List Your Special Interests ( including duration)

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Some of my special interests have also been hobbies.

When I was younger I used to have a fascination with Kermit the Frog and the Muppet Show. Also I was fascinated with maps, trains and bridges.

As I got into school, I became fascinated with state capital buildings and skyscrapers.

In middle school I become fascinated with and would draw floor plans for houses. About this time I also developed an interest in hotel directories.

Out of school, it has been classical music, religion, politics, and over the last year and a half, flood recovery in our community.

Sadly, I have also been obsessed with a few people in my life.

I've had lots of different special interests, but only a select few are primary obsessions. With these select special interests, there was a period of time when the special interest literally was all I'd think about or talk about. For these special interests, I will bold them and indicate when the rambling period was. Since I never outgrow my special interests (I just will switch from one primary obsession to another in what dominates my thinking), I am going to just put the ages I was most obsessed with the topic. Note: I am 22 now.

-Garfield: 18 months to 3 years
-human anatomy and physiology: 3 years to the present
-3 years to 5 years: Pink Panther
-pregnancy/obstetrics: 4 years to 5 years
-Archie comic books: 6 years to 13 years
-Cedar Point and their roller coasters: 11 1/2 years to presen (rambling: 11 1/2 years to 13 years)
-SpongeBob SquarePants: 12 years to present
-I Love Lucy: 12 1/2 years to present (rambling: 12 1/2 years to 14 years)
-American history: 13 years to present
-Ed, Edd n Eddy: 14 1/2 years to present
-Neuropsychiatric disorders and their biochemistry (specifically OCD, Asperger's, and bipolar mania): 15 1/2 years to present
-A Beautiful Mind: 18 years to present (rambling: 18 years to 19 1/2 years)
-Person obsession: 18 years to present (rambling: 18 years to 21 1/2 years)
-YouTube series "Is it a Good Idea to Microwave This?": 21 1/2 years to present (rambling: 21 1/2 years to present)-OddDuckNash99-

Ooooh, yes, I had those too! I wonder if I still have them somewhere. That R2D2 one is great! Is it bigger than the normal ones?

It was huge! It took... let me think... 9 of the large boards to be able to make it I believe... it was really hard to iron them all together, as I only had 1 of the large pegboards at the time, so had to make it square by square and try to get it all lined up and ironed together well enough to stick

It took about 1000 beads to make it o.O That was a lot of sorting, lol. It took about 5 hours to make it.

Current special interests:

Cats (21 years)
Saturn (20 years)
Photography (18 years)
Japan (15 years)
Forensic science (2.5 years)
Charmed (9 months)
Star Trek (6 months)

Nintendo video games: age 4-17

Paleontology: age 6-present

Astronomy: age 7-present

Geology: age 11-present

Genetics and Evolutionary Biology: age 13-present

Theoretical Physics: age 13-present

Politics: age 14-present

Autism Spectrum Disorders: age 15-present

Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Life: age 16-present

World History: age 16-present

Human Evolution: age 16-present

Microbiology, Biochemistry, and the Origin of Life: age 17-present

Comparative Anatomy and Early Animal Evolution: age 18-present

Philosophy: age 18-present

Cyclical Theories of History: age 19-present

Classical Graeco-Roman History: age 20-present

Languages and Linguistics: age 22-present





I usually have 3 or 4 interests "active" at any one time, usually for about a month.

I'll start at age 8 onwards:

8-9: Outer space and geography
9-10: Creating newspapers and ID cards (a sort of paradigm shift in my activity choices due to getting a new computer)
11-13: The World Wrestling Federation (now called WWE)
14-15: Writing screen-plays and short stories.
15-16: Italian culture and my Italian heritage

Ages 16.5-19 are the dark ages. I was succumbed to schizoaffective disorder and lost my ability to enjoy activities.

20-present: Mathematics, science, and philosophy. Those are very broad terms, and I meant to keep them broad as I am interested in many fields of mathematics, science, and philosophy. These are my dominant obsessions, and probably will remain as such for the rest of my adult life.

