What if your childhood self and your adult self met?

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I meet relatively many children who this of that way resemble the childhood me. I have children, nephews, nieces, and our unusual neurology runs in the family.

So, if I meet an intellectually bright, emotionally disregulated, socially confused child... wait... that are my children I guess we get together well, they claim we do.

I think the childhood me could also like the adult me, like I liked my Aspie uncle.

But if I really met the childhood me, it would be really hard not to try to help me with things my parents screwed up, so I didn't have to learn basic emotion management in my thirties, after a breakdown that required a lot of luck and "superpopwers" to save me from being dumped in a psych ward forever.

This is making me cry. I would tell her to do and learn all the things I learned so late at an earlier age. I would work hard with her and never give up. I would be a friend to that lonely girl. One thing young me and the person I am now would always do is have cats.

Ditto. That sounds idyllic and an improvement over the usual routine of getting bussed to school for 7 hours a day and doing homework at night. I hated school. Yeah, I'd take homeschooling @ a farm by the sea. But how would adult me pay the bills? Maybe better not to analyze the dream too closely...

Child self would be disgusted

^ This, without the lol appendix.

I'd go right back to age 3 or so and set about protecting her, allowing her to remain a child for as long as possible. Mostly I'd want her to know that she deserves to be loved as she is.

Id visit my parents and motivate (by any means necessary... strong arming, blackmail) them to be better ones, they had the potential.

That would be followed up with a visit to trusted relations for a run down of childhood me's reality.

I like the farm by the sea with adult me option too, though I'm not sure childhood me would want to leave at that point.

I would have disliked me. I'm a betrayal of many of the things I thought I wanted back then. I'm glad that I can't, I think things are best as they are.

Assuming I'd have long enough to convince my younger self of who I was before he ran off (I never trusted strangers), I'd reassure him about a few things, explain why he feels a heavy sense of longing much of the time and that his (our) parents are narrow minded and wrong about just about everything to do with the fundamentals of life. I'd also warn him to avoid certain people and be friendlier with certain others.
Hopefully I'd then cease to exist as an adult by merging back into my younger self, able to have another go at living out my childhood/youth with the new advice.

My child self would have expected, that my adult self be more academically smart, vocationally competent, emotionally resilient, socially adept , than "reality"

Mine too - she would be greatly disappointed.

If it were possible to go back in time and meet myself as a kid. Would pretend that I don't know this child and that I'm a totally different person. Do you think I *want* her to know what horrors she's going to experience as she gets older?

Of course, I could try and do something to change the future for the better, but I don't know how. Go to my mother and tell her I'm her daughter from the future and that I have Aspergers? I don't think she'd believe me, even if I showed her evidence that I'm from the future.

I still feel I am the same person I was as a child. It's people I grew up with that I don't recognize anymore. It's like I stayed the same whereas everyone else became an entirely different person. But I do think childhood me would be impressed by my pink hair and that as an adult people don't tell her to not talk about meerkats all the time.

I'm pretty sure I'd have been delighted to hear about the logic behind things that no other adult could describe. I've spent my life exploring the things that were interesting mysteries then.

If the girl I was then learned that "adult me" was playing tennis, she wouldn't believe it. The young me had no aptitude for sports.

I would definitely tell younger me to learn to drive as a teenager and to become more independent. I would tell her to do all of the activities I am currently doing.

As I said, one thing I wouldn't change is having pets.

My kid self would ignore any advice from adult self, because I always have to learn for myself. Ideally my adult self would listen without judgement or advice, even if I had to bite my lip the entire time.

My adult self would seek professional help.