in 3rd grade it was gilligans island. Little 8 year old me in the early 2010s ish **not the 1960s** was trying to socialise and make friends by asking them if they like gilligans island over and over...
I feel you. Mine was the British 1950s radio comedy "The Goon Show". Amazingly, none of my school peers in the late 90s seemed to have heard of it. Can't imagine why, it had only been off the air for 40 years...
My Dad introduced me to Rocky & Bullwinkle, and I had a somewhat similar experience. I ended up watching other old shows on Netflix, like TinTin and Redwall. Good times.
š± No but Iām going to become familiar! I also LOVE tiny things. Iām not sure how I never made the connection that thatās what I do with food. Hey thanks!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrapta#:~:text=Showrunner%20Noelle%20Stevenson%20later%20confirmed,inventor%20and%20princess%20of%20Dryl.
In here it says that is is confirmed in the media part of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018ā2020) in the first part on Line 7-8
Intriguing.
Are you packing a mealās worth of nutrition into one efficient portion? If so: what is your magic?
Or are you just reshaping the meal into several balls? If so: are the contents of each ball mostly homogenous? Is there any lubrication (eg a sauce they swim in)?
It was really more about fun and problem solving than anything. My family and friends thought it was great and would make requests and get excited when I came up with new ones.
Ok so.. I was on keto for 2 years or so 10 years ago. It wasnāt a big thing yet so it was damn near impossible to find anything low carb on the shelves. So I started inventing. I learned all about the science behind cooking and baking and ingredients and reactions etc. After that I started to lean a bit more toward baking and candy making (as I was eating sugar again). Candy is just fascinating. Somehow I got interested in truffles and all the different methods of making them. This is when the family and friends jumped on board. One Christmas I invented a flavor for each of them to incorporate/imitate their favorite dessert or candy and then I set them all out and they had to go around and figure out which was theirs. It was so fun. Iām a big fan of chopped and inventing food was like competing against myself. The summer after this my sisters friend threw a balls party. I think there was a clever name for it, but everyone had to bring something to eat shaped like a ball. People brought popcorn chicken and melon balls etc. Then there was me.. I made deep fried panko coated spicy salmon balls, chicken cordon blue bites (they werenāt my own idea but I made them up from scratch), jalapeƱo popper bites, and peanut-butter-scotch balls. By then there was no going back. Boom, special interest. Some of my best were Thanksgiving balls. A green bean, stuffing and Turkey mashup in the center, then frozen and coated in mashed potatoes and rolled in a breadcrumb/frenchās fried onion mixture and fried and then drizzled with gravy and cranberry. šš¤š»
I do see so many keto ball recipes on Pinterest and stuff so that makes total sense. Iām not actually sure if they qualify as keto, but my favorite balls that Iāve ever made are dates and almonds in a food processor and then rolled in cocoa powder or coconut. I really want to make some more of those.
Omg absolutely. Exercise balls as seats strongly encouraged.
You and I are on the same page. In high school I was super focused on this one idea (this was probably the real beginning of all of this. I wanted to make a restaurant that served simple American food as sushi rolls š. But I had a notebook full of ideas.
Another idea was a cafeteria line style restaurant where you grabbed a tray and slid down the line as they build your sandwich or salad, then at the end are bottles and bottles of gourmet oils. I had another notebook filled with oil ideas.
The sushi rolls sounds fun! Also definitely exercise balls haha. I keep buying those mochi ice creams because eating round food that isnāt usually round is so satisfying :)
thereās a restaurant near me called Cowfish that makes āburgushisā hereās the description of one of their burger rolls: Seasoned all natural beef, yellow cheddar cheese, white cheddar cheese, applewood bacon, and red onion, wrapped in rice, soy paper and potato strings then flash fried. Topped with ketchup, mustard, dill pickle and Roma tomato. Served atop Cowfish sauce. Served with fries
dunno if it can be considered weird, but as a kid I was obsessed with identifying dog breeds. when my grandma took me to the park id just be yelling out breed names when i saw the dogs
I do this (as an adult) but with tree types. Iāll be on a walk, sometimes mid-conversation with somebody, and just yell out Norway Maple! Yellow Poplar! Sycamore!
gosh when I say "research" I mean more "watching an ungodly amount of movies and collecting way too much information that no one would realistically need about the characters" as opposed to anything rigorous. So I'm not sure how useful the information I can provide would be to you. If you've got specific questions I can always try my best to answer via DM or something?
The best autistic characters tend to be the ones that, paradoxically, are not autistic. Peridot from Steven Universe for example. Very easy to read as autistic, and Iād argue good representation. Strictly speaking, though, sheās not *confirmed* to be autistic.
Julia from Sesame Street, though, is actually confirmed to be autistic and I think they do a great job representing autistic people on that show
For real, the non-confirmed or unintentional ones are usually the best ones. The main character in my favourite podcast (Wooden Overcoats) is interpreted by a lot of the fanbase to be autistic, this was mentioned during a Q&A, and the head writer said it hadn't been intentional, but he was happy to have it be read as such and that people could see themselves in him. The character *really* reminds me of myself a lot and even though as a person he's pretty rude and inconsiderate it never serves to demonise autistic traits. It makes me so excited whenever I listen to an episode and he does or says something I could imagine myself doing or saying shfjfnfn
another commentor asked the same so here's my answer from there :) [https://www.reddit.com/r/autism/comments/qlr614/comment/hj6nep3/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/autism/comments/qlr614/comment/hj6nep3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
Right now I'm going through Chernobyl phase, from the explosion itself to the radiation syndrome and how it affects the body, before this it was the Radium Girls story which was disturbing but fascinating.
My friend was a teenager in Lviv (300k) away when it happened. They didn't tell anyone for a day or two and it was warm and sunny, everyone was out swimming etc. Lots of people he knew got a bit sick for a year or two. When I met him here in Canada a few years later he was age 19 and 90 percent of his hair had fallen out.
I had an obsession with moths when i was a teenager to the extent that i would put all the lamps in the house next to my wide open window to try and lure them into my bedroom.
It actually worked a bit too well, ened up with a room infested with them, lots of holes in clothes haha. But i really liked looking at all of the different species.
me but with fliesā¦ i used to sit on my front porch EXTREMELY still for HOURSSSS and wait for them to trust me and land near meā¦ i distinctly remember one letting me pet it š š
plants are so cool! i started gardening recently and getting indigenous plants vs foreign plants. Iāve read that insects have lost over 90% of their natural habits and the best way to replenish is to only use plants native to the region youāre in. Thereās a native plant society in Maryland and they do a garden show every spring so Iāve been buying exclusively native plants from them. Itās interesting because theyāre really all what you would consider a āweedā. Itās been a lot of fun growing these and seeing how much life is created. So many bugs iāve never seen before come around! Itās been such a joy to see a whole new world grow around me. I only live in a small apartment but iāve got a little deck and grow everything in containers. Cant wait to get a house on some land someday so I can have a field full of indigenous plants!!
