back, baha. I'd even make catalogues!) and had names and a systematic ordering system for each back. My favourite back was one that I named the Crosswind (shaped like a Y or a T). For a few years I even kept a running tally of them every summer as I went to the beach. I'd end up with a number such as 564 by the end of the summer! I also had a few particular bathing suits I liked, and I envied the girls in my class who wore my favourite designs. At the age of 8, my whole grade did swimming lessons...was I ever distracted! I remember the instructor not knowing what to do with me

Enough about me though. Your turn!

I am obsessed with chaos and destruction. I'm not emo or anything, I just have a natural obsession with it. I like watching chaotic events unfold and observing how people react to them. Lately my obsessions were with the September 11th terrorist attacks and the Columbine shooting of 1999.

I was obsessed with Routemasters for a while, there. I got a little bit of flack for it.

Same here! Things involving societal chaos is one of my current interests right now, in fact!

You may find the following thread (that ironically, I just created! bahaha) interesting. Tell me more about your obsession here:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt137723.html

Oh my goodness!
I was interested in this, too! When I was four or so, though.
I wasn't obsessed, I just found the different kinds interesting. I especially liked the backs on the swimsuits that the girls on my brother's swim team wore. I guess that would fall under 'preoccupation with parts of objects'.
However, I have not had any really strong interests that are deemed unusual by the general population. My main special interest is music of any sort (listening to it, playing it, and analyzing it), but for a stretch of five or six years, it was Presidents of the U.S. I must say that they have been my strongest special interest. I guess it's pretty unusual for a five-year-old girl to be able to list the presidents in chronological order, but hey. I have had many short-lived interests, but I'd have to say music and American Presidents have been my strongest.

I went through a phase for a couple of weeks when I was interested in these kinds of things. Then I moved onto something else.

I worship Molly Ringwald.

When I was between the ages of 8-10 I was extremely obsessed with the tweenies.
When I was of a similar age I had an obsession with the reproductive system and all things rude, when we learned about puberty in year 5 (age 9/10) I knew it all anyway . This obsession caused me to say innaprporiate things quite a few times.
The strangest obsessions I've had are when I fixate over people, I have been obsessed with 2 people while I was in highschool. One was a friend and another was just someone in a few of my classes.

All my obsessions are strange, if not the subject the intensity definitely is.

-The shooting of the Romanov family
-Angela Brazil's characters(Oh the cliche's are so obvious, but that's besides the point)

even prosody wonks don't often get into Quantitative Verse.
this is something so esoteric that it recurs as a topic once in a hundred years.
which frustrates me, because i'll be dead before i find someone i can share my ideas on this with.

i like early synthesizer music, the Korean condiment kimchee, the paintings of Clyfford Still, the movie "Johnny Guitar", & the Victorian "Spasmodic" poets. these are weird, but not hopeless.

the internet is a lot of help. there i have even found a virtual shrine to Gamera.
all the other people who thought they were the only ones to invent their own language (sigh).
other people who have read Owen Meredith's "Lucille" (& think it was worth reading).

finally, i have always had a warm spot in my heart for the star Lalande 21185.

m.

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I used to be obsessed with conspiracy theories, that was great fun

I must confess I love to read about hauntings, spirits, ghosts, mythical creatures, urban myths, and legends.

I find obesity to be fascinating, especially if I can get books/ watch movies/tv on an obese person's biography. I love learning how they struggled with gaining weight, what it felt like to not fit into pants, how they tried to overcome it, etc. On the opposite end of it though, I fnd diet books to be sleep-inducers.

I was interested in those a while ago. Hehe some of them are really far-reaching.

That's interesting to me too, though I've never had a special interest in it.

I guess I don't have/haven't had any wildly weird interests

Lately Ive been obsessed with phonetics. Specifically, Im working on a phonetic writing system. I started thinking about how annoying the English language is with all its silent letters and complicated vowel combinations and I ended up with a whole new way to spell things that makes a lot more sense to me. Its not that unusual but its also not that useful.

[ laatlee iiv bin ubsest wix funetiks. spisifiklee, iim w'rking qn u funetik riiting sistum. ii stqrtid xingking ubaot hao unoying xu English langgwij iz wix ql its siilint let'rz and kqmplikaatid vaol kqmbinaashunz and ii endid up wix u hol nuu waa tu spel xingz xat maaks u lqt mor sens tu mee. its nqt xat unyuuzyuu'l but its qlso nqt xat yuusf'l. ]