Popular Hobbies and addictions

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Hi folks, I'm now a radio presenter on Autism Radio UK and was thought I'd ask you you folks what do you think the most popular hobbies are which people on the spectrum have. I want to talk about such while on air.

I'd like to learn about what makes there hobby so appealing to them. Why people on the spectrum need and can't live without there special interests and so on. My addiction is gaming which I touched a little on in my last show.. I thought a good forum like this is probably better than Google for such info. Here I can ask fellow people on the spectrum.

Well, my hobby happens to be comic book collecting! I love the big, glossy covers, how big the art is, and the satisfaction of finding my favorite series in this larger format (which happened to be published in the early 1990's in a very limited run, so it's harder to find)!

I don't know why I like to do it so much though. I've always had a shopping addiction, and at least these particular comics are only $0.80 to $4.25 a piece. I don't even read them; I just have them in nice comic book bags with boards in the back to keep them from bending.

With this particular series, graphic novels were released as well, so I buy them too, but they're about half the size, so the comic books are better.

I also love collecting graphic novels with female leads. Battle Angel Alita, Black God, and, strangely enough, Scott Pilgrim happen to be my favorites, along with FLCL and Fullmetal Alchemist.

If I ever get a comic or graphic novel, I usually go all out and get the whole series all at once, which can be very disappointing if it's a bad series, but I can't stand not having closure!

I also love arranging them on my bookcase, just to look at them, nice and organized!

I'm addicted because honestly, I'm trying to fill a hole in my heart with shopping, which is sad. But if I had even more money, I'd still get them all.

I also collect female Japanese PVC figures, which are SO much nicer than American action figures (even though the Japanese ones usually are in a static pose). I love to look at them.

I never thought that I'd be a grown adult woman (all of 23 years of age), collecting comic books and living in my parent's basement (my own apartment is infested with a certain pestilence)! But at the very least I'm working to get out of here by going to school for, of course, art!

I know I went off on a bit of tangents, but I just love it when people ask about my only interests! Hope this helps, Shadowbound =D

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Battle Angel Alita

I enjoy collecting records and CDs and listening to them.

games for me i been gaming since i was 6 and got my first ps1 and still see no end

Games for me as well

Pretty much anything with a throttle. Car, planes and their rc counterparts since they are cheaper than the real thing

I love music. I have big collection of albums. I bought special furniture to keep it all in order. Alphabetical/date order

I'm interested in linguistics, especially Germanic and Slavic languages. I love to read dictionaries and grammar books.

I love to watch machines, fractals and other systems. I collect cables. I go to Railways Open Days or PowerStation OD or others.

I find makeup a kind of Art. I collect eye shadows, powders and foundations and I can do perfect makeup. I can change my face, show chosen facial features and hide others. It's really fascinating.

Music. I sing.

Language. Etymology. I love alliterative verse.

Maps. I love maps. I like making maps of sff books, which I love reading.

Warships from ~Tsushima to the present. AFVs. The evolution of both are highly complicated systems, which I think is the draw. I've a habit of making spreadsheets out of random systems (the history of F1 racing teams, say) but lose interest quickly for most of 'em.

Collecting werewolf films at the moment.

Live roleplay - not sure if it's paradoxical, but I know several aspie LRPers.

Oh, I love maps too!

I've created the designs and worked with stained glass, loom bead-weaving, Ukrainian egg dying, mosaic work, pottery, sculpture in both clay and wood, wool and yarn weaving, needlepoint art, computer illustration, seed-bead sculpture, photography, watercolor, oil, acrylic and pastel painting, pencil (both black & white and color) drawings, and calligraphy.

Hi Shadowbound---thanks for this fun topic.

Here are mine:

Roller Coasters (and I think there are several on the spectrum with this interest). I love the intricate design work of older wooden coasters---aesthetically beautiful designs of the architects of the golden age (1920s). I collect blueprints of historic wooden coasters and build HO scale models of them for placement on my model amusement park. I am fascinated by the engineering behind them (laws of physics), etc. By the time I was in high school, I had memorized the statistics (height, length, ride time, year of build, designer, and builder) of every roller coaster in North America---and I had never tried to memorize them---it just happened.

Electric and Pipe Organs/ Synthesizers/ other instruments. I have collected around 30 synthesizers, 6 electric organs, and various other electric keyboards. I am fascinated by all the tabs, knobs, switches on these instruments. I love playing them and manipulating the gadgetry on them. Today, I also collect and play hammered and mountain dulcimers.

Magic Tricks. I collect stage illusions and am fascinated by the mechanisms in the illusion that cause the "magic" to mystify an audience.

House Plans. I collect house blueprints and house plan books. I am fascinated by the design styles and arrangement of rooms and halls. I love to categorize house plans according to different criteria.

My favorite hobby is my dolls, furniture and accessories, collecting.

Second Life, more of an addiction then a hobby

Right now my all consuming pursuit is designing a board game. I've come up with a format that can easily be modified to alternate themes so that, once I've balanced the cards and rules out (solved all the variables) I can easily come up with variations - a might&magic version, a vamire version, etc. At the moment it's zombies - simply because the only guy I know who could get a test group together loves zombie movies, and so do his buddies.

Solving the movement and use of range weapons for 360degrees was tricky!

Making animations. Everything from simple Gif. to stop motion and everything inbetween.

LEGOs and right now Minecraft. Just building structures from blocks. I also have a mild interest in bricks that have the company name stamped on them.

History. I am interested in all kinds of history, but mainly local history, where ever I might be, both travel and home. Also WW1.

Feral children. I think it's because I can relate to them more than anyone else.

Mythology. Everything from fables, legends, myths and old stories of gods.