Signs of a New Special Interest

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When I start "always doing whatever the new special interest is", I can tell a new special interest is coming. Also, if I start to do that special interest more than I watch SpongeBob, then it may be a big special interest.

What articulate descriptions! I certainly fit the criteria mentioned by OddDuckNash99/glider18/zeichner/greentea. Now what about triggers for a new special interest? Do you pick it or does it pick you? I just found myself perhaps beginning a new interest when I planted my summer vegetable garden this week. I found myself wondering about the invention of agriculture in the Western Hemisphere, and began a furious search for information on the subject. I'm now planning to build an adobe oven. Almost neglected to finish planting my tomatoes...

Special interests always pick me. I have never chosen one. I think that's common in Aspies, from what I've read. I can't will myself to become obsessed with something. It just randomly happens. Like, I accidentally stumbled upon my new special interest two weeks ago, and it just took off from there. Similarly, I cannot choose when the rambling stage of my special interest will end; that just happens of its own accord, too. For me, when something becomes a special interest, it is one for life. But the rambling stage (which is what I've described in my symptoms for something becoming a new special interest) for those things that become major special interests usually lasts for 1-2 years. However, my current most-intense special interest is still in its rambling stage, and it has been about 3.5 years since its beginning.
-OddDuckNash99-