What was your first special interest?

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My first special interest was bunnies at the age of 4. :O)

Action figurines. I didn't even realize it until now.

I was gonna say, gi joe, spiderman, maybe batman, IDK, but the strange truth is action figurines.

It was pretty much all I did as a kid, until the age of 10 or so.
Dinky's, and lego's were there too, but they were for like special occasions.

Dinosaurs.

earth moving machines, it still has a special place with me today. I can watch those work all day.

Pokemon since about age....honestly, as long as I can remember, maybe about 2 or 3?

Later broadened to anime in general in middle school, tapered off around 13-14 ish.

Astronomy.

Dad bought me a telescope at about age 10 or so and we used to climb onto the garage roof and look at the constellations together. Have very fond memories of 'Cosmos' the TV series, used to talk about space and the universe for hours. Mom was a waitress and Dr. Sagan had stopped into her restaurant; she actually got me his autograph, which in my young'unness lost immediately.

Still love to hear of advances in space exploration and astrophysics. In another universe I'd be atop a mountain with my peers searching the night sky.

Animals!

I used to go looking for baby birds who had fallen from their nests. Three years in a row I actually found baby robins. I would raise them and then let them migrate with the other birds when the weather started to turn cold. I was so amazed that all three of my baby robins had very different personalities. I would have expected them to be all alike, but they weren't. Two of them returned the following summer. I new they were my baby birds because they came right up to me and let me feed them and they were fully grown!

I was also totally obsessed with Farmer Grey cartoons. I wished I could watch them any time I wanted to, but we didn't have the technology back then. Though I wished that someone would invent some kind of a little TV that would play nothing but cartoons all day long. I imagined it would be pink and about half the size of a regular TV.
Kids nowadays can just pop their favorite video into a VCR or computer and watch them any time they want.

Food, people XD
I am interested in everything though, but only have time for one thing at a time. Once I figure it out, I move on.

My collection of stuffed toy monkeys when I was 2 until 4. I used to arrange them in a circle.......monkala (my favourite monkey) had to be at the top of the circle and car-monkey (who travelled with me when I had to go somewhere in the car) was next to monkala and I would sit in the middle of the circle (always) I also had one called Velcro monkey which was part of a display at a restaurant but I apparently cried and screamed so much because my dad said I couldn't have it that the manager of the restaurant gave it to me (it had Velcro on its hands and feet). I ended up with tons of monkeys. I had a counting by different numbers obsession that overlapped with this one...but this one started first.

I got interested in roller coasters in 1972 when I was 7 after riding the Teddy Bear at Coney Island in Cincinnati, Ohio. And I became obsessed with the synthesized music of the Electrical Water Pageant at Walt Disney World in 1973 when I was 8. House plans followed as I was going into high school.

I think my first special interest was an interest in people dying. Whenever someone died in a movie or tv I was fascinated by it.

Now that I think about it, my mom said I was obsessed with balls of various assortments. Don't remember that though.