Do you forget your past special interests?

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What I mean is this - you have a special interest, you can go years absorbing any and all information about your special interest, then for whatever reason you go off your special interest...do you remember what you learned about the previous special interest?

I seem to forget everything - my past major special interests have been geology and religion, you ask me anything about these subjects now or if I attempt some sort of discussion about either topic and I fail miserably, the information just seems to have dropped out of my head. Is this just me, or is it what happens when your special interest comes to a stop?

It's such a shame to put so much time and effort into something, only for it to be lost.

I remember some, but not terribly much, of past special interests.

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I've forgotten some but not all. It's really uneven and there's no consistent pattern to it.

I don't forget much.

No, I don't forget information I've learned from past special interests. It can be recalled to this day.

For much of my life my SI's were "doing" things rather then learning, like building lego, and I think I' still just as good at building lego spaceships today as ever, or designed classical era armor out of cardboard, I was really good at making sets of armor, helmets and all out of cardboard.

I can remember quite a bit; but exactly how much, I don't know.
I've had many different interests in life, but only a few truly special interests that I always return to. Those special interests information tends to stay with me.

No - it's not forgotten and just gets parked in some temporary storage space beyond current focus, but if/when the interest is restarted the information pops up out of storage automatically.

I forget things about some special interests but not others. For example, one of my past special interests was wolves. I used to know everything about them, but these days I can't remember anything I learned about them.

A few years ago when I was into Hellsing, I used to be able to recite the names of every voice actor for the English dub of the OVAs, but these days I'd forgotten pretty much all of them until I started looking into it again. I had even forgotten that Crispin Freeman did the voice of Alucard! To put it into perspective, it's like forgetting that David Tennant plays the 10th Doctor or that Johnny Depp plays Captain Jack Sparrow.

I have forgotten some too.

I remember the important stuff, but not specific facts.

For me it depends on how recent the interest was. Ages 4-6 I was obsessed with dinosaurs, I knew all the different species, what time period they lived in, all that stuff, and now I don't know any of it except to know that I used to know it. In 7th and 8th grade I was obsessed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I could recite the original air date of every episode. Now I still know most of the plot lines and could tell you what season an episode was from, but I don't have all the details I used to.

I used to be obsessed with Seinfeld for a few years...and after seeing every episode, it got old. I still have the DVDs and will pop them in very occasionally, but there was a point where Seinfeld was my life...not necessarily learning anything about the show, but watching at least a couple episodes a day.

Same thing with X-Files.