The *narrowest* special interest you've ever had

Post Reply New Topic

Well. I've gotta second that that was one weird interest! Very interesting though!

X-Files in fifth grade, maybe. Gerbils are an on-going thing. Then, hockey from like 7th through 9th, that was like the longest running one. I don't think I paid much attention to the sport itself, just the aspects of it, included player's ages, origins, weights and sizes. Didn't care if they were any good or not. Then, the line-up started changing too much and I lost interest. Meh.

Pensive wrote~

My mom told me when she was a kid she spent a year or longer drawing rocks and a stream over and over again.

As a teenager my mom bought me a dog book and I'd over and over through it looking at the same pictures and reading the facts below it. But even recently I had been enjoying watching videos of juicers and blenders liquefying fruits and vegetables.

I don't know if this is a "special interest" but I've periodically drawn mountains which look a little bit like what I think might look sort of Japanese art in a way. I can do it pretty good and I like shading a lot including wind or snowy type drifts. I was thinking posting two of them but I'm sure I want to so I won't right now. I'm actually thinking of getting into this as way to focus and calm myself because I find it a little comforting and I like shading.

I used to make little paper finger-puppet mice in school all the time, I wouldn't sit in lessons but instead kept creeping to the corner and stealing art supplies to make these little guys - during that time I also had a thing for collecting chalk dust and eating the ribbons on my dresses, so I think teachers preferred me doing something constructive and vaguely normal by comparison.

I then went through a phase of making many many pom-poms. My mother then made the mistake of showing me how to make woolen dolls, like this - http://www.momsandkids.co.uk/images/wooldoll8.jpg - mine were normally thinner, all different colours, some taller, some smaller baby dolls, some with longer hair, coloured with felt-tip pens, etc. every one of them had a family and genealogy. As a kid I had the whole empty dinning room to myself so I made enough to cover my dining room floor, at that point I'd put them away and start again.

Then I started making these - http://littleredbook.weebly.com/uploads/3/9/8/1/3981459/5856916.jpg?375 - creatures of my own creation made from plasterscene, they were ponies with extra long manes, piggy tails, and with two flippers as front legs and one conjoined flipper at the back, they also wore hats that were turned up at the front (like the ones worn by Blossom and Six in the TV show Blossom - also an obsession of mine, along with Mork and Mindy). *shrugs* These, like the woolen dolls, were infinite in their variation and had family and genealogy, and were made on mass with my becoming hyper-focused so I refused to do ANYTHING else.

There are probably more examples like this from my childhood, it's talking about strange stuff like this and remembering what I was like as a kid that makes me wonder why the hell this whole aspie thing wasn't caught sooner, I was far from a normal child.

G#CE would be a G# augmented chord, but only if you call it G#, B#, D*. It can also be called the C augmented chord if you don't want that double sharp on D. Also, GCD could easily be a G chord with a suspended fourth (C), or a C chord with a major second to replace the major third. Or maybe you just meant to type E instead of D? Either that or you really like II and IV suspensions.

Probably World War II.

The Duke of Doubt from an old Burger King commercial. That's about as narrow as you can get, considering the VERY limited subject matter available. It went away after a week.

Obsessed with Dalmatians and used to trace pictures of them and look up 101 Dalmatians and was obsessed with London. I remember being focused on the Westminster area and managed to memorize the map and have it stick in my head. I also used to watch my favorite movies over and over.

I don't think mine are narrow anymore. Unless I want to count the mall here but I want to know everything about it.

The number 7............it was originally counting by different numbers but turned into an obsessive interest in the one number.....7

Haha, I know right? At least I can laugh about it now, though. I presented on a panel with Temple Grandin, and when I brought up the bathing suit backs she just howled with laughter!

well, at one time it was... finding the resonant frequencies of everything in my room that was metal. That was pretty damn specific.

That is facinating

But what's an EVP?

I know pretty much everything there is to know about emphatic consonants in Semitic languages. It's funny, in fact; a couple of years ago I was a regular poster on a linguistics forum, and I got a PM from a lady who was working on her doctoral thesis (it was about the acoustic properties of emphatic consonants) asking me to help her. So I did and I ended up getting mentioned in the foreword