Ever hate something as a kid, but then like it as an adult?

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So there's a lot of "I liked this as a kid" type thoughts.... but has anyone but me ever experienced the opposite? Where something you didn't like as a kid is now something you enjoy?

For me I can think of three things: One is the Beetlejuice cartoon... I can't remember why though. I think I just found it weird and icky and wanted something more "normal."

Two is the Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates. When it first was on the air I couldn't help but get hung up on how much it wasn't like Disney's version (I'm beginning to realize I've had a certain pathological stubbornness that persists into adulthood... anyone know a cure?). I didn't start loving it until my teen years, when it re-ran back to back with Samurai Pizza Cats, and that's when I realized Fox's Peter Pan was a treasure. (Too bad I didn't tape it or something).

My sister was into Star Trek and Dune when I was a kid but I didn't get into them until my teens. That said though, I think these are both franchises kids wouldn't understand anyway... especially Dune. So these might not be valid examples.

I'm tentatively gonna say Digimon (though as someone who is old enough to have seen the Beetlejuice cartoon on first broadcast, I technically wasn't a "kid" when Digimon aired). I dunno, for some reason I just didn't like it when I first saw it. I'm watching the subbed Japanese version now and kinda digging it. Maybe the language made all the difference (though I do kinda miss that stupid theme song).

Also... I was told to watch the first theatrical movie before the TV series and man... that movie is weird. I kept thinking I had put in Serial Experiments Lain by mistake.

On that note... I remember hating Evangelion until way later.

Anyway, what are your stories?
 
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Coconut. Can't explain, probably just palate changing. But I used to hate everything about it. Taste, texture, smell. But now it's one of my favorites for all three.
 
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ITT: the OP realizes his topic title should've specified media you hated as a kid and gets to kick himself and laugh as he realizes he wasn't specific enough.

EDIT: I call foul on the guy who says he hated sleeping. Nobody hates sleeping. Kids least of all.
 
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Funny enough, it was Eddie Murphy’s first comedic specials Raw and Delirious. It was mainly due to his fashion choices:

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Now fast forward to today, I start to like it everyday because his jokes don’t sound like jokes anymore.
 
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A couple things come to mind-

-Excercise! I was the slow, chunky kid in elementary school who hated sports and a lot of my P.E teachers were assholes, so I was pretty put off by the idea of doing any of that shit for fun. I've since found that working out is awesome when no one is bitching at you the whole time. I love running and cycling and weightlifting.

-Handwriting practice! Hated the repetition and tedium, and I think that being left-handed added some issues as well. My cursive was illegibile and I had no interest in fixing that. More recently though I decided to tighten up my printed handwriting specifically for comics, and very recently have been learning uncial script.

-Housework! I didn't hate it per se, but just found it annoying and a waste of time better spent playing Mario. Nowdays I hate being in a cluttered and dirty environment and like to get a little done each morning.
 
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Tons of shit my Mom cooked. I'm drunk right now so forgive me not remembering a specific example, but suffice it to say there's tons of things she cooked I didn't appreciate until my pallete developed, but at the same time I credit being an obedient boy who ate everything on my plate to developing my pallete in the first place.
 
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