Childish interests is an Aspie thing? Feeling embarrassed?

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Bravo and well said!

I’m now in my 50’s and still sleep with a pony stuffed animal. When my family moved when I was in high school I accidentally packed my teddy bear in one of the ‘give to charity’ boxes, as opposed to a box going to our new home, and Ive never gotten over that.

I still have most of my hot wheels and match box cars, and indeed, like others in this thread, I love coloring in coloring books. Doing so is one of my stims, in fact. I still ride an old Schwinn bike that Ive had for decades, and I still use my pentax kx film camera that my dad gave to me when I was in jr high school, taking my first photography class. I have had many opportunities to acquire new cameras, but I prefer to use my camera as it is sentimental and takes excellent photographs.

My special interests/obsessions are in music, archtecture, neuroscience, sustainability and the physiological and biological effects of nutrtion and natural medicine, on the human brain/mind/body. I also become obsessed with various aspects of foreign countries, which, unlike my aforementioned, special interests, come and go in cycles.

Obligatory C.S Lewis Quote.

"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
C.S. Lewis

Being adult is about how well you can handle yourself and your life not what TV show you're into.

That said I keep my interests to myself unless they seem like something the other person would also be into. The other person won't care so why bother. You won't see me throwing my games and DVD's in a cupboard to hide them though.

I've always like cartoons from my childhood as,they were quite innovative and imaginative ,not the crap you see nowadays,yet I'd be seen as absurd having a liking of such material

Comic con and dedicated Transformers conventions are both places where you can find them.

Cool, more Gen 1 TF collectors! Sorry for your collection loss Xatrix26. I was lucky in that my parents did not throw away or sell my stuff when I went away to college. That issue happened to many of the kids that I collected with growing up. My collection numbers about a hundred Gen 1s now (one kid I grew up with had 10 times that in the 1980s). I do have some of the rare promo ones that you had to send away for like Reflector and I have two Gen 1 Optimus Primes with the Pepsi labels on the side. I never got my hands on an original Megatron, but did get a Galvatron for my stash.

You do not want to know what I did to my Star Wars/GI Joe stuff. They did not survive my youth.

My special interests are pretty standard: Reading & Programming.

The one that everyone laughs at me for is The Sims. Not any sims, The Sims 3 specifically. I know... the amount I know and love that game is embarrassing. Everytime someone asks me about it I suddenly go off on one, and I am sitting there the whole time like 'AHHH they probs don't care, stop talking' but I am super excited so off I go. LOL.

End of the day I figure it is one of the things that brings joy and order to my world, I look forward to playing it, and I have built a gaming pc specifically to run it. Its my happy place, so they can judge all they like. And woe betide anyone who tries to make me socialise when I am on a sims binge. Likely hood is I won't even look at you.

Another person mentioned childish stims, and I must say: Disney. I have had utter meltdowns because I could not watch Tangled when distressed/ill. When Amazon beat Netflix to the rights to the film I was so upset I ended up with multiple copies, I believe my dad ran to the shops and bough the DVD for me :').

I love the Sims too, although nobody laughs at me though.
But it's the Sims 2 that I love most, because I have all the expansion packs. Only thing that stops me from being able to play my favourite game is sh***y Windows 10 because it won't let me play it properly. The game ran smoothly before I updated my laptop to Windows 10. I can build things, but it terminates when I create a family. I really badly want to create a Sims version of The Inbetweeners, that would be really fun, but Windows 10 has to be crappy.

I have a G1 Megatron. He is not hard to find at cons. Just be sure he is in good shape and has all the accessories, esp the sight/BFG.

Did you know that he is on a list of toys that are banned from all US flights, just because his alt mode looks so much like a real gun?

Your Star Wars and GI Joes...did they face live ordinance in the form of fireworks?

So glad I found this thread, I always just thought I was weird for having childish interests tbh. As a teenager it's kinda awkward so no one knows about it but I give myself time to watch cartoons and play Pokémon when I'm on my own. Just having that time really helps me personally with stress. I also have some stuffed animals that I couldn't bear to throw out since I was a kid. (Pun intended )

Yep, they did. Most were melted or blown apart over the years. It was fun to do back then.

I have all the expansion packs for Sims 3 :3 its so fun! That's so annoying that its crashing when you get to playing with your families? Windows 10 should have a way to let you emulate XP so you can run sims 2 like you used to? https://www.howtogeek.com/228689/how-to ... indows-10/ <--- This may help you, allowing you too run it using Windows XP Service Pack 3 in compatibility mode! Good luck! I would be throwing a fit if it was doing that for me!! !

About a year ago I bought a secondhand Windows 7 laptop from a cash-converter store to see if I can still play the Sims 2 on that, took me ages to install all the expansion packs but when everything was finally and successfully installed, I ran the game. But it was doing the EXACT THING it done on my Windows 10 laptop; terminate on create a family mode - even though it used to work fine when my own laptop was Windows 7. So I had to take it back, although the stupid policy was only half a refund, so I wasted my time and money buying the Windows 7 laptop.

I have tried changing the compatibility mode, but I wasn't sure if I had to change it on every expansion pack too, and trying every single compatibility mode for every expansion pack then testing the game each time is too repetitive and time-consuming.

I have saved the link you posted in bookmarks so I can have a proper look when I go on my laptop later today. I do miss playing my Sims game. I spend a lot of time building houses (the game allows me to do that), but I'd love to put Sims in them again.

Naughty. My childhood SW figures were all Xmas, Easter, and BDay gifts and or bought with Xmas or Bday money so I would never destroy them. I still have most of them. I had very few GI Joes and most broke when that rubberband broke. But I did have a bucket of cheepo plastic army men, and one fourth of July my brother and I staged a battle with them and a bunch of fire crackers, cherry bombs, and those tanks that shoot hot sparks. Ah the smell of melted plastic that day...

My cousins also participated in the destruction. They had bigger pockets, so we usually used their GI Joes/Star Wars figures to do this. At the time, we never considered that they would become collectible. However, I always knew that the Transformers toys were special. So, they never suffered the same fate.