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26 Mar 2009, 1:59 pm

My current special interest is YouTube. Im mad about that site in all kinds of way I can be.....but at the moment Im a bit "lost" there...
Another is the country of Ukraine. Have to go there and get a doze regularly....

Some previous special interests of me:

*Trains, mainly Metros/tubes/undergrounds
*Cinemas, I even learned to run the film itself
*unusual deseases and conditions like simamese twins
*Radio, television and newspapers, all of massmedia
*murders and disasters (I was a depressed teenager)

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26 Mar 2009, 2:04 pm

Mainly SpongeBob SquarePants.

Other interests (smaller) include The Simpsons, TV Burp, Computers and the Internet.

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26 Mar 2009, 3:22 pm

JmackonDeck wrote:

... (at age 11)

I thought you were 19...

jamesp420 wrote:

My interests are [...] the English language and it's roots(in case anyone wonder's why my grammar and spelling are nearly perfect), ...

Sounds contradicting; then again, you did say "nearly" perfect.

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26 Mar 2009, 8:17 pm

dougn wrote:

DadX4 - Good luck to your son!

I won my school geography bee way back in sixth grade and wound up going to the state bee also. I was the first person in the sixth grade to win in my school (it was a 6/7/8 school) and the first person in my school to go to the state bee.

I was totally nonplussed - I did not expect any of it. It was also my first real experience with bright kids from other schools. A lot of the kids at the state bee had really been prepared (even by professional tutors) and were from very elite schools and so on. I just sort of wandered in there from my ordinary suburban public school with no special preparation at all ... it should not have been a surprise I did not fare too well and was rather overwhelmed by the experience. (Keep in mind that I am from New York, a state with a very abundant supply of very rich kids from very elite schools.)

Also, I was then undiagnosed so unlike your son I really didn't have the support of anyone who understood me.

And geography was never really a "special interest" of mine on its own but I absorbed a lot of geographic knowledge through two of my obsessions, ships and airplanes. The ship one is now 16 years old and as strong as ever, the airplane one always sort of secondary but only slightly "younger" and certainly still there.

dougn - thanks for the info about your experience with the geography bee. We don't really know exactly what to expect. My son is also in 6th grade, and won the bee in a school that the competitors were in grades 5 - 8. So, he won against a lot of older kids. My son is only mildly excited (if that) about the bee. He just kind of shrugs his shoulders about it as if it is no big deal.

He knows a lot of facts, but has some gaps in his knowledge. I told him he should do some reviewing in an organized way - learn about 5 or 10 facts about every country on earth, etc. He'd rather not. He has been doing some study, but in his own way. He will probably do okay, but mainly it is a learning experience for him. I'll let you know how he does.

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26 Mar 2009, 9:18 pm

I hate to say it, but my special interest lately has been autism and asperger's. That's why I'm making so many videos about it. I also have a special interest in white tigers and metaphysics at times.

NT's call them "passions." When AS'ers have them, they are "special interests," and "obsessions."

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26 Mar 2009, 9:47 pm

whitetiger wrote:

NT's call them "passions." When AS'ers have them, they are "special interests," and "obsessions."

I like "special interest" better than "passion," because a passion seems to be carried out in an emotional, illogical way.

Now, if I was to say that I have a passion for the Blues, you would assume it meant I liked listening to the stuff and nothing more. This is not right. If I say I am especially interested in the Blues, I think this more accurately describes it, for every day I analyse lyrics in my head to understand them; every day I play certain songs in my mind; etc.

So I think that others can keep their passions. I shall have special interests instead (I shall admit, though, that an obsessed person is scary).

Other current special interests of mine: poetry (not stuff about such things as feelings though, but rather about beauty itself), aesthetics, ethics, noise.

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27 Mar 2009, 2:32 am

As a kid: Cars, armadillos, echidnas, specific sports players, composers, Britain, and Ben Franklin.

Now: Wittgenstein, Erik Satie, Beethoven, epistemology, and Jose Saramago.

These interests tend to go in and out; I'll have one for a month, then pick one of the other ones back up for a month, and this will keep going.

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27 Mar 2009, 3:17 am

i've had many.

but the main overriding special interest that is now a career is art and painting.

Autism and Aspergers has been ailry all consuming the past year or so.
and WP is creeping up there as an obsessive interest .

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27 Mar 2009, 11:00 am

Homemade toys...making and collecting...

Singing has been with me since I learned to speak..it's more than just singing though....

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27 Mar 2009, 11:36 am

Childhood: dinosaurs, cars, ancient Egypt, mythology, history, drawing, Star Wars, baseball cards, the X-Men.

Now: geopolitics, history, the enviroment, paranormal stuff, comics.

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27 Mar 2009, 1:01 pm

Primary Interest at the moment
Structure of languages (including phonology, script/spelling and grammar) I have had this interests since I turned 14 (I am 15 now) I also make languages

Other Current interests

Foreign Countries
Chess (I even played for my county)
Mathematics, Patterns and Puzzles

Other interests roughly in order from childhood to now (adolescent)

Thomas the Tank Engine
Vehicle number plates
Street lights (I knew exactly what every one looked like in my local area and where they were placed!
Car wheels and names of cars
Fonts
Maps

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27 Mar 2009, 1:25 pm

My main one is computers, with a lot of 'sub-obsessions' branched off that one, like Photoshop.
Some previous ones would be ants, triops(Notostraca), geomag and magnets in general, tamagotchi and a few other things.
I also like religion, I memorized all the world wide religious statistics in half an hour(i.e Jewish world population, 0.22%, Sikhism world population, 0.36%, etc.), but it's not as intense as computers.
Oh, and I like Science. Mainly Chemistry.
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27 Mar 2009, 1:28 pm

meerkats and Lion King
customising things... It started with My Little Ponies (no pony is safe from me and they look ten times better when I am finished with them) then Littlest Pet shop animals (they are less safe than the ponies. I only buy then TO customise) and now it is ANYTHING that looks plain and boring and does not attire to my intrests.) If I don't like something of mine, time to break out the airbrush and go to town.

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27 Mar 2009, 1:33 pm

I've had a bunch over the years. My most recent ones are Happy Tree Friends, pageants, and flamingos, all of which have nothing to do with each other.

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30 Mar 2009, 2:12 pm

Anime, Anime music, Lilith, Leviathan, Behemoth, Bible, writing, literature, Victorian era, Medieval Era--these are my main interests as of this moment.

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30 Mar 2009, 2:53 pm

My special interests have varied a lot. This is a list of past obsessions:

Science Fiction shows
Writing
Birds
Gerbils
A certain TV star
Christianity
Ghosts
Enid Blyton books

My more recent obsessions have been:

The X Files
Alternative therapies
Spirituality
Cellular healing
Reiki
Autism
Self development
Music
Guinea pigs
Astronomy
Writing

When I'm caught in the grips of an obsession I find it very difficult to switch off and concentrate on anything else. It literally consumes me. I manage to deal with my child when he's home, but once he's at school or in bed I'm straight back into my obsession.

Does anyone else get obsessed with people or is it just subject matters?

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