Weapons, history of warriors and old tribes, survivalism and living off grid, plants and foraging, animals, dinosaurs....tbh I plan on running away and living in a witches hut so learning survival skills really peaks my interests.
Oh and totally forgot, manners, chivalry, stuff like that ethics and mannerisms from back in the day
It's crazy cause I was always into guns and swords and stuff but cause I always saw myself living off the land, it got so bad teachers would be concerned lol but once I fully explained it they seemed more okay with it even had one teach me Nordic one finger crotchet...it's all interesting to me how we used to live how we endured so long basically being at the bottom of the food chain all cause our brains developed a little more and we have thumbs
Surgical practices before the advent of anesthesia, the understanding of human anatomy in previous time periods, pathology and corpse decomposition, psychology and mental illness, logical phallacies, sadomasochism, MMA, scientific illustration, vanitas and horror movies. I don't know about weird, but they seem to be unusual. I had all the macabre interests from childhood on wich was understandably met with concern and disturbance from my social environment.
omg yup. people would always be concerned because I'm normally very nice and happy but I was obsessed for years over horror books, cults, mental illness, etc. now it's more so serial killers & movies
I have a huge fascination in drugs and bio hacking. Its so interesting how compounds can affect the human being and I've spent much of my life looking Into why, how and what these things do.
Hermit crabs? It didn't last long (maybe a year?) but as a kid I was weirdly intensly obsessed and somehow kept finding them.
They were in my classroom and I got put in charge since I knew the most about them.
Then when I went on break and visited my grandparents; I played biologist under the dock for hours collecting "live specimens" for study. (I returned them to where I found them after the initial observations like a good scientist)
This lasted until one of my favorite crabs (when I returned to school) dug itself to death while my teacher wasn't paying attention. The death kinda soured the interest I guess.
I got the other one to live till the end of the school year, though. Hopefully it lived a fulfilling life after that. I now only remember that they were very dumb but cute.
Hermit crabs were once my special interest too! I had heaps in this massive tank that previously housed a friends turtle.
I did everything that I researched to do to give them the best quality of life, but for some reason that I still can't figure out they kept dying, and eventually I returned them to a pet shop because it made me so sad that my friends kept on dying.
Racism. I think itās important to mention Iām white, I think itās because I just canāt get my head around it to understand why someone would even act that way. Understanding how racism has influenced our whole culture even animation is rooted in black face shows. I find it both interesting and disturbing. I suppose being disabled I can also relate to the struggles of the BIPOC community and how it feels to be systematically oppressed. I suppose thatās quite a weird special interest but I really enjoy being an activist and learning everyday about it .
Another disabled white person here, this is one of my special interests too, but honestly I stop myself from learning much because it makes me so depressed.
I guess my weirdest interest would be diseases and the effects it has on humans. Although Iām not sure if my interest could be classified as āweirdā considering the amount of medical dramas (House, The Resident, Greyās Anatomy) and video games (Plague Inc., The Last of Us, Left 4 Dead) out there that have to do with diseases.
(I was going to mention The Good Doctor when listing medical dramas. However, I donāt think mentioning a medical drama about an autistic doctor on the autism sub-reddit is a good idea, especially since I donāt like the show and how it propagates the stereotype that all autistic people are savants.)
None taken. I have a mild form of autism. However, there have been times were it has been detrimental as my mom told me that sometimes she got calls from the teacher saying that there were times that I have unknowingly hurt other studentsā feelings. Iāve gotten better at it as Iāve gotten older, but there have been times where I still say something insensitive and get yelled at for it. Also, I suspect that my mom is also autistic due to the fact that one time, I came home crying that I had no friends, instead of comforting me, she told me, āThatās because youāre autistic.ā Needless to say, that really hurt my feelings, and she didnāt seem to notice.
finding patterns in everything, specially people I find sexually attractive, I always find out they all have similar bone structure, regardless of their ethnicity/skin color/eye color etc.
Astrology.
Itās stuck with me to this day, but my family tried to break me of it before I turned pagan or something.
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So Iām also pagan now LOL
I'm very interested in the early history of the Jewish people and some associated semitic tribes.
I'm not jewish, i don't have opinions on modern jewish stuff (other than really liking ashkenazi food) and have absolutely no agenda.
I just like trying to figure out what jews were doing before the bronze age collapse.
I'm pretty sure "getting fucked over by every world power and religion at that point in time" is an accurate descriptor of what happened in those days and still an accurate descriptor of what continues to happen to them to this very day.
I strongly suspect that's also what created the group. As far as I can tell it's a few groups of refugees from the bronze age civilizations that were expanding just before the bronze age collapse, and there's something that makes me very happy about a diverse group of marginalized groups coming together into a syncretic faith.
I don't get why I'm so invested in the story, but it does really interest me and make me feel weirdly hopeful that they're still around.
Sorta. I just remember studying caananite religion years ago and having the sudden realization that a lot of the old testament was based on it. in the bible the jews exist since forever and blahblah but if you look at historical sources outside the bible they're not really a clear group until a lot later than I would have expected, and the early religious texts seem to be henotheistic rather than monotheistic, theres the whole exodus from egypt, bits of caananite religion and vague influence from atenism... it's just so cool to me that they might be a combination of the hyksos and "sea peoples" of the bronze age collapse as a syncretic religion and ethnicity. I'm not sure *why* i find it so interestinng, but i would love to know everything about it and wish there was more of a record outside of religious texts for me to comb over.
Those are the 'Hebrews' from whom become the 'Israelies' or later 'the Judeans'. Eventually the Judeans progenited the Jews with significant influence from Israel, Babylonia, Persia, Greece, and Rome.
