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Which teen were you?

Catlover

I saw this today, and the responses were amusing, so I thought you might want to answer here. 

I remember reading my encyclopaedia, thesaurus and world atlas for fun GrimacingBlush

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  • Up to around 14 years of age the first. After that, both.

    I don't know if this is a typical autistic thing, but clothing fashion and mass-market 'Top of the Pops' music I found to be a very definite turn off. If anything was hugely popular, I immediately disliked it. However, I eventually found more cerebral and niche music and became obsessed with it. I was hooked by 'Yes', 'Genesis', 'Pink Floyd' and 'Led Zeppelin'. My musical tastes have broadened massively since, but it was the 'Progressive Rock' groups who 'turned me on'.

  • in reply to Martin
    Martin said:
    If anything was hugely popular, I immediately disliked it.

    I can relate to this! I honestly don't know if I am just such a contrarian that I dislike popular things *because* they are popular or if I just have different tastes to the majority. I suspect a mix of both!

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  • in reply to AuTriker

    I have the same problem with myself! Around 2008 someone in Doctor Who fandom once said (regarding my finding the programme in the 90s when it was off-air and disliking a lot of the contemporary series) that I was like someone who followed an Indie band, then accused them of selling out when they went mainstream and popular, and there's probably some truth to that, at least for how I was back then.