I suspect a there's a bit of confirmation bias going on here. All we seem to hear about on sites like HN, Reddit, TechCrunch are those individuals whose interes

I suspect a there's a bit of confirmation bias going on here. All we seem to hear about on sites like HN, Reddit, TechCrunch are those individuals whose interest in computers started at a very young age. I suspect if you aggregated to all developers, a significant number, if not the majority have a story similar to yours. For what it's worth, my story is like yours, I was interested in my youth, found other interests, and didn't "find myself" until college.