In childhood, did you have an obsession?

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Dogs! Every breed how they became that breed, what country they originated in, what their measurements were, what their weight range was. Which particular class of dog they categorized as. Which dogs in each breeds ancestry it took to get said dog, who the original breeder was, why the dog was originally bred. What year they became a recognized breed.

*slap self* I need to stop, that one has been replaced, funny how this stuff never leaves my brain though, anyone have a clue as to why that is?

I suppose watching the same movies over and over again would count.

As I got older, I started to like a more cerebral interest rather than just watching the same thing over and over again. I had many, and most were of your typical childhood interest make, just more obsessive in how I applied myself to them.

When I was 6 I had this video of Winnie The Pooh and I'd watch it everyday before school, particularly this one scene at the end with Tigger. I didn't even watch the whole video in the end, just that little scene over and over. It was only about 15 seconds long, but I'd just keep rewinding it back and playing it again.

There was also a time when I was about 2-3, where I had this obsession with some Royal Crown Derby porcelain bear figurines. I would just sit and stare for ages at this magazine which had these bears in. I wanted one more than anything but they were expensive, and not exactly something you'd give a toddler, but I was completely fascinated by them.

Not really sure if they'd count as obsessions though.

The only things that I could truely call obsessions when I was a kid was my tornado obsession which stated when I was 7 when I saw the movie 'Twister' for the first time, my obsession with the Plague at about 11/12 years old, which came in VERY handy because that year we spend a good few months learning about the plague in history class, and my Animaniacs obsession which started when I was about 15.

Too many to mention, but here are a few:

Archaeology - the first thing I wanted to do was dig up dinosaurs. I recall the teacher going round the class when I was five or six, asking each child what they wanted to be when they grew up. The littany of nurse and hairdresser for the girls and fireman and traindriver for the boys was halted by my admission!!

Insects - did projects on them and drew them endlessly, labelling their various parts.

Astronomy - still with me today and an Aspie classic!

Reading - Enid Blyton was my first reading obsession (always accompanied by a plate of salad to eat while I read them), then moved onto Nancy Drew, then got into Stephen King.

Snooker - wanted to make a list of the top 100 players rankings using info from the telly (this was way before the internet). Dad said, you won't do it as only the top 32 usually get on the telly. He was right.

Collecting shells and erasers - amongst many other things (fans, badges, beermats) then subdividing the collections into catagories. Freaked when my sister and her friend used some of my beermats (unusually shaped ones with holes in) to draw around and got felt pen all over them.

The Brat Pack - we move into my teenage years and the boy-related ones begin. Emilio Estevez and watching "Stakeout" repeatedly, as it was the only film of his the local video shop had. I didn't care.

Johnny Hates Jazz - short-lived pop group from the late '80s. Would get up in the middle of the night to watch the progress of their single in the US charts on the show with Casey Casem (sp?).

The X-Files - great show and Mulder is hot.

Star Trek:TNG - I have a thing for guys in glasses and loved Geordie, with his ultimate pair of specs. The fact he couldn't make eye contact with his VISOR may have some significance here. Taped every episode and collected many copies of magazines.

The Bill, House MD, Roger Black (I smuggled my VCR recorder on holiday so I wouldn't miss him racing in the European Championships), interior design, counted cross stitch, rugby union, the list goes on and on...

I've got a funny story to do with obsessions:

When I was in infants school I was bonkers about the disney alice and wonderland film. And nearly every dinner time I used to have this short bread biscuit and I used to pretend it was the mushroom. And you know the part where alice eats the mushrooms and grows and shrinks? Well I used to act out all the growing/shrinking scenes with the biscuit and do all the dialogue XD and when I was growing I stood up and shrinking I sat down. One time I shoved aload of biscuit in my mouth and stood up doing my little alice in wonderland scene and one of the dinner ladies saw me and had a right go at me shouting and stuff. I can't remember much but I do remember afterwards sitting on the teachers knee with a teddybear, must have had a tantrum when the dinner lady told me off

*wrong thread*

That's how I am with A Beautiful Mind. I don't care about watching the whole movie. I just watch select scenes over and over again. I rarely watch past the first hour, but I watch my favorite scenes in the first hour many times in succession.
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I ever had my obsessions... as long as I can think.

They ever kept me alive, helped me through the worst times.

I just can't imagine a life without my obsessions!

Geology, especially memorizing the names and attributes of rocks and crystals. Later it was meteorology (storms in particular), but that wasn't as strong. Then I was interested in edible plants... again not as strong as the previous, but I still love looking through my edible plants field guide and can identify common local edible species. Subsequent strong interests were consuming, but not really as strong as aspie obsessions.

As a child, I was a rockhound, interested in cars, and coins. Then I forgot about those things for quite a while, and had other hobbies. Now that I'm getting older, all those obsessions are coming back in full force, and I think about them constantly. I guess they are things that I am genuinally interested in, and I agree. I just think it's cool to know that those things are what I know I like. They are in my blood.

Now, I just have to figure out a way to form a career around one of them.

You guys will get a kick out of this. I was obsessed with prairie dogs in elementary school and used to tell other classmates I wanted to be reincarnated as a prairie dog. I have no idea why. I don't even have an interest in them now.

I was also obsessed with tv shows and characters till it was all I would speak of from the ages of 8 to 25.

How could I forget motorcycles? That was always one of my biggest obsessions, and still is. Not sure exactly why, they are just something that always struck me as fascinating. They still do, to this day, and probably forever.