I always wanted to be with dolphins and whales as a marine biologist until I found out how much I hated science..haha…still became an architect because I was always artistic and loved building models…still a lot of structural mathematics courses…lucky I didn’t have to take any engineering.
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I wanted to be a surgeon because of the TV show “Trapper John, MD” when I was very young.
Then I got into computers but didn’t think I could make a career out of them (back in 1984!!)
But computers etc. is what I ended up doing before I got diagnosed.
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No, I never had dreams as a child.
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I wanted to be in the NBA
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I always wanted to work with children. We had foster kids that I would help with while growing up. So I became a teacher. I don’t regret it at all.
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I wanted to be a chef but was pushed towards nursing by my mother until circumstances took that option away. I did wind up as a chef like I had wanted, but lost that.
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You still cook amazing looking dishes so you haven’t lost anything. Your family and friends have their own personal chef as I see it.
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I used to sit in church daydreaming of being a hairdresser.
Then when i watched a tv series about fostering kids i really wanted to contribute and foster but my hubby stopped my dreams of having kids and fostering because he doesnt want them
Maybe i should have been with someone who shared more in common with but to be honest ive always thought im really lucky to have him because i dont think id have found anyone better and i love him. I cant feel much emotions but i do love him
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I wanted to be a singer. I got embarrased when my family mocked my singing though, so never progressed. But i wrote a song for my favourite teacher who moved to Scotland. Took singing lessons a couple of years ago and that was really great. Now i just sing when i’m in a bad mood or severly bored.
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I knew in first grade that I wanted to be a pilot. Too bad I can’t pass the vision requirements. Double vision and lazy eyes. It would be pretty scary if I would come over the loudspeaker in an airplane telling people that we’ll be landing on one of the two runways.
Yeah I just joke about it now.
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Pilot
Doctor
Engineer
Too bad this illness and my sleep disorder stole my dreams from me.
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You haven’t had an entire kitchen shout YES CHEF at you.
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I wanted to work in finance. I liked finance and it was hard and interesting and involved math. They get paid good too. Maybe investment banking, but I was also looking into actuarial science. It’s hard though. I can’t do it anymore and I don’t have a degree.
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I wanted to go to medical school. I even had a scholarship to Johns Hopkins coming out of high school but i ended up in Florida State Hospital that year instead of going to school. Eventually i made it back to school in my 30s and finished graduate school but it wasn’t the same. I was meant to be a physician and anything else is “less than” in my opinion.
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You’re only saying that because you haven’t tasted my fritata.
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I had a dream to build my dad a house with a pool. That was about it for me
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Certainly not this.
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I wanted to be a Doctor and a writer
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I had absolutely no idea when I was a young child. As a teenager- librarian . Because I read a lot back then. On hindsight it was stupid, because no way could I have coped with interacting with people borrowing books. That was made clear my one and only proper attempt at voluntary work. Helping out with the hospital library service. I just couldn’t cope with approaching patients , and asking them whether they’d like a book to read. Severe social anxiety plus major difficulty initiating conversations. That probably makes me look totally pathetic and useless.
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When I was very young I thought I would become a cat when I grow up.
I was very disappointed when I figured out I was going to be an adult 
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