Listing Your Obsessions

[Quasar]

Okay... so I've thought about it for a day or two, and I have compiled a sort of list of all the obsessions I can(currently) recall. Probably missing some, but I think this gets the gist of it. Note this is not really in order, although the first few may be close..

Reptiles, particularly turtles
Rocks/minerals
Yo-yos
Legos/Construx
Pokemon
Bionicle
Finger boards/bikes
Coins
Computers
Cosmetology
Astronomy
Programming/scripting
Ancient Culture(mayan, egyptian, etc)
Hot Wheels(leading the way! )
Guns
Knives
Swords
Psychology
Lasers
Locks
Regex
Various tv shows/programs
Magic(not "the Gathering", like magician stuff)
Puzzles, traditional and "hand puzzles" as well
Hats
Magnetism
Electromagnetism
Carnivorous plants
Various games
Electronics in general
Linux
Forums
IRC
Internet
Dismantling stuff
UFC

Um... yeah, I think that about does it for now...

 

[Etpwngnome]

My obsessions:

World of Warcraft (my username here is my priest's name on Malorne-US)
complexity theory
Anthropology
Quantum electrodynamics
Star trek
squares (yes, the shape. I dunno why.)
Rubiks cubes
24
Bones (best compliment I ever got was when someone told me I was like Bones)

 

[CJinherPJs]

The ones I can remember:

- Washing machines
- Teletubbies
- Music (still interested in music now, even though my taste in music changes periodically)
- Rabbits
- Birds
- Spyro (loved the first three games, still have them somewhere)
- Drawing 3D shapes
- Cats
- Rubber ducks (though this isn't really an obsession, I just like to collect them).

 

[umbrellabeach]

Past obsessions (that I can remember):
Rocks, gems, flowers, etc.
The Lion King and its character Simba
Lebo Morake
Bambi
The Titanic
Anne Frank
The shows I used to watch when I was a kid. XD

Current obsessions:
Mickey Mouse
Disney in general
Walt Disney himself
Astronomy
Landscapes
Flickr
Adam Young and his projects Owl City, Sky Sailing, etc.
Screencapping
Stuart Little (the book & the 2 movies)
Books by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The color violet
YouTube Poops & music videos
Grammar and using English correctly

 

[Pseudeos]

- Green things
- Art
- Toilets
- The Lion King
- Rugrats
- Birds
- Blinky Bill
- Superheroes and the science behind them
- Rocko's Modern Life
- Ancient Egypt
- Paganism
- Harry Potter
- The USA
- Emily the Strange
- Being normal
- Computer hacking
- Green Day
- Nirvana/Kurt Cobain
- Opiates
- Schizophrenia
- Playing guitar
- Computers
- Bipolar disorder
- Warriors (book series)
- Punks
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Psychology (in general)
- Psychiatric medications
- Goths
- Suicide methods (I wasn't depressed or anything)
- Taking photos of things
- School shooters
- English language
- Marilyn Manson
- Russia
- Cannabis
- Mushrooms
- Cough medicine
- Wicca

 

[richbebo]

Hi everyone i'm new and this is officaily my first post to this forum.I'm from Surrey in England and i'm 21 and these are my obbsessions...

Dinosoars
Snakes
Pokemon
Drawing
Computer Games
Sonic the Hedgehog
Pet Mice
Series of Unfortunate Events(books)
Harry Potter
Warhammers
Big Brother
Cars
Splintercell (game)
Soul music
Doing weights

and atm i'd say Tarantulas(got one), Air guns, and ASPERGERS actually lol

the aspergers one is weired,i cant get off my laptop, anyone else had that

 

[jmnixon95]

I like Music, Literature, Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology.
I had a real "obsession" with the Beatles for a few years (still do, but not as strong).
However, my first full-blown Asperger's special interest was American presidents starting when I was approximately five years of age. I still like them, but I'm not as... what's the word I need right now? Anyways, I still find them very interesting.

 

[noraa]

Here are some of mine, I am still obsessed with most of them.

