What's your singular special interest ?

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STARGATE!

I watch a minimum of three episodes a day, maximum 5-6.
I collect the merch, especially the action figures.
At night I trawl ebay to add to my collection. Currently I'm trying to justify a reason for spend $180 on SG1 figures and two star gates.
Then I either think about it all day or come up with my own episodes.
I go to the forum too to talk to other fans who for the first time make me feel normal.
I draw star gates, puddle jumpers and other SG related things.
And I have integrated the uniform into my current dress style.

It makes me happy!

I think by "singular", meaning your main, single most strongest special interest all throughout your life. If so, I would have to say electronics, electronics, and electronics! I absolutely love and have a passion for electronics. I had interests on the side too, like chemistry, neurology, paleontology, coffee, tea (yep, collecting coffee and tea), video games, and some others too. My current ones are electronics, networking, commercial satellite signals and associated equipment(commercial satellite receivers, QAM modulators, and my most favorite that initiated the hobby, Weatherstar technology such as the Weatherstar 4000), vintage televisions and radios. Even some of my side interests such as chemistry have creeped up, because I have an interest in FD&C Blue 1 dye, both in water soluble and lipid solulable aluminum lake. I have two small sample containers of Blue 1 and Blue 1 Aluminum Lake, both in power form.

But the main player in my life has been electronics, always has and always will be. I'm actually kind of surprised at how few people in this thread said electronics or technology. I don"t know if it's just rare, but I don't know too many Aspies that like electronics, especially for the passion that I do.

People.

Learning languages, and linguistics.

Mine is kinda weird. Basically there's a storyline with an alternate me I made up, and I play scenes from this alternate life in my head. I don't know if that counts as a special interest, but I do it all the time. I'm well aware it's fictional, but I thoroughly enjoy it.

I'm currently depressed, and my special interests always lose their appeal for me, so I'm in between interests really right now. Which makes me anxious.

I don't have a singular persistent one that has been with me throughout my life. My most persistent is the Simpson’s ....I used to base my days around watching it several times a day, thought about it all the time etc. for about two years (9 years ago). Now it is still a part of my routine....I watch it when I eat lunch......and I still love it but it isn't a "special interest" anymore.... it is the most persistent. I love cartoons.........the magic school bus is the other cartoon I regularly watch (though it was never a special interest). I’ve had a lot of biology/animal related special interests and I like biology so I mostly watch the episodes that are bio related.

Mine for the last year and a half (approximately) has been ASD's and abnormal psychology and biology (related to ASD's).

music. playing, writing, recording and of course listening to it

That bloke back there who said "Electronics" had a point. Back when I was 12 that consumed me completely.

These days, though, it's information. What happens to data when it becomes information? Is what happens to data on an iPhone or an iPad significant? Does it make more information, or just more enjoyment?

I get obsessive about counting lines of code, technologies, number of code files. I get obsessive about technologies like xQuery. And the very existence of Apple's iOs 4 machinery sends cold shivers down my spine.

Unfortunately, of course, I never talk to anyone about much of it all. It stays locked inside my head, and ferments slowly.

I have a ton of interests, which gradually evolve and shift over time. A few off the top of my head: juggling, guitar, violin, drumming, algorithmic information theory, physics, information theory Richard Feynman's life, technological history, futurism, hard science fiction, Haskell, Lisp,coffee, TvTropes, Ruby (the language), Lojban, MST3K, cognitive neuroscience, microbiology, genetics, robotics, TeX, operating systems design, Fritz Lang movies, etc. All have absorbed me, one at a time or in unison, over the years. I tend to devour a given subject over the course of a year, but some I keep coming back to.

The one unifying feature of all of them has been rationality and systemization. Perhaps my singular interest really is in learning how the universe works. Or "following my curiosity."

ETA: on second thought, another unifying feature is that most of my interests are meritocratic. They depend on ability, and competency cannot be easily faked.

Don't have just one, nor do I have any that is all-encompassing.

^^^ Speaking of which, the Bible for people with diverse interests is Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach. I've worn several copies down.

jmnixon95: Have you ever used BioBike or DNAlinux? The latter is a Linux distribution for bio-informatics, with a ton of very fun programs and gene libraries. The former is a very comprehensive bioinformatics environment.