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What Were Your Past Obsessions?

Vanilla said:
As a kid, I used to be obsessed with (and in some cases, still am):
  • Cartoons/ Movies
  • Drawing/ Colouring-In/ Clay modelling/ Photography
  • Animals, dinosaurs, mythological creatures
  • My bicycle - used to come home and ride that thing for hours with my dog
  • My dog, and various others pets (including turtles, rabbits, and mice)
  • Nintendo 64
  • My dad's old DOS-operated computer
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I love the list including the Dos Computer Part.
 
aspiemike said:
Right now, physics, the really weird kind. Which sucks because nobody likes to talk about it. So when I'm having a conversation with somebody I have to fight the urge to go, did you know that time is related to gravity? Did you know that you can travel forward in time, it's just a matter of speed? Like if you were orbiting the earth near the speed of light for two years when you landed it would be ten years later on earth? Sigh...
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Having a conversation on this topic would interest me.
 
-When I was 8 I was obsessed with the movie "Annie", I watched it many many times, I still watch it every now and then
-fairyes
-Nineteenth century literature (I still love it)
 
When I was a child, maybe starting at around age 3-4, I became obsessed with anything and everything British. I was a complete Anglophile for many years, and I still love those Brits. :)
 
Cali Cat said:
When I was a child, maybe starting at around age 3-4, I became obsessed with anything and everything British. I was a complete Anglophile for many years, and I still love those Brits. :)
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Me too! Even though I'm a Hispanic-American, I constantly find myself using forms of british etiquette such as formality, posture, and even compulsively lifting my pinky when sipping from my mug of coffee!
 
Sophacumenist said:
Me too! Even though I'm a Hispanic-American, I constantly find myself using forms of british etiquette such as formality, posture, and even compulsively lifting my pinky when sipping from my mug of coffee!
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The pinky-lifting thing is one of the first things I picked up on, and I did it well into adulthood. Maybe there's something about British formality that is appealing to some Aspies?
 
I was late in reading Harry Potter, but once I had started it my freshman year I was completely enamored and had the series finished by the middle of my sophomore year.
 
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From 13 to 17 I was drunk everyday, smoked, misbehaved at school and did nothing but studying what I wanted. Then I was brought to the shrink and he made me realize I need to pretend I understand and agree with most of social rules to succeed in life or otherwise will have a really tough way through it.
 
Etzelaire said:
From 13 to 17 I was drunk everyday, smoked, misbehaved at school and did nothing but studying what I wanted. Then I was brought to the shrink and he made me realize I need to pretend I understand and agree with most of social rules to succeed in life or otherwise will have a really tough way through it.
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It has taken some serious bravado to make this post; for that, I commend you. I, too, had issues concerning underage drinking, starting when I was 14, but thankfully I was able to stop before my cravings turned into needs, quitting by the time I was 16.
 
Sophacumenist said:
It has taken some serious bravado to make this post; for that, I commend you. I, too, had issues concerning underage drinking, starting when I was 14, but thankfully I was able to stop before my cravings turned into needs, quitting by the time I was 16.
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How did you do it? I needed someone to tell me ex cathedra that I could manipulate society at my will (inside some limits of course) to achieve some point of mental peace.
 
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