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Do you guys know that thing called Scratch? It's basically a kids' program that's supposed to teach them logical thinking. You can make simple games and stuff in it. Some of you might've had it in elementary school, but I did only at home.
When I was like 9 or 10, I used it a lot. There was basically this whole community of autists/kids/autistic kids and many of them made a lot of Nintendo projects. Especially Pokemon. I did know about Pokemon before, but only had a few toys and seen like one early anime episode when I was... 5? So I thought, "hey, if this thing is so cool, maybe I should check it out?". And so I did.
Aaaaand so I became obsessed with the franchise like with none other before or after.
First the anime, then the games (gens I-III), then replay the games, then finally figure out how to emulate Diamond... And so my childhood went.
Unfortunately I didn't have any friends who were interested in it (except one kid in school who watched a bit of the anime but wasn't autistic enough to keep a conversation with him about it), so I was just pissing off my cousins with talking about it.
Good times.
I had many problems accepting gen V and VI in my middle school days, because "gen IV felt like the final one". Fortunately that's not the case anymore.
