In childhood, did you have an obsession?

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pirates -- the best thing my dad could do for me was draw a black skull and cross bones on my hads. (was this a forerunner to my tattoos i wonder.....)

bushrangers
wine label collecting
tallying rugby leagues score of my team
marbles
patterns
art
word book encyclopaedias
fascination with cigarette smoking -watching my mother inhale - and by 7 i had had my first ciggie and by 9 i was a conoisseur and by ten i'd been caught at school behind the gardener's shed with a packet of twenty.

i had so many - in fact that is all there was. people came in at a very distant second.

I did have some obsessions I guess.

For a long time it was cars. I was also interested in anything mechanical. My parents thought that was just being a boy, and wasn't anything to worry about.

For a while, I was obsessed with TV schedules, particularly in other places. My mother used to rant about how the city we lived in was absolutely horrible and how much better it would be to live somewhere else. I took that as a cue that if I lived somewhere else, my life would be better too and one thing I'd do somewhere else is of course watch TV, so I'd think if I lived in city xxx I'd be watching this right now, and so on. Of course, after moving to another town after graduation, I learned where we lived wasn't all of the problem after all.

Sometimes now I wonder what life would have been like if certain things hadn't happened to me, like I'd never had swimming crammed down my throat, I'd not have been taken out of or left in certain schools, my sister had left home and stayed away, and the list goes on. Of course, every action has positive and negative consequences, we just hope the postive by far outweigh the negative.

I used to be obsessed with things like toy cars and Rugrats. My current and most affecting one is SpongeBob SquarePants.

When I posted earlier I forgot to mention house plans. I still love them, but I used to draw a lot of house plans when I was young. And I collected all kinds of house plan books. I always found (and still do) find architecture fascinating. I used to point out to people, "those are doric/ionic/corinthian columns", etc.

You rock! Before I ever took my first drafting class I was using just a pencil and a ruler to draw house plans, elevations, etc. I also collected house plan books, real estate guides, and things like that. You must be my Aspie brother from another mother.

Wow, you just described the first 10 years of my life.
Yes, that was me. Future paleontologist and endless lists of taxonomy.

Unfortuntely, my situation diverges from yours after that.
Not only were these traits and interests not identified as being indicative of AS or anything else, they were actively discouraged by my family, who said things like, "by the time you get around to it, they'll have dug up all the dinosaur bones!!" They said I should focus on more a realistic career path.

Blegghhhh...

Snakes, Megaman and Starwars

When I was younger I used to be fascinated by mermaids, I didn't believe in them but I was mad about them. I drew them all the time and talked about making mermaid costumes. I'm still fascinated by mermaids now (or any mythical creature) but not as obsessed as I was.

I use to have an obsession with the tweenies for a while too (I was age 8-10 which is a bit old for that) but I used go on and on and on and on... etc about them. And when I played with my friends I always used to insist on playing "the tweenies" and I'd always be bella.

I've had others too, obsessive interests is probably my main "trait"

Yes,

I loved horses in particular. The library books I signed out were horse related.

Let's see... My childhood obsessions were, in order:

The Beetlejuice cartoon, The Land Before Time movie, Balto (the animated movie), The Lion King, Pokemon, Digimon, Hamtaro, Rurouni Kenshin, Inuyasha, Naruto and One Piece.

Like others who have posted before me, being obsessed with stuff is the most prominent aspect of my AS.

Reading fiction. I was utterly and completely obsessed with reading.

Also making traps and theme park rides for people (traps I got into some serious trouble for, because some of them worked. I made an extremely effective trap using a skipping rope and a hoola hoop which resulted in a kid with heavily bleeding knees, and another kid with mud up to their thighs - lack of empathy clearly at play here). The theme park rides were quite creative, one consisted of pushing a kid on a tricycle down a narrow path at my grannys house which I had covered with acorns previously (thus, the wild ride concept ).

I was a creative child

A pretty wide obsession, but I loved steam trains. Had about four lever arch files on them, and couldn't fathom painting anything else during my first two years of school. I had bought for me every Thomas the Tank Engine model I found. I wasn't exactly a professor on them, but they, and railways, fascinated me no end. Probably one of the most magical moments of my younger days was seeing a Christmas window display of a huge electric train set chug along a land made out of little hamlets covered in cotton wool "snow".

I was also very interested in dinosaurs at the time, and I think drawing them then took place over trains, though they overlapped considerably. I had a refined knowledge of dinosaurs too, and my favourite period was the Jurassic.

not when I was a child..I don't recall any unusually intense things that attracted me or that I wanted to collect (just some stamps but nothing over the board). But later on I did develop this behaviour:) In my early 20s I became fascinated with anything mountaineering. Have a huge collection of books about Everest, the Himalaya, mountaineering expeditions, accidents and famous mountaineers. Even talking about it gives me such an adrenaline rush;) I LOVE it. Needless to say I was at the time quite educated on the topic (starting to forget now). I still am fascinated with mountains and climbing and it's like in the candy shop if I get to go near a mountain (I am really acting like the cat that got into the catnip:)

Other strong temporary focuses: airplane accidents (Nat Geo has a series that fascinated me), Paris, London, various pieces of art from museums I've seen (small objects or pictures that others didn't even notice but that I'd have a huge fascination with and did all the research in the world on, I think they are themost beautiful in the world:), sports...I'd DIVE into the subject with super-focus and learn anything and everything I could...then the interst would die off until the next fireworks:)

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Yep. Most are pretty fuzzy and overlapping, but I'll try to list them chronologically:

The Universe (Its existance, stars, molecules, etc. I did not have great knowledge of it, but It was- and still is- always in my mind.)
Reading (still comes back in spots)
Vocabulary (I read the dictionary through M. I was then distracted by...)
A certain boy in my school. (Not sure if this was usual crushing or not. Considering the wedding plans, several diaries, and fantasies written about him, as well as portraits, I don't really think so.)
The Bible (Ironically, I am an Atheist now...)
Clay Aiken (This lasted from 5th-8th/9th grade. It is by far one of my most embarrassing/in depth obsessions. )

Ah, the memories...

Obviously, cats! I have loved cats ever since I was a little girl.

I have always had obsessions as long as I can remember. I had different obsessions like The Little Mermaid, Barbies, Winnie the Pooh, Alice in Wonderland, blowing noses, Home Alone, bodily functions, Jurassic Park, dinosaurs, weather, Dalmatians, London, 101 Dalmatians, etc.