What is the earliest special interest you remember?

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Definitely coloring. Every year of elementary, everyone KNEW I was the artist of the class and I absolutely adored markers/crayons/colored pencils...whatever.

Thomas the Tank Engine.

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Age 2: Fill dirt with pail, turn pail over, make dirt frustum, make dirt frustums in lines and patterns, rinse and repeat hour after hour day after day. Ahh, those were good times...

Beautiful women. I was fascinated with them and drew lots of pictures since age 3. That interest lasted until I was about 12, then I got interested in bugs and plants.

Dinosaurs. I believe it started when I was 2.

Built a jet engine at age 8 after reading a book about rockets... Nearly burned myself and my best friend to death.

Not quite a special interest, but I remember lining up marbles, duplo and stuffed toys at ages 2-3 during days and nights.

Maybe hammering nails. When I was about 2-3, I had already gone through a couple of hammering toys, so my parents finally put a stump in the back yard and got me some nails and a real hammer.

my parents told my psychiatris (while i was present) that when i was a baby (about 18 months old), i was mesmerized by house flies. i remember vaguely being interested in looking at them rubbing their hands together, and predicting when they will take off. i liked the shape of them i remember (to a degree). i also liked to keep track of houseflies that had my attention as they flew around the room. i tried to keep up with their movements with my visual focus. it was fun to try to predict in which random direction they were going to dart next i can recall. i would not have remembered that interest except that my parents related it to my childhood psychiatrist when i was in an institution. i still identify because i still look at flies and wonder many things.

sigh...it is sad to think that all those flies i had so much fun with when i was a baby would probably all be dead by now..
ahh well. life must go on.


the first interest i remember having clearly is when i was about 3 or 4. i was interested in feathers primarily. i liked the design of them and the closer i looked at feathers, the more intricate designs i saw. as well as feathers, i liked to look at the veins in, and edges of leaves. i liked anything that split many times from root(quill) to tendril. i particularly liked dandelion "balls".


i liked to look at them closely because i wanted to know how they were designed and how they came to be. i have always been fascinated by patterns (that i am fascinated by), and i still am.

I think it was drawing & crayons. Paper type or size never mattered. But crayons...I had to have the Crayola ones, not the nasty off brands that could be either too waxy or too rough. Only Crayola crayons had the right texture. LOL I also had to keep them in a particular order in the box they came in...like colors were kept in order from lightest to darkest (greens & blues, reds with pink & orange, yellows with browns, etc). If one got broken, I wanted a brand new box! I'd have a meltdown until I got it too. At that time, that was the 64 sized box...now they have many more. I was like that for a long time...close to my teens when I discovered other art forms like painting. I had other obsessions that came later.

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There were probably earlier ones, but the earliest one I can think of is flags.

I was fascinated with playing I was a doctor and bandaging up my dolls and doing pretend appendectomies on them. I don't know why appendectomies; I think my mom told me about what one was, at some point, and I just got interested. My surgical technique was horrible, of course.

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