LogFAQs > #898432878

Hard to say. While in memory it seems like I played with toys for a very long time, looking back rationally and doing the math (and comparing it to the childhoods of my niece and nephew, 20 years later), I probably didn't play with toys for all that very long in the first place.

If you don't count the first 2-3 years or so when you're barely a functional human being (and "playing" with toys mostly just consists of putting oddly-shaped things in your mouth and hitting things that make noises), I probably really only played with toys for about 8 years worth of my childhood at most (and even that gets a bit iffy towards the end). By age 10 or so I had already moved on to reading books (both comic books and "real" books), playing video games, and going into the woods to beat the shit out of my friends with wooden swords (don't you judge me).

Knowing my personality as it is now, and thinking about just how much I DID play video games once those became available (and how shitty most of those games were compared to some of the stuff out now), and how a lot of my TV watching was only really limited by the sheer lack of worthwhile programming aimed at kids (the 80s weren't necessarily overflowing with content outside of Saturday mornings and the hour or so after school), I probably WOULD have started spending all of my time watching videos and playing games instead of playing with toys much, much earlier in life if the option had been there.


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