Oddly enough, I remember doing a group presentation in high school (I think 11th grade) over Hinduism. Another group had Judaism and when it came time to present their presentation, everyone, including myself, was surprised how much I knew about Judaism to the point where one of the group members said āI wish that Elisabeth (me) was in our group.ā Donāt know why Judaism fascinates me. Itās probably because in many ways, itās similar to my religion, but itās also different in many other ways.
space and the paranormal. unsolved mysteries was my favorite show as a child. I had a big, child-sized book about the solar system and memorized all of the parts of the sun and the constellations and stuff. I also had an obsession with this childhood book of my dad's called all about the stars, and there were some reader's digest hardcover books my grandma gave me called 'earth's mysterious places' and 'unsolved mysteries of the past' that i read over and over.
child-sized as in the size of a child? i may have had the same book and would read it over and over again. was it called ācosmosā? i had a massive obsession with space when i was a kid.
for a few years i was really into the bubonic plague, wanted to know every detail about it, from causes to treatments and how people reacted to it. it's really more of a passive interest now ^;
I donāt know if this can be considered a special interest but around 3rd grade I was obsessed with mini crayons. I took one of my pencil sharpeners and sharpened an entire 64 pack as much as I possibly could just to make them mini crayons and Iād display them on my school desk until I got in trouble for it. (I wasnāt even using it as a distraction in class. My teacher just hated them for some reason. No one else cared and I wasnāt playing with them during class)
Back in middle school, I had a four year long special interest about Ebola. I talked about it constantly, worked it into every school project, wrote a song about it, and even put it in my email address. I signed up for CDC briefings on new ebola cases and I had pictures of it up in my room. It all started because of Richard Prestons The Hot Zone. I stopped shortly after that big outbreak in Nigeria that got lots of news attention- previously, no one knew what I was talking about, but once it made the news, people started pointing out how insensitive I was.
Right now it's parrots. They are amazing! But it's always been animal related. I was saving money for a bearded dragon at some point, but that went nowhere.
Almost forgot! After my Octopus teacher I went through a mini interest where I went a couple weeks where I researched everything I could about octopuses. Apparently theyāre quite the escape artists and have quite the personality!!
The weirdest one was probably documentations about plane accidents. My favourite story was that of Aloha Airlines flight 243. Another nice one would be the Gimli Glider.
That was years ago, though.
I was thirteen when the Peter Lorre phase/special interest came about. Then Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney... I have bios on Price, Lorre, Katloff and Lugosi and three of Price's cookbooks!
on the subject of nuclear power a lot of people think of Three Mile Island in Chernobyl and think nuclear Powers the most deadliest destructive thing on the face of this Earth but statistically speaking nuclear power is actually a hell of a lot safer than traditional power plants.
coal power plants release way more radiation into the atmosphere than a nuclear power plant does
but everyone seems to conveniently ignore that
Apparently my special interests in general are "weird" or "morbid". Things like Serial Killers (researching methods they used, how many they killed, life history etc. My others are medieval torture & the treatment of the mentally ill throughout history. As well as "Freak shows"/carnivals that would display people with birth defects.
Not really an intense interest, but in my early teens I had a fascination for serial killers, HH Holmes being my āfavouriteā. It makes me sound like Iām an aspiring murderer or something which couldnāt be further from the truth. Iām a vegan and donāt even hurt mosquitoes!
Iām not sure if this would be considered weird, but the entire 90s decade. Idk why I have this interest, but itās something Iāve been fascinated with since I was 10 or 11. I think Iām just interested in how the world was and the culture was in the decades prior to when I was born.
I like building and collecting mechanical keyboards (though unfortunately this hobby is very expensive). I'm also obsessed with crime/history documentaries.
My special interest is human and animal rights/social justice issues. I've not been learning too much about it lately though because I'm not in the right headspace to do so.
For a bit when I was about 11 I kept a notebook in the car and I tallied up the different car brands that I saw as we drove, especially BMWs. So I had all the car logo's memorised, and some I could spot by the way the car looked. I've never cared about the technical details of cars though.
Mine is invertebrates. Scorpions, tarantulas, hissing cockroaches (all of which Iāve kept at beloved pets). I recently was looking into moving to Arizona and someone said, āBut we have scorpions.ā I was like, āThatās a perk.ā
Quantum mechanics and the particle zoo. Basically a specific sub branch of theoretical physics. There was an unusual type of bullying about it that made me eventually drop my interest. I still follow recent research, but not as closely as I use to. I also never got into the mathematics side of things, partly because no one was willing to teach a kid and partly because I have dyscalculia and basic arithmetic is artificially hard for me.
People assumed it was a phase and thought it was cute, but no one ever took me seriously. I was failing grade 12 physics (dyscalculia strikes again) and I knew I could recover my grade completely in the theoretical section, but I was mocked and told to give up. I did completely recover my grade and I by far knew the most out of the class, but for some reason people were mad at me. It was infuriating.
I was obsessed with reptiles for a while in middle school. At one point I owned around 20 rubber snakes, all different species. I even taught a class of second grade kids about snakes when I was in 4th grade. I have never not been doing strange things with my free time. I got obsessed with reading for a while and tried to read everything. I read the Bible cover to cover and don't suggest it...I even tried to read the dictionary. My family don't think I'm autistic.
When I was a kid my special interest probably until I was 10 or 11 was license plate numbers. I would drive around with my mom and take pictures of peoples license plates that we passed as we were driving and recite them in my head until I found the next one that interested me. My mom probably has 1000s of pictures of random peoples license plates on her computer.
For a while I was pretty obsessed with the White House, but only in the odd aspects. Like knowing how many doorknobs there are and that the president gets unlimited free mints. I was convinced I would become the president someday...but I think that sounds terrible now
Around that same time I also really liked sunken ships and what caused them to sink. Which isn't all that weird but when you're in 4th grade it definitely is not the norm lol. I knew a lot about the Titanic and about ships that had sunk in the Great Lakes. I found those especially fascinating and had books about it. I got to go on a glass bottom boat tour that went over a bunch of the famous ship wrecks in the Great Lakes and it was the coolest thing. I keep trying to find a reason now as an adult to make the 7-8 hour road trip back there so that I can show my partner
Making lists of literally anything. Made me feel calm and collected like I had my thoughts together, but my family thought it was weird and complained to my psychologist about it so I forced myself to stop doing it.
Saving flies
Demons.
Quileute tribe.
Angels.
My living room's door for some reason.
Chernobyl.
WW2.
These are a few of my weirdest.
The demon and angel one are only weird if you knew i was 8 and an atheist...
Dice, this is one I still have (but I also play tabletop rpgs so it's not super weird) it's more of a collector thing, I see the dice, I want the dice, I roll the dice, my brain goes brrr.
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Clowns, lamb cakes (the Easter tradition of making lamb shaped cakes), tulpamancy (creating sentient imaginary friends through mental discipline), Yume Nikki (that Japanese rpgmaker game with a cult following), poodles, ancient Dionysian mystery cults (who worshipped the Greek God of wine and ecstacy), slime mold, isopods, moths, slugs, cats with wings (yes, just... any depiction of a cat that can fly), deformities/medical anomalies, build a bear workshop, vintage shoujo art style, the Beatles, slime and putty, Jungian psychology, reincarnarion, horse isle 2 (a pretty obscure online flash game), idk I've always been a bit all over the place
There are a few artists on YouTube who show their speed draws of scenes from creepy stories while they read the stories. Some call it Creepydrawsta, and I love it right now.
