Friends by special interest

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Since most Aspies have a special interest, let's list all of ours here. Then anyone who wants to find friends can just search this thread and pm anyone who they're interested in.

I start:

I like anything related to computers/electronics, especially programming and graphics. I have starting writing a few games but finished only one due to heavy procrastination. I am interested in how things work in general, and have been addicted to HowStuffWorks at a time in my life. I'm learning Electrical Engineering (the official term, it seems) now. I love science fiction, however I don't read much due to a heavy internet addiction.

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I like anything that has to do with the London of the second half of the 20th Century. Especially 1960s Canrnaby Street and Routemasters (no big suprize, here!)

I've made a quick switch from Victorian London, to Classic London in less than a day.

Writing, scifi, and marine biology. I know there are a few writers here, and I know alot of people like scifi, but I haven't seen any thing on marine bio here...

Nature stuff - plants, animals, birds, frogs, fish, you name it...basically anything you can find in a diverse backyard. I like bird watching and observing nature stuff. It's facinating to me.

Music - unusual time signatures, chords, phrasing, tempos, syncopation, harmonies...anything out of the ordinary that still retains it's musical quality. Complex modern sounds. It's the best listening to great music with someone who shares the same interests and can play or sing the music along with me.

Animals - mainly the difference between animal interactions with someone on the autism spectrum and an NT. Why don't they understand animals? Animals have no problem with communicating. Observing an NT handler vs an AS handler is like night and day. The animals even look different...and definitley behave differently.

Philosophy - Sexuality (bi/gay/straight/etc), religion, reality, free will...but politics don't always interest me. I'm not interested in the war because it depresses me soley because of it's shaky platform it's trying to use as justification.

Nutrition/Food/Cooking - I love cooking. I love to eat my cooking. I love my cooking to be healthy and flavorful. Yum. Garlic is the best ever. I'm becoming more vegetarian as I get older. I've decided not to eat chicken or meat (anything that was originally on 4 legs) any more frequently than 1-2 times a week. Fish can be good every day.

Beer - I love beer...good beer, not the cheap stuff. Today's flavor is Skinny Dip (New Belguim Brewing Co)

Horses - I know a lot about horses...a former obsession, but I am full of knowledge on riding, bridles, bits, saddles, balance and movement of the horse. At one point I could draw free hand the entire skeletal and muscle structure of a horse. I'd love to continue riding and have a horse again...not enough time and money now.

Reading - I am a reader. I don't remember ever not knowing how to read. I enjoy some fiction, lately it's been books about drug culture...similar to Alice in Wonderland (which is a freaky book). My latest books I have read in the last couple of months (May & June) have been:
Life of Pi (Yann Martel) - About a boy in a lifeboat with a tiger.
Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell) - A long book, but it's incredible. Every time I read it, I'm always surprised at what happens. This is the best book ever written.
Trainspotting (Irving Welsh) - A cool book. It's written in several dialects (Scottish). It took me twice to really understand what was really going on.
Porno (Irving Welsh) - The follow on to Trainspotting. I finished this last night.
Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas (Hunter S Thompson) - I'm on Chapter 3 right now. This book is insane. The movie scared the crap out of me...but in a good way.

That's all I can think of today.

-Ann-

Heavy metal music, sci-fi, certain movies, Doom, Quake are some of my own special interests

Round 3 of telling my obessions which no one really said anything about them.
My obessions or special interests are Final Fantasy series music, FF8 music, FF8 pictures and posters. Next one would be Tigers which are my fav for almost all my life. I've got Tigers posters, pictures and statues. Next one would be Novel Writing. I've got everything on how to write novel, the right uses for grammer. I've got 4 novels under my kind of career belt. I've got all sorts of things from POD publishers, handbook and publishing refrence. I've got information on how to format a novel. Everything anything you can think of I have it on writing. My other lesser obessions are getting movie sound tracks to every movie that's my favorite.

I love Pokemon. I write Pokemon fan fiction and Pokemon fan art. I also enjoy Doctor Who, and love Final Fantasy VII music (and have played it to the end about 5 times.) Past obsessions I'm still interested include whales, the environment (and issiues pertaining to) medical stuff and parasites (inc. tapeworm and malaria) Star Trek, Jurassic Park and dinosaurs, and Irish Dancing and Riverdance.

Julie

The British education system.

Methods of space propulsion.

Star Trek.

Computers.

Autism.

Dogs--I can recognize on sight and name over 300 breeds of dog as well as explain a little of their breed history, and I can go into much more in-depth knowlege on a little more than half of those. This is an obsession I have had literally since I could crawl, and I'm always up for discussion.

Languages. I love grammar, spelling, idiosyncrasies in vocabulary, etymology, idiomatic phrases, the works.

I love animals of all sorts, but dogs are the foremost. I do know something about horses, but not as much as most real horse people I've met.

Evolutionary biology, especially as it relates to human psychology, is another interest of mine. I like thinking about how the imprint left by evolution affects the way we think and act.