nature of special interests: different for AS girls?

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My interests from as far back as I can remember:

Sammy (purple/white bunny/dog/bear stuffed creature I got at a birthday party when I was 6 months old)
The Lion King
Harry Houdini
Egyptology/Archaeology
Physics
Astronomy
The Air Force (aka stepping stone to become an astronaut)
Feminism
Politics
the legal system
economics
philosophy
psychology


I never really "outgrow" them.

This is a really interesting thread for me because I haven't been assessed for AS (I don't know if I will be .....long story) but anyway the Psychiatrist I was seeing agreed that I at least have traits. However when I mentioned to him about special interests which I remember having since I was a child he said they weren't typical topics that someone with AS would focus on! I have to say this only served to strenghten my belief that he doesn't really know much about AS at all.
My special interests seem to change over time and sometimes I can quite suddenly turn my back on something. As a kid I was obsessed with cars, only to later develop quite a dislike of them. The internet didn't exist then as we know it now but I wonder whether these obsessions may have been more obvious if it had. Others I've had are a particular artist, OCD, and currently it's AS hence why I'm here I guess I can relate to others who have said they have obsessed over people; I can remember as a kid I would really want to be friends with a certain person and it's only now that I see it was probably an AS trait. I feel really ashamed to admit that one

I do have a storng interest for trains and ambulances but I don't actually spend time absorbing information about them. My interests are strictly to anime and anime is everything to me. I hardly follow interests that boys are into and I'm also a tomboy too. I played with matchbox cars when I was young... up until about fourteen or thirteen. Since I have a few delays in learning and development as well. I was always one to play outside and never enjoyed my barbies. I even enjoyed playing with legos and more masculine sort of things.

But never had interest in the actual Aspie interests. I have HFA so its a little more different for me. I do remember having a HUGE obsession with the move Space Jam. It was a rental movie and I watched it nonstop. But come time when it had to go back, I had a melted down so much because I didn't want to send it back. We still had to take it back and soon after my parents but it for me on VHS.

My interests usually involve anime now. I can get so absorbed in a new anime that you'll here me going on and on and on and on and on about that anime. Like take Code Geass for instance, I could be so obsessed with Code Geass that its all you would ehar about. If you spoke about something else or some other anime than I would go silent.

It's not like that now but its usually shorter than it used to be. I remember being younger and also being obsessed with Nascar though. I mean I hardly understood the concept of Nascar except that the car drivers raced fast around a track and whoever was first one. I didn't know much about how it worked or the cars or the bigger details. Yet, first getting into anime, I remember knowing so much about Inuyasha that I considered myself the biggest Inuyasha fanatic. I still love Inuyasha to death because it was my first adult anime. I loved Inuyasha and actually still do.