FEMALES: Special Interests

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Gah..I don't know where to start..
Singing, ukulele playing, making and collecting homemade toys....there is a lot of other stuff I collect besides...
My obsessions are not very intellectual...seeming....I was more into fact-collecting and stuff when I was a kid...Now I am overwhelmed and find peace in the tangible repetitiveness of my collections.
I can hardly even make anything before because I am too busy...Lately I have been too busy to do much music stuff...

Unfortunately WP is one of the few things I am able to really focus on...

it's hard to remember back that far...

I know in elementary and middle school there was a series of biographies in the library of famous people in history and I was obsessed with reading all the ones that were about females, I was going alphabetically and I can't remember how far I got but I know I got through a good bit of them.

Romantic poetry was my thing throughout middle and high school. Music.

A huge amount of time during my childhood was spent on my 'stories' which was a cast of characters in my head that I made up stories about. I did this for hours each day, I liked nothing better than to lay in bed and imagine my stories. This was my own personal soap opera, it's weird because I didnt' have fantasies of what I would like to happen to me or things I wanted to do, my time was centered around this imaginary group of high school or college age kids and the daily events of their lives. When I got older, like the end of high school, I started to include myself in the stories, imagining things I'd like to happen.

My life could be separated into periods of 'study' about various topics which I devour information about then get tired of. Just thinking about making a list of them makes me tired.

My dog loves clicker training too, she goes beserk whenever she sees the clicker. I started clicker training my bunnies a while ago and whenever I clicked my dog and two cats (also clicker trained) would come flying into the room. They can't get enough of it!

They use clicker training with autistic kids too, and so many of them respond to it really well. It makes things so much clearer.

Snakes
Egyptology
Dogs
Autism
Aliens/UFOs

The following is a list of things I've spent a considerable amount of time studying or practicing.

elementary:
ghosts, paranormal
superstitions
science experiments
menstrual cycles
humour(how to be funny)
astrology
animal noises
impressions

junior high:
boys
eating disorders
terminal diseases
cancer
flute
native women's customs
how to make friends
mahjongg
top 20 music

high school:
how to pretend/show empathy(this got me a lot of friends even though I seem overly dramatic because I overdo it sometimes)
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time
interacting with teen girls
poetry
solitaire
guitar and song writing
photography
Jewel
Emm Gryner

University and beyond:
wicca
psychology
singing(still)
household hints and handy tips
life skills classes(I was in 2 - 8 month programs)
budgeting
behavioural psychology
buffy the vampire slayer/angel
personal improvement
chakras
self reflection and journaling
reading the dictionary
feng shui
clearing clutter
collecting recipes
making collages
sudoku
decorating my home
(for halloween, xmas, v-day)
fashion
makeup
hairstyling
Lady Gaga
Avatar
Twilight
Moulin Rouge
Dancing
grammar
cooking

My interests are:

European history
anything about vampires
Gypsies
cats
cooking
William Shakespeare
Autism
home decorating
AC/DC

I'm currently obsessed with the Tim Burton movies Edward Scissorhands and Sweeney Todd. They're notable in that they're the first obsessions I've ever had that don't involve animated characters.

Childhood:
Dinosaurs
Archeology
Watership Down
Heraldry
Ballet

Teens:
Beatles
The Lord of the Rings
Fantasy literature in general
Astrology
New Age
Wicca
W. B. Yeats
Ireland

Adulthood:
Afterlife beliefs
Languages
Monty Python
Rites of passage
Human sexuality
Psychology
Goddess religion
Red Dwarf
Pink Floyd
Buddhism

Current and ongoing:
Kurt Cobain and Nirvana
The city of Seattle
Fantasy writing
Human anatomy
Zines and DIY culture
Art journaling
Fat acceptance

Those are the ones I can remember. There have almost certainly been others...

Elementary school and earlier
Stuffed animals
Power Rangers (carried around my Yellow Ranger doll until I was 12)
Legos
Barbie (only lasted a year or two)
Books (Garfield and Where's Waldo? in particular)
Video games
Cartoons
Animals
Geography
Puzzles

Middle School
Edgar Allen Poe
Chronicles of Narnia (read all books except [i]Prince Caspian[/b]
Goosebumps
Video games
Beast Wars (I was a Silverbolt fan, sue me)
Bermuda
Animals (dogs and sea life)
Puzzles

High School and later
Animorphs
Stephen King (started at age 18)
Video games
3D animation (started in college)
Anime
Manga
Pokemon
Computers
Animals
Horror

I am older than most of you, and have a less reliable memory. But here are some things I became obsessed with being "the best" at.