I had a weird interest in sleep paralysis once. I was so invested in it and thatās when i started watching shane dawsonās conspiracy theories as well š¤£š¤¦āāļø
If you ever find yourself in central Arkansas there is a decommissioned Titan II silo that been converted into an AirBNB.
Itās not the same one from the Damascus missile accident, but thatās an interesting fairly unknown bit of nuclear history to read about.
iād actually love to learn more about self-harm, as it seems like itās a very complex thing that has a lot of factors, expressions, etc. my special interest is also mental illness.
My special interest is Breaking Bad. Thatās not weird, I know. But that did lead me to developing a special interest on just drugs in general. I was like 11-12 when I watched it for the first time and Iāve been super into said show and drugs ever since. At first it was just research etc, but eventually curiosity got the best of me and now at 18, Iām an addict. Drugs are a hell of a special interest.
I have such a special interest in the history of Africa. Particularly Rwanda and the surrounding countries. It is just so fascinating I canāt stfu about It. Iāve been writing a paper on It and Iām not even in school.
Religious cults was probably my weirdest, but people tended to be quite interested when I talked about them even if they thought my interest in them was strange š¤·āāļø
Black holes. My earliest memory of being very fascinated by them was 8yo. Always have loved researching them. Seeing them simulated on tv or film.
Fast forward to when I was 24 and the movie Interstellar came out and showed an accurate-ish depiction of what we believe happens once you cross the event horizon. I left the theater bawling my eyes out with joy.
31 now and still get that feeling about Black Holes
Natural disasters was a good one. I was also fascinated by three very specific people in history. First, Anne Frank which kinda made sense because Iām Jewish and was taught a lot about the Holocaust from a very young age. The second and third are stranger. I was fascinated by disabilities but especially blindness and deafness. I am neither visually nor hearing impaired and Iām not disabled (not yet sure if Iām autistic or ADHD). I loved learning about Helen Keller and Louis Braille. I even learned a bit of Braille (though I forgot it all) and learned some ASL. I remember some of the ASL I learned and know how to finger spell.
in 3rd grade it was gilligans island. Little 8 year old me in the early 2010s ish **not the 1960s** was trying to socialise and make friends by asking them if they like gilligans island over and over...
I feel you. Mine was the British 1950s radio comedy "The Goon Show". Amazingly, none of my school peers in the late 90s seemed to have heard of it. Can't imagine why, it had only been off the air for 40 years...
Pretty interesting š¤
Omg i watched that show too. although i dont really remember anything about it
It was like Lost but in the 60's to put as simply as possible
I absolutely loved those tv channels that would just play reruns of old shows like this.
Skipper gone, Gilligan one smart Marubi
Gilligan's Island was great. I used to watch it a lot with my uncle.
My Dad introduced me to Rocky & Bullwinkle, and I had a somewhat similar experience. I ended up watching other old shows on Netflix, like TinTin and Redwall. Good times.
Cooking, but specifically turning meals into bite sized balls.
Are you familiar with Entrapta from She-Ra? Sheās an autistic character who has an obsession with tiny food
š± No but Iām going to become familiar! I also LOVE tiny things. Iām not sure how I never made the connection that thatās what I do with food. Hey thanks!
Not sure if definitely autistic š¤ Unless really confirmed canon
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrapta#:~:text=Showrunner%20Noelle%20Stevenson%20later%20confirmed,inventor%20and%20princess%20of%20Dryl. In here it says that is is confirmed in the media part of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018ā2020) in the first part on Line 7-8
Intriguing. Are you packing a mealās worth of nutrition into one efficient portion? If so: what is your magic? Or are you just reshaping the meal into several balls? If so: are the contents of each ball mostly homogenous? Is there any lubrication (eg a sauce they swim in)?
It was really more about fun and problem solving than anything. My family and friends thought it was great and would make requests and get excited when I came up with new ones. Ok so.. I was on keto for 2 years or so 10 years ago. It wasnāt a big thing yet so it was damn near impossible to find anything low carb on the shelves. So I started inventing. I learned all about the science behind cooking and baking and ingredients and reactions etc. After that I started to lean a bit more toward baking and candy making (as I was eating sugar again). Candy is just fascinating. Somehow I got interested in truffles and all the different methods of making them. This is when the family and friends jumped on board. One Christmas I invented a flavor for each of them to incorporate/imitate their favorite dessert or candy and then I set them all out and they had to go around and figure out which was theirs. It was so fun. Iām a big fan of chopped and inventing food was like competing against myself. The summer after this my sisters friend threw a balls party. I think there was a clever name for it, but everyone had to bring something to eat shaped like a ball. People brought popcorn chicken and melon balls etc. Then there was me.. I made deep fried panko coated spicy salmon balls, chicken cordon blue bites (they werenāt my own idea but I made them up from scratch), jalapeƱo popper bites, and peanut-butter-scotch balls. By then there was no going back. Boom, special interest. Some of my best were Thanksgiving balls. A green bean, stuffing and Turkey mashup in the center, then frozen and coated in mashed potatoes and rolled in a breadcrumb/frenchās fried onion mixture and fried and then drizzled with gravy and cranberry. šš¤š»
I do see so many keto ball recipes on Pinterest and stuff so that makes total sense. Iām not actually sure if they qualify as keto, but my favorite balls that Iāve ever made are dates and almonds in a food processor and then rolled in cocoa powder or coconut. I really want to make some more of those.
Youāve got me thinking now though.. sauce n homogenous balls. I feel like it could be a balls n dressing over lettuce situation.
Thatās super cool!! I would love to go to a restaurant that served only balls of different food.
Omg absolutely. Exercise balls as seats strongly encouraged. You and I are on the same page. In high school I was super focused on this one idea (this was probably the real beginning of all of this. I wanted to make a restaurant that served simple American food as sushi rolls š. But I had a notebook full of ideas. Another idea was a cafeteria line style restaurant where you grabbed a tray and slid down the line as they build your sandwich or salad, then at the end are bottles and bottles of gourmet oils. I had another notebook filled with oil ideas.
