What If you could Meet your younger self?

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I'd probably tell her that things actually will get better in ways she's never heard of and can't imagine. Not that she'd believe me.

I was thinking I would want to meet my past self because I thought a alot of really interesting thoughts that seems out of my grasp of thought now. I think in some ways im alot more limited but now I can do and think differen't things to what I could when I was younger. I would just find my younger self really interesting. I would spend a few hours teaching my 13 year old self who was obsessed with computers some of the basic stuff that I didn't even know but thought I did. I would ask my younger self to imagen a story and tell me a story and I would write down the story and sell it and probably become rich. I used to have a awesome imagination that thought of every aspect of a story at once and could generate almost every detail for a whole book instantly and then I think I was usually able to struggle to translate it to verbale form but I couldn't spell may words when I was 13. My spelling and hand writing has been very behind my age my whole life.

I would tell my younger self to start working out so I would of been fit like I am now back then and would of got through my teenage years alot easier with the girls I used to talk to actually being more interested in me. Im really buff now but back then I was like a stick figure with typical nerd look about me. I would teach my self some better social rules. Back then I had no clue about social rules I thought people didn't like me because I didn't talk much so I just tryed talking alot more. Even though it was about nothing.

One big thing is I would tell my past self to look forward to the future instead of always looking into the past. So I wouldn't have this habit of looking back now.

I think me in the past would of been a cool kid. I see my aspie Nefew as a stupider younger version of my self. Even though hes probably not stupid. He just hasn't got the same type of wise logic I have but then again I don't think I had when I was his age 7 either. I kinda feel like I am seeing my self in my brothers son. I see him now and theres things I want to help him with. But I can't he won't listen. His father is a a**hole and that 7 year old boy is going to have alot more problems than I had and I can see it happening. Its like seeing a train moving forward at full pace to a bridge thats been washed away by a flood and the flood is my idiot brother who blames all his mistakes on his kids and grr nvm im off topic now.

I would tell my younger self to get himself checked out. I've read the papers about myself about how I was a troublemaker and such in school. They even had a psychologist observe me but with no results.I would tell him to just say the word aspergers to the psychologist because school was hell for me.

It all depends on what age my younger self would be…

If I could go back to my childhood self, I would encourage him to stand up to bullies and never, ever take any crap without hitting back.

If I could go back to my teenage years, I would try to make myself understand that dropping out of school has serious consequences and that I do have to make important decisions about my future at a young age.

If I could go back to my early twenties, I would tell myself everything I need to do to NOT lose that girl, and to lay off the hooch.

Then I’d beat the living crap out of my early-twenties self, just to show that prick who’s the boss.

Most importantly, I would like to tell my younger self everything I have learned about Aspergers. But, I couldn’t decide whether to tell my teenage self or my early twenties

I would start by advocating for myself in elementry school and giving my parents and doctors information better on better ways to live with me. I would also spend alot of time alone talking to myself about how to help fix various problems I was having with people. I would also spend lots of time mentoring myself in all the things I could have learned and more, but got f***ed over on my the school district when the school district arbitrarily dumped me in special ed.

I would love to meet my 17 year old self and have a honest talk about him. That he needs to change and realise his potential, if he is not going to avoid the disappoinments that are coming down the road.

That firstly the reasons why he was bullied were not totally his fault, number two that girls are interested in him because he is quite handsome, number three tell him to listen to rap, hip-hop, r&b and soul music because he would like it and help him become more popular at school, number four tell him to socialise more with fellow students like go to their places, hang out with them, go to school social events, number five for him to have a hair style and dress style more in line what was popular around 2000 for 17 year olds, number six for him to express more of his personality to others because they like that, number seven teach him how to flirt and pick up girls, number eight tell him not to talk about his obbession with politics in front of other students because it is embrassing and finally tell him to really considering trying new things so he can become more well rounded and meet even more people.

I would tell my parents about the bullying i've put up with.

I would take any offers of frienship I got, instead of just doing nothing because I don't know what to do.

I'd take him out to dinner and a strip club, and i'd buy a hooker for him. And i'd explain to him our quest in life such that we shall bwgin the journer earlier in life. And then i'd go to my dad say, "Ha i was right! Just yesterday(well.. my other self told you he'd bet that nothing would change about me that'd make a difference for driving a car and i was right! Hasent changed in 3 years so far.

heh, I used imagine talking to my younger self all the time, that's how I put most of my thoughts into words. I don't do it nearly as often anymore

Bland-LOVED you post on that, Synchro!

i have an eight year old daughter, which is me, but a she.

Its like looking in the mirror personality-wise.

If I could meet my younger self, I would fill him (me) in one some things. First, I would tell myself that I have Asperger's Syndrome, and to start studying up on it, to be ready when the councellor tells me that I have it; and that I can better cope with stress when knowing I am especially unique since I have AS. I would then probably take my younger self out for some ice cream, and maybe go to the movies too. And then my last piece of advice to my younger self would be to start being more mature as soon as possible.

I'm normally not keen on the whole changing the past thing, but honestly... if I could go back in time around 3 years, I'd have warned myself to not get involved in certain online communities that drove me to stress-breakdown, and I'd have told myself I find overweight women attractive, as I may not have learned that without my involvement in those communities. Even if I never found out about it, I probably would have been overall better off not having gotten involved in the things I dealt with then.

That's all, really. That's the only thing in my past that I truly think ended up doing me so much harm that it would have been better to avoid it.

I'd probably tell myself to stop relying on other people to tell me who I am. It took me a while to figure out that I don't have to cater to everyone's expectations to fit in, and everything is a lot more fun when I don't.

Also, not to get involved in a land war in Asia.

Hard to say... I mean, I could somehow prevent my bad experiences with secondary school... but if I did that, I'd never become a bitter twisted destructive bastard, and as such might never have met my partner So I guess... I'd buy myself that "Ultra Magnus" toy I always wanted.

I bet you'd all go back and have sex with yourselves.... :O