Dwarven baby has already a personality

[Skywalker]

A dwarven baby has entered the fortress-came via migrants or not-and who parents it ?
Is 0 years old and already has a personality and that is not credible.
Can't this be changed that at a certain age the personality is there and till then it is a helpless creature, which needs to be protected by parents -baby-childhood- adolescent-adult.
May be there could be creatures hunting for these babies as they enter the fortress.

[pawelkrzyzak]

Originally posted by John Skywalker:

A dwarven baby has entered the fortress-came via migrants or not-and who parents it ?
Is 0 years old and already has a personality and that is not credible.
Can't this be changed that at a certain age the personality is there and till then it is a helpless creature, which needs to be protected by parents -baby-childhood- adolescent-adult.
May be there could be creatures hunting for these babies as they enter the fortress.

Read dwarf wiki.

[Olaf Siegbrecht]

Originally posted by John Skywalker:

Is 0 years old and already has a personality and that is not credible.

I was told by my mother that as an infant, I behaved very differently compared to my brothers; or other infants. Almost never cried, was very quite. Had very little interest in people.

Years later I was diagnosed with autism, and my mother describing my behavior as an infant was part of the diagnosis.

"Some of the early signs of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can be detected in babies under 12 months old." - https://www.parents.com/baby/health/autism/early-signs-of-autism-in-babies/

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to make excuses for game mechanics that still lack features nor do I believe that our personality is fixed after birth. But I do think there is some credibility to the idea that even infants have different "personalities".

[Skywalker]

Originally posted by pawelkrzyzak:

Originally posted by John Skywalker:

A dwarven baby has entered the fortress-came via migrants or not-and who parents it ?
Is 0 years old and already has a personality and that is not credible.
Can't this be changed that at a certain age the personality is there and till then it is a helpless creature, which needs to be protected by parents -baby-childhood- adolescent-adult.
May be there could be creatures hunting for these babies as they enter the fortress.

Read dwarf wiki.

It is also possible that the dwarf race is hard to compare to a human, well then let's assume that the one baby at year 0 the personality is then fixed ..lol

[Skywalker]

Originally posted by SplitterWind:

Originally posted by John Skywalker:

Is 0 years old and already has a personality and that is not credible.

I was told by my mother that as an infant, I behaved very differently compared to my brothers; or other infants. Almost never cried, was very quite. Had very little interest in people.

Years later I was diagnosed with autism, and my mother describing my behavior as an infant was part of the diagnosis.

"Some of the early signs of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can be detected in babies under 12 months old." - https://www.parents.com/baby/health/autism/early-signs-of-autism-in-babies/

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to make excuses for game mechanics that still lack features nor do I believe that our personality is fixed after birth. But I do think there is some credibility to the idea that even infants have different "personalities".

That would certainly be possible that certain traits are hereditary along with environmental factors determine something.
Let's just assume it's a fantasy assumption of the baby dwarf's personality because we don't know the real game dwarf.

[Vettig Annikske]

Tarn explains this very item in an interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAhHkJQ3KgY

His vision is to have a child develop its personality as it matures.
It's on the roadmap together with a zillion other things.

[Skywalker]

<His vision is to have a child develop its personality as it matures.>
That's a good development in DF though , because personality also develops with age.
Who knows when it will be further developed in DF ?
Research shows that personality can change over the life course as a result of life events.

[Eriktion]

I always find it hilarious when a dwarven child/baby has some profound/deep statement about the world already

[nazerick]

All my Dwarf children are alcoholics.. Always drinking all my booze and then playing with the toys I made in the store rooms.