When you were young, what did you want to be when u grow up?

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I started moving out when I was 12 and continued to try to do so until I was 15 before I finally made it.
It's very liberating.

I wanted to be a physicist from a very young age, but when I got to college they were the weirdest people on campus and there is no money in it.

So I went into engineering instead, which is applied physics.

1.musician
2.cartoonist
3.vet

engineering. That's interesting as many people end up there who seem to get lost elsewhere but it is a noble profession but I wish more engineers would get involved with human issues as you seem to have done.

No one ever told me what people do, so I could never answer that question. In my elementary school years, (in our outdated textbooks and filmstrips) it was pretty much implied that women grew up to be teachers, nurses, telephone operators, or mothers. None of those seemed particularly appealing. The future and being "grown-up" were concepts that I couldn't wrap my head around.

I still can't.

1. Vet
2. German Shepherd breeder
3. Owner of an animal shelter (but not one that puts dogs down)
4. 3D Animator
5. Website designer
6. Band photographer
7. Screenwriter
8. Famous portrait photographer

7 and 8 are still my dreams. I guess I should put down stage lighting designer there too. I was no.6 for four years, but never made any money from. I got into some pretty huge concerts and met a lot of interesting people. Then a few months ago I just didn't feel it and left the company because it was asking to much of me. I still take photos of bands though at smaller gigs.
When I was 6 I never wanted to grow up. I always like that. I was happy with the way I was. I hated going up a grade. My mum said that I was like that since a baby - never wanting change.
From primary school to just before high school I still wanted to do something with animals. I liked animals more than people. For ages I had no idea what I wanted to do then I got into IT courses, it never worked out for me though.

As a small child, I wanted to make my special interest my career - and i did. Not without incredible difficulty and obstacles however, and with absolutely no early support from very mindblind parents who didn't even teach me how to use a bank account (even though they are both brilliant!!) They actually told me i should not be a painter but should be an academic - which i tried to do 3 times and failed abysmally at, (in spite of fantastic teritary grades) mainly because tertiary institution life required executive function to some degree and a capacity to deal with people even in corridors on a daily basis. (ugh.)

At an early age, i saw a painting of a boat on a river by Signac. it is on eof his better known paintings. i was enthralled and enchanted by the pointillist technique. And for as long as i remember i just looked at art books from infancy.....it was my dream.
My work is not at all pointillist today. but i did become a painter against all odds.

Last year i was doing ok from it financially. this year since the stock crash and recession in the U.S which is now impacting Australian art markets, I am a poor painter. but that is ok. it is what i love to do and i do it on my own without having to deal with other people too much.

but since my diagnosis, i am also just not as fixated on my painting because i am absorbing the reality of my AS and my life in the context of this new paradigm. a bit of a period of lostness actually......

Physicist.

i can't remember. i remember being asked that question a lot but i don't remember my answers.

Superhero when young, which turned to super-villain as I found out how people actually are in high school.

Every time I was asked as a child "What do you want to be when you grow-up?", I remember thinking that the notion that at such a young age I could have any idea whatsoever was amazing.

The first thing I (eventually) wanted to be was a forensic pathologist.