how old were you when you stopped playing with toys?

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how old were you until you stopped playing w/ toys?
10-12 31%  31%  [ 14 ]
12-14 36%  36%  [ 16 ]
14-16 33%  33%  [ 15 ]
Total votes : 45

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26 Oct 2006, 3:38 pm

ok, say you are an "adult" by technical standards anyway, how old were you when you stopped playing with toys. for me, i want to say 6th-7th grade. i do vividly remember playing with them up until about this time, and then i got some pets, so i suppose it replaced my interest in "toys". i just want to see if there are any similar results/feedback.


i dont just mean video games, or sports, i'm talking more specifically about 'personifying inanimate objects' or 'creating little worlds' for these 'characters'.

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26 Oct 2006, 3:41 pm

The last memory I have of playing with toys is from when I was about 8. I was never really that much of a toy person. I always had stereotypically autistic interests like calendar calculating, geography, presidents, and stuff like that.



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26 Oct 2006, 3:44 pm

Dart wrote:
The last memory I have of playing with toys is from when I was about 8. I was never really that much of a toy person. I always had stereotypically autistic interests like calendar calculating, geography, presidents, and stuff like that.


Me too.


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26 Oct 2006, 3:44 pm

I like to pretend that my stuffed animals are trying to eat my fingers. Does that count? :mrgreen:



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26 Oct 2006, 3:45 pm

*blinkblink* Your supposed to stop playing with them?? :P


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26 Oct 2006, 3:47 pm

Fraya wrote:
*blinkblink* Your supposed to stop playing with them?? :P


Yes, and you were also supposed to use "you're" instead of "your".


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26 Oct 2006, 3:51 pm

I know.. intentionally bad writing makes hyperlexics less intimidating :P


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26 Oct 2006, 3:57 pm

Does building model airplanes count?



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26 Oct 2006, 4:00 pm

One-Winged-Angel wrote:
Fraya wrote:
*blinkblink* Your supposed to stop playing with them?? :P


Yes, and you were also supposed to use "you're" instead of "your".


oh goodness, spelling and all that is all over rated



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26 Oct 2006, 4:04 pm

Deccajay wrote:
One-Winged-Angel wrote:
Fraya wrote:
*blinkblink* Your supposed to stop playing with them?? :P


Yes, and you were also supposed to use "you're" instead of "your".


oh goodness, spelling and all that is all over rated


No it's not.


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26 Oct 2006, 4:09 pm

What do you mean stopped. I am 32 and still play with toys.


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26 Oct 2006, 4:14 pm

To err is human and something people can relate to.

Making mistakes makes you seem more like a person.. writing perfectly all the time isn't respected anymore it's just seen as weird and gives people the false impression that you've got a superiority complex or other negative personality traits (especially when you correct people) so just a heads up :P

I have a set of words I taught myself to consitently spell wrong, contractions I misuse and I rarely use the apostrophe (mostly only to differentiate between were and we're).


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26 Oct 2006, 4:18 pm

Why isn't there an alternative below 10 years? I stopped at about 5 years or so.


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26 Oct 2006, 4:36 pm

ok. good responses so far. i'm sorry that i did not include under 10, i just assumed that over 10 was unusual enough. but i suppose in all relation, under 10 could be considered unusual as well. perhaps i should have included it. if you stopped playing with toys before or after the poll ages post them. i was just wondering how frequent/infrequent an occurance this is. especially considering the amount of isolation from socialization that many aspies have experienced.


thank you all.



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26 Oct 2006, 4:50 pm

I dont recall "playing" with my stuffed animals...just talking to them.My other "toys" were things I collected in nature and I didnt play with them,just arranged them and looked at them(rocks,bark,fossils,feathers)I did have a "barbie head" thing that I would put makeup on but I saw it more as "painting".

I still buy stuffed animals and "toys that do something...like sing,bark,meow,dance"and I am 43.


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26 Oct 2006, 5:19 pm

echoing the "We're s'posed to stop?"

I'm 35... I have die-cast cars all over my desk that I vroomvroom with all the time. Throw in a Darth Maul figuring, an Alien, a few car models and I'm a happy dude.
Got more out in the livingroom. The barbarian from Diablo 2, some Todd McFarlane toys, etc.
I'll stop playing with toys when I'm damned good n ready. (read: dead)