Current obessions? Also how often do your interests change?

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My current special interest is AS and also trying to find out what's "wrong" with me. I spend an incredible amount of time doing that and obsessing over it.

Previous, and sometimes recurring, special interests include

- Astrophysics
- Astronomy
- Rubik's Cubes
- WWII
- World flags
- Harry Potter
- The human brain

etc

When I was younger I could have the same interest for years but nowadays my special interests usually change every 2-5 months or so.

I have an interest in royalty and environmentalism. Any changes are within those. Like right now, I'm so into the current royal family, especially the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Beatrice of York. Sometimes my interest changes into being more interested in Mary I, Mary, Queen of Scots, Henriette Marie of France, Louis XIV, Louis XV and with different royals. With environmentalism I'm a little more into energy efficiency right now. Sometimes I'm more interested in air pollution, global warming and different environmental topics. As to how often, I'd say...a few months?

At the moment? Since airplanes are always a given..

-Painting (water color atm)
-Russian history, most notably the Russian Empire
-Warhammer and tabletop gaming in general, I really want some money to paint and put together a cool looking army no one will ever play against!
-Math
-Diablo 3...kind of. Its starting to wan and I'm getting disinterested in video games in general. Invulnerable minions and molten for champs and elites is really fun killing BS.

Ooooh - I was really into Russian history when I was a teenager. Then it became Russian folklore.

And I love one specific plane - the Concorde.

* Toy cars
* Air rifles
* WW2
* Medieval times
* Roman age
* Astronomy
* Fossils
* Hi-Fi stuff from 70-80's
* Coins
* Old letters and postcards (Not only for the stamp, I am very interested in reading letters from old times. people had an intriguing way of telling stories before.
* Old antique documents/books/maps
* Old '45 records
* Arts and antiques (Which is the only interest I have in common with my wife )
Probably got more interests that I can't remember right now.

*music
* football
*running
*maths
*computing
*films (none in particular)

For the record, there's nothing "wrong" with you, you are merely "different" and in many ways you'll find "superior".

I went through the same thing after being diagnosed last year. Prior to that, I had never heard of AS.

My strongest SIs never leave me. They are lifelong. For SIs of low or moderate intensity, I find new ones pretty frequently, at least every 1-2 years. Extremely intense SIs come around very, very infrequently, however, and few stay at such a high level of intensity for longer than 2-3 years. Of my many SI areas, the three most intense SIs are I Love Lucy, neuropsychiatry, and Cedar Point.

This summer is filled with all three of my most intense SIs. I went to Cedar Point for Memorial Day, I'm working on a couple Lucy projects, and I've been reading many recent journal articles and a textbook about the neurobiochemistry of bipolar mania (my strongest area of interest within neuropsychiatry). This week, I've read the most recent findings on lithium's mechanism of action, and there is now much evidence of how and why lithium works on certain second messenger systems in the brain. Lithium's effects have long been a biochemical mystery, and it's very exciting to now know that the second messenger system hypothesis has specifics and irrefutable results.

They randomly come and go. I don't know what I'm going to be interested in next.

As for now:

- Computers
- Androids
- Forums
- Korean dramas

I'm betting that I will once again I will go back to video games or MMO's.

When I was a kid they used to stay with me, only ever one, for years. Now they change every 6 months - a year, and I usually have more than one (with one the most intense).

I am currently interested in music (I sing, play the guitar, piano, ukulele and clarinet), literature (I'm not sure if this is a special interest, it's been there my whole life), veganism (again, I'm not sure this is a special interest, I've simply had to explain my diet to defensive meat-eaters too much and too often, so I now know a lot about it) and fitness (definitely a special interest) and video games. I seem to be getting into history.

I have broad categories of special interests that have always been part of my life. The categories are science, history, music, the supernatural (I don't believe in the supernatural, but I find the topics fascinating), and various media (literature, TV shows, movies, etc.).

My special interests are almost always a specific aspect of one of the broad categories, and these specific special interest sometimes stick around for years, or sometimes just weeks. But they are never completely gone out of my life. Currently my special interests are:

*elementary particle physics
*mass spectrometry
*tarot
*the British monarchy (specifically the 15th - 17th centuries)
*academic regalia

Last edited by Juliana on 08 Jun 2012, 1:03 pm, edited 3 times in total.

I can definitely relate to that! I know far more than is necessary because everyone seems to question me endlessly about why I am vegan.

That's actually how my interest in royalty got started. I started with the royal house of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov. From there I went to Queen Victoria, Alexandra's grandmother, Marie Fyodorovna(Dagmar of Denmark) to the Danish royal family, and that led back to their ancestors and to their descendents today. I think that I would probably ask Prince Phillip about his Danish and Russian ancestors. His paternal grandmother was Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna, a granddaughter of Nicholas I of Russia.

If I had a penny for every time someone brought up protein.... I didn't know it was that violently opposed until I started living that lifestyle!

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