Unusual Obsessions

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An obsession for inkwells as a kid when I started school. I could not stop thinking about them and I did get myself into big trouble when I went to inspect one that I fancied in the senior kids class room and emptied the contents of ink all over the polished floor just as the most po faced teacher in the school walked into the room and sprung me spilling it.

hair, fungus, 1920's outfits, old maps, locations of countries, dried glue, scabs, dandruff, photography, and lorikeets.

I've had instances (OK, looong instances) where I've been obsessed with classmates from school and further education classes to the point where I would avoid them completely or act very nervous around them. I would think about knocking myself unconscious in order to stop thinking about them. I thought I was really weird till I found out about AS this year. Before that I kept all my obsessive interests to myself without pursuing them further.

Some of my other obsessive interests included (with years when the interest existed):
- The Osbournes (2002)
- Monk (2005 to present)
- AS, PDD, AvPD, OCD (along with a myriad of other disorders) (2006)
- V For Vendetta (2006)
- The internet/my new computer (now)
- WP

monky!

i think my curent obsession is very unusual...

i like american flags.

i like reading about them and finding out all that i can about them collecting them- differnt sizes and materials and amounts of stars that they have

theres also another side to it though and thats the emotional attachment

i like to touch the flags and feel them- stroke them hug them
also kissing them includin open mouthed kissing tongues etc
i take a flag with me everywhere im never without one other than perhaps in the shower but the flag is allways still in the bathroom when im in the shower

i love to stop and watch them fly on their poles aswell and sometimes videotape them to watch later
i also love the patriotic music and my favorite song is the Star Spangled Banner.

i just love my flags jus like nts might love another person as husband or wife. not many people understand why i love the flag so much but i love the USA aswell but the focus is on the flag.

i love the feel of my polyester flags and i have one that has a fringed edge and its all embroidered (not printed but each stripe and star sewn) and its on a big brass pole with the eagle on the top... i love to put my arms round it and kiss that alot- it feels really nice and makes me feel really nice inside aswell as flag feeling nice on my face and my arms and hands.

I was obsessed with Pokemon around the time G/S/C were coming out (not unusual if you were 8-10, but possibly unusual because I was in my late twenties at the time, and am female).

Also been obsessed in the last few years with:

Feng Shui
The 1970s
Collecting old teddy bears
Entering competitions
Reincarnation

I regularly get obsessed with certain movies or TV shows, and sometimes a certain aspect of one triggers a broader obsession.

At the moment I'm obsessed with Nazi Germany.

i also enjoy listening to war stories. especially world war II

Electronics and computers:
NE555, hacking it to operate at close to 100MHz, due to investigating thoroughly how to transmit radio. Ended up with a pirate FM radio station "in-a-box" with about 5W output in stereo with a freestyle tape recorder for output. The swedish radio was hunting me but I never thought it should hurt somebody.
A Amiga 4000 modified beyond recognition, due to personal reasons I can't explain I've kept everything nessecary to recover it to original state. Still fun with a computer booting a full OS in 4 secs, and of course I have a backup copy of the movie Deathbed Vigil by David Haynie.

Motors:
Started veery early with a 50cc scooter, I simply at 8 years of age took completely apart the engine of and to the astonish of my father managed to by myself get together after just figuring out how it worked. I've done a motor renovation of one car, sorry, two cars, that normaly requires a lot more tools than I actually have. But a understanding father helped me with the borrowing of special tools.

Fishing:
I fish for food and relaxation. Not sports. When I think about it now, I could probably be a professional in that area. I've driven people crazy when fishing, because I realy are good at fishing.

Other:
Explosives, but always taking security measures to be sure not to hurt myself or any living creature. But I've been cutting trees, because it was too much work to use a motorsaw. I'm not in any way trained in that stuff and was a kid, but not a jackass. I even predicted how the tree would fall without having a single error. I've been placing lighter gas canister on fires in the wood so the police was crazy about the explotions just to understand why spraycans have the warning of "Don't heat above 50 celsius".

I read the encylopedia...To say the least I'm just plain obsessed with learning everything

I don't tend to feel as if I leave interests behind me when I move onto the next one - more that I have them on hiatus for an indefinite period.
I've used up all 150 'slots' for interests on my Livejournal profile, and that was after I edited them to keep things as generalised as possible...

However ever since I was very young, I was obsessed with the correct use of apostrophes and accurate spelling to the point of severe distress when confronted by misuse of either. I sneak back to shops after they are closed and push letters under the door telling them why they need to alter their signs. This is an improvement from my days in primary school, when I reacted to the emotional distress by applying physical correction with a dictionary to offenders who refused to correct their mistakes.

It would probably come as no surprise that as an adult, I have a considerable collection of etymological dictionaries, rhyming dictionaries, a nice unabridged OED and the occasional thesaurus or two.