FEMALES: Special Interests

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Childhood:

Astronomy
Biology
Zoology
Paleo-anything (I was into dinosaurs before dinosaurs were cool )
Geology (especially vulcanology)
And just general reading (by the time I was in 6th grade, I had read every children's book available in the local library -- even for the topics I wasn't interested in, just because I had to learn).

Teens

Genetics
Astrophysics
Psychology
Religion
Art
Political theory (left and right)
(Mostly) 20th century history (some other history, as well)

20s/30s

Computers
Strategy and RolePlay Gaming
More political theory
More religion
Fiction writing
Hardware (I used to study catalogs from hardware stores)
Trains

40s

"Alternative" Christianity and Christian history
Fiction writing
(Still) Strategy and RolePlay gaming
"Alternative" evidenced-based health
"Alternative" histories (meaning histories of minorities and others who aren't "remembered" in traditional history)

Right now I feel like I'm almost "between" special interests... I'm getting bored with the old ones, but haven't gotten really excited about a new one yet. Give me time

Child - HighSchool
pretend play with dolls or animals involved elaborate production complete with props and tack
Kite flying
marbles
making camp fires
horses
Bow and Arrows (made the mistake of teaching other kids in neighborhood and fun ended)
Swimming
Donkey Kong Arcade game
Drawing
Heavy Metal Music (Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, etc.)

Adult
Werewolves, shapeshifting, animal spiritualism
Highlander
Peter Gabriel
Beadworking and Jewelry
Collecting cattle,etc. skulls to possibly paint
Phantom of the Opera
Medieval Literature
Macintosh Computer
Nightmare Before Christmas
Seinfeld
Sumo Wrestling
Studying social interaction skills
Shadowlands, C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Real life love stories lost, found, etc.
Home improvement self help books and tools
Snowboarding
Suze Orman (when I had cable) Money managing
My car and studying to modify (thankfully short lived otherwise would be bankrupt)
Small Power kite flying (in an effort to kiteboard but not enough funds to follow through)
Native american dance and regalia
Human achievement
More Art books and supplies
Masterpiece Theatre's Pride and Prejudice

Current
Genesis (mostly 70's)
Unofficial Live Audio and Video collecting
Learning the Keyboard (not very good cause I end up improvising instead of doing lesson)
Elvis Costello
Learning some html,css and bits of javascript for my internet resource page
Photoshop
Painting
Gorillaz
Trying to understand Audio Engineering
Aspergers and other brain related topics
Alternative energy

To those interested in cryptology is that CIA cryptic message figured out?

My special interests were always considered bizarre and very anti-feminine

Elementary school
animals
the paranormal (ghosts, aliens,spontaneous human combustion etc.)
Hitler and the Holocaust
Titanic
medical problems
serial killers
the Wild West
Greek mythology
Willow (the movie)

Middle School/High School
continuation of the paranormal and the Holocaust
the occult
eating disorders
mental disorders
science fiction/fantasy
Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac
freakshows/sideshows from the turn of the century

University
social problems
deviant behavior
serial killers again
slaughterhouses
more crazy obsession with music, to the point of buying nearly 1000 CDs

After University
Japanese alternative music
American Idol
vegetarianism

Now I still have pretty much all of the same interests. I'm most fascinated at the moment with Autism and transgender people. I like to understand all people. If I can, I try to read books and watch documentaries on just about any topic relating to people.

Childhood:
Unicorns and horses
Cats
Pokemon
Sailormoon
scary movies
Computers
Adventure video games

Teens
heavy metal and new rock
Psychology
Anime Manga
Art
Creative writting
sowing
Drawing
Japanese language
horror and action movies
Violent videogames

20s
Autism and dyslexia
Fiction writing
Making props
making costumes
writing plays and short films

I still maintain all my special interests and acquire new ones from time to time but I find them all to be related in someways. All of my interests are very special to me even if they make me seem immature for my age.

Up until about 10, it was Presidents of the U.S. (especially JFK)... but I learned all there was I wanted to know, so I've since been interested in Music, Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, Photography, and Art.

