When your a little kid, everything around you is something else, the stick isnt just a stick, its a gun or a tommahawk, or a ray gun, or anything, and of course kids are allowed to run around and do this its what kids do, however around age 12 or so, imagination is suddenly frowned upon, being creative and having imagination is suddenly weird and discouraged, you cant be fun, you cant make up your own stuff, you can only use whats given to you, that stick isnt a hand scythe or a gun, its just a stick, nothing more and nothing less, and sadly this period lasts to about to the age of 18, then all of a sudden, your expected to be creative again, some people are able to transition like this, and some never really let go of their imagination during that down period, how ever a lot dont, how are you suposed to be creative when for the past 7 years soceity has looked down upon it, the whole thing should be a gradual process, sure there is a level of childishness imagination that you just eventually grow out of, but when its forced upon you its jarring and hard to cope with, and then after years of being told you cant be too imaginitive, your suddenly being attacked for not being imaginitve enough, this whole thing is part of the reason i cant get mad at bad OCs, because some times thats as creative or original they can get, instead of attacking them, instead try helping them with, and sadly i feel like the age of kids abandoning imagination is getting younger, we all get angry at kids on the internet all the time, however, imagine your a kid, unrestricted acess to the computer, you get on a forum and be all playful and such, and you see people getting mad at you and want you to stop, kids like fitting in and eventually the kid will he will stop being playful and creative and i belive that kind of impairs him and ruins his childhood, so there, thats just something i wanted to say of something that i see as a problem that i wanted to adress