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)
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  • Mine are similar - I'm an engineer so sci-fi, technology, complex things and science in general light me up. I like structures so I'm renovating a house and I get a buzz from doing things that cost NTs a fortune that I can do for practically nothing - and mine is better.

    I'm fascinated by people. The way the bumble through their pointless lives without noticing the world around them.

    I love animals - the way they just live for the moment. No hassles, no politics, just being there.

    I love Disney theme parks. I'd live there if I could (I have disabilities which give me an access pass so I don't have to suffer the queueing way the other 50,000 people around me do).

    Kids movies - mostly cartoons like Igor, Over The Hedge, Storks, Up etc. The movie environment can be made perfect without real-life. The backgrounds, the charactors, the story, the pacing and the voices can all be manipulated to perfection. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs? Yes please.

  • Do you watch The Expanse?

    It's easily the best sci-fi series since nuBSG and if I'm honest, is probably better.

    I bet you like Pixar movies, I like many of them too. Went to see Inside Out at the cinema most recently.

    I have a vivid memory of seeing the Pixar short with the lamps and ball during a Channel 4 animation weekend when I was a kid.

    I'm interested in certain aspects of people, as an example I find the whole Trump situation fascinating and follow it quite closely.

    People generally I feel are quite selfish and I'm very cynical about their ultimate intentions.

    I love animals as a whole too but love cats especially, for the same reasons you list. No mind games, you know where you stand with them.

  • Not seen The Expanse - I got into Final Space (10-part epic) but couldn't belive the way it ended. Love Pixar but hated Inside Out. I like the simplicity of the themes. I seem to like to be manipulated in a controlled way by a film or piece of music - I can stop it anytime. I use them as emotional release when the stress of the world is frying my brain.

    I love the whole Trump-thing. Watching people frothing at the mouth about a guy in another country who they nothing about apart from the MSM lies - it's hilarious how triggered they all are.

    We've had a couple of cats - both lived to 20 but as we're both 52, the next one might outlive us so we'll satisfy ourselves with making friends with all of the cats we meet on our outings.

    It's odd, but dogs make a bee-line for me. They seem to see me as an oasis of calmness and clarity among a sea of NT craziness. They always come and just sit with me - often just making light physical contact as a sort of plea of 'save me'.

    The NTs always comment as 'he never, ever does that normally' when their dog is asleep at my feet.

  • Hmm, odd.

    Trekkies of any worth know about it / have seen it.

  • I never see any memorabilia at ComicCon or anywhere else.

  • It has quite a big cult status, particularly among Trekkies.

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