I was a bookworm, who was happiest in the predictible environment of a library. One thing that discouraged socializing, was that most others did not like to talk about insects, calculators, or space all the time. My mom constantly reminded me not to talk about the same things over and over. Changing subjects was hard for me. I was fixated on certain subjects like entomology, and archnology.
Nobody cares to hear about the chelate pedipalps of pseudoscorpions.
I also liked calculating machines, and my mom bought me, in 1970, a machine, like the one below, which is an ancestor of the electronic pocket calculators. . As a child, I had frequent tantrums, which often happened, when the home environment became too noisy. I would tantrum, when there was a change of mind on the part of my teacher, or mom about a family outing. I enjoyed outings with the family, to Mount Royal Park, which is a paradise for nature lovers, with a twide variety of fauna, and insects. I enjoyed the monarch butterflies, their catterpilars in the milkweed that grew their, the orange milkweed beetles.