Understanding my Husband in his Childhood

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Did you have career aspirations as a child?

I remember wanting to be a police officer, journalist, prison officer (really !). My daughter is 10 and interested in hairdressing, teaching, music. My son is 7 and expresses interest in train driving, building work.

My AS husband claims he never aspired to any particular job. in fact, his knowledge of his childhood is extrememly vague, apart from telling me that his mother kept the house immaculate and life was very routine and regimented. he does not report any particular problems at school, although he admits he was a "class clown" type personality.

I wondered about others experiences during their childhood. Particularly those who were not diagnosed until later in life.

I had no idea what types of jobs existed. So I was sort of waiting for someone to present me with a list of all the existing jobs so that I could make my pick. The only jobs that crossed my mind were those related to my special interest of the moment: horseback riding instructor, writer, language teacher, etc.

i had a lot of career aspirations as a kid

pro football player
pro baseball player
pro boxer
pro wrestler
pro bodybuilder
hollywood movie star

basically everything that is unrealistic and impossible for 99.9999% of people haha

I always thought people that said they dreamed of being a teacher or something like that had no goals, turns out they were just much more realistic than me

I've also had a lot of asparations, as well.

Ice Cream Man
Hairdresser
Olympic Athlete
Prime Minister
Rock Star
Hippie Artist

When I was really little I wanted to be a professional race car driver. I changed my mind when Dale Earnhardt died and I realized how dangerous it is. Then I wanted to become a pilot. It wasn't long after that I changed my mind because I had decided that I do not like multiple G-forces very much, and having the crazy schedule of a commercial airliner pilot is not something I would like. So I went for the next best thing, aeronautical engineering. But really, I'd take any engineering job I could find. So no, I do not think this has anything to do with autism.

Some kids are pretty "dense", in that they really don't think all that much. Some of them just don't question things and happily accept things as they are.

My roommate didn't have any career aspirations when he was a child and was generally of the opinion that "When you grow up. you get married and have kids." Because that's what was "normal" in his community.

Myself, I have very vivid memories of my childhood and because during my early years, I was exposed to different cultures, I was aware that "normal" was subjective, and something just wasn't right about calling the beige colored crayola crayon "flesh colored" because not everyone's flesh was beige.

There was a time when I generally thought the only occupations in the world were those presented on Sesame Street, and I fretted over this because I didn't want to be a bus driver, or waiter, or police woman. I eventually decided what field I wanted to go into and more or less what I wanted to be before I was 10 though.

my parents tell me that when i was very young (2-3 years old), i used to tell people that i wanted to be a mailman. LOL.

I had things that I would tell people I wanted to be. But I'm not sure how much of that was real, and how much was my attempts at emulating language as close as possible to how other people used it despite not having a lot of comprehension.

i'd be really vague on trying to remember my childhood, outside projects related to my interests.

my childhood aspiration was to be somewhere between a mad scientist and an engineer, it stuck out a bit in grade one but so did I.