Starbuline
The Blues Are Brown.
Joined: Sep 26, 2006
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Location: .....Russia
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Now it's serial killers.  |
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dustbowlrefugee
Toucan
Joined: May 15, 2007
Posts: 262
Location: Scotland
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:26 am Post subject: |
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Serial killers and concentration camps  |
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Aspie
Joined: May 30, 2007
Age: 21
Posts: 1367
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 5:31 pm Post subject: Re: Do you have any "abnormal" interests? |
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| LeonSKennedy827 wrote: | Do you have any so called "abormal" interests, and do people give you hell about it in school?
I'm a HUUUGE Sonic fan, and I get picked on for it all the time, I hear comparsions of Sonic to games not even REMOTLEY like it, I get laughed at, gangs of people try to get me mad by saying "Sonic's crap!" at the top of their voices, and just in general try to make me feel like I don't belong on this planet
Sure it may be just a game, but it does kinda hurt, that someone could be so cruel to me just because I'm not into what they are
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Sonic is awesome! I use to watch the show but the video games are really fun too. |
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Aspie
Joined: May 30, 2007
Age: 21
Posts: 1367
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 5:41 pm Post subject: interests |
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| I have usually been pretty quiet about my interests. I just keep things to myself but sometimes people at school will bother me when I am reading or doing an interest...like just because they don't like something I shouldn't either. My interests have varied. I guess I'll list some of them...dirt, bugs, human brain, paper clips, pokemon, video games, music, disorders, astrology...that's about it I think... |
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SteelMaiden
There's no place like 127.0.0.1
Joined: Aug 20, 2006
Age: 23
Posts: 2656
Location: Rosehill, Greater London
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I'm fascinated by trains. I suppose that makes me a stereotypical AS kid.
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Kris94
Deinonychus
Joined: Jun 01, 2007
Posts: 361
Location: Your head
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i love nature, people at school get on my nerves calling me 'farmboy' just because i name every plant and animal i see.
when go walking in the woods, nobody is there
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SteelMaiden
There's no place like 127.0.0.1
Joined: Aug 20, 2006
Age: 23
Posts: 2656
Location: Rosehill, Greater London
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 11:52 am Post subject: |
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| Kris94 wrote: | i love nature, people at school get on my nerves calling me 'farmboy' just because i name every plant and animal i see.
when go walking in the woods, nobody is there
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My Dad is like that too! I love nature as well, but I only ever remember how the plants transport water and how they obtain mineral ions from the soil, not the names of the plants! I call most things that swim ducks and most things that fly birds. LOL.
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SolaCatella
Phoenix
Joined: Nov 25, 2005
Posts: 694
Location: [insert creative, funny declaration of location here]
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| Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Starbuline wrote: | | Now it's serial killers. |
Serial killers are fascinating to a point to just about everyone. Why do you think they get such a disproportionate amount of media time when a particularly grisly one pops up? I think I found an interesting article once about how they're fascinating because people are generally programmed to be interested in new dangers so that they themselves may learn to avoid them.
My obsessions are fairly common--languages, dogs and behavior.
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ill2def
Hummingbird
Joined: Jun 05, 2007
Posts: 21
Location: Uptown Philly
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:58 am Post subject: |
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My interests are world religions, the album Reasonable Doubt by Jay-Z, Bre Scullark (former top model contestant), Nick Arcade (an old game show that aired on Nickelodean that now is shown on the channel Nick GAS everyday at 4am). The first 3 aren't really abnormal it's just the extent to which I go to fulfill my obsession to know as much as possible about those things. (I actually write term papers in school about them just to give me a reason to do hours of research on the subjects)
Oh yeah and and getting straight A's. Not for any real reason. Throughout high school I could care less about grades. I even flunked out of college once before. It's just 'cause I think having the same grade on my transcript looks uniform and kind of cool. I laughed at the face my academic advisor at community college made when she found out I wasn't interested in getting a B.S. degree at a 4-year university. Something like " " |
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KalahariMeerkat
Toucan
Joined: Mar 20, 2007
Posts: 263
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People think my meerkat and Lion King obsessions are not normal. Maybe they aren't because I don't like Meerkat Manor and get made fun of by so-called Lion King fans becuase I am so obsessed with it.  I don't see any Lion King conventions any time soon. The only place I really fit in is the My Little Pony circut (there's at thease three or four other people with Asperger's on a message board called My Little Pony Arena). Some people claim to be really obsessed but after my exprience with the Lion King message board I wonder if they really are. |
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subatai_baadur
Really the Last of the Dodo's
Joined: Jun 10, 2006
Posts: 1351
Location: Tampa, Florida
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I have a tremendous interest in politics and history. I drive my history teachers absolutely insane. If anyone in the class is interested in learning, an excellent time is had by all. Unfortunately, no one ever is.
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GreenCup
Butterfly
Joined: Jun 09, 2007
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| ill2def wrote: | | My interests are world religions.......... (I actually write term papers in school about them just to give me a reason to do hours of research on the subjects) |
I am also interested in world religions and would turn any psychology paper into a psychology of religion paper. I also used my advanced composition class as an excuse to write about religious language.
I don't think that the interest itself is unusual, but the amount of time I spend on it is. I had to learn to limit my time in research, otherwise, I will spend a full day looking up information on the web or reading a book about different religions.
Another interest of mine is the brain and how it works. |
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Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Jun 08, 2007
Posts: 65
Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Languages, but it depends on which ones. Where I come from, if you like Spanish or Italian (Romance languages), people are interested in your obsession. If you like Japanese, you might be nerdy because stupid people assume that if you like Japanese, you like anime, etc. If you like German, you come off as liking the whole goth or beer scene.
Stereotypes hurt.
Anyway, I love browsing around grammars of the Slavics and Turkics. They have very interesting word orders and syntax.
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Formaldehyde
Emu Egg
Joined: Jun 15, 2007
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People think the fact that I own a Segway and use it for transportation is extremely odd. It is rediculously fun and I save a ton of money on gas, but a lot of people call me lazy, rich (I'm not, couldn't afford a car if I wanted one), a show-off, etc. The other day I even had a guy just flip out at me, saying I had no right to be using it on the sidewalks (I can, it's allowed under state law), yelling and cursing at me, etc.
I was actually giving a bit of thought to selling it, since being an Aspie makes it difficult to deal with this level of attention. But my Segway is just so much fun! |
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medfly
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: Apr 08, 2007
Posts: 33
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:22 am Post subject: |
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| uhhmm, my recent unusual obsession were nuclear bombs (and physics) and mathematics (its unusual because i dont know alot of people in real life that like it.) |
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