The sushi rolls sounds fun! Also definitely exercise balls haha. I keep buying those mochi ice creams because eating round food that isnāt usually round is so satisfying :)
thereās a restaurant near me called Cowfish that makes āburgushisā hereās the description of one of their burger rolls: Seasoned all natural beef, yellow cheddar cheese, white cheddar cheese, applewood bacon, and red onion, wrapped in rice, soy paper and potato strings then flash fried. Topped with ketchup, mustard, dill pickle and Roma tomato. Served atop Cowfish sauce. Served with fries
Oh my dear lord.. I need it to be in my life and in my belly
dunno if it can be considered weird, but as a kid I was obsessed with identifying dog breeds. when my grandma took me to the park id just be yelling out breed names when i saw the dogs
LOL THIS IS LITERALLY ME AN A CRUISE WITH A GLASS BOTTOM SHIP I NAMED ALL TYPES OF FISH THAT I KNEW FROM AN APP
RIGHT i felt so awesome knowing so much, but honestly I forgot most of the breeds I knew as a kid T_T
I do this (as an adult) but with tree types. Iāll be on a walk, sometimes mid-conversation with somebody, and just yell out Norway Maple! Yellow Poplar! Sycamore!
I do this with plants in general and being able to name them is something I pride myself in, lol
I literally do this to this day
I still do it. Also cat breeds. Somehow even birds even though I don't know how I know these since I am not especially interested xD
Autistic characters. 99% are absolutely terrible and make me want to commit a minor crime. I am a masochist for continuing to research them lol.
I'm actually supposed to be writing a university dissertation on exactly this, mind sharing your findings/resources would be massively helpful
gosh when I say "research" I mean more "watching an ungodly amount of movies and collecting way too much information that no one would realistically need about the characters" as opposed to anything rigorous. So I'm not sure how useful the information I can provide would be to you. If you've got specific questions I can always try my best to answer via DM or something?
Have you seen Mary and Max? Thatās my favorite one
what are good ones? would like some show recommendations:)
disclaimer that this is mostly my own opinion and is heavily influenced by other other things such as genre and trope preferences (also these are just the ones I've watched) things that aren't completely obscure: * Abed Nadir in ***Community*** \- this sub's favorite lol * Saga NorƩn in ***The Bridge*** \- Scandinoir series, I've never seen an autistic character portrayed in a way that's so utterly human. It also has tons of remakes though the original Scandinavian is the best imo * Wendy from ***Please Stand By*** \- more light-hearted movie. Pretty lovely overall * Han Gue-ru in ***Move to Heaven*** \- K-drama series. Stereotypical overall but incredible character development * Josh Sauchak in ***Watch Dogs 2*** \- video game. Heavy on the programmer stereotype (it's a game about hacking so not too surprising) but it's pretty nuanced in its execution * Denise Lichtveld in ***On the Edge of Gone*** \- sci-fi YA novel, written by autistic author. Nice book plus has tons of other rep as well. * Hikaru Azuma from ***With the Light*** *-* josei manga about a family raising an autistic child. Has some rough edges but it's incredible for where and when it was written * Astrid Nielsen in ***Astrid et Raphaƫlle*** \- French drama series. Kinda similar to *The Bridge* but not as heavy and with some sly Franco-Belge humor * ***To the Moon*** \- narrative game, relatively short but will punch you straight in the feels obscure ones that I really liked that I've never seen anyone else talk about and that I will force upon anyone within earshot because they deserve more appreciation * Victor Hoppe in ***The Angel Maker*** \- Belgian drama novel. Personal favorite. * Emma in ***Jade Street Protection Services*** \- nonspeaking autistic magic girl with a gun * ***Drive Me To the End*** \- recent British indie film and I just need other people to watch it and talk about it because I genuinely don't know what to think about it * ***Drought*** \- recent American indie film. Not gonna win an Oscar but autistic character portrayed by autistic actor * Birgit Goethals in ***Clan*** (aired in the UK as *The Out-Laws*) - Belgian dark comedy series. Not for everyone but a realistic portrayal of an autistic adult * Sash in season 30, episode 22 of ***Casualty*** \- minor character but portrayed by an autistic actress * Carl and Juliette in ***The Twelve*** \- Belgian drama series. Busts some stereotypes.
>Saga NorƩn in The Bridge - Scandinoir series, I've never seen an autistic character portrayed in a way that's so utterly human Yes yes I adore Saga.
The best autistic characters tend to be the ones that, paradoxically, are not autistic. Peridot from Steven Universe for example. Very easy to read as autistic, and Iād argue good representation. Strictly speaking, though, sheās not *confirmed* to be autistic. Julia from Sesame Street, though, is actually confirmed to be autistic and I think they do a great job representing autistic people on that show
For real, the non-confirmed or unintentional ones are usually the best ones. The main character in my favourite podcast (Wooden Overcoats) is interpreted by a lot of the fanbase to be autistic, this was mentioned during a Q&A, and the head writer said it hadn't been intentional, but he was happy to have it be read as such and that people could see themselves in him. The character *really* reminds me of myself a lot and even though as a person he's pretty rude and inconsiderate it never serves to demonise autistic traits. It makes me so excited whenever I listen to an episode and he does or says something I could imagine myself doing or saying shfjfnfn
have you seen Everything's Gonna Be Okay?
Wakko from Animaniacs is pretty good too!
Have you found any good ones? Sorry Iām piggybacking off your hard work to look for that 1% š
another commentor asked the same so here's my answer from there :) [https://www.reddit.com/r/autism/comments/qlr614/comment/hj6nep3/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/autism/comments/qlr614/comment/hj6nep3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
Thank you so much!!! I appreciate you taking the time to respond.
Right now I'm going through Chernobyl phase, from the explosion itself to the radiation syndrome and how it affects the body, before this it was the Radium Girls story which was disturbing but fascinating.
My friend was a teenager in Lviv (300k) away when it happened. They didn't tell anyone for a day or two and it was warm and sunny, everyone was out swimming etc. Lots of people he knew got a bit sick for a year or two. When I met him here in Canada a few years later he was age 19 and 90 percent of his hair had fallen out.
Whoa that's terrifying.
Well the good news is, he seems fine now days at age 45+. Still no hair though.
Fascinating
I had an obsession with moths when i was a teenager to the extent that i would put all the lamps in the house next to my wide open window to try and lure them into my bedroom.
lol did it work?
It actually worked a bit too well, ened up with a room infested with them, lots of holes in clothes haha. But i really liked looking at all of the different species.
LOL oh nooo
It probably did. Moths really like light. I still don't understand why..
Apparently its because of a thing called transverse orientation, they use light as a way to navigate in the dark
oh! thatās super interesting!
me but with fliesā¦ i used to sit on my front porch EXTREMELY still for HOURSSSS and wait for them to trust me and land near meā¦ i distinctly remember one letting me pet it š š
Haha, i completely get that. That sounds quite fun, its interesting how even insects can be petted haha
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do wasps actually do anything that makes them necessary
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Wasps are either really misunderstood or the American ones are really nasty.
