Anyone here have any weird hobby's?

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I collect Routemaster replicas, and I'm going to start sculpting snowmen out of clay, soon.

I have a few hobbies, some weird and some not.

When I was a kid, I was designing stuff left and right: Buildings, trains, sailboats, space ships and space stations. Other kids would play with G.I. Joe action figures; I'd be designing my 27th dream house. Now I'm in the architecture business and I design buildings for a living, so I guess I can't really call it a hobby anymore. It's probably lost a little bit of its novelty since I started doing it for a living, but I still enjoy it most of the time, and I can't imagine doing anything else.

In a somewhat related vein, I'm fascinated by how cities develop and grow, urban infrastructure, and comparisons between cities. Give me a chance, and I'll bore you to death about the symbiotic relationship between New York and Chicago. I also love trains, especially electric passenger trains such as subways. I love learning about the trains themselves, as well as the infrastructure that supports them. I can identify every class of subway car on the NYC subway system, and I can tell you all about the differences between the former IRT, BMT, and IND systems. Always the life of the party!

(As you might imagine, New York City is pretty much like a huge playground for me. )

Also, I'm not sure if I would classify it as a hobby or not, but I've always had a strong fascination with people who have unique physical characteristics, such as amputees or people with webbed toes. I don't have any such deformities myself, but a few of my closest friends are amputees who accept my fascination, and my biggest romantic crushes have all been on women with one or more missing limbs.

I've often thought about why I have this particular quirk, and I'm sure it has something to do with the fact that both Aspies and people with visible deformities can often feel isolated from the rest of society. There's actually a small internet subculture of people who share this fascination, and I'd be willing to get that a large percentage of them are Aspies. No doubt there's a Ph.D. dissertation in there somewhere.

I play with blu-tac a lot. I make Starships in the shape of the Enterprise

I collect pens and pencils (I have a ton right now.)

Paint and build plastic miniatures.

I collect textbooks (mainly maths & science).

I have quite a large collection now including a complete set of SMP books (including all the teachers' books) which are my pride & joy.

I also collect syllabuses (syllabi?) both school and dance. In fact I am, & have always been, fascinated by anything that has defined progressive levels.

i.e. Series of books starting at Book 1 (or Introductory book or Book 0, that is even better for some reason!) or graded levels like Grade 1,2,3....

I think I am searching for whatever is "missing" in my development & subconciously think that if I start at the very very beginning (i.e. pre-grade/Book 1) and find out exactly what is in each level, I can figure out where the "gap" is.

Hasn't worked so far though (maybe because no-one has written a series of books about how to become an NT!)

I collect price tags and papers!

I've collected owls since I was about eight or so, although I haven't really been into it for the last few years. I'm not sure how many owls I have though, since I'm at school and my owls are at home. I got a big thrill five years ago when I got to hold a saw-whet owl.

Well, I like barbies at the age of 16

Hackey sack. I am obsessed with it.

Also finding out everything there is to know about age limits and roles in every society/culture/legal system in the world. It fascinates me....and bores everyone else.