Well, as a result of my social awkwardness/anxiety and general asociality, my parents were able to adopt a fairly laissez-faire style of parenting--I was never out of the house to get in trouble. I was still strongly pinged by narratives of radical autonomy because they were so often far above what I could expect as an independent child or even as an adult, for example the "taking over the world" sequences in Ender's Game. Which is why they still ping for me very strongly now. It's a will to power thing (which may well be a gendered phenomenon in our society.)

I wanted to be a superhero as a kid, then a ship captain who could discover a land full of superheroes, then a scientist who create a Jekyllian potion to create superheroes, and then a writer who could deal with those creatures in my own way.