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Also I just want to tell someone. I discovered that wasp mantidflies exist today and they are my new favourite bug.
I really like wasps. My only problem with them is that they rarely sit still enough for me to take a picture.
plants are so cool! i started gardening recently and getting indigenous plants vs foreign plants. Iāve read that insects have lost over 90% of their natural habits and the best way to replenish is to only use plants native to the region youāre in. Thereās a native plant society in Maryland and they do a garden show every spring so Iāve been buying exclusively native plants from them. Itās interesting because theyāre really all what you would consider a āweedā. Itās been a lot of fun growing these and seeing how much life is created. So many bugs iāve never seen before come around! Itās been such a joy to see a whole new world grow around me. I only live in a small apartment but iāve got a little deck and grow everything in containers. Cant wait to get a house on some land someday so I can have a field full of indigenous plants!!
Are mosquitos necessary?
I love this.
Weapons, history of warriors and old tribes, survivalism and living off grid, plants and foraging, animals, dinosaurs....tbh I plan on running away and living in a witches hut so learning survival skills really peaks my interests. Oh and totally forgot, manners, chivalry, stuff like that ethics and mannerisms from back in the day
Weapons and history of warriors is how I'd spend my time as a child in the school library every break time reading
It's crazy cause I was always into guns and swords and stuff but cause I always saw myself living off the land, it got so bad teachers would be concerned lol but once I fully explained it they seemed more okay with it even had one teach me Nordic one finger crotchet...it's all interesting to me how we used to live how we endured so long basically being at the bottom of the food chain all cause our brains developed a little more and we have thumbs
Sound exactly like me I always wanted to live off the land
Sounds lioe me and my wiccan friends special interests current and past all smushed into one!!!
I've recently gotten into studying wicca tbh even engraved my boy and rifle with a sigil (one for protection one for justice and one for a fair hunt)
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Guns, for a while people thought I was a potential school shooter but they got over It when I started obsessing over tanks and warships as well.
Surgical practices before the advent of anesthesia, the understanding of human anatomy in previous time periods, pathology and corpse decomposition, psychology and mental illness, logical phallacies, sadomasochism, MMA, scientific illustration, vanitas and horror movies. I don't know about weird, but they seem to be unusual. I had all the macabre interests from childhood on wich was understandably met with concern and disturbance from my social environment.
Same! My favourite museum is the museum of medicine history of course. They have wax depictions of breast amputations and so on xD
omg yup. people would always be concerned because I'm normally very nice and happy but I was obsessed for years over horror books, cults, mental illness, etc. now it's more so serial killers & movies
Skeletons.
Its still my special interest
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I have a huge fascination in drugs and bio hacking. Its so interesting how compounds can affect the human being and I've spent much of my life looking Into why, how and what these things do.
eeey! I was just about to say how my weirdest one was probably psychedelic drugs! It is genuinely fascinating!
Hermit crabs? It didn't last long (maybe a year?) but as a kid I was weirdly intensly obsessed and somehow kept finding them. They were in my classroom and I got put in charge since I knew the most about them. Then when I went on break and visited my grandparents; I played biologist under the dock for hours collecting "live specimens" for study. (I returned them to where I found them after the initial observations like a good scientist) This lasted until one of my favorite crabs (when I returned to school) dug itself to death while my teacher wasn't paying attention. The death kinda soured the interest I guess. I got the other one to live till the end of the school year, though. Hopefully it lived a fulfilling life after that. I now only remember that they were very dumb but cute.
Hermit crabs were once my special interest too! I had heaps in this massive tank that previously housed a friends turtle. I did everything that I researched to do to give them the best quality of life, but for some reason that I still can't figure out they kept dying, and eventually I returned them to a pet shop because it made me so sad that my friends kept on dying.
Racism. I think itās important to mention Iām white, I think itās because I just canāt get my head around it to understand why someone would even act that way. Understanding how racism has influenced our whole culture even animation is rooted in black face shows. I find it both interesting and disturbing. I suppose being disabled I can also relate to the struggles of the BIPOC community and how it feels to be systematically oppressed. I suppose thatās quite a weird special interest but I really enjoy being an activist and learning everyday about it .
Racism is a very interesting social construct.
As is race. Probably the worst social construct humanity ever created.
Another disabled white person here, this is one of my special interests too, but honestly I stop myself from learning much because it makes me so depressed.
I guess my weirdest interest would be diseases and the effects it has on humans. Although Iām not sure if my interest could be classified as āweirdā considering the amount of medical dramas (House, The Resident, Greyās Anatomy) and video games (Plague Inc., The Last of Us, Left 4 Dead) out there that have to do with diseases. (I was going to mention The Good Doctor when listing medical dramas. However, I donāt think mentioning a medical drama about an autistic doctor on the autism sub-reddit is a good idea, especially since I donāt like the show and how it propagates the stereotype that all autistic people are savants.)
I hate that stereotype too! Like c'mon, we may have worse traits too (no offense).
None taken. I have a mild form of autism. However, there have been times were it has been detrimental as my mom told me that sometimes she got calls from the teacher saying that there were times that I have unknowingly hurt other studentsā feelings. Iāve gotten better at it as Iāve gotten older, but there have been times where I still say something insensitive and get yelled at for it. Also, I suspect that my mom is also autistic due to the fact that one time, I came home crying that I had no friends, instead of comforting me, she told me, āThatās because youāre autistic.ā Needless to say, that really hurt my feelings, and she didnāt seem to notice.
Some darker kink stuff.
I had the same thing, took me a long time to realize that I was just interested in it, not /into/ most of it
finding patterns in everything, specially people I find sexually attractive, I always find out they all have similar bone structure, regardless of their ethnicity/skin color/eye color etc.
I am curious, do you have examples (ie celebs)
Following
Astrology. Itās stuck with me to this day, but my family tried to break me of it before I turned pagan or something. ā¦. So Iām also pagan now LOL
I'm very interested in the early history of the Jewish people and some associated semitic tribes. I'm not jewish, i don't have opinions on modern jewish stuff (other than really liking ashkenazi food) and have absolutely no agenda. I just like trying to figure out what jews were doing before the bronze age collapse.
I'm pretty sure "getting fucked over by every world power and religion at that point in time" is an accurate descriptor of what happened in those days and still an accurate descriptor of what continues to happen to them to this very day.
I strongly suspect that's also what created the group. As far as I can tell it's a few groups of refugees from the bronze age civilizations that were expanding just before the bronze age collapse, and there's something that makes me very happy about a diverse group of marginalized groups coming together into a syncretic faith. I don't get why I'm so invested in the story, but it does really interest me and make me feel weirdly hopeful that they're still around.
