Childhood Interests Ages 0-10

[vesstheastralsilky]

It is very telling what ones true type is when in part examining early childhood interests and activities, assuming the childhood was average. We can be our natural selves more easily than many can by the time they are adults depending on the kinds of social conditioning and quality of relationships they have received.

Post as you like and what type consideration(s) you have for yourself.

[para]

Cool thread.

Interested in systematizing. I would make toy dinosaur battle formations, giving ranks to the specific dinosaurs. I loved making lists of things (from best to worst) by ranking subjective qualities of things. I was interested in how things were interconnected, i liked Pokémon especially because of the way different types and moves interacted, and how there were a multitude of creatures inhabiting a parallel world. I also really enjoyed graphs, climate and planetary ones especially. I think it was the comparative method which graphs were introduced with side by side that caught my interest. I was almost always imagining things, which had an effect on both my performance in school and practical things (had trouble with hands-on things, like putting on clothes right, writing etc., was hard to reach, hard to get to do things because i was very busy internally and not responsive to the external world)

I was also a bit of a rebel, i would defy ''authorities'' simply because i hated being told what to do, and i walked around in pink for a while, which was, to many an elementary teacher, a sign of disrespect for established conduct.

I'm considering ILE, LII, ILI and SLI currently.

[Exodus]

Playing with Legos, reading voraciously (fiction at that age), swimming. But I find that my type became more manifest at the ages after that, not less. Partly because I simply wasn't aware of all that the world had to offer.

edit: oh yeah, and collecting rocks, and stickers. And playing piano.

[Tallmo]

Art
Dinosaurs
Chemistry

[ashlesha]

Reading, dress up and imaginative play, learning songs on my synthesizer, messing around on the playground, stuff like the MASH game, trying to do the splits, watching Nickelodeon or bill nye.

Nothing really unusual I think, except a higher than typical love of books.

[maniac]

porn

[Muddy]

I was obsessed with learning about sharks.

[Skepsis]

I think I lived on the moon much of the time.

[WVBRY]

I used to love dinosaurs, astronomy, life science. I had an encyclopedic memory for the names of dinosaurs and other things. I also made a dream book where I drew my dreams. I still have it - I have little idea what the drawings mean. I also loved watching movies and playing the NES.

Overall, very imaginative, didn't like sports and had good memory for facts. That sounds base right?

[chrys]

Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh, playing with action figures and even making dumb videos with them, writing very stupid random picture books with stories that went as I liked, usually changing very abrubtly and not explaining itself well, watching Care Bears, sitting on the playground swings and letting my imagination go wild was my favourite past-time.

At school I would walk around with my best friend who is now some Alpha NT type, talk about Pokémon and random what-if scenarios, play with nature and distract ourselves with imagination.

I know this isn't a hobby but going to Child Psychotherapy was arguably the best part of my week. I always had some form of anger issues and frustration with people who made me uncomfortable, so my Mom threw me in it. Very empathetic and relaxing.

[Number 9 large]

When 0-10 i was often playing video games or playing outside (both with friends)

[Hope]

Bugs, herbivore dinosaurs, cartoons, coloring books, drawing, play doh, mud cakes, videogames, my pillow, dolls, wearing my mom's pumps.

I used to play alone or with one friend at school or one of my older siblings.

[SaveYourself]

Interests were reading, marine biology / conservation (I had an annual pass to the aquarium), astronomy, art and daydreaming.

Believe it or not, I've always been weirdly uptight and argumentative about gender politics I grew up with a brother and two male cousins and they would get stuff I didn't (to take their shirts off when it was hot; they got water guns and I didn't; they all had the same TMNT shirt but I wasn't allowed it because it was for boys). I even joined the football (or soccer, if you're American) team because joining a club was mandatory but my school only ran Football Club and Girls Club. I hated the latter, since it was making clothes and learning dance routines to pop songs, so I joined football instead (and hated it but it was the STATEMENT that counted). I also idolised Lara Croft for being athletic and kick ass. All this kicked in mb ages 8-10.

Current poss. typings are ESE and EIE.

[The Reality Denialist]

I was pretty out there from early on...
All kinds of weird stuff based on thought structures. Maybe it is the mobilizing speaking... you know... what kinds of freaky things there are where reigns. That would make it into more philosophical realm where those things started to get systematized forms.

Anyways, to strengths regarding real life... structural information was easy. Stuff like geography, chemistry and mathematics.
Apparently, I was technically quite good naturally. Was it my actual interest? I doubt it.

[vesstheastralsilky]

I loved beauty & when asked my favorite thing, that is what I wrote.

I drew well and was considered the class artist, whether copying characters, realistic drawing or inventing my own forms.

I loved dance and took many formal lessons. I wanted to go pro. When not in class, I would dance more at home and choreograph homemade music videos with family and orchestrate shows everything from art direction to songs to costumes. I was an early MTV loving kid.

