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Aug 9, 2024 10:44 AM
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What were your childhood hobbies or interests and were you able to retain them, at least partially, into adulthood? Do you regret anything, or do you think that giving up any interests was reasonable and natural? For example, I regret that I started playing sports quite late, despite my interest in it all my life, since throughout my childhood I was afraid of being disappointed in my own abilities and willpower. On the other hand, now it’s hard for me to understand why I was so obsessed with dinosaurs or combat aircraft as a child. Maybe because as an adult I became more neutral towards animals and more aware of the complexity of flying an airplane?
Aug 9, 2024 11:08 AM
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Playing Lego and Pokemon, watching Dragon Ball and Pokemon, riding my bike and being in the public open-air pool.
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Aug 9, 2024 11:12 AM
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Video games and internet. I wasted too many time on the early days of forums and tried to get friend there. Didnt happend, and i regret it, I wish I could use all that time on at least perfecting my drawing skills, playing more or even just went straight ahead and code.

I guess it will be for another round
Aug 9, 2024 11:18 AM
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Lego, video games, etc. Pretty normal stuff.
Aug 9, 2024 11:39 AM
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When I was a kid I played with Ukrainian/Russian/Moldovan kids on a landfill.
Now that I am an adult I drink with Ukrainian/Russian/Moldovan adults at the bar.
Aug 9, 2024 11:43 AM
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When I was a kid I played with Ukrainian/Russian/Moldovan kids on a landfill.
Now that I am an adult I drink with Ukrainian/Russian/Moldovan adults at the bar.
@Commit_Crime Do you live in the Czech Republic, but also seen historical Czechoslovakia?
Aug 9, 2024 11:44 AM
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Video games and internet. I wasted too many time on the early days of forums and tried to get friend there. Didnt happend, and i regret it, I wish I could use all that time on at least perfecting my drawing skills, playing more or even just went straight ahead and code.

I guess it will be for another round
@KenaiPhoenix
I wish I could use all that time on at least perfecting my drawing skills

People that started drawing as kids and got really good won life. They can try doing art if that fails they can do commissions for some fucked up fetishes and make better money than 99% of the population.
Aug 9, 2024 11:52 AM
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@Commit_Crime Do you live in the Czech Republic, but also seen historical Czechoslovakia?
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I do live in the Czech Republic but I am too young to have witnessed Czechoslovakia first hand. Unfortunately now we are two countries, very sad!
Aug 9, 2024 12:11 PM
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Playing chase, soccer hide and seek with children outside at the streets.
Playing alone watching insects and animals at the mountain near my house.
Watching my brothers playing video games or playing myself.
Drawing and listening to music with a walkman cassette player.

I looved my childhood and I'm still doing some stuff I did as a kid.
Aug 9, 2024 12:12 PM

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Aside from the regular one's (watching, reading, playing, etc…), I used to loved making pillow & blanket fortresses.
Aug 9, 2024 12:13 PM

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Childhood:
Playing with cold weapons, History [mainly movies and video games], Video games, Anime, Drawing

As an adult:
Playing with cold weapons [Sport/Job], History, Archeaology, Video Games, Anime, Drawing

Yeah.... I don't think there's anything that has changed, besides the age.
Aug 9, 2024 12:27 PM

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I've more or less kept the same interests and hobbies I had as a kid until now.

My biggest interests were Dinosaurs, having been taught them in School at the time Jurassic Park was out, and had toys of them. I think my interest maybe dropped a little until I was a teenager being home educated, because there was always Dinosaur documentaries on Sky TV, and also I began buying and reading some advanced Dinosaur books. I really wanted to become a Paleontologist because of Dinosaurs, but life had other plans.
Also when I was a kid, I was pretty obsessed by UFOs & Aliens. I read loads of books of them and watched lots of documentaries about them.

As for hobbies, I've always loved reading books & playing videogames. My other biggest hobby/interest was Trains. I probably picked this up from Thomas & Friends, but also my Dad was also a train enthusiast & trainspotter when he was younger (like many were back then). My Dad would take me to heritage railways all over the country to ride on Steam locomotives, and also he would just take me to a train station somewhere to just watch them. Later on when I heard what trainspotting was from my Dad, I'd start collecting the numbers & photographing them too. I did stop trainspotting for a little bit, as for a time in my country it was considered an act of terrorism.
I still take numbers as I ride, as I mainly use Trains to get around, but I don't often anymore specifically go to a train station for a day to spot.

Do I regret anything? Ummm...well yeah I wish now that I spent some time actually looking around the towns & cities I went to with my dad. But I mainly wanted to spot and ride trains, and any hopes of revisiting these places would be pretty slim, as I mainly go places by myself and am scared of going too far from home.
Also wish I got to know my nan (my Dad's mum) better. She used to tape train docs for me, but when we went round to her's, I just wanted to watch trains, and she died when I was about 6 or 7. She was the only grandparent left when I came along 😥
Also yes I regret playing videogames for as long as I did, as my right wrist is practically destroyed lol. It's very weak and painful and I am always dropping stuff that I try to hold in it.
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Aug 9, 2024 6:35 PM

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Playing computer games. Most were just flash games because easily accessible. I also got into anime and chess.

