Wishing you were younger....

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Does anyone wish they were a very young child again? For years, i have wished i could be four again. The few memories i have of that age are great. Not having a care in the world, your objective: steal the graham crackers from grandma's cupboard. At that age you dont need social skills, there are no hierarchies that you are aware of, you are the center of attention, all you feel is love.


Of course by five or six you are starting school - a stark contrast from the loving warmth of your family, now you're in a cold building with glaring lights, blaring bells and 300 other people who are all causing you torment whether they know it or not. By october of kindergarten year it starts to sink in: this is for real.

The stuff in the cafeteria they call "food" is disgusting to you, it has a bad taste, texture, and its not the right temperature. what they call "fries" are these terrible oven baked pieces of what was probably never a potato. You are rushed through a lunch that you barely pick at, then you are herded outside for another torture session known as "Recess" The swings are taken, the line for the slide is a mile long, you dont have the co-ordination for the jungle gym and NOBODY wants to play jump rope with you.

But now its finally time to go home. You are herded into what looks like a giant twinky, but is really this contraption called a "bus" where 50 of your "closest friends" from the playground start mentally terrorizing you, and you curse the person who plans the routes because you are the last stop on the line and on top of that, you have had to poop since 9:30 but the boys room was a veritable torture chamber (hey those toilets are loud! and they flush by themselves!)

Thank God, you are home now, you return to the sanctity of your home bathroom, then emerge and tell mom how mean the kids at school are, "boys will be boys" the school admin will tell you. And its not 1994 yet, there is no such thing as Aspergers.


And today was only monday....September 7, 1992


Yes, i wish i was younger, but i would want to stay four forever.

I wish I knew about AS when I was younger so I could have figured out sooner what was wrong with me. I would have had more time to work on my problems and perhaps have been able to make my life better than what it is today.

However I would not want to relive my childhood as it was, being constantly bullied by everyone.

Child, no. That was rough enough the first time around.

What I wish is to be 18 again. I would have done a lot of social things differently and maybe gotten myself a life.

Nope. I have bad dreams about that stuff. Seriously. I am something like four... I cannot reach the shower head to adjust it, some adult screams at me when I forget I am four and try to light a cigarette, I cannot pour myself a glass of juice as I will spill it... ridiculous things like that... no control at all in your own life, you know. That is what some of my bad dreams are made of.

But the reality of it is, my childhood had more undesirable things going on than it did desirable. I would not go back to being young again. That would be awful... and not just because four year olds cannot master the fine art of solo pouring o.j. from a full carton without spilling.

Sometimes, I didn't have to work or worry about money and I got to live for free.

In general, I'm happier being a grown-up than being a child. There are a lot more things I can do now than I could do before. The only things I really miss are playing on a swingset and skipping.

I *used* to think I might have been better off if born in some earlier century, but no, I would not want to return to any time or age of my past. There certainly are some things I wish I had done differently years ago, but going back would just find me doing and experiencing all those same things once again.

I'm quiet happy, at the age, that I am, now. I wouldn't want to be a little kid, again.

Yes and no. I hated kindergarten.

No way! I had a horrible childhood and never wish to expirence it again. I don't want to be anyone's puppet again and I like having rights.

I do wish I were younger these days. Granted my childhood wasn't the best, but it was less full of worrying about adult things like bills, school, etc. I miss the feeling of just not worrying about anything big. :/

No way. I'd rather look forward to getting old, ill and in pain than being a child again. I would prefer to die today than go back.

I am prone to fits of nostalgia and I often pine for my childhood years. But I came to a realization - I've hit a good point in my life here in the present, and I'd better enjoy it while it lasts, because it will come to an end eventually and I'll have more life obstacles to face. During those days, I will start longing for the way I'm living now. So I decided that I'm going to stop daydreaming about my childhood and not take my present life for granite.

Not a kid, no way. But around 25-ish so i can live the live i missed out on.

i really fantasize about going back to high school.
I wasnt popular or smart, i was the bart simpson. always causing mischeif and had a little entourage that followed me around who thougfht i was 'cool'.
Although now, i am 23, and i look at toys that i wish to play with, i really want a doll house and a box full of lego.
But i was sexually abused when i was 8 and managed to forget everything as a child, so i have no idea if i had a childhood or not.
So i do wish i could go back, or wish i was younger!