04-13-2007, 12:57 PM
I'm really obessed with neurons (and as a consequence, neuroscience). I have been since I was about 13, I'm 21 now. Before that, I have been interested in science. I have always been curious as to how things work, especially the human body. But I don't know why I became interested in neurons like that. I just did. Why not heart cells? Or liver cells? It had to be nerve cells. I also became obsessed with neurotransmitters, then the emotion of fear, and then the amygdala (a part of the brain).
As a consequence of this, I'm doing a bachelor of behavioural neuroscience, majoring in neuroscience (well, duh) and physiology, and I am hoping to be a neuroscientist when I finish (hopefully I will be able to do research on the amygdala)
When I am obessed with something, I like to learn everything I can about it. I also think that an obsession happens when the information is limited in some way(usually by my lack of knowledge), so that's why I tend to specialise it more. For example, at 14 or whatever, knowing that a neuron is a nerve cell among the people I knew was pretty rare. I barely knew the basics of action potentials, but that was like 'omg, I am so smart!' but not so when doing it at a uni course! Knowing about it is also one thing, having an interest to the point of obsession about it was the really strange thing. I also couldn't (but I have tried from a friend's brother who had the book) to read a book like 'Principles of Neural Science', a big fat theroy text, in high school. I read some of it, but I didn't understand some basics back then, such as cell signalling, so heck was I going to understand the latest research!
I also have 'mini obsessions' or phases as friends have called them, where I am obsessed with one topic. Usually I am obsessed with this topic at the same time as my bigger interest. They have been rather strange things. My first that I can remember was rabbits, up to around 5 years old. I kept heaps my school books and stuff, so that also shows it. I was obsessed with space and aliens for quiet a while before becoming interested in the human body. I also was a huge nintendo fangirl then (and I still am now! I have not grown up, lol). What else? The titanic. Electricity, electrocution and the electric chair. Tall buildings (and jumping off them, especially the empire state building). Was also heaps obsessed with japan, and anime. Pokemon and HTML.
This all seems like a strange mix of things, and I still don't understand what makes me become so... obsessed with these things. It's like they become my life and who I am. Some of them were helpful (I still use that knowledge from my HTML obsession) but some could have been dangerous (electrocution). And one has really lasted the test of times, and is defining my life - neuroscience. Asperger's seemed to explain it (I couldn't believe there was such a symptom of something), but that's not it.
As a consequence of this, I'm doing a bachelor of behavioural neuroscience, majoring in neuroscience (well, duh) and physiology, and I am hoping to be a neuroscientist when I finish (hopefully I will be able to do research on the amygdala)
When I am obessed with something, I like to learn everything I can about it. I also think that an obsession happens when the information is limited in some way(usually by my lack of knowledge), so that's why I tend to specialise it more. For example, at 14 or whatever, knowing that a neuron is a nerve cell among the people I knew was pretty rare. I barely knew the basics of action potentials, but that was like 'omg, I am so smart!' but not so when doing it at a uni course! Knowing about it is also one thing, having an interest to the point of obsession about it was the really strange thing. I also couldn't (but I have tried from a friend's brother who had the book) to read a book like 'Principles of Neural Science', a big fat theroy text, in high school. I read some of it, but I didn't understand some basics back then, such as cell signalling, so heck was I going to understand the latest research!
I also have 'mini obsessions' or phases as friends have called them, where I am obsessed with one topic. Usually I am obsessed with this topic at the same time as my bigger interest. They have been rather strange things. My first that I can remember was rabbits, up to around 5 years old. I kept heaps my school books and stuff, so that also shows it. I was obsessed with space and aliens for quiet a while before becoming interested in the human body. I also was a huge nintendo fangirl then (and I still am now! I have not grown up, lol). What else? The titanic. Electricity, electrocution and the electric chair. Tall buildings (and jumping off them, especially the empire state building). Was also heaps obsessed with japan, and anime. Pokemon and HTML.
This all seems like a strange mix of things, and I still don't understand what makes me become so... obsessed with these things. It's like they become my life and who I am. Some of them were helpful (I still use that knowledge from my HTML obsession) but some could have been dangerous (electrocution). And one has really lasted the test of times, and is defining my life - neuroscience. Asperger's seemed to explain it (I couldn't believe there was such a symptom of something), but that's not it.