Am I weird, or are they? (Light-hearted, I hope!)

[IchWill]

Having a (supposedly) light-hearted conversation at work about 80s music recently, someone mentioned Shakin' Stevens and laughter ensued Ankit the double denim and the moves, when I piped up, laughing along and admitted he was my first crush.

Colleagues looked shocked, they worked out I was about 4 or 5 at the time, I said that was correct. To which they said, "You were 4 and fancied an adult? Bit weird!", Bewildered, I said all kids have pop star crushes and they said yes, as teens, not as a child. Now I felt like an absolute freak. I laughed it off though.

So, I asked my DP if he had crushes at that age and said no. Am I / was I a massive weirdo?!

PS: to make matters worse. My next crushes were Holly Johnson and Neil Tennant. which my family found hilarious and I was too young and sheltered to understand what was so funny.

Please make me feel like I'm less of a weirdo.

Oh yes I remember moving swiftly on from Shaky to George Michael 🤣.

Another Shakey crushee here - that man was the bomb (when you're 7). Also Little Joe from Bonanza

Did he drive you cray-ay-ay-zy? 😜

My parents used to say that tell me that my first crush was Derek Griffiths on Playschool
Working out (with a quick google) I would have been watching it 1975 - 1977 aged 3-5 years old
He would have been roughly 30
Apparently I would just stare at him smiling when he came on the screen

I remember watching a tv special with Paul McCartney during their "Wings Over America" tour back in 1976. I must have been about six-years-old and thought he was very cute, I liked Bryan Ferry at age 11 and definitely loved David Sylvian at age twelve.

I suppose looking at it now, that may be a bit odd but I didn't think so at the time.

😂😂😂 this is brilliant. Your parents must have wet themselves! Utterly adorable and hilarious

Lucky, lucky you!

😀I've just had a look, and he does a bit!

My first crushes were when I was about 8 on Tony Curtis and Roger Moore, who were well into their forties at that time.

I can definitely remember having crushes as a very young child. My dad had a workmate who I thought was very attractive. I'd have been about 4/5. It wasn't a sexual thing but definitely romantic. Looking back he was a good looking bloke....but things went weird later. As a 10 year old my friends fancied the likes of Starsky or Hutch. My crush was Columbo!

I fancied cartoon Egon Spengler from Ghostbusters. 🤷‍♀️

By 5 i was definitely planning on marrying The Goblin King...

Mighty Mouse was an early one. No, I don't know why either. As for the Foxy Robin Hood... he still has it!

Bo Duke from Dukes of Hazzard was my crush at similar age.

A bit older, 8-10ish, Adam Ant and Grace Jones and, obscurely, Catherine Rabett's character from the 20's inspired sitcom You Rang M'Lord 😆

...and I wanted to be the Fox version of Robin Hood!