Brony714
My own evil twin...
What would you say would be your most unusual interest and/or obsession? And, if you like, you can also describe how this became an interest or obsession of yours.
Since I started this thread, I'll start: Conjoined twins. Ever since I was about 4 or 5, I've been obsessed with conjoined, or Siamese, twins. I could never explain why, but the idea of two people going through life physically joined to one another has intrigued me. There have been times I wished I was a conjoined twin myself, and I've always wanted to meet a pair, particularly one that hasn't been separated.
As for where it started, it was related to another lifelong interest of mine, reading. I've always been an avid reader, it started when I taught myself to read at the age of 2(at least that's what my mom tells me). At the time, I was living in a suburb of Los Angeles, a little town called La Habra. Like a lot of suburban women around this time, my mom occasionally purchased cosmetics from the local Avon Lady, and as such, regularly received Avon catalogs. Back in the late spring/early summer of 1974, when I was 4 years old, I read just about anything and everything I could get my hands on, including my mom's Avon catalogs. I remember reading one, and seeing one page that was an ad for a skin care line called Perfect Balance. The thing I noticed about that page was what was at the top of it. A picture of two women who appeared to be joined to one another, back to back. I had never seen anything like that before, and I went to show it to my mom to ask her about it. She told me they were Siamese twins. I also distinctly remember her telling me about one particular problem that only Siamese twins would ever have: when one twin wants to eat dinner, while the other twin wants to go to bed. Her solution was for the hungry twin to eat dinner in bed. Aside from curiosity, the other reaction I remember that picture giving me was what I'll just describe as a rush of blood located somewhere below my waist. Ever since seeing that picture, I've been intrigued by the idea of being joined to another person, as well as having a lifelong obsession with Siamese twins which, while having been on the back burner at times, has never completely gone away. And it also was part of a recurring dream I had for a while in the mid 1970s: my mom and Shirley Partridge from The Partridge Family as Siamese twins, joined back to back. I do remember one dream where they glued themselves together with a liberal amount of Perfect Balance skin cream. But even though it's been somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 years since I last had that dream, I've still occasionally had dreams involving Siamese twins. But it all started from that one Avon catalog, and that one picture of two women who were joined to one another back to back. Over time, my memory of that picture had become fuzzy, so much so that the only thing I ever really remembered about the picture was how the women were joined, but in early 2013, I was looking for Avon catalogs on eBay, and saw a lot of 16 catalogs for sale. The picture was too small to really see anything, but I did see that the cover of one of the catalogs had THE picture I remembered on the cover. Fortunately, I had enough money at the time to place a bid at the minimum, and double fortunately, I was the only bidder. The time from when I was notified that I had won the auction and paid for the items and when I finally received the package seemed like an eternity. But now I have it, the picture that sparked an obsession that has lasted almost my entire life.
Anyways, that was my obsession, now how about you?
Since I started this thread, I'll start: Conjoined twins. Ever since I was about 4 or 5, I've been obsessed with conjoined, or Siamese, twins. I could never explain why, but the idea of two people going through life physically joined to one another has intrigued me. There have been times I wished I was a conjoined twin myself, and I've always wanted to meet a pair, particularly one that hasn't been separated.
As for where it started, it was related to another lifelong interest of mine, reading. I've always been an avid reader, it started when I taught myself to read at the age of 2(at least that's what my mom tells me). At the time, I was living in a suburb of Los Angeles, a little town called La Habra. Like a lot of suburban women around this time, my mom occasionally purchased cosmetics from the local Avon Lady, and as such, regularly received Avon catalogs. Back in the late spring/early summer of 1974, when I was 4 years old, I read just about anything and everything I could get my hands on, including my mom's Avon catalogs. I remember reading one, and seeing one page that was an ad for a skin care line called Perfect Balance. The thing I noticed about that page was what was at the top of it. A picture of two women who appeared to be joined to one another, back to back. I had never seen anything like that before, and I went to show it to my mom to ask her about it. She told me they were Siamese twins. I also distinctly remember her telling me about one particular problem that only Siamese twins would ever have: when one twin wants to eat dinner, while the other twin wants to go to bed. Her solution was for the hungry twin to eat dinner in bed. Aside from curiosity, the other reaction I remember that picture giving me was what I'll just describe as a rush of blood located somewhere below my waist. Ever since seeing that picture, I've been intrigued by the idea of being joined to another person, as well as having a lifelong obsession with Siamese twins which, while having been on the back burner at times, has never completely gone away. And it also was part of a recurring dream I had for a while in the mid 1970s: my mom and Shirley Partridge from The Partridge Family as Siamese twins, joined back to back. I do remember one dream where they glued themselves together with a liberal amount of Perfect Balance skin cream. But even though it's been somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 years since I last had that dream, I've still occasionally had dreams involving Siamese twins. But it all started from that one Avon catalog, and that one picture of two women who were joined to one another back to back. Over time, my memory of that picture had become fuzzy, so much so that the only thing I ever really remembered about the picture was how the women were joined, but in early 2013, I was looking for Avon catalogs on eBay, and saw a lot of 16 catalogs for sale. The picture was too small to really see anything, but I did see that the cover of one of the catalogs had THE picture I remembered on the cover. Fortunately, I had enough money at the time to place a bid at the minimum, and double fortunately, I was the only bidder. The time from when I was notified that I had won the auction and paid for the items and when I finally received the package seemed like an eternity. But now I have it, the picture that sparked an obsession that has lasted almost my entire life.
Anyways, that was my obsession, now how about you?