#26 Drawing Pictures. Curiosity about Scary Things (5) Ranking Part 2 & The Mystery of 'Curiosity about Scary Things'

My 8-year-old son with uneven development.

For him, with his thick language barrier, drawing pictures has become one of his tools for expression.

Every day, he diligently fills A4 copy paper with various drawings.

This is the fifth installment of the 'Curiosity about Scary Things' series.
I will be exhibiting the 'Scary Ranking' Part 2
found among his whimsical drawings.
The mystery of his long-standing 'curiosity about scary things' has been solved, so please enjoy that story along with it.

This time's scary ranking drawing

has some changes from the previous ranking.

So, without further ado,

from Scary Ranking Artwork Part 2

【8-Year-Old Son's Scary Things Ranking TOP 11】

First, from TOP 11 to 6

Now for the exciting announcement of the TOP 5

By the way, here is the previous scary ranking ↓

1st and 2nd place are maintained.
3rd place is up one rank to snake.
4th place is down one rank to bat.
5th place is wolf, entering the ranking significantly from outside the list.
6th place is orca, catching up with a three-rank jump.
7th place is bear, down one rank.
8th place is crow, down three ranks.
9th place is gorilla, entering the ranking from outside the list.
10th place is polar bear, down two ranks.
11th place is the same species as 10th, the arctic bear.
The ghost that was 7th last time is now off the list.

That concludes
'Artwork Part 2: Scary Ranking'.

Now,
there is a 'mystery' in this drawing.

Next to the animals in the ranking,

some other pictures are drawn,

paired with the scary things...

What was drawn in the 'scary things' ranking picture was

• People with grumpy faces (related to after-school day services)

• The eternal villain Baikinman

• The jet hand dryer in the bathroom that I've hated since I was a baby

• The 'Error' character that appears when Google voice search doesn't work well

Could it be that
the things my son is actually afraid of and dislikes in the real world are drawn right next to them!?

Maybe he's telling me in code...

It's interesting, but it gave me mixed feelings.

In first grade, my son loved after-school day services more than school.

That's true.
From around the second term of second grade, he started to occasionally resist going.

When I think that this ranking might have been a sign of that,
I can't just call it an interesting picture without reservation.

However, I recently realized something.

It's this picture here ↓

Fruit Hat, Purple Minion, and Error are my son's favorites.

This

Could it be

Curiosity about scary things!?


. Baikinman

He watched him with sweaty palms as an annoying character who breaks the rules by force, but he also watched him while laughing his head off.

. Boh from Spirited Away

Even though he says he's scary, he watches the scenes where he goes on a rampage over and over again in frame-by-frame playback, mimics him, and he often appears in other pictures too.



. The jet hand dryer he hates so much

Even though it's supposed to be scary,
he always checks the toilets wherever he goes. That behavior of checking it over and over again while covering both ears... it's truly curiosity about scary things.

If that's the case,
if I were to re-speculate about the members of the after-school day service...

. The staff member who is acknowledged by everyone as scary when angry

Watching friends get scolded,
he thinks it's scary, but also a little interesting.

. Upperclassman friend (1) & Classmate friend

Son: "So-and-so, you shouldn't play with the toilet switch"
(turning the lights on and off)
""
"Ah! You must not do that!"
"Don't play with the door," etc.

Since he was saying it while laughing, he probably finds the whole sequence of someone doing something they shouldn't and then getting scolded for it as expected to be funny.

. Upperclassman friend (2)

Son: "So-and-so, you're cute."

For a certain period during his first year, he really liked this person and I often heard their name.

Ah. So that's what it is. The mysterious drawings depicted in pairs with the animals drawn in the 'Scary Things' ranking are...

Scary but intriguing
Scary but want to see
Scary but want to get close to
Scary but want to try imitating
Scary but interested in
Scary but funny
Scary but kind of like it
Scary but want to conquer

...etc.

These were drawings that expressed the 'complex emotions' that are the opposite of 'scary' which were born within my 8-year-old son.

Ah.

In other words, the true nature of the 'curiosity for scary things' boom was a necessary 'verification process' in my son's own way to catch and process the complex emotions being born.

It was that.

Rather than a boom, it's more like an obsession, isn't it? The mystery of the long-standing 'curiosity for scary things' boom has been solved, and finally, the dots have connected.

It makes sense now.

I learned something new, and it all makes sense.

Now, regarding the main event of 'curiosity for scary things,' the hand dryer (jet towel), I would like to write about that sometime.

See you later.

The 'curiosity about scary things' series so far ↓