Calendars, tv guides, timetables, maps

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Who else just loves those things??
D (5yrs) has become fascinated with them so guess what he is getting for xmas

I used to be obsessed with maps of Oceania.

Love maps, always did. In my early teens I collected calandars from different cultures and had three or five on my wall and used them all, and tried to invent other ones. I still convert from the gregorian calandar to the silly POEE one sometimes (Today is Boomtime, the 18th of the Season of Bureaucracy, 3074). I was into making graphs and tables, too, for funny things that people don't associate with graph-making. I had a whole bunch of them that were about the social-behaviors of neighborhood dogs, when I was seven or so I was obsessed with the ethologist Konrad Lorenz and was pretending to be him.

(I'm probably not a 'real' aspie.)

I've always loved all those things too.

I was OBSESSESD with maps. When I was in 2nd grade, I use to watch Carmen Sandiago, and I would non-stop draw pictures of maps, and when I was in 10th grade, I would obsess with maps of the US.

1 vote for TV guides. Maps too.

If you were to go in my old room you would see a ton of maps on the wall.
Whenever I went overseas I liked to memorize subway lines/systems.
Wherever I go I try to mentally visualize where I am geographically.

I have had fun doing up timetable, but I am pretty bad at dates, dont know the order of the months very well.

maps for sure. I can get lost in a atlas for hours

sometimes I like globes better than flat maps, less distorted, more round and spinny

even better when they have raised mountains and such


I like maps of fictional places too, but then again I like fiction written in the form of history (think some tolkien, who also had maps, double win) I'm the only person I know who truly enjoyed reading the Silmalarion.. basically the history textbook for middle earth.


back on topic, atlas would be cool, easy to cary around in book form and what not

Jeff

vt420 thank you so much for an awesome birthday present idea
Might get D a globe, I know he would LOVE that!! !! !! !

when my daughter was younger she was into globes , maps, astronomy, had countless atlases, countless astronomy books (maps of the stars) and a few globes. Gotta admit I like them alot also.

Well, no. They did have some sort of scientific point to them, though surely nothing great. I wasn't trying to be funny, I was eight or something.

I don't understand the second graph, but I think I'm fine with that.

I like/liked maps.

But when I was little, I liked the historical books with all of the miniature artwork far better; I loved looking at the Roman one with the gladiator stadium [with all of the fighters and animals], I'd sit and stare at it for hours upon hours.

Me, I love maps, guides, schedules and calendars.

I must be very right-brained (ie - visual) - but I think most Aspoids are too, aren't they ?

I totally forgot that I used to draw maps of the world, until I lighted on this thread.

Is drawing maps a kid thing or an Aspie thing ?