Current obessions? Also how often do your interests change?

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It's really fun reading everybody's obsessions! I love this thread!

O.K., mine:
-historic infectious diseases, like smallpox (current focus), bubonic plague, cholera
-bacteria and viruses
-wilderness and primitive skills
-wild animals and birds
-homesteading
-textiles and clothing
-herbal medicine and botany
-Christmas (historical traditions, like figgy pudding)
-memorizing old poetry (chaucer, shakespeare)
-j.s. bach
-old cookbooks and recipes
-OK, I'll admit it, royalty is on the list. A furtive special interest in modern royalty.
-artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and, these days, autism and asperger's.

Pipilo, while not on my list, I used to be seriously addicted to wilderness survival skills (it wasn't listed because it has a sub list all its own) along with trapping, fishing, hunting, flintknapping, tanning, making fire with many methods, wild foods and even a bit of bush medicine and much much more... I'm sure you own them already, but if not, may I suggest the Foxfire books?

Music (all kinds)
DJ'ing
Pro Audio / lighting / visuals / theatrical tech, etc.
Computers & Internet
Those have always been with me, and never change.

Thanks, omnicognic, they are kind of an obsession unto themselves, there are times when all I can do is sit and read foxfire books. I wish there were a hundred of them.

What are your current aspies obessions?
computers
How often do the change?
not really since 2006

Hollywood
Video games
porn
sports
music
technology
iphone

The only obsession I ever left behind was writing software in integer basic for apple computers. Burned my self out and realized I cant sit still long enough to write programs.
All my other obsessions cycle but are all ways there.
cars
bikes
survival
mechanical, electrical any that I can tear apart and re-purpose

Pipilo
Thanks, omnicognic, they are kind of an obsession unto themselves, there are times when all I can do is sit and read foxfire books. I wish there were a hundred of them. :wtg

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I have a few things that I'm obsessed with that go through cycles. I usually obsess over it for a week to a month then move on but my obsessions are reoccuring. This is a general list of what I get obsessed with:
-Photography
-Compositional techniques
-Tchaikovsky
-Genres of music such as minimalism, english punk rock, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, k-pop, free jazz, neo-classical, romantic era, electronic.
-Socionics
-Carl Jung
-Body language
-Dreams
-Physics in general
-Quantum mechanics
-Mars rover
-Dark matter and energy
-Black holes
-Periodic table
-Knitting
-Various TV shows like Skins, Merlin, Sherlock, Big Bang Theory.
- Anime and Jpanese culture
-Aspergers (atm)

I would say my special interests change about every 2-3 years.

My current fixation is autism but it's a broad topic and I tend to fixate on sub-topics of it at different times. For example, for the past half a year, I've really gotten into exploring ABA-based therapies.

I also have side-special interests, which tend to last very long and I sometimes can suddenly start fixating on them for a whole day or so. These interests are, for me,
- Nutrition
- Pop music (only very specific artists I start fixating on for a period of time and then stop)
- Fashion (a recent one)
- A local pizza chain called Pizza Pizza

love this topic!

Long term:
aeroponic cannabis cultivation
music (longest one)
documentaries


short term (less than a month)
lmfao (the group)
lil wayne
wilhelm yell
computer stuff
camping
living off the grid
aquaponics
how to be a prepper (doomsday)
construction
gardening (normal)
squatting (taking property by living in it)
best country to live in meeting my personal criteria of personal freedom, ability to self sustain and see the stars without light pollution.

My obsessions change whenever there's a new opportunity. Sometimes I am obsessed with three things in a row. Each for... two weeks or so. And the next obsession can last a whole year. Or longer.

My obsessions are usually related to music. And it's four years now that I am obsessed with films. So that's the two big fields.

Sometimes my obsessions are related to literature and art.

Some of my obsessions from the last couple of years are:

Cillian Murphy
Keanu Reeves
River Phoenix
Tears For Fears
Mark Owen
Thomas Newman
Frédéric Chopin

As a child, I was also obsessed with TV series. Usually the "unpopular" ones.

My Aspie Obsessions never change they never will.

Protein is a regular. I also get the "cheese" reply a lot why people think they could never go vegan.

I'm American, but I actually know about Pizza Pizza! I learned about it on Degrassi. In season 1, when Spinner had to work in the caf after releasing earwigs, in one scene, you can see a place serving Pizza Pizza. I've actually learned a lot about minor Canada vs. America differences from Degrassi. Like, I learned how Canadian lawyers wear robes like American judges when Paige testified against Dean. And I first learned taxi cabs in Canada tend to be teal and orange, not yellow, when Emma got a cab home after Manny abandoned her at the rave. Degrassi teaches all!

Long term(started age 5 and younger)
* ophthalmology
* music
short-ish term
* Scandinavia especially Iceland and Denmark
* Scandinavian languages
* The human mind especially the subconscious mind
My long term interests never change. My short-ish term interests last about five years. Some of my interests only last about a week, but they're usually pretty stupid. Most of my special interests either start completely new ones, disappear or evolve. It's hard for me to tell how long my interest will last.

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Asperger's is my current obsession. Just found out about it. It has replaced all other obsessions except making money.

Otherwise I flip-flop between writing my 12-book urban fantasy series (20 pages done so far) and recording music. Which used to be more like the Counting Crows and Elliott Smith, but is now a lot more like Skrillex, Nero and Zomboy. Which for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, is like... saying your favorite food is seafood or yogurt one day, and then saying it's Jack Daniels laced with crack the next.