I kind of had the opposite experience - gifts that I appreciated at the time, but in retrospect think "WTF..?!", at least a little: my (maternal) grandmother was brilliant in a lot of ways, but I think maybe she wanted a granddaughter - when I was a young child, up to when I was about five years old, she'd often buy me things like "girl's magazines" and paper dolls; I didn't care that they weren't "gender appropriate" because i. I couldn't read anyway; ii. the paper dolls satiated my desire to be creative and change things; iii. I was ignorant of gender norms; and iv. I guess when I already felt that I was an outsider, socially, there was a fifty-fifty chance that I wasn't going to care about conforming to gender norms..?