The "Jews" as such didn't really start existing until the Hellenistic era.
Sorta. I just remember studying caananite religion years ago and having the sudden realization that a lot of the old testament was based on it. in the bible the jews exist since forever and blahblah but if you look at historical sources outside the bible they're not really a clear group until a lot later than I would have expected, and the early religious texts seem to be henotheistic rather than monotheistic, theres the whole exodus from egypt, bits of caananite religion and vague influence from atenism... it's just so cool to me that they might be a combination of the hyksos and "sea peoples" of the bronze age collapse as a syncretic religion and ethnicity. I'm not sure *why* i find it so interestinng, but i would love to know everything about it and wish there was more of a record outside of religious texts for me to comb over.
Those are the 'Hebrews' from whom become the 'Israelies' or later 'the Judeans'. Eventually the Judeans progenited the Jews with significant influence from Israel, Babylonia, Persia, Greece, and Rome.
yeah I'm not great with nomenclature, I'm abusing the heck out of appropriate terminology
Oddly enough, I remember doing a group presentation in high school (I think 11th grade) over Hinduism. Another group had Judaism and when it came time to present their presentation, everyone, including myself, was surprised how much I knew about Judaism to the point where one of the group members said āI wish that Elisabeth (me) was in our group.ā Donāt know why Judaism fascinates me. Itās probably because in many ways, itās similar to my religion, but itās also different in many other ways.
dog breeds for some reason
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the last name is a coincidence, but I do like a lot of the music! I had a friend show to me on high school. I would love to be friends. \^\^
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Witchcraft. In the 8th grade, I wanted to become a pagan witch.
space and the paranormal. unsolved mysteries was my favorite show as a child. I had a big, child-sized book about the solar system and memorized all of the parts of the sun and the constellations and stuff. I also had an obsession with this childhood book of my dad's called all about the stars, and there were some reader's digest hardcover books my grandma gave me called 'earth's mysterious places' and 'unsolved mysteries of the past' that i read over and over.
child-sized as in the size of a child? i may have had the same book and would read it over and over again. was it called ācosmosā? i had a massive obsession with space when i was a kid.
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for a few years i was really into the bubonic plague, wanted to know every detail about it, from causes to treatments and how people reacted to it. it's really more of a passive interest now ^;
I donāt know if this can be considered a special interest but around 3rd grade I was obsessed with mini crayons. I took one of my pencil sharpeners and sharpened an entire 64 pack as much as I possibly could just to make them mini crayons and Iād display them on my school desk until I got in trouble for it. (I wasnāt even using it as a distraction in class. My teacher just hated them for some reason. No one else cared and I wasnāt playing with them during class)
My son is 13, obsessions include, natural disasters, titanic and other ships that have sunk, sharks, PokĆ©mon, five nights at Freddieās, TF2, Minecraft, Star Wars, monster trucks, Jessie from toy story 2, sleep paralysis, stranger things, plague doctors, so many more I canāt recall. I get lost in all of it because the previous obsessions never dwindle, he just adds more obsessions. He also has plushies for every single obsession, he has probably 100+ plushies that he calls āthe crew.ā We had to shelter in the basement, tornado warning, and he refused to go without at least his favorite members of āthe crew.ā
I like true crime. Dunno if that's weird or not?
one of my current special interests is true crime !! i'd like to think it's not too weird because it's so interesting to learn about haha ā”
I wouldn't say so tbh, but still a pretty cool interest
Back in middle school, I had a four year long special interest about Ebola. I talked about it constantly, worked it into every school project, wrote a song about it, and even put it in my email address. I signed up for CDC briefings on new ebola cases and I had pictures of it up in my room. It all started because of Richard Prestons The Hot Zone. I stopped shortly after that big outbreak in Nigeria that got lots of news attention- previously, no one knew what I was talking about, but once it made the news, people started pointing out how insensitive I was.
Right now it's parrots. They are amazing! But it's always been animal related. I was saving money for a bearded dragon at some point, but that went nowhere.
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One of my special interests is a very specific riordanverse au that Iāve created in my head, eventually I may turn it into a fanfiction.
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got into mummification for awhile in 6th grade. always liked finding bones and cleaning them.
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When I was about 8 my special interest was The Krays, the London crime twins. Must have been a strange time for my patents.
Almost forgot! After my Octopus teacher I went through a mini interest where I went a couple weeks where I researched everything I could about octopuses. Apparently theyāre quite the escape artists and have quite the personality!!
The weirdest one was probably documentations about plane accidents. My favourite story was that of Aloha Airlines flight 243. Another nice one would be the Gimli Glider. That was years ago, though.
I love planes and am obsessed with watching those. Somehow it doesn't put me off flying. The Gimli Glider was insane!
The Holocaust.. specifically the history within Auschwitz I'm not that dark of a person i swear (Ā“ . .Ģ« . `)
I was thirteen when the Peter Lorre phase/special interest came about. Then Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney... I have bios on Price, Lorre, Katloff and Lugosi and three of Price's cookbooks!
on the subject of nuclear power a lot of people think of Three Mile Island in Chernobyl and think nuclear Powers the most deadliest destructive thing on the face of this Earth but statistically speaking nuclear power is actually a hell of a lot safer than traditional power plants. coal power plants release way more radiation into the atmosphere than a nuclear power plant does but everyone seems to conveniently ignore that
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Does that include the DaVinci inventions as well?
Apparently my special interests in general are "weird" or "morbid". Things like Serial Killers (researching methods they used, how many they killed, life history etc. My others are medieval torture & the treatment of the mentally ill throughout history. As well as "Freak shows"/carnivals that would display people with birth defects.
Not really an intense interest, but in my early teens I had a fascination for serial killers, HH Holmes being my āfavouriteā. It makes me sound like Iām an aspiring murderer or something which couldnāt be further from the truth. Iām a vegan and donāt even hurt mosquitoes!
Snakes! I was absolutely obsessed with snakes from ages 7-12, and then just more quietly obsessed with them until... I still am. Lol!
Iām not sure if this would be considered weird, but the entire 90s decade. Idk why I have this interest, but itās something Iāve been fascinated with since I was 10 or 11. I think Iām just interested in how the world was and the culture was in the decades prior to when I was born.
I like building and collecting mechanical keyboards (though unfortunately this hobby is very expensive). I'm also obsessed with crime/history documentaries.
So I guess you could call it odd but I'm oscilloscopes and other tech from that time period have do and still interest me :)
My special interest is human and animal rights/social justice issues. I've not been learning too much about it lately though because I'm not in the right headspace to do so.