I played video games a lot but usually only with other family members motivated by fun and refining learned skills.

I was an astronomy & cosmology & weather & planetary science buff by 7 and read children's guides on it. I was not particularly known for being good at math and science beyond average or above average though. That didn't come until college.

I checked out my first philosophy book in the adult library at age 10 on metaphysics because I began asking abstract philosophical questions about life at 8.

I was interested in my parents art-craft projects as inspired to fantasize by their beauty - things like stained glass work, painted ceramic holiday decor, cake decorating. But I more took it in.

I didn't care for playing with dolls but considered them worthy of care and affection anyway. I would mostly set up the Barbie houses with creative objects than play because my siblings and I didn't get on well much to my sadness and many wasted efforts. I did play a little Barbie with friends though. I was more into puppeteering and making stuffed animals come to life in zany ways to entertain my family and friends. I still know people who want me to do it, that is how amused they get even when I consider it childish / my early years.

I was curious a lot and daydreamed about ancient civilizations. I wanted to know what daily life was like among people of various times and cultures and why. I loved ethnic dolls and learning about other cultures.

Though I loved dance, I hated gym including gymnastics.

I enjoyed and was very good at creative writing including poetry. I was best at spelling art and creative writing in school, being published there often and even reading my own work to the class once by teacher's request.

I was very shy but extremely affectionate as a child, for which I was sometimes teased. I observed my peers, got on well with elders, and hugged my teacher at the end of school every day until I had male teachers in 5th grade.

I was a fussy eater regarding food quality and so was very slim and ingesting much sugar.

I liked inventing houses for bugs not present or fairies just imagined as play ... with elemental materials like acorns leaves twigs and arranging them into domestic homes.

I started observing houses architecturally at 10 and became interested in drawing floor plans to accommodate a dreamy social life in my mind.

I liked playing with Legos but building my own designs than following instructions though easy enough.

I loved music and followed the pop scene countdown on the radio of current hits every week plus those MTV hits too.

I loved dressing up and designing costumes with available clothes especially homemade costume inventing at Halloween.

I liked looking through catalogs of toys, jewelry, stationery, gifts, clothes, and home furnishings a lot and picking out what I liked just for fun.

I enjoyed doing many of these things with friends.

I read more than most kids in my class but my Mom was good at letting me choose many books.

I would learn common songs by ear on the piano and play with one hand. I didn't teach myself how to play with both or put mental compositions to form until starting in high school. I often asked for music lessons but my parents said no.

I loved how astronomy made me feel small, yet dancing on stage in front of a couple thousand made me feel big.

[golden]

Piano, dance, performing.

Religion. The forest. Animals.

Reading.

Riding my bike. Physical stunts.

[WinnieW]

What I can remember from my childhood... nothing before the age of 3.
Kindergarten and pre-school:
I hated too much physical activity, even a hour of sport activity at school was too much for me. I didn't stand kids who were unable to stand still just for a moment.
Can't remember much from that time. I was that typical quiet, shy kid.

Was interested in technical devices, such as different brands of radio devices and their features. Read some books.
I played with different types of construction toys, like Lego or Fischertechnik.

Besides from that, I was a hudge fan of comic cartoons and Sci-Fi anime; maybe I'm still, but I watch such stuff only rarely nowadays.
That stuff inspired me to create stories of my own... but I hadn't the motivation to write them down.

[Aster]

Oh my, seems like forever ago...I lived on a 'farm', but we only had horses. And we didn't actually farm. There was no one around my age, besides occasionally my cousin who would stay at my grandmas a lot, who lived a cornfield down, literally. So I grew up kind of secluded and had to entertain myself a lot.


