What was your first Special interest?

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When I was little, I collected toy cars and would constantly play with them and "park" them and organize them in various different ways. I gave them personalities and acted out stories with them. I even had this one special tow truck toy which was my favorite and I remember being angry when my baby nephew grabbed it and started to chew on it.

It resurfaced again while I was in middle/high school. Sadly though I got into an abusive relationship in which I got a lot of s**t for liking cars too much and continuing to assign them personalities, so I don't like cars as much anymore. I still appreciate them and could still have a casual conversation about them, but they aren't a special interest anymore.

However, my first special interest that I actively remember, and the one I began to do extensive research on, was natural disasters. I was obsessed with tornadoes and hurricanes and earthquakes and the like. I would often read books about them and be in awe at the destructive power of nature. I'd always reference natural disasters in my homework, and considering I was in 2nd grade my parents and teacher probably thought something was wrong with me. Thankfully my teacher was very kind and was nice and encouraging about it and impressed that a young child was so into science.

Cool explanation of the test pattern. I remember when stations signed off.

Dinosaurs! At age 3, I wanted to be a paleontologist, a word I could correctly pronounce and define despite adults in my family not knowing its meaning. In 2nd grade, I taught the dinosaur unit for my class as well as the other 2nd grade classes. Until I went to middle school, the 2nd grade teachers would invite me back every spring to teach their classes about dinosaurs.

Gaming was my first one, and still is my main one.

My mom says my intense interest in trains, both model and real, started before I could walk. That interest has never left me. I just added a few others as I got older. Mike

So did you end up pursuing a career that involves dinosaurs? (Because that would be awesome!)

Pokemon cards, Digimon and Gameboy.

I think it was on Amazon prime but I'm not sure if that is available in the US. The newer animated films are good, I enjoyed Assault on Arkham and Year One.

I haven't watched the Mask of Phantasm or Under the Red Hood yet.

My first special interests must have been dinosaurs.

That's the first one I remember too. From ages 6-7 it was all dinosaurs all the time, including having the library do library loans for text books that were "too advanced" for a child. By third grade (approx. 8 years old) dinosaurs research became repetitive and old so I moved back in time to the Paleozoic and researched all the way through the Cenozoic, skipping the Mesozoic (dinosaurs). My favorite age ended up being the Carboniferous, the age of giant forests, tons of oxygen, and giant arthropods.


I'm only gonna say this one more time Feyokien, stop doppleganging me bro-- not without lube first.

My first special interest was jumping on the trampoline at age five.

I remember when I was on the cusp of double-digits, that I was for several months fascinated with the color of foreigners' dookie. I would engage in conversation with my fellow fifth graders over it.

The Brave Little Toaster. I was actually diagnosed in Kindergarten because the teachers were concerned that I wouldn't do ANYTHING (and I mean anything) unless they said the Brave Little Toaster would do it and suggested that my parents get me evaluated.

That's actually kind of cute...and I'm not a "cute" type of guy, lol.

When I was 7 I started collecting comic books... and, well, made huge piles of them.

My first special interest was trains, specificly steam engines (which I called "nene"s). I remember the first time I saw one in person and I was very exited.

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There is one instance that my mom and I remember. She remembers that I saw a BBQ grill thinking it was a train and getting exited, but years later I corrected her. At that time I was wondering how people got in a train to pilot it, and when I saw the BBQ grill opening I had a briliant realization that trains must open up the way a BBQ grill does. That's why I got exited and said "nene! nene! nene!", and I see now why there was a misconception there. Little kid logic, you gotta' love it.

To this day I still think that steampunk is an amazing subgenre.