SpiralingCrow wrote:
I think it's pretty normal. My son is 4 1/2. His special interest is cars. It started when he was 2 1/2 and could identify different makes of cars when we were out for a walk. He loves flipping through car magazines and seeing how fast different makes and models can go. We support his interest in cars. When he shows interest in other things, we feed that interest as well. But, if he shows no interest in something we let go.
That was just like me at around the age of 5 to 7. I loved cars and trains from a very early age though, and it was rare to find any car back then that I did not know its make and model. I remember an elderly lady being shocked I knew so many as my Mum and I were waiting at a bus stop. I thought it was "Normal".
I kinda dropped cars when I realized there was no way I could own one at 17 and so even before that, I dropped cars. I was always into trains though. Mind you, from an early age I used to take all my toy cars out and line them up on our windowsill in colour form next to each other. Not in car park form because these would be jammed in in rows all touching each other. Whites then yellows then ping then orange then red... I would never allow red and green to touch though, and any cars that had people in them I would have to remove, even if it meant biting their heads off which I did to some racing car drivers that I could not remove! Never did want people in them, and it is only in the last decade that I have accepted people in my model trains. I would be ok with people outside of the cars but not inside them and I do not know why I would do this.
Red and green... The only red and green I will let touch on my trains is red bufferbeams on a green locomotive as the edge of a bufferbeam defines a boarder. Food was even worse. Hated red and green foods touching! Actually any different foods touching and for a number of years I would refuse to eat if different foods touched. I grew out of that in my early 20's when my Mum explained they mixed inside me.
But back to mentioning cycles. For me it was trains, trains, trains bicycles, cars cars trains.... Haha! Bicycles took over from cars when I realized cars were out of my reach. I then went kind of bicycle mad instead but always been train mad! Even to this very day my life involves trains! I tend to make my own now (Model trains) though as I found prices going beyond what I could afford.
Another thing I did not like was having any brand name on my clothes, especially tee shirts. Hated seeing pictures of people on tee shirts and things like that. Mum used to spend ages looking for clothes I would wear as I would not wear anything with a brand name or logo displayed.
Also would tear labels off (Still do if they scratch me) and hated wool next to my skin. I could feel wool underneath a vest and a shirt and would be itching!
Always have to have a bath after having a hir cut to avoid itching and clothes need washing a number of times before I can wear them again as a single piece of cut hair poking me in my clothes would drive me wild!
Trains and bicycles and cars...