Thoose I remember are:

3-8 years old
* Turtles
* Lego
* Dinosaurs

8-13 years old
* The x-files (and everything conected to that)
* Scouting

13-17
* Scotland
* Aikido
* Scouting

From 17 years old I tend to have just kept going with stuff that have always been there more or less.
* Reading
* Chatbased roleplaying
* Japanese culture
* Folklore and everything supernatural

I have also always love to create stuff like painting, scarpbooking and origami. Music have also always played a big part.

since always and still: drawing, music, animals, nature. I'll leave the specific music/animal details out for now. >:-)
preschool through 3rd grade: dinosaurs (can still tell you the layout of the 4th floor of the ny museum of natural history as it stood before renovation) and fossils
4th grade for years onward: horses (This includes breyer models and their collector's manuals- ! !) (sort of pushed back by boys since 8th gr.) I rode then, and still draw them all the time.
added in 6th grade onward: studying foreign languages (writing systems, grammar, sounds), Othello game (middle school)
added in 10th grade onward: identifying plants/trees/birds/birdsongs everywhere I go)
also: reading. (in recenter years, I guess Harry Potter has been one.)
martial arts
_Titanic_ history (rusty now... met 3 survivors _before_ 1997 film had everyone jump on board)
xootr
history (civil war nut in 8th grade; go nuts to see 1700s houses, etcl) and old maps of where I am, what is still left, etc. er,

takeoffs on the above interests (e.g. foreign language calligraphy/songs, particular obscure niches of music/instruments, breeding certain species of fish, etc.)

and the latest.... learning about Asperger's!! (huge pile of books on loan on shelf right now... and here I am online too.)

Reading this thread has jogged my memory! I loved certain musicals and books in certain years since childhood through now, drawing takeoffs on them and reciting them endlessly and whatnot.

It's funny to see some childhood interests listed for others that came out when I was already in college...

Interesting, and finally.

Childhood (0-12):
- horses
- Anne of Green Gables, Jean Little, Roberta Bondar
- books about making things (usually with "for boys" in the title >.>)
- two friends, one teacher (all female)
- biking/rollerblading/organizing files on the computer)
- archeology

Teenage Years (13-19):
- Anne of Green Gables, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables
- three friends, one teacher (three female, one gay male)
- archeology/art
- Paris

University (19-23):
- two friends, one teacher (two female, one gay male)
- art
- organizing files on the computer

Post-University Reclusion (23-28)
- World of Warcraft
- Art
- LGBTQI

Current (28-29):
- Feminist Women / Heritage / Activists / Advocates / Artists
- Art
- *sigh* friends again *eye roll* (all female)
- biking

Interests. Anything related to science, technology, etc. I love Astronomy passionately. Physics. I love computers, fixing them, building them. I love programming. That about sums up my interests.

Psychology - since I've had to study people like germs in a petri dish all my life, I can adopt the psychologist's way of thinking with ease. I'm majoring in psychology because I want to do autism research when I grow up.

Medical things - I read medical textbooks for fun and love to jabber on about diseases. My doctors love me because I can (almost) talk to them on their level about whatever I'm suffering from ("Dr. Doe, I am experiencing hyperhidrosis, malaise, and angina with aripiprazole.")

Physics (relativity and quantum) - fascinating stuff, though I am no expert and lack the math skills to become one. I keep abreast of new developments by reading pop science books.

Certain writers - I should be reading more widely of literature, but it is in my nature to pick favorites and obsess over them.

That's about it for right now. As many on this forum know, I used to be super obsessed with the Holocaust, but that went away when I went on antipsychotics. Now I am simply interested in the subject, like an NT might be. The same goes with religion. Maybe my preoccupation with those things was more a manifestation of depression than Asperger's.

Wow..im glad to see im normal .. i was worried i was an abnormal Aspie due to having so many interests and past interests as i'd thought Aspies only had a few. i loved reading about everyones interests and seeing that a couple of mine are real common among us.

