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Your obsessions when you were a child? (Or your child's obsessions?)

Droopy said:
When I was a child my main (and still my most intense obsession overall) was construction vehicles.
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Hello all. I just joined. I was told about this forum by another Aspie that works Wrong Planet as well as this forum.

Hi Droopy. Your message caught my attention because I've alwasy had an intense obsession to, especially backhoe loaders and have operated them as well. Not only do I have several 1:16 diecast backhoe loader models but I have a real one that I get out occasionally and use it. But, mine is a small one and I really love to operate the big guys the best. I have also given my backhoe loaders soul, personalities and names. I have Personification Synesthesia which explaines why I see backhoe loaders differently than others.

Would you like to tell me a little more about your obsession.
 
all the awesome shows on cartoon network, dbz being one of them.

then I collected race cars.

I can't recall much more of my child hood, I just wasted all my time in front of a tv over anything else really.
 
When I was 4 my unknown uncle sent me a box of Whitman's coin books in penny, nickel, dime, quarter and half-dollar sizes, with a couple coins in each book. So I basically had the "red book" memorized by age 7, including the mintages on key dates. haha, I knew more about coins than the dealers and we'd go to coin shows and play games with the dealers. I remember one coin show there were two wealthy Mexican dealers with handlebar moustaches and they were playing backgammon, the stakes being stacks of 50 peso Mexican gold coins. I never was a gambler though and probably only looked at porn about 2 hours max my whole life.
 
Being a soldier - guns, knives, tanks, camouflage and even ate "soldier jam" lol. It was my life's passion...at 6 years old
 
My big obsession as a kid was Dinosaurs, my father brought a book home when I was 2 (I can still remember the cover clearly and how the pages smelt) and that's what started me off, by the age of 3 I understood what the diagrams about evolution meant and the concept of extinction. When I went for therapy at the age of 6 I used to write about a favorite Dinosaur and show it to the OT, she was amazed, I loved the Latin names and learning their meanings. I was also crazy about Whales, Nocturnal birds and the planets especially Jupiter, when I was 14 someone in my science class dared me to name as many of the moons of the solar system as I could off the top of my head and I got about two thirds right and won 5 dollars. Funny thing is although I was good at Dinosaur Latin names but not the scientific names of animals even though its the same thing, now days I find the scientific names fascinating.
 
Yup me too; by 2nd grade I already decided I wanted to be a Paleotologist [spelling?] My father looked at me like I was crazy...his career at the time wasn't going so well. I read so much about dinosaurs...eventually I moved on to other books.


Laughingowl1975 said:
My big obsession as a kid was Dinosaurs, my father brought a book home when I was 2 (I can still remember the cover clearly and how the pages smelt) and that's what started me off, by the age of 3 I understood what the diagrams about evolution meant and the concept of extinction. When I went for therapy at the age of 6 I used to write about a favorite Dinosaur and show it to the OT, she was amazed, I loved the Latin names and learning their meanings. I was also crazy about Whales, Nocturnal birds and the planets especially Jupiter, when I was 14 someone in my science class dared me to name as many of the moons of the solar system as I could off the top of my head and I got about two thirds right and won 5 dollars. Funny thing is although I was good at Dinosaur Latin names but not the scientific names of animals even though its the same thing, now days I find the scientific names fascinating.
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katcha said:
When I was 8 or 9 I was obsessed with DNA and subatomic particles.
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STILL obsessed with them!! I love the structure of DNA, whenever I have panic attacks I usually calm myself down by drawing it out. Whenever I'm supposed to be studying something important I waste my time learning the masses and average lifetimes of fermions.
 
Mine was horses. I knew sooooo much about horses (still remember most of it). I have a collection of horse books that I read cover to cover and memorized large portions of. When I had access to the internet, I spent it researching horses.

My 4 year old is obsessed with animals, in general. He watches all the shows by the Kratt brothers by the hour, trying to learn all he can about them.
 
Though technically I can still be considered a child, my earlier special interests were things with wheels, dinosaurs, endangered animals, and extinct animals.
 
Horses. I read about them, drew them, had horse calanders, and had horse everything from age six to age twelve. I studied them deeply almost every day, and for hours.
 
Here's a list of things I became obsessed with at one point or another growing up:

Horses
Dinosaurs
Spiders
Pokemon
Vampires
Twiggy (the 1960s model)
Serial Killers
The Smashing Pumpkins
Pigs
Animal rights
 
My son loves anything about natural disasters, megastructures and crashes. He has books on them and watches documentaries.
 
My list:
-Playstation
-Science facts
-making people laugh (am pretty good with humour)
- creating rather crude (but funny) comic strips.
and lastly, superheroes. :)

I still love these things now, but am not obsessed over these things anymore. :p
 
For me I think it was knights and heroes. I would often go and play with a wooden sword outside and just walk around with it and swing it occasionally when I came up with stories, and generally was just into things where there was a prominent heroic character.

I don't think it's totally gone away now, stick me in front of the right movie or give me the right book and I'll focus on that character(s) for a while (stick me near Arthurian legends and I'll be quite happy :D), but I'm not walking around outside with a wooden sword so that's kinda handy XD

When I was studying chemistry I would often draw organic mechanisms many times as they are quite fun and the rules are quite evident when you know them which is reassuring, though this was quite helpful to do. I now need to find a way to do this for anatomy XD
 
Under 10 years old -

Buck Rogers and Dan Dare
Airfix aircraft
Ginger Rogers (as in Fred Astaire and...)
Scalectrix
Medicine (aunt was a nurse and gave me her training books)
Taking things apart
Fire
Meccano
 
My obsession often changes but My 'main' obsessions are music/lyrics and psychology/mental illness. I've had those two for years now.

When I was younger it was:
Bones(The tv show)
Horses and every game or whatever with horses!
Taking and editing photos.
Drawing
Patterns and colour order. (Still have those)

There are more, but that's all I can think of right now :)
 
This is interesting, as my childhood obsession was astronomy and astrophysics. Which waned during my teenage years. But over the last couple of years, it has come back, and with a vengeance! Now, I will devour every article you throw at me (and pick it apart, if necessary). Science, I guess, is an interest that has been rekindled the past couple of years, after a good long while of not having any interest in it at all. Strange how it all works out.
 
oliviamorgenstern said:
My obsession often changes but My 'main' obsessions are music/lyrics and psychology/mental illness. I've had those two for years now.

When I was younger it was:
Bones(The tv show)
Horses and every game or whatever with horses!
Taking and editing photos.
Drawing
Patterns and colour order. (Still have those)

There are more, but that's all I can think of right now :)
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Did you collect Bryer Horses?
 
Where should I start? :D
* Making paper dolls :) (I made about 700 if not more) too bad I left them at my parents' house...
* Inventing new games
* kung-fu
* Bruce Lee
* Stories about knights and warriors (I always imagined myself as a warrior :D )
* when I was 4 I was obsessed with Pinocchio story (Russian version, he was my ultimate role model)
* DRAWING!!!! I drew more than I did anything else. I especially loved to draw people.
* Human anatomy
* Chiromancy
* Astrology
* any kinds of cards readings
* Inventing new way to predict the future
* make up
* fashion design
* art
* illustrated books
* music

Ok, that's all for now :D

Wait, how could I have forgotten!
Photography, with developing my own pictures and all!

Now I'm thinking, bloody hell, my childhood was awesome! :D
 
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