Were your interests different when you were younger?

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Thinking on it now, I'll say no, my current interests are much the same as they were when I was a child. My life revolved around fiction books and video games then and it still revolves around those things now. My genre preference within those two categories has changed somewhat, but the main categories of fiction books and video games are the same.

Fairy tales
Drawing/copying cartoons/photographs
Exotic/dangerous fish
Archaeology
Violin
Jigsaw puzzles
Mazes (creating and solving)
Word jumbles
Coins
Astronomy
Astrology
Science Fiction/Vampire novels
Horror movies
Culture Club/Boy George
Howard Jones
Depeche Mode
Exotic cars
Bulimia
New Wave (being)
Punk Rock/Hardcore/Thrash
BDSM
Multilevel marketing/Entreprenurship
Poetry
Suicide
Internet chatrooms
Working out/exercise/fitness
Cooking
Nutrition
Psychology
Sociology
Theoretical Physics
Philosophy
Parasitology/Virology/Microbiology
Immunology and other medical research
Parenting
Survivalism
Asperger's!

Most of my interests have dramatically changed over the years.. but some have just evolved.

ie w/ reading, I've read a lot, then not so much, then read a lot of texts for school, then not so much.. then read a lot again - but completely different subject matter due to different interests more recently, but it's still reading.

Several other interests have been sorta life long, too. Nature, outdoors, sports, math/business/economics/learning etc.

But this thread reminded me of one that's evolved in the most awesome way: Kites. I remember winning 2nd place in a kite making/flying contest at school when I was 6 years old in grade one. I had a few kites here and there over the years as a kid, but wasn't suuuuper into them - but I did always like them & enjoyed them. Had a simple one w/ 1000ft of line that I'd fly as high as it would go, and then a small 2 line stunt kite that wasn't quite big enough for the low wind speeds here. Then several years ago I got into power kiting & kiteboarding, and have been snowkiting, kiteboarding on land, kiteboarding/kitesurfing on the ocean.. I currently have 3 kites for land based kite sports (and need bigger ones if I'm going to do much on land) as well as 3 surf kites & all the rest of the gear. I haven't been out on the water for a few years now, and oh do I ever miss it! I'm still a relative newbie on the water, but for several reasons I know I'll be able to nail it when I get back out again - which should be this Summer! Kiteboarding is, to me, the absolute ultimate sport & sensation. *feeling tinglies*

My interests haven't changed much at all. I've always been interested in anything mechanical. At about 7 I discovered electricity and electronics. At about 15 I found computers. These three have stayed with me for the rest of my life. I now design computer controlled machines and software to control them for a living.

I forgot:

Comic books (with a spreadsheet I created cataloguing all of them)

When I was in Grade 1 to Grade 4, Dinosaurs and volcanos were a huge obsession and I was always obsessed with machinery and would watch my father for hours working in his machine shop.

Yeah, interests change. Basically I'll become completely absorbed in a particular thing, it'll run its course and then I'll become absorbed with something else. But I always have an interest in whatever I was absorbed with in the past. When I was about 14 I was really absorbed with medieval weaponry and to this day I still have a few medieval items. My intense yet diverse interests is what gave me the reputation of being walking encyclopedias or trivia expert. It's also made me a jack of all trades.

My PDD-NOS son has obsession with trains and volcanos.
Are you going to visit one? Although my son has been on trains, he has not yet been to a volcano! He can name and locate many of them on the globe. People are very impressed with his knowledge of volcanos and geography as I bet they were for you too

I have been to Mount Saint Helens and have some ash in a large jar. I remember wanting to touch lava/magma because it looked like it would feel strange. Of course I know it would be a terrible idea.

Nope. I've had "mature" interests since my toddler years (e.g., anatomy/physiology), and even now in my '20s, I have kept my more "immature" interests (e.g., SpongeBob). I've always been both overly mature and overly immature in my habits, interests, and personality.

Totally. Started out in my pre-teens with an interest in the more exact sciences, though leaning heavily toward biology (because life fascinated me more than inanimate objects), and now in my early twenties, I'm far more interested in social geography and history. Go figure! I'm not even a people person!

I didn't have any interests when I was under the age of 11. Well, I did have interests, but those were just casual interests. I mean I didn't have any special interests like I do now, that take over my mind and not knowing when to stop talking about them.

When I was a child under 11, I was just into things what a typical kid would be into, and just obsessed over the latest crazes to the extent other kids obsessed over. I didn't exactly have any particular subject I would focus on, or talk non-stop about, if that makes sense.

I am the type of Aspies that gets obsessions with certain people, so I didn't really have those when I was younger because my adult hormones hadn't developed yet (because my obsessions are usually revolved around a crush on men). When I was about 11 I began getting rather short-lived obsessions with people, but not men (although I am NOT gay, just when I reached puberty I was just a little bi-curious). When I was 13 I finally had my first crush on a man, although I was too immature to take anything seriously. But I was old enough to realise how much I stood out from the other children a bit, which made me also admire women that were to do with the men I fancied, so that I could focus on being like them to try and fit in with other kids. It worked a little, not as well as I wanted it to.

Now I'm a little older, I have gotten worryingly good with flirting with men (it is very unusual for an Aspie with low self-esteem to be able to flirt with men). I obsess over men and have gotten good at getting their attention by flirting with them by my body language. I shall leave it at this, being so I am becoming better at interacting with men than I am women. I have only been rejected by women so far *touch wood*, and men have been pretty nice, especially if I flirt.