What was your first special interest?

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Geology aged 8, i founded a geology club and had the satchel for putting stones in,then a minerals cabinet where I had all stones in order.The interest stopped suddenly due to my parents not buying me a stone polishing machine. End of geologist dream!

Dinosaurs. In preschool/kindergarten I wrote and drew in a journal every night before I went to bed, and when I read it now, I spelled words like "there" wrong (ther) and everything but I got all of the names of the dinosaurs right. I was absolutely obsessed with the Land Before Time too, but I didn't understand why they were called things like longnecks and threehorns instead of apatosauruses and triceratopses or why said dinosaurs existed in the same time period.
I had all of these pretty intense non fiction books and movies on dinosaurs too xD I remember in 2nd grade the librarian always told me, when I got non fiction books and chapter books, "Now go pick out something you can read on your own." And I was like, "I can read those on my own..." But I had to get one of those Step into Reading/Hooked On Phonics/Whatever-they-call-them-now little kid books since I "couldn't read my dinosaur books on my own."
Also in preschool, I wanted to be a paleontologist. There were only 2 or 3 other girls in my preschool class, and about 20 boys. But for some reason the girls thought I was the coolest thing ever for some reason and so they wanted to be paleontologists with me.
Ah, the good old days.

Then horses in middle school, and I got made fun of for that. Not sure why, but I got bullied by kids about horses.
Then playing guitar and music theory a bit later.
Then betta fish briefly.
Now dog behavior and operant conditioning.

Pinocchio!!

witches, magic.
like fairy tale witches

dinosaurs too, evolution, planets

Oh yes, DS also went through a serious Mr Men fixation. If you called out a number, he could tell you the corresponding book and draw the character - he was 4

i dont remember clearly. i remember being interested in esp, witches, paganism, greco-roman myths, saints in primary but i also know i was into plants and i keep finding bits and pieces that indicate i was into plants fairly early. photos, pressed flowers, scribblings and things.

First one I remember: knights.

My first interest was cars, remote control cars, mecano set, handheld computer games. I started collecting erasers and pretty glitter pencils, pencil cases, gaming and star trek memrobilia when I was 12 in the 1980s.

Wooden building bricks. I remember I built a lot of upside down towers, inherently instable but I needed to figure out when they'd drop down.
Thus constructing them such that they wouldn't fall without touching them.
I was always satisfied with my inverse pyramids, I guess even proud.

My first special interest was Barbies. That lasted for years.

Totally forgot about that. I was into plate tectonics at age 5. This would be such an obvious diagnosis if I was born 10 years later...

I had forgotten about my interest in witches and folklore...not my earliest, but persisted through college, hence my anthropology major. Stupid major choice!! !! !! !

Game shows, IIRC.

The earliest I can remember was appendicitis, at the age of 3. I used to play surgeon with my dolls... they spent all their time wrapped in bandages, with red-markered incisions on their bellies. Yes, I was a strange child.

Though you might also count my lining up dried beans and pasta in rows, or drawing hundreds of stick-and-circle trees. That I did when I was younger.

Or possibly reading. I don't know how old I was when I learned; I was reading fluently at four, and I can't remember ever not knowing how to read. The written word has always been irresistible to me, even when I had no idea what the words meant. It was just wonderful to have the words right there in front of you. Writing is so much neater and more organized than the noise they call "language", that they babble at you so quickly you can hardly pin it down before it's gone. Thank goodness for printed language; I think without it many of us would have taken much longer to get the hang of communication.

I had memorized a bunch of these stories at kindergarten age too. My reports from kindergarten said "she loves listening to stories and has memorized several of them!". The Mr. Men were some of my favorites (I didn't know them by number though or alphabetize them) I used to go around reciting them. I liked the little miss books...little miss sunshine, little miss bossy, little miss naughty ect the best. I'm 27 years old so these were the first "wave" of Mr Men books.....they've published new ones again recently and when I saw them displayed in a book store a couple years ago I bought 3 of them out of loyalty to the series (Mr Daydream, Mr Lazy and Little Miss Whoops).