Me as a kiddo: Terrified that I would disappear into my closet forever.

Me as an adult: Terrified about all the food safety violations occurring with that steak.

Yeah this is my opinion obviously but the further away we get from this particular era of filmmaking the more likely I am to watch something I half-remember from childhood and go, "Oh shit this is great."

(Sidenote,I should not have watched "Poltergeist" when I was 9 or whatever. Terrifying.)

...and I don't think I would do that if I'd been brought up with three-cueing as the only window into how to read.

And now, as somebody who's been an adult for a pretty long time? I still get excited when I find a cool word that I don't know. I'll pick it up and try dropping it into conversation or write a little bit of poetry around it if I think it sounds pretty...

I also remember in 7th and 8th grade being given a book to read and told to underline any words that we didn't know, and to then look those words up. It was annoying, but the actual point was to stop skipping over unknowns and actually learn them and put them in the bank.