What are your special interests?

Special interests over the years:

• Lego
• Houdini
• Windmills
• Antarctica
• Lord of the Rings movies (especially the making off extras and Wētā Workshop)
• Indigenous Americans
• Paleolithic monuments
• Beethoven

Does anyone else go through cycles with their interests? Some I have intense interest for years and then it feels like I'm done with that particular interest forever, others are consistent, and others I can leave for years and then go back to them. The reason I know they are a special interest and not just a curiosity is because they bring me intense joy and I have an urge to share what I know about them with other people (but I don't because I've learned that people think I'm weird if I do that).

Special interests over the years:

• Lego
• Houdini
• Windmills
• Antarctica
• Lord of the Rings movies (especially the making off extras and Wētā Workshop)
• Indigenous Americans
• Paleolithic monuments
• Beethoven

Does anyone else go through cycles with their interests? Some I have intense interest for years and then it feels like I'm done with that particular interest forever, others are consistent, and others I can leave for years and then go back to them. The reason I know they are a special interest and not just a curiosity is because they bring me intense joy and I have an urge to share what I know about them with other people (but I don't because I've learned that people think I'm weird if I do that).

I forgot music special interests/stims

• Kate Bush
• Bjork
• Joanna Newsom 
• Radiohead/Thom Yorke
• The White Stripes
• Stars of the Lid/ A Winged Victory for the Sullen
• Erland Cooper
• Arvo Pärt
• Echo and the Bunnymen
• David Bowie

I identify all of these artists as autistic/synesthetic in hindsight. 

I completely relate!! Some things like minecraft were very prominent when I was a child but it's not as intense of an interest now that I'm nearly 20