Obsession List

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-Russian history (1860-1918)
-psychology
-photography
-being a hopeless romantic
-jewelry making
-horror films
-paranormal phenomena
-writing lists (no, seriously)

Neurotypical Disorders.

For me, I can't have more than one "special interest" at a time.

My current obsessions are: Asperger's Syndrome/HFA, Memory, Brain Lateralization of Function, Theory of Positive Disintegration

The following list of items are basically all of my special interests:

Philosophy, Psychology, Physics, Chemistry, all fields of Biology, Genetics, Neurogenetics, all fields of Neuroscience, Medicine, Anthropology, Theories of Personality, Cybernetics, Set Theory, Control Theory, Systems Theory, Information Theory, Complexity Theory, Emergence, Freud, Alfred Adler, Kant, Mathematics, Hume, Euler, Gauss, John Nash, Einstein, Locke, Descartes, Adam Smith, Isaac Newton, Darwin, Clifford A. Pickover, David T. Lykken, Nancy C. Andreason, Jean Piaget, creativity, originality, innovation of any sort, research, unknown phenomena, music, morality, diversity, Sartre, Existentialism, Logic, Idealism, Transcendental philosophy, maps, charts, diagrams, inspiration, coffee, love and romance, quiet contemplation.

- Physics
- Puzzles (Cryptograms, Sudoku, Ken Ken, Logic, etc.)
- Foreign Languages (Russian, Czech, German and Chinese at the moment)
- Tetris
- Rubik's Cube
- Linguistics
- Mathematics

My long-term special interests:

The Scientific Method
Philosophy of Science
Brainstorming experiments to test ideas
Psychology

(I separate "Scientific Method" from "Philosophy of Science" because their subject matter isn't quite the same thing - technicalities vs. what a wide variety of philosophers say)

Then I'll also have my short-term all time consuming interests. I'll often fully immerse myself in something for months, then switch to something else.

Wrll and fetishes.

Uuuhm...

art (all)
wilderness stuff and primitive living
biology/anatomy/evolution/bugs
linguistics and grammar (I'm not a perfectionist though, so don't start looking for mistakes in my posts.;;; )

Aaaaannnd mmmmmore, I think, but it all blends together...

Too many to list ! !

Football
Motorsport
Tropical fish .
Music

Movies

Reality TV

TV documentaries

.......................... ........ etc etc

Crikey!
We must be a well-informed lot!! !
I've had all the 'common' ones you hear about:
prehistoric animals, modern animals, astronomy, mythology, quantum physics, ancient history/cultures/mythology, weather systems, star wars, star trek, geology, 20th century history and poetry, Kafka, archaeology, cycling, photography, history of art, modern art.
My current most popular ones are digital photography, cycling looooong distances, learning languages and skulls/skeletons.

I have always found one interest leads naturally into another, for example, the constellations in the night sky led to a fascination for the mythology around them.

Quite proud to be geeky.

My number one obsession is scuba diving and I spend most of my spare time diving or thinking about diving. As a subset of diving I also am obsessed with cephalopods, night diving, shipwrecks and taking underwater photos

I also like:
-economics (this was my degree at university)
-literature (all kinds, was a major at university as well)
-sci fi
-computer software (just like tinkering with all kinds of software and I work as a software tester)

A few others but to lesser extents.

Mineralogy, chess, fashion design, art, music, maths

Currently:
>Knitting
>Writing
>This forum, apparently.

Regards,

Patricia

traditional fiddle music
computer software architecture (most recently a personal open source project I've been working on)
maps
sound
knitting

hah another one for knitting (and crocheting);) though I completely SUCK:\

Food (sub categories change from time to time: Nutrition, calories, veganism, raw food, baking, vegan baking (making my own white chocolate and (so far unsuccessful, save for one time ) egg free meringues...) making chocolates, molecular gastronomy)...
though this one's died off a bit since I was given ADs to take.

Digital Devil Saga (so far game 1),
also died off.

Harvest Moon (obsession since I was 11),
dead-ish. :\

Music. Not as alive as it used to be, but still there.. a bit.
It used to include playing the guitar but again, ever since ADs, it's gone.


And there's the come and go obsessions like
embroidery, claymation, countries/languages, spinning yarn, other games,
people etc.

History (mainly WWII)
Animals (mainly cats)