Me and Pylons just do not get on.

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Hi Guys

Further to the comment further down. I am not obsessed by trains. When I was a kid, it was all about pylons.

I have not been officially diagnosed with Aspergers yet, however, due to someone I know, having an unhealthy obsession with Pylons points to the matter of fact.

Not that I liked them or anything, I disliked them really. Wishing they were telegraph poles. Now there is a thing of beauty.

Have any of you guys had such an obsession, that is not linked to trains?

Alan.

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LOL, what do you have against trains? XD XD

Yeah, I guess... I was really into bugs and frogs. Actually I guess I still am. I always stop to look at the bugs, and none of my friends ever do.. They're little alive thing that are always doing stuff, and there are so many different kids and they're everywhere! How is that not interesting?;;; I suppose I'm not really OBSESSED though.
I guess the thing I'm obsessed with is art, but that's more normal, especially for an artist.

I've got a thing for wind turbines. I don't obsessively collect facts about them (unlike other fascinations I have), but I find them to be aesthetically fixating. I think about wind turbines quite a lot.

For me, it was trains, planes, computers, then (now that I'm an adult) guns. In that order. I'm particularly interested in Russian or former ComBloc designs. They just seem cool to me. I like how they look, feel, and function. I also studied the Titanic obsessively when I was in 2nd grade and did a report on it.

Hhahaha,

I have nothing against trains really, just that it was not my fascination. This whole Asperger thing is totally new to me, so I am just exploring what may be attributed to it. My grandad did have a mighty train set though

I had a phase of frogs, particularly newts. And I totally get the bug thing.

I have just gone through a phase of Tea. Getting all different types and tasting them. This may seem weird to some people, as I am always going through phases of stuff. I guess my main obsession is psychology, mind reading and pseudoscience. Is that confusing or what?

haha, bloomin heck. I have a mild thing for them too. Is it natural for an aspie to have so many fixations? The whole collecting facts thing is new to me. Does this include just in the head. II suppose I did when I was younger, but I typically research things, and retain that rather than collect large amounts of facts.

Those make sense! Especially the tea one. I'm into hot drinks too, LOL. I keep trying out different techniques for making coffee. And other interests manifest themselves in the same way. Like, I got interested in painting, (rather than drawing, which I had mostly done up 'till then) and I had to try all different types of paint, with all different techniques and in all possible combinations. I'm not so much into reading facts as making a thorough hands-on exploration of a subject.

Newts are AWESOME. There was ONE stream near my house that they lived in. (Countless ponds and pools and ditches with frogs, but only that stream had newts.)

OMG, someone who understands my Tea fetish. I too make tea several ways. My coffee over the years (as I always drank that until now) changed from black, white with 2, white with one, black again, then settled on white with one. I would endlessly use a cafetiere and nothing else for a few weeks, then back to ground.

I used to have a pond in my back garden, and found a newt stuck in plant pot that had fallen into the pond. That was it, within days I knew everything about them, and I still love frogs and bugs now. I encourage my daughter to love them too so she is not scared of them when she grows up.

Its been a real pleasure and relief talking to you.

Hope to see you around

A while ago I've read a book about a girls obsessed with pylons and climbing pylons, so you're not the only one...

I relate to the phases - I get very interested in all kind of things - it can last for years or just o few months, but it's always very intense and thorough. My "tea fetish" as you so nicely put it goes back quite a few years and is as strong as ever. But I think tea and tea preparation is a much more popular hobby than pylons

Perhaps that is because they go around and around.

ruveyn

What wrong with pylons ? As long as you do not try to climb them or fiddle with them it is OK. I will confess that I do have a liking for looking at pylons and electrical equipment, high voltage pylons are not that interesting compared with medium voltage systems which are on wood poles. You tend to get a greater range of different systems on wood poles, if you read a book or get a real expert to explain to you a few things about them then you can read the pole equipment as if it was a newspaper.

For me it's Chattering Teeth. I just found some today and it reminded me of the place in my heart Chattering Teeth had. I used to love them but I forgot about them and now I found some and am reminded and love them once again.

http://www.eoearth.org/article/Altamont ... California

I used to work with a guy who had a previous job doing maintenance on the wind turbines you see in the link. He said one day one of them came loose (the big blade thingy) and rolled down the hill, and it was really terrifying, because they are HUGE.

You know how they say that if you think of your worst nightmare, someone on the internet somewhere will be getting a thrill from it? I've seen a whole website devoted to pylons! I shall refrain from posting the link for fear of upsetting the OP.

My thing as a child was astronomy, and I was also into aircraft (still am). I got continually told that these weren't suitable interests for a girl though.

I could never see the point. I could never understand why they were there. I used to quiz my dad all the time on ways they could put the wires underground, or how they would go around that.

I found telegraph poles more aesthetic, as if they belonged there. The natural charm of them. I used to draw pictures of them with snow drifts, or in charming landscapes. They are almost natural with a purpose. As for pylons, they were just hideous. I was obsessed with them, and still look at them with some sort of fascination now I have grown up.

Is this aspie, or just a bit sad?

I am another one who really likes bugs. Invertebrates are probably my most constant obsession/interest. All of them are intricate and beautiful in their own way, and there are so many species to find and learn about without even leaving your own garden. Turn over an ordinary leaf, and there's a good chance of finding a tiny yet complex creature there. How could that not be fascinating?

Most of my obsessions seem to go in stages. I used to be obsessed with Pokemon. Last year I was obsessed with Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. At the moment, I'm obsessed with Japanese TV and language. Then I have things which I don't really count as an obsession because I don't tend to actively seek them out or think about them unless they're in front of me, but when I'm presented with them, I feel transfixed by and could look at them for hours. These are such things as calendars, pipes and running water, mazes, skeleton clocks and any similar intricate mechanism with lots of visible moving parts.