Junior Primary

Collecting Matchboxes
Collecting Smurfs
Collecting Soaps
Collecting Stamps
Collecting dangerous spiders (i kept them in jars and caught flies for them daily),
Dangerous animals (i had one of the deadliest snakes in the world alive as pet, I took it to school, they were horrified)

Animals
Growing things
Young Talent Time (i used to sing and imitate them)
Ancient Egypt, mummies
Dracula (I once cut my hair in a point in front so i'd look like count dracula)
Books (I nearly read every book in school library).
My book collections were Trixie Beldon, Enid Blyton, Nancy Drew, Mystery stories, Ghost stories, outer space
Individual sports
I did Gymnastics, Swimming, HorseRiding

(its interesting how many of us were interested in outer space.. maybe cause as children we knew we were different?? and felt like we were from another planet or something).

Teen

Ghosts
Cats
Horses
Animals (rescuing and rearing them)
Books - Horror stories, Ghost Stories, Supernatural, Aliens, UFOs
Death
Obituaries
Computers
Medical interests (joined the Ambulance Service as Volunteer and went throu the training thou they usually only took adults)
My boyfriend

Adult

herbs, native plants esp food plants, growing vegatables, companion planting
Psychology, the mind (still a big interest)
Murderers (cause of the psychology of their minds)
Fantasy Books
Other Religions
Wicca
Shamanism/Shamans, American Indians
Native peoples
Personal Improvement, Exercise, Meditation, Visualization
Natural Therapies, Nutrition
Healing, Herbal medicine
Energywork/Lightwork, Pranic healing, Reiki, Spiritual Healing, Yogi studies, Aura studies, Chakras
Crystal healing, crystal collecting
Clairvoyance, Clairsentience, Clairaudience, Clairaroma,,
Bilocation esp other dimensions, Remote Viewing, Astral Projection, Telepathy
Souls
Spirits, Mediumship
Past Lives
Dream studies, Symbolism, lucid dreaming
Psi Vampires, Sang Vampires
Otherkin, esp Were's (lycanthrophy), shapeshifters, Fae folk eg www.otherkin.org
Starseeds .. Ashtar command, Great White Brotherhood, Pleidians, Arturians, Indigo children
Pyramids
Dowsing (i can do it with hands and fingers alone, dont need dowsing rod or pendulum)
Star Trek
Vegetarism
My boyfriend (i get obsessed with my partners)
Different kinds of relationships, BDSM, Dominance and submission, Kink
Researching on the computer
Medical Research, all illnesses but Im fascinated with Genetics, CFIDS, and playing like "House" and diagnosing illnesses
Mental illnesses, Anorexia
Those with medical obsessions will love this site http://forums.wrongdiagnosis.com/
Cooking (not really a special interest but i do like it and like experimenting)
Asperger's (my latest thing),
..........

I dont mind anyone messaging me on energy healing or with questions on meditation or psychic stuff as I used to teach all this.

Let's see. In no particular order (i.e., not chronological--just as I remember them; also, past and present):

Abnormal Psychology/Criminal Psychology (I was hoping to find a Forensic Psych program in grad school, but those are rare. Guess I'll keep on studying it myself.).

TV production logos (I love the CLG Wiki)

Astronomy/physics (couldn't get the math, still love studying the concepts. I believe that Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle applies to the macroscopic level as well as the microscopic. )

Time travel (always, always, ALWAYS!). I loved the BACK TO THE FUTURE movies from a very early age. I just bought the trilogy from Amazon.

Nature of the universe; its beginning and ending (I have an illustrated copy of COSMOS with some lovely artist's renditions of the final days on Earth).

"Cosmic Calendar"--take a look at this: http://visav.phys.uvic.ca/~babul/AstroC ... -slide.htm

Alternate realities (I loved SLIDERS...until the final season).

Dystopian fiction

TV TROPES

Fear/phobias (I used to keep a list of the occurrences of phobias on TV shows. Most popular: claustrophobia.) Also, my first Psychology paper was about fear's functions/usefulness. I had a lot of fun writing that one.

Comparative religion/spirituality

ASD's. Interestingly, before it even really occurred to me that I might have AS (or even knew what it was), I always wondered about the true nature of autism. I even suggested the possibility of "sensory overload" to my Sensation and Perception professor as a reason for withdrawing from everything (he said he wasn't sure).

That's all I can think of right now. If anyone wants to discuss any of these, please PM me.

Harry Houdini. Egpytology. Physics. Doomsday prophecies. American Presidential Politics. Psychology.