Dude, I grew up with Neopets. I've been playing since I was eight and now I'm seventeen. No shame at all.
...Okay maybe a little
My main account is amulet_strawberry, but one of these days I ought to switch to my side, sarahsoprano. Like seriously. I put my name in my signature and people still call me amulet. It's super annoying.
See, Neopets is split into various groups. There's the people who actually play games and take care of their pets, there's the "activity" people who are all about seperate activities with its own category such as the Battledome, Customization, Key Quest and others, there's the chatters who just chat on the boards and tend to get silenced, and finally, there's the creative community, the epic people who draw and write and do all sorts of artsy Neopets stuff.
I belong to that last group. I'm an aspiring NT writer. You can check out my Neopian Times stuff if you want. Perferrably the first one. Not the second. I wrote it in a day while I was sick and delusional.
So yeah. 'dat's my childhood right 'dere, Neopets.