What was your first special interest?

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I saw a thread in the movies section on the James Bond films that made me think back to previous special interest I've had which caused me to create this thread as I'm interested in what your first special interest was or if you don't know the earliest one you can remember.

My first special interest was trains (specifically steam engines.) I think this interest sparked up from a love of the franchise Thomas the Tank Engine, the television show and books; the books actually taught me how to read funnily enough. After this I started collecting models of Hornby Model Trains and Tracks and researching trains through books. In my grandparent's attic all of this is preserved as well which is interesting I guess. Also at age 3 I drew a picture of a train in immense detail for my age (also take in mind I had delayed communication skills at this age as well.)

This interest died when I my next special interest started which was in the BBC TV Show 'Robot Wars' which was also running at the same time as another special interest on documentaries on animals (specifically David Attenborough) and animals in general.


So please fell free to share your first/early special interest!
-BenPritchard

I believe it was (and still is) serial killers.

My first special interest was Super Mario Bros. I have had many others since then but I'm still interested in Nintendo and Mario in particular.

Antarctica!

Medical dramas.

I think for me, my first special interest was airplanes. Especially WWII warbirds and bombers. I knew most every model and specification. I can still recognize a P51 or B17 etc. from far away just by its shape.

I think it was reading; I used to read every word that passed in front of my eyes when I was young. According to my mother, I could read when I was 3, which implies hyperlexia.

The Thunderbirds!

I remember that there was a supermarket that gave stamps to customers with which you could get the Thunderbird crafts and puppets. I nagged my mother for hours on end to go grocery shopping (what a way to get an aspie into a supermarket!) and eventually collected them all.

After that, this special interest sort of seamlessly merged into an obsession for the Apollo missions and satelite communication.


Telstar!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ybCjf6ras

Television and marketing logos, from ages two to four. This is very well documented as I made scrapbooks and drawings of these logos constantly, and there are many home videos about me monologuing about random logos.

Aladdin, Lion King, and Toy Story were my first special interests. They were the only movies I could sit through outside of a theater for a while.

anatomy! my dad had a printing company and one year he printed encyclopedias. i was fascinated with the transparencies of the human body which were page after page of overlays in which the top page was the skin, the next was muscle, the following one was nerves, then veins and arteries, and finally the last page was skeleton.

that, and animals. i believed i could talk with animals like dr. doolittle