I used to dig holes in the ground, trying to find any arrowheads or any artifacts. I was really interested in archaeology and anthropology. I loved museums, and learning about history, culture, and religion. At one point I wanted to work at a zoo when I grew up because I loved animals. We had a lot of cats on our farm and I used to carry them around with me and play with them. We had horses, and I used to show them, but it was more my moms hobby. I took dance lessons (tap, jazz, ballet) but I didn't stick with them. I also took piano lessons but didn't stick with that. And gymnastics. But didn't stick with that either. I played a lot of video games with my dad in the evenings, and with my cousin who often also stayed with my grandma. My dad and I also liked playing board games together like checkers, monopoly, and battleship. All kinds of board games. I also liked watching movies a lot, lots of Disney movies, even the old classic ones like Castaways, Three Lives of Thomasina, and Darby O' Gill and the Little People, or old rerun tv shoes like I Love Lucy, Quantum Leap, Million Dollar Man, The Munsters, I Dream of Jeanie, Mr. Ed, and all of the Disney or Nickelodean ones at that time. Some movies I would watch over and over and drive my whole family insane, and they still talk about it to this day. Beauty and the Beast, The Labyrinth, Legend, and Watcher in the Woods. I also really liked horror movies. I watched a lot of different movies. I loved to read, mainly fantasy, historical fiction, or American Girl books. I would write my own fantasy stories. Mainly involving fairies. I loved going to the library. I played make believe a lot. Most of my make believe was involving fairies and magic. I also had barbies I'd play with, and I was really into collecting bear stuffed animals. I think they were Boyd's. I also collected little bear figurines called Cherished Teddies, and Beanie Babies. I was definitely a collector. I had a fascination with the supernatural, ghosts and cryptozoology. I used to play around with the Ouji board and try to contact the dead . Was interested in things like Seances and possession. I used to go around asking about everyone's supernatural experiences or ghost stories. I wanted to be a ghost hunter aka supernatural investigator. I was fascinated by my great-Grandmothers stories of growing up and loved listening to old people talk of back in the day. I also had an obsession with Elvis Presley and his songs at one point.


I wasn't a very social child, keeping mostly to my self, never felt like I really fit in, people thought I was really odd, and I was never into sports or building things like legos. I tried drawing but was never very good at it.


Usually get typed Fi base. ESI or EII.

[The Reality Denialist]

It is funny how some people have such a good memory recall. It refreshed bit of mine.

I also checked what my mother wrote about me: Technical wonder child, sensitive, gentle, stubborn. lol.

Physical exercise was painful at first but I got better at it.
I got kicked out of kindergarten because I did not care about structured play. I just wanted to talk and listen about ideas and stories. Then went back to another one. It had something interesting to offer so I graduated from there.
I found some kids at school who were not interested in soccer so I discussed with them lots of things.

I think I also built stuff from construction waste that was in our backyard. Without any instructions.
I read lots of comics. I sucked at drawing.

[vesstheastralsilky]

Cool thread.

Interested in systematizing. I would make toy dinosaur battle formations, giving ranks to the specific dinosaurs. I loved making lists of things (from best to worst) by ranking subjective qualities of things. I was interested in how things were interconnected, i liked Pokémon especially because of the way different types and moves interacted, and how there were a multitude of creatures inhabiting a parallel world. I also really enjoyed graphs, climate and planetary ones especially. I think it was the comparative method which graphs were introduced with side by side that caught my interest. I was almost always imagining things, which had an effect on both my performance in school and practical things (had trouble with hands-on things, like putting on clothes right, writing etc., was hard to reach, hard to get to do things because i was very busy internally and not responsive to the external world)

I was also a bit of a rebel, i would defy ''authorities'' simply because i hated being told what to do, and i walked around in pink for a while, which was, to many an elementary teacher, a sign of disrespect for established conduct.

I'm considering ILE, LII, ILI and SLI currently.

How very very interesting. Feel free to expand more if you wish.

[vesstheastralsilky]

Some movies I would watch over and over and drive my whole family insane, and they still talk about it to this day. Beauty and the Beast, The Labyrinth, Legend, and Watcher in the Woods.

Watcher In The Woods!!!!! Yes I discovered that one in middle school. Great film.

[Desert Financial]

Piano, dance, performing.

Religion. The forest. Animals.

Reading.

Riding my bike. Physical stunts.

Did you also like the letters p and r?

[Desert Financial]

Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures
Taxonomy
Reptiles
Insects
Birds of prey
Drawing
Video Games
Finding the best places to hide
IRL Trolling

[Starvish]

Lots of drawing. A ton of writing stories and characters and making fantasy worlds and monster designs and stuff (which I'd then draw). Researching all kinds of weird animals, namely bugs, reptiles, and all the weird marine invertebrates. I liked being in water in general and I'd practice swimming a lot.

I loved loved loved the weird gross faceless animals that could spit poison or regenerate. Also cartoons and vidya but I guess that's not super relevant.

[sbbds]

I would make my Barbies naked and disheveled and tie them up in haphazard positions together. I would also sort and arrange my many toy cars.

I invented and played out epic quests around the house with my stuffed animals too. Sometimes tea parties.

To this day I can see how my psyche is not entirely different from how it was back then.

[Vespertine]

0-10...
at 3, i used to go out at night to walk and look at the stars. stopped when fall arrived. i had insomnia already and it helped me sleep. no, my parents did not know.
i remember laying in the grass to stare at the sky. staring at the stars.
i lived in my head mostly. imagination, trying to understand life and people.
i rarely have had personal interests, my mom wrote so i wanted to try, some kids liked barbies so i played with them, people started drawing so i did too... tried understanding them by joining their activities.
i hated reading as a child... i remember reading ahead a reading homework then reciting it by heart... it did not pass.
i enjoyed watching others play video games, and sometimes my mom would die in a game and not remember how to get to where she was so i told her. she used to call me "little recorder".

vivid imagination, stars, confusion about life and people, epic memory...
i always had a weird interest in people and what happens in their head.

