When I was ~9, my mom put me in a group-homeschool class for poetry writing. I remember they gave us the instruction to write metaphors, how one thing was like another random thing. I thought this was weird, but I did it - I picked random things that had vague traits 1/
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Now that you're an adult, are they still meaningless?
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no, they're meaningful because they feel like they're guiding me into something surprising, and there's a sense of deep satisfaction when identifying a new and cool way things are connected. But that didn't seem to exist for me as a child with poetry I guess?
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My guess is that the ability to rapidly grasp the concept of abstract pattern-matching is relatively rare, especially in young kids. The metaphors themselves may have been uninteresting, but the ability to grok them so quickly was unique.
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i mean tbf i still think other kids must have been good at it too, it's just i was uniquely good at fully committing to rules and context that were set for me, and the other kids had a "they can't possibly mean we're 'actually' supposed to do the not-fun thing"
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Relatable. I suspect that being good/"good" at something is often wholly unrelated to enjoying it. It's possible to do both, but that isn't quite the default
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I had a very similar experience at that age. I ended up avoiding poetry after that since it never really worked for me and other people saying I'm good when I can't tell felt like it would disappear as soon as I was counting on it.
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I can certainly relate to what you are saying. As a child. I immediately got the grasp of drawing at abstract. In spite of not even being able to draw a smiley face. I still refuse to draw in any other way. Unless, I am asked for a signature. Then I draw a horse. As I am artistic
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I will always reminisce about that Jackson Pollock like creation I managed to pull out of my own excrement and what was a bunch of crayons. And, do take notice. At the time. I was only at the tender age of two and a half years old. Still unable to be effectively reared
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Finding metaphors was easy for me too, but finding ones that worked together to convey an image or message was a greater challenge. I actually found more meaning in exploring the structure, rhyme, and meter of poems. it felt like cleverly solving a puzzle.
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I feel like adults go off of things that society has decided was valued as oppose being a child with no concept of society being only concerned with what sparks interest and enjoyment in the moment
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