What is your "special interest"?

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I've read that most people with Asperger's have some kind of a special interest. Well, what is yours, how old are you, and since when have you been interested in it?

I'm rather young, so I don't have a specific interest in a single area. This, or because I might not have Asperger's at all. However, I'm really interested in all kinds of science. Much of my day (much of the part that I spend in procrastinating) goes in reading some sorts of scientific information. There isn't a particular field. I'm especially interested in psychology, but I read all kinds of things. I strongly prefer things that are more practical, like psychology or biology, because my interests are much more fascinating when I benefit from them.

My particular interest is Pokemon.

It's a long-standing obsession, I've loved it for about two years now, but I've 'liked' it and played the games since I was 6. (I'm 14 now).
I have every game that's come out in the UK since I was 10, I've collected the special editions, Pokemon plush toys, posters, A-Z Pokedex's, you name it, I've got it. :L I also have over 1000 cards.

Other, less intense interests of mine are Physics (I love it DD), and Sit-coms like The Big Bang theory, and Black books, both of which have relatable and engaging main characters.

Aspies don't have to have a special interest, but some doctors consider it when making a formal diagnosis.

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I'm 25 and I have interests that could last 1 hour to 2 weeks to 6 months to 8 years.

My current two dominate special interests are Stargate and Doctor Who. The Stargate one is more intense. I think my Doctor Who interest has lasted over a year and my Stargate one four or five months. I did put my Doctor Who interest on hold while I got into Stargate but I came back to it and I still kept Stargate as a special interest too.

I'm back into my drawing too which started when I was 3 years old (or around then) and lasted until I was 12 or 13. I've probably only been back into in the last two weeks.
I was into photography that was on and off for six years. I finally decided that it was no longer practical and lost interest in it.

I'm into science too. Physics actually for about early last year, so almost two years.

I was into astronomy too and I got my telescope two birthdays ago and I usually get back into it every couple of months.

I few minor interests include The Big Bang Theory and Star Trek. Oh and Star Wars comics.

edit: Oh and Black Books, Shooting Stars, QI and Egg Heads.

48 yrs old

Geopathy and olde sciences have been with me for many years. And surfing

I am fifty years old. Early in life I realized that I didn't understand anyone else and they clearly didn't understand me. In order to understand what was going on, I tried to learn everything about everything, reading voluminously on every subject imaginable. I soon focused on mainly history and science, although I also enjoyed learning about languages and the origins and changes of words (etymology). I also found myself fascinated by aircraft, ships and tanks, especially those of the World Wars of the 20th century.

The character of Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) intrigued me as an archetype of the traits of loyalty and courage. I have studied much about the Red Baron's career and death. I even wrote a song about it that has a video on YouTube. Last year I was contacted by the author of one of my favorite books on this subject who found one of my pages about the Red Baron on the Internet. He liked it, and after some correspondence autographed a copy of his book to me.

Besides the Red Baron and the aircraft he flew, two more of my special interests include the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway in the Pacific Theater of World War II. I can talk for hours without repeating myself about minute trivia of the ships, aircraft and people involved, as well as describing the battles themselves.

For about the past thirty years I have also studied the subject of evolution intensely (yes, I wrote a song about that too), and I am astounded that so many Americans in particular are so badly misinformed about this subject as to deny that it happens. Seriously folks, this is just as crazy as if half the adult population were to insist the earth is flat in spite of all evidence to the contrary. It really is that obvious, which makes the existence of this so-called "controversy" even more incredible. I see well-meaning but badly misinformed idiots busily trying to legislate us back to the Dark Ages, and the scary thing is no matter how many times they are defeated by reason, truth and overwhelming physical evidence, they don't give up but keep coming up with new sneakier ways to force their ignorance onto everybody's schoolchildren.

I have encyclopedic knowledge of science and history in general, but the past few decades have spent more time on comparative mythology and non-dualistic philosophies including Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism. These studies have helped me cope with some of the frustrations of my existence more than my knowledge of history and science has. In the 1990s I studied much by Joseph Campbell, but didn't agree with many of his conclusions. He was a great storyteller though.

