what are your autistic fascinations? what are you good at?

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what do you do or know more about than the average person?...........what makes you tick to go on everyday?

things i am fascinated and know more about than most:

-autism, lol.facts, research, theories

- the presidents of the US, their wives, children, administrations, facts, trivia...EVERYTHING presidential................when i was 5 yrs old i received a set of little statues of the prezes) at the time (lyndon johnson was the current prez, lol).since then i had developed a huge fascination

-czarist and soviet era russian history....just love it

- US and world history

-current events...i love watching the world unfold

-ANYTHING TRIVIA.......i love trivia, and usually amaze people by my knowledge of little known and obscure facts about a lot of subjects

the beatles, lol.....everything beatles

Dark Shadows, the old soap opera in the 1960's...lol

weather, meterology and geography

sports sports sports...baseball football, basketball, bowling, golf, olympics

playing golf

sociology

my career of helping people and businesses of all types with theri financial concerns, problems, and education

have a great day

I know a lot about autism also...haha


and: video games (my favorites, who made them, their ign ratings)

super heroes (especially spider man batman and the dragon ball z characters)

drawing super heroes (huge obsession with drawing anything to do with super heroes)

marilyn monroe (mostly drawing her but I know a lot about her life too)

greek mythology (all the god's and godesses' family trees and historys)

ballet (which is actually my job now)

Lady GaGa (that's a relatively new obsession but omg is it strong)

know about autism and love current events too

- British punk of the 70's/ post-punk of the 80's. (bands, dates, members etc)

- Inuits and their culture. (Old National Geographics are great)

- bird species

- unusual/unbelievable articles/stories in the newspaper. (can recite every detail, although its completely useless in everyday life)

- Independent comics and artists zines. (know more about these than my tutors do)

- drawing. (Mainly people on buses and trains, but its hard not to get caught and you have to be really sneaky)

Italy (I want to live there when I'm older).

Moldova (which is an Eastern European country between Romania and Ukraine, for those who didn't know).

20th century history (especially the wars).

World geography (I know all the European countries and their capital cities, and I'm trying to learn all the countries in other continents too).

Politics (especially international politics).

- Astrophysics, with a special interest in both stellar formation and black holes (had to really bite my tongue during the series finale arc on Battlestar Galactica, when the writers couldn't seem to figure out the difference between a black hole and a naked singularity)

- The Multiple World hypothesis in quantum physics (even though it can never be falsifiable - it's still fun to think about)

- Science fiction

- The convoluted histories of the superheroes in Marvel and DC

- The fictional histories of various SF worlds, especially those of Star Trek and Mass Effect

- James White's Sector General stories

- New gadgets

- Trivia in general

- Maps. Any maps. I will occasionally buy a freeway atlas just so I can read the maps of the various US states.

I'm really interested in:

Sports (mainly knowledge of and watching and playing of): soccer, american football, tennis, poker (Texas Hold'em and Omaha) and cricket.

News/Current events, like to keep up to date of what's going on in the world.

Video Games - especially first person shooters (FPS's).

The economy - especially in these tough times!

Space

And lastly- a bit weird but:

Watching the sunrise and sunset - I don't do this very offen but when I do it amazes me. I've always wanted to watched the sunrise on the day of summer solstice (the longest day of the year - which is 21st June usually) Think I'm going to do this this year.

My doctor says I have a horse obsession. I can't deny it.

I know a bit about Aspergers too now, hah.

My only obsessions right now:
-video games
-computers
-maybe you can count movies, since I go through specific genres and watch a few dozen or so from each one (right now it's kung fu).

I do often find myself with short lived obsessions though. Like for maybe 4 or 5 months. Last few were psychology, reading books, origami, lucid dreaming, the paranormal, and when I was a kid I friggin loved K'NEX (that was an obsession for sure, and it lasted a good 6 years).

History
Economics- and not just "now", I mean Economics 101; god how I love it.
Cultural History( i.e. movies, TV, music, toys, etc)
Business

That pretty much covers it.

When I was at school I was renowned as 'the one who knows EVERYTHING about The Beatles'. I even got asked to compile questions on them for a team quiz one year.

I wouldn't claim to be 'the one who knows EVERYTHING about Nirvana' (that would be Everett True you're after ), but I am fairly geeky in that department.

Other contenders for my specialist subject on Mastermind would be: the history of the city of Seattle, obscure facts about the human body (ask me about Meckel's diverticulum), religions, mythology, afterlife beliefs, and all things Sandman (the comic books). And I just generally pick up a whole bunch of totally useless trivia facts on just about everything else - except sport, in which I have no particular interest, and politics, in which the interpretation of the word 'fact' is dubious to say the least.

robbokris, where in the world are you? Avebury in England would be a cool place to watch the sunrise on the Solstice. Stonehenge is better known, but the stone circles at Avebury are more accessible (they more or less built the village in the middle of them), and it's really spooky first thing in the morning, especially when it's misty. I watched the midwinter sunrise broadcast online from Newgrange in Ireland in 1999 - only a few people can get into the chamber each year, but that year they decided to film it live it so anyone could see the first ray of sunlight hitting the chamber wall. It was very moving.