What is your "special interest"?

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That is a tough choice. I've had several.
So, here are the core interests...
-Video Games (this is the dominant "I'm here to stay, so get used to me" interest.)
-Writing (this won the 2nd place trophy "I'd like to thank the first placer for giving me the strength")
-Comedy (this is the overarching "I'm your addiction, buddy" plot for the others)
-Philosophy (this one sits over the others asking "You got a problem with that?")

Oh, and I've always been interested in the "villain" or just the smart character who seems to hate people in Tv, movies, etc.

I'm 26...............bio psychology and autism right now

- JRPGs (SMT: Nocturne, Persona 4, The World Ends With You, Pokemon Crystal, Fire Emblem 8, the Pokemon TCG for GBC, Okami, etc.). I'm pretty sure that this one will never fade, given that I've been interested in it since I was eight.
- The World Ends With You is actually a separate interest, I think. It's that intense.
- Revolutionary Girl Utena.
- YA fantasy fiction -- The Abhorsen Chronicles, Tamora Pierce's Tortall and Circle of Magic series, and The Bartimaeus Trilogy, mainly.
- Pokemon.
- Tokyo Babylon.
- Cobra Starship.

Im 29, I've always had a somewhat reductionist attitude towards things. I always wanted to know how things worked, as well as how the things that made them work worked, and thus I've always enjoyed traveling down the "rabbit hole" as far as I could! I also have a lot of short-term interests such as piano (probably not that short-term considering its been 15+ years now), mathematics, neuropsychology, learning random facts, and reading everything I can get my hands on, and recently bobber motorcycles.

Have been obessed by Motor Racing & Soccer all my life but my currentispecial interst is tree frogs! Am looking in to getting one as a pet.

As a kid my special interest was mainly Beyblade (also Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! cards) , I had every single one of them, even asked my parents to let me order the newly released Beyblades from Japan online. I loved putting all my Beyblades on a line and then looking at my collection, it gave me a feeling of euphoria. Then I rearranged them, and put them all on a line again. That was how I played with them, I rarely did battle.

Beyblade stayed until I was like 13, then a new, very bad special interest got into me. It was drugs. I had never done any drug before, but I was extremely interested by all the possible effects from every different kind of drug, and I felt an extreme urge to try them all. So I did that, and the first one I tried was speed. It made all my social difficulties disappear and I got addicted to it. Pretty soon afterwards I had tried every kind of drug there is, the last one being heroin. Ofcourse my life spiralled completely out of control because of all this drug use, but that's a story for another thread. I have now given up this special interest, although I still love reading about it and still smoke weed. And occasionally feel like using something else, but I resist most of the time.

My latest special interest is bodybuilding. This sport requires a great deal of discipline, but also routine. And I love routine, when I'm living in the bodybuilding routine I feel very relaxed. Lifting heavy weights also releases alot of endorphins in my body, which helps when I'm getting stressed out. It also helps with self confidence alot, because now I'm no longer afraid of being bullied by males, as I can easily beat them in a fight.

Anything mechanical. I have rebuilt multiple engines, various other mechanical items, how mechanical stuff works interests me. Also, it is my career- mechanical design/ CAD.

My special interests are Harry Potter, or to be even more specific, Hogwarts. I know Hogwarts castle better than the back of my hand, and can point out minor differences like how they didn't add a courtyard infront of the Great Hall until the third movie, or how Hagrid's Hut switches it's place from infront of to behind the castle after the second movie. Come this summer, I shall build a model that incorperates all the major details of Hogwarts and it shall be about as wide as a coffee table.

My next interest is Japanese. I'm almost fluent in it (凄いね？) but I've been slacking on it for a while; all I've done is maintain what I already know through music and videos.

My third interest is probably my most intense. Brace yourself for saying "AAAaaaawwwwWWW!! !!" because my third interest is my girlfriend. It's been almost a year for us now, and we love eachother more than ever! I'd go in depth, but it starts to get personal, and you can't just go around posting personal stuff in forums, now can you.

My fourth interest is art because it's the only means I have to express my true self, I also like robots, especially lego robots.

Other more mild interests of mine (or one's I just wouldn't consider special) include maps, piano, rubik's cubes, 80's/90's movies, and legos.

I am 28 years young currently. My special interests include abnormal psychology mainly the psychotic disorders and autism (yes I am diagnosed with both) and have been obsessed with it for many years on and off for most of my life. I even have my own DSM-IV and plan to get the DSM-V when it comes out in 2012 or 2013. I have many books on psychology. I am also obsessed with current events which the 3 events that I have to know EVERYTHING about is Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster (ongoing and disappointed the news stopped covering it even while its continuing), Israel/ Palestine conflict, and finally the current war in Libya. I have been obsessed with world events since 9/11 and before that was local events during my childhood. back then when I was young was the weather (I would watch the weather channel for hours at a time when I was young) channel. I love video games and gaming graphics. I am also a wildlife artist so of course I am obsessed with drawing. I have other interests as well. I also love airplanes and build balsa model airplanes. I don't fly them, however. I have been building them since I was around 13. I can't stand making landing gears because you have to bend the wires yourself and I am not good at that. I am much better at covering the plane though. I am also very interested in earthquakes and disasters but this is covered in obsessing about current events.

FireBird.....I love your avatar and quote............biopsychology and autsim are my intense interests now.......but I still watch the simpsons as part of my daily routine and love it as it was a special interest for a long time....................

Thank you so much! I LOVE the Simpsons and Lisa Simpson is one of my favorite characters because of her intelligence. Homer Simpson and Ralph Wiggum is so dumb and have a low IQ. I watch the Simpsons all the time and always can't wait until Sunday!

Physics
Mathematics
Software
Electrical engineering
Electric vehicles
Global Energy Supplies and its influence on the world's past and current economy

That looks really interesting! I'd love to meet an Aspie and talk with them about their special interest. Or just listen about it and occasionally ask questions. That would be much more interesting than a talk with a NT.

Mine are music, medicine, and animals.
Music ~ As far back as my first memories. Have thought about radio, but not very good at maintaining the verbal "smoothness" I would need for this.
Medicine~ Probably since I was about 7 yrs old. Have thought about going for a nursing degree, since I already know most of what I would need to just from research. (Funny I had never researched AS until someone suggested I had it HAHA)
Animals~ I think I was born with this one. Going to try to become an Animal Control Officer next time they lift the hiring freeze here.

I have several special interests at a time. One that I'm really into, right now, is Gothic Lolita, a type of street fashion from Japan.

People sometimes mistake it as having to do with the book/film called "Lolita" or some "fetish", "cosplay" or "age play". However, it has nothing to do with anything sexual. It's basically about cuteness and elegance rather than sex appeal.

Lolita started as a form of rebellion by young people who were reacting to the strict social norms in Japanese culture. It borrows some style elements from Rococo, Victorian, Edwardian, and 50s fashions.

I got into it because I love frills, lace, and girly things and since I'm odd, anyway, I was fascinated by the idea of fashion as rebellion and rejection of social norms.

None of girls in the pictures are me, by the way.

*thumbs up* for this, it is very cool and interesting. Here we get a lot of people on the rock scene getting into these sort of looks, and it just doesn't work, it really is something only Japanese can do well.