Reading, all subjects, through high school
Theatre, acting: HS, college
downhill skiing and racing: for about 10 years after college
racquetball and tournaments: 25-35
Partner dancing, competing, teaching: from about 25-40
collecting: vintage dolls for about 20 years (I have almost every vintage Barbie & outfit)
being a dealer of dolls and clothing for about 15 years.

Too bad I never became obsessive about my Government career. Who knows what might have happened.

i don't remember much of my interests as a child, but right now...
my interests are psychology, working with young children, and collecting porcelain dolls. and my friend Eric. but that last one is more of an obsession right now, so...

Note: Nothing is in any particular order for a change...


When I was a child:


outer space

chemistry

physics

computers

telephones

radios (CBs, police scanners, weather radios, ham radios, etc.)

tape recorders

the stock market indicies

telephone books

reading the dictionary

Filofaxes / personal organizers (have carried one since childhood)

symbolic logic

Russia and the Cyrillic alphabet (I wanted to learn to speak Russian when I was 10, but never have)

taking things apart and rebuilding them if I could

horror fiction (King, Koontz, Silence of the Lambs, etc.)

drawing

stringing beads/making jewelry (still do this)

collecting bags and purses (still do this, too)

Inspector Gadget (I wanted one of those "computer books" that Penny had...little did I know I'd end up with one when I grew up!)

The Transformers

Star Trek

riding my bicycle

rollerskating



As a teenager:


All of the above plus....

psychology and psychological theory

abnormal psychology

psychological non-fiction (The Shoemaker, Sybil, etc.)

serial killers (to tie in with the previous items)

writing

political humor / political cartoons (drew a few of my own then)

General metaphysics

Wicca and other pagan spiritual belief systems




As an adult (I promise my interests are bit healthier now!):


sailboats (I think I'm obsessed with types of keels...)

sailing

Native American / World Indigenous History / Anthropology

Animal mythologies from around the world

shamanism / "paleolithic psychology"

dreams and dreaming, especially as a source of information not otherwise available and as a guidance and navigation system for daily life

Buddhism

Central and South Central Asian cultures (Tuva, Mongolia, etc.) whose official religion is still shamanism

computers and gadgets (that one never went away!)

hand tools (I have a wonderful little ratcheting screwdriver kit that I've named after my favorite guy who is an adept tool user)

building up my tool kit (time for POWER tools - gotta get a Makita!)

public records research (skip tracing, finding detailed real estate parcel information, court dockets, investigating business licensing, financial information, Better Busines Bureau listings, Uniform Commercial Code filings, asset location, and just being a general cybersnoop)

sometimes I like to peruse the various lists of Wanted Criminals, but not often, I'm not really that good at finding them, even though I would like to be

solo acoustic guitar music (think Laurence Juber and Michael Hedges)


Of late:

Asperger's / WrongPlanet.net

healthy weight loss (24 pounds down since Christmas and 26 left to go!)



~IslandAspie~

Up to age 18 : Dragons!
Over 18 : Roleplaying
Over 24: Roleplaying and natural pregnancy/birth/baby rearing

More of a cumulative list. Looks like I haven't changed much...

K-grade 5:
Natural/man-made Disasters: Titanic, Pompeii, earthquake preparedness, Atlantis
Egyptology, archeology
Mummies
Dinosaurs
Astrology
The paranormal
Australia
End-time prophesies
Diseases
Medical equipment
Organizing stuff and compiling them in binders

Grade 6-12:
Death: in rituals, in customs, in philosophy, in medicine, historical
Mummies
Dead rock stars
Guitars
Doodling
Lucid dreaming
Homosexuality
Solo acoustic guitarists (@IslandAspie we should talk!)

12+
Conservatism
Self-help books
Mummies
The obituaries

When I was in my late teens, I fell "in love" with foreign movies (French, German, Italian, Chinese, etc...) especially ones produced by Leena Wertmiler...and also those movies that weren't part of mainstream society. Early twenties: cooking from around the world - all kinds of recipe and books! Late twenties: Pets....a dog, a cat, a parrot and their utmost care. Thirties and now: My family - hubby and adult son and 10 year old son....everything I do has something to do with them. I am a satisfied and happy servant to them.

Disney -- Always (my mother was obsessed)
Art (drawing/painting) -- Always
Reading (a variety of fiction and nonfiction) -- Always
Fairy tales -- Always
The occult/new age things -- elementary school on
Archetypes, mythology, history and psychology of fairy tales and myths, world religions -- high school on
Carl Jung, gestalt psychology, Myers-Briggs -- College on
Kierkegaard and some philosophy -- College on
Autism -- Age 21 on