What If you could Meet your younger self?

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What would you do if you could travel back in time and meet your younger self? What would you say what would you ask your self what advice would you give?

I just think it would genuninly be interesting to meet my self from back when I was younger and hear some of my thoughts that I had back then. I remeber things of course I just think there would be some really interesting things that I can't remeber and it would also be interesting to see my self and how I interacted with people from the outside back then.

I don't think I'd want to meet my younger self. I talk too much. So I can dish it out but can't take it very well. I would have annoyed the hell outta me.

Or if I had to meet myself, I'd bring a lot of duct tape.

I've actually thought about this a lot. Sometimes I've even had "conversations" with my younger self. I imagine myself sitting in my childhood bedroom and hugging her, telling her not to worry, it's all going to turn out really well. That she's got a lot of crap to deal with in the intervening years, but it all turns out to be worth it in the end.

Sometimes I wonder if it didn''t really happen, making my life a self-fulfiling prophecy .

I too have fantasised this many times over.

If it actually happenned, i think it'd feel strangely embarassing - in the same way as past-life regressions are said to.

I'd certianly tell myself about having AS and I would also tell myself to drop out of college after my BS and save myself a lot of time - by now I'd be managing something if I had done that . . .

Bland-I would love to meet my younger self and give her a hug and tell her that she is okay and exactly the way God made her to be...but, I know this would not have been well recieved. I hated touching of any kind but could be hit very hard and not be hurt. Also, I was so negativistic I would have written my older self off as an unrealistic idiot who was STUPID!! In fact, I probably would have considered killing myself so that I wouldnt grow up to be the average-acting NT that I would become! (I definately thought alot differently then and only time and experience would make a difference)

I would probably smack my younger self repeatedly for talking too much. Especially since most of what I talked about prior to my teen years was really inane, stupid stuff that makes me think what a fool I was right now.

I would not talk to me. Instead I would go back 20 years, purchase some stock options and bearer bonds and hide them where they would come to light in about 15 years. I would include a note that said, in five years you'll need these. That would make the five years ago me put them away again until now, and I would take them out sell everything and buy a house. Then I would thumb my nose at my oppressors while writing the expose of the century on mental health clinics.

I... don't think there's anything I would say to my past self. Maybe tell her that by the time she hit 22, almost all the things that she'd never thought could be possible would have come true. But that would be like giving away the ending.

She was good, she was real, she was fighting like hell for a worthy cause. Sliding into overload whenever she tried to write fiction wasn't a damning character flaw, it was just a side effect of reaching one of her goals. No need to tell her to know and appreciate the good times, she already did. No need to warn her about challenges, that would have made her all the more determined to go after them. And if I told her about how her philosophy would change, she probably would have outright rejected anything I could say anyway. And that rejection was necessary so I wouldn't want to go back and screw with it.

Sigh...I was such a basket case even 5 years ago, I think any advice would fall on deaf ears. Motivation to change has to come from within.

I would tell myself to lose weight now so I won't have to deal with it later. Umm...and...to not let my parents get divorced...or do, I don't know really. I've always wondered what'd I be like if my parents never got divorced. My life would've been easier...but if my life was easier, I would be much less independent and probably more or less autistic. I don't know if I'd want to prevent the divorce or not. And I'd tell myself to quit being so da*n annoying.

I've always been way more interested in meeting my future self instead of past me. Already know whats happened...dont know whats coming ahead. But knowing the future would be a curse in some ways, as I'd probbly try to change it. At least if i could meet my past self, then my past self will have fulfilled my dream of meeting future self :l Anyways...If I was to meet my past self, Im sure my past self wouldnt be too talkative..as Ive always been very shy, and would be so even with myself. Anyone else confusing themselves? There would be so many things to say, both the good and the bad. Maybe one day I'll write a letter to my past self, and tell her everything I cant say to her now.