Discuss your stupid special interests here

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I don't think that any special interest is stupid, if you get enjoyment from pursuing it.

Aren't most straight girls obsessed with men anyways? I don't think that obsession is related to Asperger's syndrome.

Yes. Its an obsession. But hardly an "aspie obsession".

I like to keep a mental note of interesting car registration numbers.

I've always done it, except when I was young I used to note them down in a little book.

I don't know whether that counts as an interest or not.

My stupid obsession is Pokemon characters. The reasons I have for obsessing over them are similar to the reasons that ZombieBrideXD said she obsesses over Sonic characters: in Pokemon, there are many, many characters and each one has a unique design and distinctive personality. I'm not even into the Pokemon themselves, I don't play the games, and the only time I watch the anime is to get a "feel" for certain characters' personalities by watching the episodes that they appear in, though sometimes I will reject a characters' anime persona if I feel that it deviates too far from the way they were portrayed in the games or sometimes even in fanon. Most of my obsession involves reading the characters' Bulbapedia (the Pokemon wiki) articles over and over and staring at pictures of them. I'm also very much into the "shipping" (romantic pairing) aspect of Pokemon too.

Well, yes and no. Obviously my obsession can be considered normal, which means it does not give my diagnosis away.

But I do, like, fall in love with a man I obsessively like, even if I don't hardly know him. Then I make myself known and I sometimes get a bad name for myself. Also I like to write books and books of stories about the men I fancy. I fancy a lot of bus-drivers for some reason, and I am now on my 7th book about them. I draw loads of pictures of them too, and once I get started on talking about them to someone close, I can just don't know when to stop. Everything these men do just fascinates me. And any woman that's to do with a man I fancy, I get obsessed with so bad that I want to compete with her and be just like her. Obviously I don't feel for them in the same way as I do men but I still get obsessed and try to actually be them.

Ooo are they erotic books about the bus drivers? Ha, sounds interesting. I don't know why, but as I've said before all that bus stuff sounds fascinating.

I don't think I have any dumb interests - mostly because I like them, so why would they be dumb? The closest I can come to it is for instance watching a movie and then looking up what some actor as in before that movie, that's the kind of stuff I would end up forgetting in five minutes.

It does shock me though how quickly I can switch between my interests - for instance I can spend entire weeks thinking about nothing but coding and then one day I'm into physics and totally temporarily forgot I was neck deep in programming the day before. Luckily I take copious notes so when I go back and forth I can always pick up where I left off.

I'm a counter as well. I count everything. I used to do it more as a child though. You never get bored when you're a counter.

There is always something to count.

I don't know if counting counts as a special interest or a quirky trait.

I have purposely learned to stick to 'stupid and pointless' special interests, because it helps to keep me happier and more stable. I'm bipolar, and when I get depressed and can't enjoy or keep up with my special interest, it hurts a thousand times worse if what I'm failing at actually matters.

So nowadays I stick to dumb things like computer games and movies that I obsess over, and then when it all comes crashing down and I can't enjoy those things... Well, it's no big deal really.

I have got fascinated by actors in films before, but only how they are in the film, not how they are as a person. But I don't think anything else fascinates me as much as these certain bus-drivers do. My uncle just does not understand me at all. He looks at me and asks what's the difference between a bus-driver and a policeman or a teacher or a firefighter or a paramedic or a shop assistant, etc etc. There is no answer to that question. It is just because.

Sometimes I get obsessed with the characters in children's fantasy novels. Other times I'm interested in the imaginary worlds in which the stories take place but with some series' it's just the characters.

I don't feel that any of my special interests are stupid.

My stupid special interest: I'm currently interested in the reproductive systems and reproduction of different animal phyla. This obviously stems from my greater interest in biology as a whole, though recently I've been looking into this quite a fair bit. I've been looking at the morphology of sex organs, homologues of the genitals in the sexes, the evolvability of internal fertilization in comparison to external fertilization, different reproductive methods such as egg-laying and vivipary, asexual versus sexual reproduction, as well as hemaphroditism and monoecious species.

There's just something so interesting about the sheer amount of variation in reproductive strategies of metazoans. Like did you know that barnacles have the largest penis to body size in the animal kingdom? That a fruit fly's sperm is measured up to 2.3 inches? I find it all fascinating. Yet I'm aware how socially unacceptable and weird it is, and I'd like to think I have the social grace not to talk about this in casual conversation. I wouldn't want to look like a zoophile or an animal rapist or something.

I think I win this thread...

Spam. Like the meat. Only lasted for 2-3 days. It went away after I ate some and got a stomach ache.

Okay. Maybe I had one stupid special interest. I was obsessed with the penis between the ages 6 and 8. My little sister and I talked about the penis whenever we would have a bath together. I would also have dreams about having a penis of my own. I was convinced that there was a part of me missing and I lost my penis when I was a baby. I was hoping that I would grow a penis. My mum didn't want us talking about the penis. I started calling the penis the tail, so my parents wouldn't know I was talking about the penis. I'd make up little chants about the penis, whether I was at home or I was visiting my aunt and male cousins with my family, replacing the word penis with tail. My chants would be about how boys go with a tail. I also used to grab my youngest cousin's penis, because I wanted one of my own that badly. I also feel guilty that I did that. I wanted a sex change for Christmas the year that I was 9. I didn't have the guts to tell my mum.

I still feel the same that I did back than. I just don't make chants about the penis or grab them anymore.

Now that sounds like an AS obsession to me. On the surface it may seem normal but the preoccupation and intensity is different than that of other women. I once couldn't get someone out of my mind I wrote him into my novel. And this other guy.
The way I have crushes is more related to OCD obsessions and intrusive thoughts though.

I'm not sure if I have any stupid interests. Could my short yet intensive amount of focus on iPad games be considered a stupid special interest? I just played this great one about a particle collider and played it for an hour straight and then my arms felt like they were on fire. I really want to play it again. I only got up to making the element chlorine.
I've been playing Robo Cop for a few weeks now. Oh and Sonic Dash for about 6 months. I must play it at the same time everyday to get my daily rewards. It's now Shadow the Hedgehog Dash now because I finally unlocked that character.