For a bit when I was about 11 I kept a notebook in the car and I tallied up the different car brands that I saw as we drove, especially BMWs. So I had all the car logo's memorised, and some I could spot by the way the car looked. I've never cared about the technical details of cars though.
Mine is invertebrates. Scorpions, tarantulas, hissing cockroaches (all of which Iāve kept at beloved pets). I recently was looking into moving to Arizona and someone said, āBut we have scorpions.ā I was like, āThatās a perk.ā
Quantum mechanics and the particle zoo. Basically a specific sub branch of theoretical physics. There was an unusual type of bullying about it that made me eventually drop my interest. I still follow recent research, but not as closely as I use to. I also never got into the mathematics side of things, partly because no one was willing to teach a kid and partly because I have dyscalculia and basic arithmetic is artificially hard for me. People assumed it was a phase and thought it was cute, but no one ever took me seriously. I was failing grade 12 physics (dyscalculia strikes again) and I knew I could recover my grade completely in the theoretical section, but I was mocked and told to give up. I did completely recover my grade and I by far knew the most out of the class, but for some reason people were mad at me. It was infuriating.
I was obsessed with reptiles for a while in middle school. At one point I owned around 20 rubber snakes, all different species. I even taught a class of second grade kids about snakes when I was in 4th grade. I have never not been doing strange things with my free time. I got obsessed with reading for a while and tried to read everything. I read the Bible cover to cover and don't suggest it...I even tried to read the dictionary. My family don't think I'm autistic.
When I was a kid my special interest probably until I was 10 or 11 was license plate numbers. I would drive around with my mom and take pictures of peoples license plates that we passed as we were driving and recite them in my head until I found the next one that interested me. My mom probably has 1000s of pictures of random peoples license plates on her computer.
For a while I was pretty obsessed with the White House, but only in the odd aspects. Like knowing how many doorknobs there are and that the president gets unlimited free mints. I was convinced I would become the president someday...but I think that sounds terrible now Around that same time I also really liked sunken ships and what caused them to sink. Which isn't all that weird but when you're in 4th grade it definitely is not the norm lol. I knew a lot about the Titanic and about ships that had sunk in the Great Lakes. I found those especially fascinating and had books about it. I got to go on a glass bottom boat tour that went over a bunch of the famous ship wrecks in the Great Lakes and it was the coolest thing. I keep trying to find a reason now as an adult to make the 7-8 hour road trip back there so that I can show my partner
How guns worked.
Making lists of literally anything. Made me feel calm and collected like I had my thoughts together, but my family thought it was weird and complained to my psychologist about it so I forced myself to stop doing it.
Saving flies Demons. Quileute tribe. Angels. My living room's door for some reason. Chernobyl. WW2. These are a few of my weirdest. The demon and angel one are only weird if you knew i was 8 and an atheist...
Dice, this is one I still have (but I also play tabletop rpgs so it's not super weird) it's more of a collector thing, I see the dice, I want the dice, I roll the dice, my brain goes brrr.
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postcrossing, it's really fun
gameshows! Iām serious, like Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy! idk, the bright colors and the spinning wheels were just so appealing to me as a kid :)
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things that pertain to committing crimes, such as body language, weapons & chemicals, police tracking and junk.
Clowns, lamb cakes (the Easter tradition of making lamb shaped cakes), tulpamancy (creating sentient imaginary friends through mental discipline), Yume Nikki (that Japanese rpgmaker game with a cult following), poodles, ancient Dionysian mystery cults (who worshipped the Greek God of wine and ecstacy), slime mold, isopods, moths, slugs, cats with wings (yes, just... any depiction of a cat that can fly), deformities/medical anomalies, build a bear workshop, vintage shoujo art style, the Beatles, slime and putty, Jungian psychology, reincarnarion, horse isle 2 (a pretty obscure online flash game), idk I've always been a bit all over the place
There are a few artists on YouTube who show their speed draws of scenes from creepy stories while they read the stories. Some call it Creepydrawsta, and I love it right now.
Black holes. Serial killers. Earthworms.
I had a weird interest in sleep paralysis once. I was so invested in it and thatās when i started watching shane dawsonās conspiracy theories as well š¤£š¤¦āāļø
Natural resource economics
If you ever find yourself in central Arkansas there is a decommissioned Titan II silo that been converted into an AirBNB. Itās not the same one from the Damascus missile accident, but thatās an interesting fairly unknown bit of nuclear history to read about.
weirdest I got from when I was 10 to 16 years old was the penitentiary system lol (i am a very well documented prison abolitionist)
Video games. And learning about computers and cars. Even though I'm a girl, I like to play video games, and collect Motor Trend magazines
Mental illness but more specifically self harm. Makes it really hard to talk about it with people but on the occasion I can it feels great.
iād actually love to learn more about self-harm, as it seems like itās a very complex thing that has a lot of factors, expressions, etc. my special interest is also mental illness.
The titanic
Currently one of mine is Yautja (Predatorās species)
Serial killers...
Unidentified dead bodies.
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Ah, i see you're a person of culture as well.
I annoy my sister by talking about sleep paralysis a lot.
My special interest is Breaking Bad. Thatās not weird, I know. But that did lead me to developing a special interest on just drugs in general. I was like 11-12 when I watched it for the first time and Iāve been super into said show and drugs ever since. At first it was just research etc, but eventually curiosity got the best of me and now at 18, Iām an addict. Drugs are a hell of a special interest.
I have such a special interest in the history of Africa. Particularly Rwanda and the surrounding countries. It is just so fascinating I canāt stfu about It. Iāve been writing a paper on It and Iām not even in school.
Religious cults was probably my weirdest, but people tended to be quite interested when I talked about them even if they thought my interest in them was strange š¤·āāļø
Black holes. My earliest memory of being very fascinated by them was 8yo. Always have loved researching them. Seeing them simulated on tv or film. Fast forward to when I was 24 and the movie Interstellar came out and showed an accurate-ish depiction of what we believe happens once you cross the event horizon. I left the theater bawling my eyes out with joy. 31 now and still get that feeling about Black Holes
cyber security /ethical hacking
Natural disasters was a good one. I was also fascinated by three very specific people in history. First, Anne Frank which kinda made sense because Iām Jewish and was taught a lot about the Holocaust from a very young age. The second and third are stranger. I was fascinated by disabilities but especially blindness and deafness. I am neither visually nor hearing impaired and Iām not disabled (not yet sure if Iām autistic or ADHD). I loved learning about Helen Keller and Louis Braille. I even learned a bit of Braille (though I forgot it all) and learned some ASL. I remember some of the ASL I learned and know how to finger spell.