Childish interests is an Aspie thing? Feeling embarrassed?

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About a year ago I bought a secondhand Windows 7 laptop from a cash-converter store to see if I can still play the Sims 2 on that, took me ages to install all the expansion packs but when everything was finally and successfully installed, I ran the game. But it was doing the EXACT THING it done on my Windows 10 laptop; terminate on create a family mode - even though it used to work fine when my own laptop was Windows 7. So I had to take it back, although the stupid policy was only half a refund, so I wasted my time and money buying the Windows 7 laptop.

I have tried changing the compatibility mode, but I wasn't sure if I had to change it on every expansion pack too, and trying every single compatibility mode for every expansion pack then testing the game each time is too repetitive and time-consuming.

I have saved the link you posted in bookmarks so I can have a proper look when I go on my laptop later today. I do miss playing my Sims game. I spend a lot of time building houses (the game allows me to do that), but I'd love to put Sims in them again.

Naughty. My childhood SW figures were all Xmas, Easter, and BDay gifts and or bought with Xmas or Bday money so I would never destroy them. I still have most of them. I had very few GI Joes and most broke when that rubberband broke. But I did have a bucket of cheepo plastic army men, and one fourth of July my brother and I staged a battle with them and a bunch of fire crackers, cherry bombs, and those tanks that shoot hot sparks. Ah the smell of melted plastic that day...

My cousins also participated in the destruction. They had bigger pockets, so we usually used their GI Joes/Star Wars figures to do this. At the time, we never considered that they would become collectible. However, I always knew that the Transformers toys were special. So, they never suffered the same fate.

I remember a large number of G.I.Joes,Transformers,and Masters of the Universe figures though, I eventually gave them away to my step-brother at the time not know they would derive some significant value decades later but, always enjoyed passing hours away having imaginary battles.

Star Wars figures I owned as a child:

1. Fighter Pilot Luke
2. Jedi Knight Luke
3. Darth Vader
4. R2D2
5. C3PO
6. Chewie
7. Lando in his bounty hunter disguise
8. Lando in his Cloud City costume
9. A Gamoorean Guard
10. Obi Wan Kenobi
11. A Stormtrooper
12. The Ewok Medicine Man

My special interest is writing at the moment, which to some extent includes reading. Next year, I'm going to study English and Publishing. I just hope my interest doesn't waver in that time, so that I can continue to study into the years that follow.
Other interests which I fall into and out of regularly (including writing) are: chess, video games, reading, english, technology such as devices which I like to sit somewhere rendered useless, languages- Russian, Arabic, and others I take less seriously, psychology, various self help and reference type books regarding things I'd like to know more about. Being inbetween interests is a painful experience for me.
I don't handle boredom very well at all, and find it causes me a great deal of stress. Sometimes I retreat into my bedroom and lay down to try to relax with some quiet. Other times I find solace in looking through my old toys. It reminds me of my childhood and how I would relate to my teddy bears, or ninja turtle action figures, even the cars while they were doing a "smash 'em up."

I enjoy watching Arthur when I get home from bar hopping and am waiting for my ambien to kick in

I'm 35, but i've always looked at the world with childlike wonder.

To this day I love to stare at things or get excited about things in a childlike way such as bouncing up and down on a chair or putting both hands in the air.

I like to do cartwheels and climb trees as well. And whenever I go to breakfast I get chocolate chip pancakes with whip cream.

And now that I've been diagnosed, I will never feel guilty about any of it ever again.

Most things associated with childishness are objectively fun and pleasant (toys, plushies, cartoons, comics, bright colours, candy, enthusiasm, playfulness, curiosity). I think that not having an appreciation for any of these things as an adult is strange. Fun things are fun

Sometimes I suspect that neurotypicals like these things to the same extent as people on the spectrum, the just suppress it because they're constantly operating by arbitrary social rules.

I used to feel embarrassed about being too "childish" but it rarely bothers me anymore