Counter-Strike
Producing music
DJing
Electronic dance music (Hardstyle, trance, house ect.)
Grand Theft Auto series
Facebook
Computers
Pokemon (Everyone seems to like this )
Exercising (Gym, running, weights ect)

 

[regnkappa]

raincoats
computer hardware
programming
girlfriends
tv shows (buffy,angel, bones, gilmore girls,charmed, big bang theory, friends)
Role Playing with pen and paper, books. (Eon, Neotech, Buffy ,angel, Saga, Dungeons and Dragons)
Irc Chat
Forums (buffy,asperger, computer hardware,game forums)
World of warcraft

 

[Crossbreed]

I am first & foremost driven in my relationships and related responsibilities, but these are my avocational/leisurely obsessions:

1. Playscale [1:6] action dolls (customizing)
2. Figure drawing
3. Human eidonomy [external anatomy]
4. Comic book art (American)
   
5. Animal eidonomy & taxonomy [classification]
   
6. Etymology [word histories]
   
7. Onomastics [name histories]
8. Neology [inventing words & names]
9. Cryptology [codes, ciphers, etc.]
10. Clueless crosswords
    
11. Mathematics (as far as I have gone)
12. Computer programming, including PLCs
13. Database
14. Bookkeeping (for my home & business) [I know it is necessary, but has an enjoyable quality, too]
    
15. Drafting, particularly CAD
16. Computer graphics (including color manipulation)
    
17. Physics (as far as I have gone)
18. Logic grid puzzles
19. Sudoku
20. Numbrix
21. Minesweeper
22. Physical puzzles, like Orbix, Pyraminx, The Brain, etc.
23. Bicycling
24. Instruments: cabasa, melodica
    
25. Autism
26. Intellectual giftedness

Past:

1. Choir singing
2. Acting
   
3. Stage magic
4. Electronics
5. Frisbee & flying rings
   
6. Boomerangs (returning type)
7. Speech synthesis/phonetic alphabet

 

[Salmongirl17]

A few (not by any means all) of my obsessions include:

- Playing musical instruments
- Learning new instruments
- Music composition
- Music theory
- Doctor Who
- Memorizing digits of pi
- Getting good grades in school
- Instagram
- Snapchat
- My boyfriend
- Marching band
- Drum Corps International (DCI)
- The bands Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, My Chemical Romance, and Twenty One Pilots
- Tourbooks and tourguides
- Memorizing maps
- YouTube
- Sleep

And most of all...
- Spaghetti and Parmesan cheese

 

[Irkoutsk]

Trance,
Travelling around the world (especially Europe, North America and South America),
Geography,
Video Games,
Asperger Syndrom,
Space and Planets,
Languages (French, English, Turkish, Spanish, Russian)
Cats and Dogs,
Security Agences,
War,
Psychology,
And many other.

 

[s6driver]

Some current and (mostly) past obsessions:

(Yes I know that a lot of these things contradict each other, haha... they didn't all happen at the same time)

Inventing stuff
camping/hiking
fitness
BBQ'ing
cigars
cars
beer
scotch
wine
web design
photoshop
photography
wikipedia
forums
guns
fishing
golf
skiing
off-grid living
farm-to-fork
hamburgers
planes/flying
politics
stocks/finance
programming
billiards
hunting
home improvement (the hobby, not the show)
modern war movies/documentaries
hot sauce
gardening
log cabins
carpentry
metal machining
travel
scuba diving


I don't know why I always gravitate towards obsessions that cost a lot of money :/

 

[s6driver]

And just for fun, some of my 6yr-old son's obsessions, past and present:

Cars (the movie)
Toy cars
car makes/models
Geography
Russian language
Minions
Our cat
swimming
Rubik's cube (which I also had a short obsession with, spent a week learning how to solve it and then doing it as fast as possible so that I could teach him)
fishing (probably my fault)
having things in alphabetical order
the concept of Infinity
Rube Goldberg contraptions
bugs
hedgehogs
pigs
knock-knock jokes
Tom and Jerry
board games
store/restaurant names