Earliest special interests?

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Money and numbers, I think. I was aware of the value of money at a pretty young age. While other kids were more concerned with the amount of coins, I wasn't quite that easy. There was one time when my brother and I was carrying wood for my grandfather, we got one coin each. It was equivalent to 15 cents. My brother was perfectly happy with it, but I wasn't all that impressed. I asked my grandfather if he wouldn't have appreciated being paid enough money to actually buy something for his work.

I was fascinated with electricity.

I was very interested in wall sockets, and wanted to understand how electricity lit up lamps, and televisions and powered microwave ovens and other things. No one wanted to teach me about it. I shocked myself many times also by touching the outlets.

I was fascinated with the hidden insides of things, I would tear apart my toys to see what made them run on the inside.

Visual patterns in the form of perfect piles of dirt

Optics and music. I'm still interested in that stuff. My interest in optics is a bit in the background right now because I'm focusing on music more and I haven't found any interesting stuff related to optics lately.

Collecting bank forms. Paying in slips, withdrawal slips, loans forms etc. Bank forms.

Pokemon.
Egypt.
Digimon.
Teddy bears.
Harry potter.
Lizards.

I think it was the human body/anatomy.

Really? That's also the first one I had, at a very young age my mom has told me that I memorized and knew the names of all the characters in the show, even including the most obscure ones. I think I also had some sort of card or picture collection of the different characters where I could tell all the names only by looking at the picture.

Perhaps a bit later I had a dinosaur memory game and I could tell people the names of all the dinosaurs pictured in the game without looking in the instruction manual that nobody else cared about (the only place the names where included).

Those are the two earliest ones that I know of.

Wrinting poetry....I think the trend and tendency started at age five, but the first poems I wrote was ay age 6 about Santa Claus which ran something like this:

"Someone is coming here tonight

When the sky is dark

and the stars are bright.

I think I will leave him a little bite."

After that it was all down hill, as I began to retreat more and more into developing the language area of my brain and felt approval for that, both internal and external. It was actual development, but it became an escape from simply being me, from ordinary sensation from facing the trauma I was experiencing, which no child could face.. I fine tuned and honed into the language area of my brain/. It makes me sad to think of this.

This is the first time I ever went all the way with this idea, all the way back to the simple me, though I have known for two or three years I was honing into this brain area, I always thought it is me. I'm glad I learned how to be articulate, though:-)...but it was quite a price to pay as I gave up the simple me. Of course now I will have to be both, as there is no way of going back and undoing the language development, not would I want to, but I may have to start giving up some of the instense gratification around that and start focusing on different kinds of activities that gratify the simple me. The simple me needs simple gratification around sensation It is not intense, but a relaxed, safe, happy feeling..

well, first my favorite toy was a sponge Snail i named Snaily

and then the only movie i watched while in the hospital for severe chest burns was Thumbelina

and the games i only liked playing was Stacking objects on my own, making piles, and having a picnic

but i think my two obsessions were piles and picnics because i would talk about them endlessly

I watched Thumbelina all the time when I was a kid too, ZombieBrideXD.

It was anthropology, and especially Roman history. And it's my most enduring interest, as it's still the same today. Although other parts of history have captured my interest, and I'm trying to branch out and learn more about other things.

Unicorns and My Little Ponies. Turned my bookcase in to a pony palace. Stacked books from large to small to make a throne room for my unicorns and used the play ground toys from my Little People school house to set up a play room for the baby ponies.

The earliest "special interest" revolved around dinosaurs and virtually any type of animal when I was 6. This phase lasted for two years and then I would move on into mythology and folktales. I won't go any further since this would go on for hours. However, despite the fact that I now go through these types of phases monthly, I have never lost interest in the first three topics I had when I was a child.

Classical music.