Adults with Childlike Obsessions

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I also have a heap of stuffed animals, and am obsessed by - socks. I'm not sure if that conts. But I love socks that are colourful, bright, wooly, or different in some way.

Count me in. Here is a nice quote from C S Lewis that cheered me up:

"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. "

Most of the things I love (comics, video games, animation, Science Fiction etc) are generally seen as rather "adolescent and I'm 45 now. I tend to go for more "sophisticated" examples of the above but none the less still feel like people will laugh at me. I don't want to leave these things behind, even though I feel a bit guilty about loving them. They've never lost that wonderful "Christmas morning new toy" excitement. I can walk out of a movie and feel ten years old. I genuinely think I would be happier sitting on the floor with a big pile of Lego than going to a dinner party with other adults.

Pokemon is my big one. I've been obsessed with it ever since Red and Blue came out, and to this day, I still play. A friend gave me the first few seasons of the anime, and I've been slowly watching my way through that.

Also, plushies. I have a large collection of them on top of my tallboy in my bedroom, and a giant garbage bag filled with even more in the garage.

I watch Arthur almost every day along with Phineas and Ferb. I sleep with stuffed animals. I play with Legos.

I like cartoons...but adult oriented ones, like Regular Show and Adventure Time, ahaha.
Occasionally I like looking up media from earlier periods of time when I was a kid, just for fun.

I know a few people on the spectrum who are really into kid's shows and movies. One of them says that she "likes to go back to her childhood". There's a difference between doing that in an ironic/self-depreciating sort of way and quoting entire episodes word by word. I don't mind that she does it...but I worry of what her peers think of her when she does this.

I like trains and model railways. I have always liked them from almost ever since I can remember onwards. There's something about trains. I think in trains!! !

I love Sonic the Hedgehog still and Pokemon. I'm going to get back into getting games now that I can finally afford them (I'm getting a Nintendo Switch Lite and I'm going to download Pokemon and the Sonic games).

I also am enjoying bird and other nature books and want to find more to enjoy... I got my stimulus payment a few days ago and also I have more money each month because of my cheap apartment... but that is a bit off topic because those obsessions are not child-like but I had them since I was a child.

I'm highly interested in video games like Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing, and the main shows I watch are cartoons that are meant for preteens/younger adolescents. I've liked most of them since I was younger which is a main reason I still watch them.

When I was a pre-teen, I went back to playing with blocks and basic Meccano. I was subconsciously trying to review my younger life and find what went missing.
BTW, I loathe Lego. It seems to take all the skill and most of the imagination out of building things. For centuries, architects made models of cathedrals using scale blocks to see if they would fall down or not.

Pokemon, castle/pirate/ninja/viking lego, toy cars.
Transgressive music.
Muppets.
Plush s**t in general, but especially cats and dromaeosaurs.
Even my whole attitude towards substance use is much more aligned with my peers from when we were in high school, not what it is expected to be as a 'responsible adult', since I'm not.
I still have the same basically curiosity about how things work one expects of a child, which sometimes makes receiving instructions very difficult.

Die cast toy cars from the 50's and 60's

Love them

I'm reminded of that quote by George Bernard Shaw, "People don't stop playing because they grow old; they grow old because they stop playing."

Would anyone know why I have suddenly stopped getting notices about new postings in threads of interest?

I'm still obsessed with dinosaurs. In my house, I have kitchen cabinets that are too high to reach. I put dinos on them. I'm still obsessed with photography, though that isn't childish. I still like nudy pinups. I have stuffed animals on my bed and I put glowing stars on my ceiling over the bed. I still have most of my old toys.