In childhood, did you have an obsession?

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My very first obsession/special interest was Thomas The Tank Engine (age 2). I had Thomas blankets, pillow cases, bean bags, videos, toys, clothes etc...everything!

My next obsession was with plants (age 3) and I could name all the plants/flowers in my mothers garden. I spent most of the day looking at the flowers and making arrangements of dried flowers with my mother.

My next obsession was collecting Mc Donalds toys (age 5-6) and I had literally boxes and boxes full of them in my bedroom and in the shed. These weren't all mine though, some people gave theirs to me to add to my collection.

My most dominent childhood obsession would have been video cameras (age 8-10). I would spend all the weekends recording odd things such as the ornaments on shelves, the dirty dishes and the toilet flushing.

Oh goodness yes, Cabbage Patch Kids were definitely one... of many

Yes. As a pre-schooler/early elementary (2-7 years old), it was Geology... more specifically Volcanos and plate techtonics (sp?), as well as ghostbusters. These two dominated my play, reading and conversation... ENTIRELY. Later, (second through fourth grade), it was the Civil War and WWII. I could recite the Ken Burns Civil War documentary from memory, knew the casualty figures, generals and units involved, etc, for all major battles in both wars. Then it was fishing/freshwater fish for several years. Late highschool through recently, it has been music (loosely) with the more narrow aspect/genre/personality shifting from time to time within that larger idiom. Also, during that time, I have had shorter-lived, concurrent obsessions with various philosophical, political and/or sociological concepts. I think my 'special interest' is starting to shift toward Generative Number Theory/Neo-Transcendentalism. If my speculation is correct, this could be the first time that one of my aspie obsessions may be useful to anything other than my own curiosity, as I am actively working as a collaborator with the Dr who is developing these theories.

I've had lots of obsessive interests, a book about Queen Elizabeth I was particularly enduring and pervasive when I was a young child.

Sonic The Hedgehog, and Super Mario games were my main interests when I was 8-12.

I was obsessed with Final Fantasy when I was a teenager.

I disassembled everything that was mechanical and/or electric. I also cut up plants to look inside them, was obsessed with being able to look under water, and I even did a lot of digging to see what was in the ground. I also read a lot of 'how things work' style books and anatomy books. I remember my obsession payed off once though in grade-school when I created an illustration of a giant ship with cutaways and everything.

I opened it up in front of class for my book report and heard for the first time in my life a whole room of people going 'whoa' in my direction. Then I got embarrassed and ran back to my desk. Life is funny.

I remember my Jim Carrey obsession [throghout 1st and 2nd grade] very clearly. He was my first love. I drew pictures of him all the time, watched his Ace Ventura movies over and over and over, and even tried to call him a few times... I pressed '0' to call the operator, and asked if she could connect me with Jim Carrey. I don't recall what she said, though..

Science at first, then birds, i carried that field guide everywhere!

The earliest interest I remember was a rail on a balcony beyond a forbidden door. We lived on the second floor. Up until my mid-teens I still loved climbing.

Apparently as an infant of only months, I yanked myself out of a high crib. Heard was a thud. Found was a grin.

I also don't remember this: I apparently could recite a whole mother goose book AS IF reading it. That would have been at about 3 or 4.

I'm closing in on 50 now, and still engrossed by Mother Goose type stuff:

DRUMMONDVILLE

The cookie jar
Is filled with air
Has not even a crumb

Us brothers we
Are fighting well
Our sisters they
Are dumb

Daddy haven't
Seen awhile
Mother's
Kitchen bound

Our place is on
The second floor
Hasn't any ground

~mlh

it was and still is wrestling never grew out of it.

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...BEAUTY, flowers, pretty things, purity, good, wearing dresses ALL the time (im sick of wearing them now xD their still pretty, though...), watching baby shows, being outdoors, plants, cats, make beleve...and watching my brother play video games.

The only one I can really call an obsession is the first one...oh and dresses, and maybe the video games, sorta (i dunno). But, GAWD! I was a KID, though! sheesh... And, Yes, it was tough to say all that....all of that.


...Now DONT you all go calling me a spineless little WIMP now. *clutches her fist* I mean it.
~cmastler...if thats even a 'c'....

Hey cmastler...

Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland) informed the world the best single word he could come up with for his sense of the Divine was BEAUTY. So, you are onto somethin', methinks.

Several, one of which I still have.

I did, and my mum gave me hell for talking about them.