Even before I started school, I always had a mechanically-oriented view taking my toys apart to see how they worked. In school I had an affinity for math withou

Even before I started school, I always had a mechanically-oriented view taking my toys apart to see how they worked. In school I had an affinity for math without even realizing it. I liked puzzles and the act of solving them. This extends into starting with something then seeing where it can go, often discovering surprising patterns. I'm not even sure when I recognized these properties I enjoyed as beauty--probably early on before even labelling it as such. High school when exposed to different kinds of math was probably the most eye-opening. Always did have an intrinsic feel for it, such as coming up Pi is dumb (use Tau) before ever hearing of it.