What were your strangest obsessions?

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Oh boy, first it was science, then martial arts, then powerlifting, then philsophy, none of which I actually accomplished anything all, and this was before 12. I just collected facts then maybe tried some of them out but due being young, lack of critical thinking, weak muscle mass, limitations, I ended up not succeeding while my peers all did and still hold multiple successful hobbies where they succeeded. Now I have no special interests because they are useless, you see, when a NT person gets interested in something they actually do things, they don't just collect random trivia, they read the whole paragraph I tell you, and they train with patience to become good at it while keeping it to themselves most of the time. My mother who wasn't so bright kepts on letting me go on about these things thinking I was becoming some renaissance man with multiple expertise but I wasn't I was just collecting facts, trying it out but getting impatient since I have a crazy fuzzy brain and no patience, getting nowhere, then I just moved on to the next thing.

When I was younger I was obsessed with Kirby and Ghibli music. Now when I for example hear about a movie or book which sounds interesting to me or sometimes, even with just an actor I'm familiar with, I need to read everything about it, but I don't bother to actually see the movie/read the book... Maybe It's because I'm too impatient...

When I was in elementary school, I was obsessed with storeys in houses for a while. This came after a dream about staying at someone's house and sleeping on different floors each night.

First would be pokemon. Then soccer. Then various video games like sports games, halo, marvel vs Capcom, soulcalibur. Right now itd be lifting and this yugioh game on my xbox. Halo was probally my favorite special obsession.

1. Drawing fictitious maps in pen then drawing in countries in pencil. Dependent on the number of shared boundaries with other countries (countries with fewer shared boundaries got to attack first) and the relative size (smaller countries could not take over bigger ones), I engaged in a fantasial game of map domination. I played this game obsessively in my teens.

2.Writing obscure cryptic notes (with completely fantasial meanings that only I understood) and hiding them.

greetings all,

quantum physics... space... time travel and multiple dimensions... the science nerd in me is way active!

with peace,

JanusOne

I used to constantly write people's names down on paper for fun. I once got in trouble because a teacher thought I was making a hit list.

My strangest obsessions starting from childhood into adulthood included depths of water, guessing people's ages, writing and memorizing kids' names (as another poster mentioned), what year certain music and films were released, how amusement park rides worked, and the original PapaJohns cheese dip.

when I was in elementary school, I used to be obsessed with what I thought would be the color and consistency of English people's dookie.

I have different obsessions now, but my weirdest one was when I was a child I went through a phase of being obsessed with robots, mannequins and automated things -- anything that seemed to perform like or appear to be like "a person" but without actually being human, with the downsides of humanness.

My interpretation of this now, looking back, is that I found actual people too much to cope with, but at the same time I was lonely and wanted some kind of companion but one that wasn't a human, only human-like.

It had to be lifesize, so I made myself robots out of cardboard boxes and pretended they could talk to me. I also wanted a store mannequin really badly. One of my uncles owned a clothing store and had mannequins, and I begged my mother to persuade him to give me a mannequin. Of course, I didn't know how expensive those things actually are for a store owner to purchase, so this was one gift that was never going to happen.

Being fascinated by robotic entities, I was also amazed when we got a new record player (it was the 1960s) that had the automated arm that drops the records then moves the needle tone-arm onto the record to play. My parents told me that was a kind of robot, and I was all over that. I was fascinated by anything that did something automated like it was wired with its own intelligence, even at the most basic level.

I think I just wanted to interact with anything that seemed interactive but not a person.

My obsessions always go in circles, switching from one to the next over and over again. I'm always obsessed with rocks, shiny stones, crystals, magic, mythology, spirituality, certain video games, my favourite books, Studio Ghibli, certain music or soundtracks, and stuffies.