For me, I'm nearly 40 and I really love Avatar the last Airbender, reading YA novels, and sometimes I make pasta with fun shapes, just because I can.
What do you enjoy?
What is a childish thing you still fully enjoy as an adult?
3 years ago by Rubbs to c/asklemmy
For me, I'm nearly 40 and I really love Avatar the last Airbender, reading YA novels, and sometimes I make pasta with fun shapes, just because I can.
What do you enjoy?
I literally did this just yesterday walking to the car from work. Then I had to figure out what actually constitutes as a "crack" and what is just a "purposeful indent' in the sidewalk. I decided that the indents that separate the squares in the sidewalk do not actually count as cracks and its ok to step on those.
Yes, but you're liable to break your dad's spine that way.
It's a habit at this point. Mentally I know it won't break my mama's back, but emotionally... emotionally, I -have- to step over it 😅
Gotta protect your momma's back!
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I also got back into Lego. I'm early 20s, so the sets of my childhood weren't that different from what's being made now.
But it is cool to finally have the Death Star and Millennium Falcon like middle school me fantasized about.
Nothing wrong with sleeping with stuff animals.
Riding on the shopping cart like a scooter
Yes! I get many looks. Here's a late-thirties man with a bald head, gleefully grinning like a maniac while careening wildly down the parking lot aisle on a squeaky four-wheeled vehicle meant for vittles.
Late 20s here, same!
😅 Coloring books. Dino nuggies. Chocolate milk. Cartoons. Plushies. Fairy tales.
Also, ATLA is amazing no matter what age you are 🤩
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I love coloring! And now I can afford all the cool sharpies since I'm an adult.
It just means that I don't have to share them 😂
I was really bummed out when I developed lactose intolerance, but I was shocked by how good the Silk Dark Chocolate soy one was.
Also found some brands sell it lactose free here, but unfortunately they're harder to come across in stores.
Haha same! And shuffling through drifts of leaves in the fall.
I'm quite childish. Still play video games, still watch cartoons more than live-action shows, still eat (now sugar-free) candy. What's going to happen? Are the grown-up police going to break into my house and demand that I turn in my adulting license and my pubes?
Chicken fingers 😣
I enjoy shirking my responsibilities and doing nothing, if I can help it.
Dino shaped chicken nuggets
I've been thinking about getting some stuff from my childhood again. I recently watched We're Back on YouTube and while the movie is not great, it has a great charm, which has been making me think of getting the VHS tapes I used to have as a kid.
Aside from that movie, I'm also thinking of getting The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, Anastasia, The Jungle Book, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
sound effects with my mouth....engine noises, explosions, etc
Well actually... Dandelions have a job. They soften the soil where it has become too dense.
There's a distinction between child-ish and child-like. So far I haven't seen anyone say they enjoy anything child-ish (except maybe alternative song lyrics?), but all the lovely child-like responses warm my heart. I eat "sugar cereal" for dessert. Because I'm an adult and I can. Also, I make up silly songs all the time and talk to myself and my cats in silly voices.
What movie? There's a movie? It's got to be great. I'll have to watch it!
No, I was a pretty dumb child and even I was like wtf is this
ATLA is awesome. Worth enjoying at any age.
I've got a decent collection of stuff animals. They're nice.
Disneyland.
I thought there would be more, but nothing else is coming to mind.
I'm a similar age and my wife and I have just started watching the Pokémon cartoons (they're on netflix!). She's seen them before but I never have and it's great.
Similarly we watched Phineas and Ferb and it was great.
Stuffed animals and fun shaped foods/objects. I want the Super Mario macaroni to go with my Dino nuggets so my stuffies and I can have a nice dinner.
YA Novels can be good -- such an easy, engaging story. I really enjoyed the "I am Number Four" and "Jumper" series-es.
Not the person you asked but I had a blast playing Scarlet even though I didn't really like Sword all that much
I liked the open world and encountered very few bugs despite all the reviews talking about the bugs. The battles are the same as any mainline pokemon game for the most part. The entire game is in an open world I found very enjoyable to explore, personally. In sword I was a little disappointed by the very sectioned-off open world segments. The fact that the missions are laid out in a non-linear do-it-in-whatever-order style is quite nice as well, IMO.
Haynow, Avatar isn't "childish!" It is super cool and everycritter loves it :P
I make a distinction between childish and child-like or simply the things from childhood. This isn't pedantry, it just serves to illustrate a way of thinking for me that's tangential to the question.
But, a lot actually. It is very unusual for me to not enjoy the things I enjoyed as a kid, and it is almost as uncommon that I reject new things that are for kids just because I'm an adult.
But yeah, I still play with Legos (as opposed to building kits). I finger paint (though I call it working primitive to the art snobs lol). I still watch some cartoons, and I still enjoy the ones I don't watch when they happen to be on.
Joy is a thing that should be cherished while it exists. It, like all things, is ephemeral, so if something that brings it is deemed for kids, I refuse to reject it solely because of age.
It's kinda sad at times though. My niece and my kid used to finger paint with me. Now they're too old for it in their heads, and I miss having that fun with them. The kind of silly play we used to do has been replaced with more structured activity, though there's still play and joy in it (even the knife fighting and general unarmed combat I'm teaching my kid and some others lol).
Retaining that sense of joy, cherishing it when it comes and being able to let it go when it moves on is essential to life.
Cartoons/ animation. I'll never grow out of it.
Shonen anime/Manga. I think it's due to the inherent buddhist and Eastern philosophy within the medium that keeps it thought provoking even as an adult.
I mean really I'm a big kid anyway. I think it's important to find joy in small things.
I'm with you but I don't really care about philosophy or anything like that, I just love the action and the power of friendship and other tropes that are just so positive.
I like those things too, im a little boy at heart. (:
I actually just started watching Avatar for the first time and I'm 35. Also been playing a game called Rumble. It's just like being an earth bender. Super fun, and I'm also really enjoying the show. I think I'll moved on to the legend of Korra after I finish.
Hurtling towards 30 so a youngun in your books.
But i like to whistle random melodies in public, communicate in weird noises with my partner at home, read YA fantasy (mistborn, assassins apprentice)..
Coloring. I don't do it very often, but I always feel better after I do. Apparently it's a recommended activity for mental health: Mayo Clinic: Coloring is good for your health
I like American Girl dolls!
I love my stuffed toys and old cartoons because its much more simpler. Also, shoujo manga (which I'd die before i admit irl)
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Every so often I still indulge in the "don't step on the cracks" game while walking along the street :-)
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