I do not know about duration, for they come and go.
Sci-fi(Star Trek,Star Wars,Battlestar Galatica,Etc)
Stamps
Coins
Music(various)
Language
Books(Do not ask how many)
RPG
Religion
Philosophy
Astronomy
I will stop for now.

herbs- about 18 years
home remedies- about 18 years
gardening- about 15 years
books- as long as I can remember
astrology and numerolgy- also as long as I can remember
gathering information about random topics- again forever
tattoos- about 20 years
snakes- as long as I can remember
cooking- about 15 years
making home-made hygene products- about 12 years
the Earth and Nature- as long as I can remember
owls-about 8 years
magnolia trees- about 15 years
Autism-about 1 1/2 years
sustainable living and homesteading-about 3 years
quantum physics- about 10 years
the end of the human race-about 2 years
records-about 6 years
New Orleans- not exactly sure
Ireland- as long as I can remember

Graelwyn, you had mentioned Native Americans as, I'm a mixed-blood Native American despite the fact, I don't have the classical characteristics seen in the physical essence neverless, I still have learned a great deal of my own heritage..Anyyways getting back to interests..


Native American history(16yrs)
Art(lifelong)
Superstitions,Myths,Folklore(Lifelong)
Music(29yrs)

There are many others but, I feel too embarrassed to mention them..

My interest have included:
-Collecting rocks (age 7-11)
-Collecting small models of the human skeleton (from age 12)
-NASA + the space programme (12-16)
-The moon (same as above)
-Reading encyclopaedias (from age 12)
-Collecting dictionaries (from age 20)
-Cats (lifelong)
-The X-files (age 22-28)
-Psychology (from age 20)

Some of them are pretty unusual interests for an NT girl, I guess...

Toy Cars (3 - 5)
Pokemon (6 - 7)
Rugrats (7 - 9)
The Fairly OddParents (9) (Although I still like it now)
SpongeBob SquarePants (10 - present) (I'm 15 (16 in 12 days), and I first saw SpongeBob when I was 9)

That is interesting. I believe my interest stemmed from dreams I had around 8 years ago. I then got talking to a few people on the internet who explained these to me, opened my own chatroom on yahoo for native americans and those interested to learn, and read as much as I could. I was invited by several to go to the USA to Pine Ridge, but being in the Uk, and not having the means, it never happened.

Lemme see here . . . will try to remember what i can:

Spinning things (by myself or watching): 3-5 years
Cartoons (various, including anime): Still do
Games - PC: 18 years (to date)
Games - Console: ~6 years
Games - CCG/TCG: 14 years (to date)
Games - tabletop (RPGs, etc): 15 years (to date)
Toys - Legos: 19 years (off and on)
Toys - Action figures: 24 years (off and on)
Toys - Models: 6 years (off and on)
Science - Technology (observing with some interaction): life-ling (off and on)
Science - Theories (railguns, etc): ~1 year (collective over several years)
Fantasy - Dragons (collecting pieces, related novels): Life-long (off and on)
Games - MMOs (WoW only): 5 years

That's pretty much all i can remember at the moment as being the really big ones i have been into over the years. May add on later.

Lemme see here . . . will try to remember what i can:

Spinning things (by myself or watching): 3-5 years
Cartoons (various, including anime): Still do
Games - PC: 18 years (to date)
Games - Console: ~6 years
Games - CCG/TCG: 14 years (to date)
Games - tabletop (RPGs, etc): 15 years (to date)
Toys - Legos: 19 years (off and on)
Toys - Action figures: 24 years (off and on)
Toys - Models: 6 years (off and on)
Science - Technology (observing with some interaction): life-ling (off and on)
Science - Theories (railguns, etc): ~1 year (collective over several years)
Fantasy - Dragons (collecting pieces, related novels): Life-long (off and on)
Games - MMOs (WoW only): 5 years
Sci-Fi - Humanoid Machines (exoskeletons, "Mechs," etc): 19 years (to date)

That's pretty much all i can remember at the moment as being the really big ones i have been into over the years. May add on later.

Lemme see here . . . will try to remember what i can:

Spinning things (by myself or watching): 3-5 years
Cartoons (various, including anime): Still do
Games - PC: 18 years (to date)
Games - Console: ~6 years
Games - CCG/TCG: 14 years (to date)
Games - tabletop (RPGs, etc): 15 years (to date)
Toys - Legos: 19 years (off and on)
Toys - Action figures: 24 years (off and on)
Toys - Models: 6 years (off and on)
Science - Technology (observing with some interaction): life-ling (off and on)
Science - Theories (railguns, etc): ~1 year (collective over several years)
Fantasy - Dragons (collecting pieces, related novels): Life-long (off and on)
Games - MMOs (WoW only): 5 years
Sci-Fi - Humanoid Machines (exoskeletons, "Mechs," etc): 19 years (to date)
TV Shows (various Sci-fi, fantasy, mild action/drama, comedy): 24 years (to date)

That's pretty much all i can remember at the moment as being the really big ones i have been into over the years. May add on later.