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My grandmother kept Sears catalogs for years. This was back in the days they were 5" thick books, not those little pamplets they distribute nowadays. I would look in the children's funiture section for hours, imagining how I would decorate my room. The "Wish Book" was filled with ink-drawn circles around which toys I wanted for Christmas, even the expensive ones I had as much chance in getting as say, a Cadillac Escalade.........in 1983.

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Yeah, I think I was the only 2nd grader in the entire school who knew it was an actual organization. Boy, if there was ever a clearer case of cosmic forshadowing about what life would bring.

Lego
Hotwheels
Barbies
Hockey
Beavers
Mounties
The Dukes of Hazzard
Maps
The colour, Green
Weddings

Are you going to see the new "Dukes of Hazzard" movie?

I don't know, yet. I might go and see it. If I don't see it in the Big Screen, I'll buy it when it comes out.

Lets see now:

- Maps
- Bus Schedules (Never left home without those, not even for school or summer camp)
- Legos
- Toy cars
- Encyclopedia
- Canada (This was more of an adolescent one)
- Computers

Most of my aspsessions are still active today. I had all I could do from taking one of each MTA bus schedule when I was in St Paul for an interview a couple of years ago.

Psychology is one of my current major Aspsessions.



If colors count, then the color blue was a major fixation for me up to my teen years. I had to kind of resolve not to buy any more blue clothes for a year or so when I realized that about 75% of my clothes or more were some shade of blue.

Here are mine obsessions, from youngest age 2 to about 10.

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Anatomy

Astronomy

Maps and schedules

-Maps (could draw a map of the US from memory since age 8.)
-Schedules (including all Amtrak schedules from past 10 years)
-Cruise Brochures (3rd and 4th grades).
-Legos (most of these gone too, but they were fun).
-Hockey Cards (6th grade).

Never really outgrew some of these. I actually am fortunate enough to work (for this summer, at least) in a field that involves writing and making train schedules .

Various aspects of electronics and computers. I don't remember much of my youth, so I can't really think of anything besides that. Even when I was really young, I used to be really into electricity/electronics. I've got this hilarious picture of me when I was probably 6 with a giant book open on a table surrounded by various electronics. I still enjoy those today, though the amount and specifics vary. Thankfully, they're such broad fields, you can change interests and still stay familiar with the generals. I'm also really into psychology. When I'd be confused and worried about my mental state I would read about psychology and it helped me alot, both to learn about myself and how to deal with myself - it's a really useful aspsession.

AHH!! !

I liked

anime
comic books
mangas
books
writing books
belts
ribbons
puppies
kittens

And I'm still crazy 'bout all of the above!Of course I've developed more interests though like sci-fi and fantasy,and Lord of the Rings.

SpaceCase

I have very good memorys of the "world book enclycopedia". Did you get the yearly supplements? I loved reading those.

This wasn't exactly a "childhood" Aspsession, but around the age of 19/20. I had a fixation on Hawaiian shirts and enjoyed wearing some, so I began to buy all I could afford (and more than I could afford to the detriment of my electric bills) until my collection numbered 56 Hawaiian shirts!

I wore maybe four and the rest were hung in my closet.

Finally, once the Aspsession wore off, I donated them to an organization and they made $200 off of them. That was maybe only a fourth of what I had paid for the lot over that year and a half period.

Maybe an Aspdiction is more accurate than an Aspsession in this case...

Serissa wrote:

Speaking of, I just went to the state psychiatric hospital's professional journals library again and copied a good many research articles... "Heaven, I'm in Heaven..."

Well a lot of the things I was obsessed with came from the television. A major one in this group lingers on today in my life: closing logos at the end of programs. Of course, this mostly counts towards the "classic element" era of the '70s and '80s that I was still a part of. Some logos used when I was young (or were still around as part of reruns) included the Viacom "Purple V of Doom"; Mimsie, the MTM kitten; the Columbia Pictures Torch Lady and Sunburst logos; and Paramount Television's "blue mountain" and earlier "Split Rectangle" seen on many '70s era programs. This also led to my biggest fear...the Screen Gems Red S (from Hell)...ugh, that moog synthesizer jingle...

Other things I was fascinated by...
- Plant nurserys and greenhouses (esp. the kind of domed versions)
- Store signs and logos (again with that word!)
- Coins (esp. pictures of the old US ones, and my own collection...)
- The Statue of Liberty
- Commercial jingles
- Labels on vinyl records (more logo stuff!)
- Video games and video game images (still do, in fact)
- Door knockers (when my grandmother lived in what is now our house, she had one and I loved playing with it, and one thing led to another I guess)
- "Morgan's Meadow," a place mentioned in a Mickey Mouse book. Since I wouldn't stop talking about it, when we had a nursery school picnic, someone made a "Morgan's Meadow" sign.
- The coloring of certain things reminding me of certain foods...actually making eating them more enjoyable when I could see said image
- The Poison Control/Warning "skull" logo. Maybe THIS is what compelled me to call PC one day to say "my dolly's sick"
- Cement mixers
- The black arrow designs you used to see on many doors (and now he goes on about doors )

And I could go on and on, probably!

J.