[Ryan]

When 0-10 i was often playing video games or playing outside (both with friends)

This plus watching plenty of anime

I picked up reading a bit late because I wasn't allowed to read without supervision (I still bought my own books and hid them)

Mainly action/sci-fi

[Number 9 large]

This plus watching plenty of anime

I picked up reading a bit late because I wasn't allowed to read without supervision (I still bought my own books and hid them)

Mainly action/sci-fi

Oh yea i forgot to say i actually read books for fun back then lel

[sbbds]

I wasn't allowed to read without supervision

What! Why??

[Ryan]

What! Why??

Honestly, I have no idea. I just remember my mom burning a couple of sci-fi novels I borrowed from a friend. That wasn't nice. I decide to buy my own books after that.

My dad was very religious, even by typical standards. All kinds of entertainment were foreign to him. He didn't even like me being in a soccer team. I signed up anyway. We didn't have a TV until I reached 14, my mom bought it in secret and had to slowly convince my dad it was okay.

Luckily my aunt's home was just next door and they had everything. It was honestly weird going back home.

Funnily enough my parents are okay with these things now. I think they lived in their own bubble and tried so hard to shield us from being influenced by anyone else. It backfired tremendously.

[sbbds]

Honestly, I have no idea. I just remember my mom burning a couple of sci-fi novels I borrowed from a friend. That wasn't nice. I decide to buy my own books after that.

My dad was very religious, even by typical standards. All kinds of entertainment were foreign to him. He didn't even like me being in a soccer team. I signed up anyway. We didn't have a TV until I reached 14, my mom bought it in secret and had to slowly convince my dad it was okay.

Luckily my aunt's home was just next door and they had everything. It was honestly weird going back home.

Funnily enough my parents are okay with these things now. I think they lived in their own bubble and tried so hard to shield us from being influenced by anyone else. It backfired tremendously.

Strange. I have an EIE friend with a similar background (very religious dad and compensating mom before and oddly becoming okay with things now). I think if I were you I would be bothered and annoyed or feel tired by censorship now lol.

[Ryan]

Strange. I have an EIE friend with a similar background (very religious dad and compensating mom before and oddly becoming okay with things now). I think if I were you I would be bothered and annoyed or feel tired by censorship now lol.

I am.

I got into hacking because our internet laws are so restrictive. I ended up studying information security in college. People assumed I wanted to do something productive with it. I didn't. I never worked in IT after graduation.

[sbbds]

I am.

I got into hacking because our internet laws are so restrictive. I ended up studying information security in college. People assumed I wanted to do something productive with it. I didn't. I never worked in IT after graduation.

Whoa that’s awesome!

[The Reality Denialist]

My mother thought that kids become disruptive at school if they learn to read before school.

[sbbds]

My mother thought that kids become disruptive at school if they learn to read before school.

?!?!

[FDG]

i liked lego, reading, doing complicated homework with friends, toying / thinkering with computers, playing soccer / basketball or generally staying outside especially during the nice seasons

[The Reality Denialist]

Honestly, I have no idea. I just remember my mom burning a couple of sci-fi novels I borrowed from a friend. That wasn't nice. I decide to buy my own books after that.

My dad was very religious, even by typical standards. All kinds of entertainment were foreign to him. He didn't even like me being in a soccer team. I signed up anyway. We didn't have a TV until I reached 14, my mom bought it in secret and had to slowly convince my dad it was okay.

Luckily my aunt's home was just next door and they had everything. It was honestly weird going back home.

Funnily enough my parents are okay with these things now. I think they lived in their own bubble and tried so hard to shield us from being influenced by anyone else. It backfired tremendously.

I had a friend who was in similar situation but he didn't have stimulation providing relatives because they were also carbon copies of his parents. Not going to curch on Sunday was like the biggest sin a family member could commit. TV to him was like little magic screen.

[ashlesha]

My mother thought that kids become disruptive at school if they learn to read before school.

?!?!

Lol @Troll Nr 007 I assume the idea was you'd get bored while the other kids were learning? I think that's the reason for gifted classes.

[sbbds]

Lol @Troll Nr 007 I assume the idea was you'd get bored while the other kids were learning? I think that's the reason for gifted classes.

I know there’s some rationalization like that behind it. Just expressed how it’s absurd point blank anyway. If the result is stupid, and how you got there has some rationality, it doesn’t make the result less stupid lmao.

[The Reality Denialist]

There is no such concept as gifted classes over here. Whatever it holds inside.

I don't know about that... I was weird child and more weirdness... prolly... anyways I had the highest grade average in our class but...