I kinda regret not doing anything with the guitar but at the same time I will just learn it in the future so who cares. Took long enough though.
Aug 9, 2024 7:29 PM
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When I was kid I loved to look around or wander, fascinated by faunas, bathing in a hot spring, got curious about astronomy during vacations

Them are still the same with a slight change in orientation, but for astronomy it has been replaced by water-related ones
Aug 9, 2024 9:27 PM
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Mostly listening to music from the classical music, smooth jazz, and easy listening CDs as makeshift gifts from my parents' workplace, chatting with my friends on the land line phone, spending time with my nanny, reading books with many pretty pictures.

I did have a tomboy reputation among my elementary school friends that influenced my many other interests.
Aug 10, 2024 12:05 AM

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I was into football a lot. I played it with friends from time to time or during PE in school. I also liked listening to underground music artists, collecting Yu-Gi-Oh cards, watching anime and live-action stuff. I never had any niche hobbies. Most of the things I liked doing were influenced by my friends at the time. I do all these things now apart from playing football, which unfortunately is out of my own control since most my friends stopped playing it and I'm left with no one to kick the ball around. There aren't any amateur teams or groups of ppl that gather every week to play either, mostly cuz my country does not offer many places to even play the damn sport.
Aug 10, 2024 12:09 AM

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watching anime, playing lego and chess thats it now im bad at chess though
Aug 10, 2024 12:32 AM

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Watching anime, Playing soccer and basketball.
Aug 10, 2024 1:29 AM

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During early days of childhood, I enjoyed a lot of things, like playing hide-and-seek, cycling, football, badminton, rounders* and swimming. But as I grew older, I started to cultivate other interests that were more "indoor" such as sewing, crocheting, cooking and reading. These are life skills to me when I started to live on my own as I am able to cook and mend clothes and such. Lately, I have been crocheting stuff like pillows and cushion, toys and bags, and I make things as gifts for people.

I don't really play sports now except for swimming. For cooking, I'm glad there is youtube and online recipes that I can learn from other people. There are so many ways and types of cooking. haha.

In the past, there was only physical library. Nowadays, it is so convenient to borrow books from the library as it can be done online. However if I feel like having a physical book, I will go to the library or the bookstore to buy.


*Btw, I wonder if anyone knows what is rounders. It's a British sports but in America, it's called baseball.
Aug 10, 2024 1:32 AM
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Pokemon cards, Magic: the Gathering cards, then finally Yu-gi-oh! cards. Oh, and the ps1 Final Fantasy games.
Aug 10, 2024 1:53 AM

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Drawing, writing stories and doing martial arts, specifically kung fu and judo.
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Aug 10, 2024 2:14 PM
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Something I was interested in was the blue trash can.
Aug 10, 2024 2:16 PM

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Drawing was a big part of my life for a long time.

I quit when I went to college. I still sometimes doodle but I dont spend 12 hours drawing anymore.



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Aug 10, 2024 5:32 PM

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Video games and super-hero related things
Aug 12, 2024 7:02 PM

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Only thing that comes to my mind is playing football.


Aug 14, 2024 7:04 PM

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Video games, airsoft, miniature wargaming, playing with toy soldiers and hockey.
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Aug 14, 2024 8:30 PM

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Depends on what you mean by childhood since the teenage years can be considered as being a part of someone's childhood:

My non teenage years consisted of:
-Videogames (nothing too intense though, mostly wii and a few mobile games)
-Cartoons
-Hot wheels
-Playing outside
-Riding my bike
-Drawing
-History
-War
Anything before I was 10 is a blur, My experiences in elementary school were not of me getting harassed, which has led to my middle school memories being quite vivid. My only regret was not developing my highschool personality in middle school, since everyone was kind of a dick in middle school.
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Aug 14, 2024 9:09 PM

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When I was really little I liked cars, dinosaurs, and things military-related (I was born in a military town to a dad that had just gotten discharged from the army). Later on from ages 8-14 or so I liked Star Wars, 90s FPSes like Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 Arena, guns/weapons, and still into military-related stuff. Star Wars went to shit but I still like the rest of those things now. I was also into drawing/making art at that age but I wasn't really any good at it until college.
Aug 16, 2024 3:01 PM

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Painting stuff
Watching cartoon channels(MBC3, CN Arabic, Nickelodeon Arabic, GEM Kids)
Playing games on computer
Playing with neighbor kids
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Aug 17, 2024 1:51 AM

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mostly reading (and that still remains true today)
a little bit of gaming, with my siblings
and a bit of sports

My only regret is not staying more consistent with playing the piano. I was better at string instruments, but now I don't like them as much as the piano.
Aug 17, 2024 10:30 AM

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Anime, like Pokemon, Sailor Moon, Cardcaptors. etc. And Animal Crossing. I have kept both of those interests. :D
Aug 17, 2024 2:44 PM

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To make a long story short, drawing anime was my primary interest(s) as a child.
Aug 20, 2024 5:46 PM
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Blackmail, fist fighting, and animal abuse.
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