The past seven or eight years I have listened to many hours of talks given by the 20th century philosopher and "spiritual entertainer" Alan Watts. He was best known for explaining eastern philosophies to western audiences. He wrote many books, but I don't really enjoy reading his books nearly so much as I enjoy listening to him talk. He is a blast to listen to. I have about fifty hours of him talking on various subjects, and I have listened to many of these talks dozens or even hundreds of times.

I am also "The Bicycling Guitarist" in real life, not just on the internet. Usually I play only my own original songs, but for some reason the Beatles song Help! has fascinated me the past five or six years. When I set it to loop in a media player, I can play along to that song about three times every seven minutes, or about twenty-five times per hour. There's been more than once that I played along to it four hours straight through, no breaks, meaning I played that song on guitar one hundred times in a row. Sometimes I would play that song for hours every day for weeks and weeks, even months. Needless to say, my daughter and my housemate both hate that song! Just last week I found a new way to pick the lead riff George Harrison plays at the end of the intro and each chorus. Like them or not, the Beatles were one of the most popular rock bands of all time, and the Beatles themselves all liked this song. John considered it one of the only two songs he was proud of from his time with the Beatles (the other being Strawberry Fields).

Photography, and it is such an intense interest that I plan on making a career out of it (I'm 19. by the way).

Some of my stuff is posted here: http://fullmoonshadow.deviantart.com/

I'm nearly 28, and my special interests seem to be made up of things I've always had some sort of interest in throughout my life, it's just at certain points my interest in something will suddenly peak very high for a few years.

Currently my special interest is sexual health, in particular menstrual health and sanitary products.
I'm a well-known menstrual activist, study sexual health, write or contribute to women's health articles for magazines and been involved in the production of a sexual health book with a sexologist friend, do freelance promotions for various women's health products, and I have encyclopedic knowledge of tampon manufacturing and regulations. I know more about certain menstrual and vaginal health issues than many doctors I've met, in fact I've even taught Fertility Awareness Method to gynaecologists in one of the local family planning clinics.

I've had this special interest for around 9 years, I've been interested in such things since I was about 10 when a book on puberty appeared in our school and I was the only one not scared to read it, my interest was peaked 9 years ago when I came across something I didn't know about previously and learning more helped me overcome sexual abuse and made my life easier, so it went from there.

Other special interests I've had during my life have included geology from the age of 7-17, and religion from the age of 17-20 - both of these were just as intense as the interest I have now. I've had less intense interests too including biology, psychology, teaching, recruitment, physics, homemade toiletries, bento, cupcakes, web design, marbles, Marilyn Manson, East 17, etc. and lots of general collecting of different things too - leaflets for sewing machines, 10,000+ rocks/stones, marbles, car magazines (enough to prop-up my bed in my teens), stupidly high shoes, stationary, etc.

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(Travis, Ludovico Einaudi, the Spanish Revolution)

I'm 20 years old. My special interests are Tim Burton movies and cartoons. They are connected to a broader interest in art, which I've been passionate about for my whole life.

My favorite Tim Burton Movies are Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, Sweeney Todd, Nightmare Before Christmas, and Corpse Bride. I know a lot of trivia about each of the movies as well as Tim Burton himself and his regular collaborators Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. I've had this interest for a little over a year.

My favorite cartoons are Beetlejuice, Adventure Time, Regular Show, and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I've only had this interest for about two weeks, so I haven't memorized many facts about them yet.

The computability of consciousness.

Surfing. Marshall arts.

Art.

I'm 20 and my special interests are Tinkerbell, Doctor who and toontown
I have been on toontown for about two years now and also anything to do with planets and space lol

Electronics of all kinds!

Computers, the Olympics and The Kinks since I was 9 in 1984.

Video games, the history of them, how they're made, design principles and all that fuzz.

Music, and before that was videogames.