• Broadfern@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Video games, drawing/art, photography, having cats as pets, and wearing almost exclusively unisex clothing.

    Yep. 12 year old me would have been quite happy to see me now.

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    4 months ago

    I wish I remember what young me used to do. What he used to wish he had the money to do. All that sort of stuff.

    Because now pretty much all I do is work, scroll Reddit, and watch Youtube.

    • Mr.Chewy@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Unless you were never allowed to know you’re autistic and the idea of it is still rejected :(

  • therewolftherecastle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    I was really interested in ttrpgs and wargmaming as a kid. My family was poor as hell, though, so buying $40+ books and $300+ Warhammer starter sets wasn’t a priority. I would try to create my own but were all proper shit. I at least had fun with process.

    I discovered some used Call of Cthulhu books in an antique mall in my mid 20s and realized that I could buy all the stuff I never could get as a kid. I’m 42 now and have two full bookcases of RPGs and a whole pile of grey plastic collecting dust.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Revisiting my old hobbies and - by turns - finding out some of this stuff was dumb shit for babies and some of this stuff was absolutely fucking impossible how did I ever get it to work at all when I was twelve?!

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      This is an actual thing. It even has a fancy name. Geophagia is nearly universal around the world in tribal and traditional rural societies.

    • Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      my rediscovered interests were worldbuilding and ttrpg’s, i think Disney and pokeman adults never lose that ‘spark’ and so don’t need to rediscover.

    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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      Disagree. I went back to some old hobbies when I quit drinking. Reading comic books being one of them. I don’t buy superhero merch. Heck, I don’t even buy the books. I read through my library/ the Hoopla app. I barely even talk about it much. I just enjoy the stories and maybe discuss online sometimes. 🤷‍♂️