What are your obsessions?

Apparently it's common for Aspies to have unusually focused or niche interests so I figured I'd find out what other peoples interests are.

I'll go first.

Mine are:

  • Sci-Fi TV (Trek, Stargate, Babylon 5, The Expanse - Trek was my gateway drug, which I started watching at the age of 5. I even remember episode titles from a few seconds of viewing or starship registry numbers)
  • Trance & Progressive House music - not commercial bilge you hear played on the radio - underground stuff you'd hear at a proper club or event rather at your local meat market (I pretty much exclusively listen to these genres)
  • Cats (If I see one in the street I have to make friends, if it's a timid cat I have to try and win its trust - for some reason a friendly cat makes me super happy, perhaps I have toxoplasmosis)
  • The Simpsons
  • Technology (I work in IT support and am always using or fiddling with tech)
  • Science - I listen to a number of podcasts and find things like advances in genomics interesting
  • Religion - more specifically from the view of an atheist (me) - trying to understand how people are duped into believing such things from a neurological and psychological perspective (this stems from being raised by fundamentalist evangelical Christians, who've turned out to be massive hypocrites)
Parents
    • Reading, writing, and history (I made a careeer of this and was an elementary teacher for 17 years)
    • Culinary Arts (I made a career of this. After burning out as an elementary teacher, I was a Culinary Arts instructor for 15 years)
    • military miniatures and 1/6 scale WWI action figures (Now that I'm retired, I've used these + art AI to produce and publish 4 alternative history graphic novels)
    • Soap and candles that look and smell iike real food (I created a small on-line business to sell these but decided that I really hated dealing with quarterly taxes, paperwork, and customer service)
    • Autism - I blog about autism and have created 3 graphic novels about autism. I am thinking of turning the blog into a non-profit.
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    • Reading, writing, and history (I made a careeer of this and was an elementary teacher for 17 years)
    • Culinary Arts (I made a career of this. After burning out as an elementary teacher, I was a Culinary Arts instructor for 15 years)
    • military miniatures and 1/6 scale WWI action figures (Now that I'm retired, I've used these + art AI to produce and publish 4 alternative history graphic novels)
    • Soap and candles that look and smell iike real food (I created a small on-line business to sell these but decided that I really hated dealing with quarterly taxes, paperwork, and customer service)
    • Autism - I blog about autism and have created 3 graphic novels about autism. I am thinking of turning the blog into a non-profit.
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