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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  • Some of my obsessions are:

    • Electric guitars from the 60's and 70's (Framus, Burns, Hopf, Fender... I have to be careful not to buy them by the dozen)
    • The UK, anything UK-related, specially WWI (I'm German btw.)
    • Autism (I'm obsessed with Autism since I learned that my lifelong otherworldlyness had an actual name)
    • Old tech (old computers, old game consoles, old radios... )
    • Music (any sort of music with a penchant to Punk Rock and Avant Garde)

    Past obsessions:

    • The Beatles (I was the most annoying Beatles fan you can imagine)
    • Space travel (maybe other planets are more welcoming to someone like me?)
    • The Soviet Union (believe it or not, I was an 8 year old Bolshevik)
    • Art (any kind: drawing, painting, etching; any period. I love and make art)
    • Björk (Ewww... drool. Sorry, ahem! I really like Björk)
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  • Some of my obsessions are:

    • Electric guitars from the 60's and 70's (Framus, Burns, Hopf, Fender... I have to be careful not to buy them by the dozen)
    • The UK, anything UK-related, specially WWI (I'm German btw.)
    • Autism (I'm obsessed with Autism since I learned that my lifelong otherworldlyness had an actual name)
    • Old tech (old computers, old game consoles, old radios... )
    • Music (any sort of music with a penchant to Punk Rock and Avant Garde)

    Past obsessions:

    • The Beatles (I was the most annoying Beatles fan you can imagine)
    • Space travel (maybe other planets are more welcoming to someone like me?)
    • The Soviet Union (believe it or not, I was an 8 year old Bolshevik)
    • Art (any kind: drawing, painting, etching; any period. I love and make art)
    • Björk (Ewww... drool. Sorry, ahem! I really like Björk)
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