Shocking, I know, but I'd like to say it's not the same reasons that most people hate on kids. My main issue in life is that young children are more like our domesticated animal companions than they are like baseline human. Far more prone to impulsive or instinctual behaviors that are reasonably good at detecting unfamiliar or uncanny situations or people.

Today's review is because of my sister's now 1.5 year old kid. She's energetic, social, has excellent eye contact and follows gazes well enough. Plenty of socializing queues, verbalizes, even has a grasp on the abstract logic of interfacing with iPhones and TV Remotes (IDK how frequent this is in kids under 3, but in her case it seems atypical). The kid's not exactly a genius in the way most kids aren't, but she's hitting a lot of the developmental milestones I learned in Developmental Psychology coursework roughly on-time. She doesn't like how I look, and after discussion tonight I postulated that it was probably my long hair and soft face. That seemed to go somewhere with the folks, an unspoken "of course".