cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/44187272
Besides the obvious answer of making money, or rather, how would you do it as an 8 year old? What else would you do?
I wouldn’t spend so much fucking time on a fucking computer… maybe.
Fix my education path. No compromises. No getting gaslighted.
If they won’t officially give me my classes, I’ll sit in the right ones until they either give them to me or kick me out.
Edit: Also, try and stop the Brook Brothers Riots.
Take a water bottle on an airplane, buy stock in apple, and send the money to the PFLP
Holy heck, I’d be highly aware of being somewhere on the autism/add spectrum. That would change everything even if I just knew that.
An example: I actually mined bitcoin when I was a kid, on 2x HD 6850s.
And… lost it, in the depths of some old partition with files everywhere :/. I didn’t take any of that seriously.
I’d have kept a bunch of friends too.
Do I keep my language skills?
Then have a normal childhood with normal social interactions in Canada instead of the awkward immigrant who can barely speak. Also potentially get diagnosed with autism as a kid because I kind suspect of the language barrier masked some of the symptoms.
- Be intellectually ahead of everyone my age
- Become an outcast
- Become depressed 😭
More optimistically, I would stop complaining about my bedtime, take better care of my teeth, and join a sports program. Try not to be a perfectionist and put more time toward proper hobbies instead of wasting away on the internet. I’d also treasure my time with my parents a lot more than I did back when I was 8. They’re still around for me, but man do I wish I had more time to spend with them.
I wouldn’t change a thing, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to meet my partner.
Imagine going back in time thinking you will be able to get the same partner but earlier, but after like few minutes of conversation it turns out that the other person thinks you are a fucking creep and doesn’t want to have anything to do with you ever. It would be a fucking nightmare.
Yep, for us it only worked precisely due to a ton of branching choices changing who we are and how we lived our lives prior to meeting.
If we assume I become my 8 year old self and live my life over, this becomes a problem. I love my wife and would not want to risk changing anything so that I meet her. Yet we at and dated at 16… this would be problematic as I would be a 45 year old man in the body of a 16 year old. Creepy factors aside, could I pretend to be what I think 16 year old me was like? And if I did would the relationship not be based on a lie?
I’d say no, not really. It would suck.
[Panics trying to remember every “correct” move since I was 8]
Yea, lol. Would be awful!
Aww that’s very sweet. I know exactly where and when I met my partner though, and I could show up to the meeting way better prepared for our life together :)
Great! For us, so many things had to go right and wrong for us to meet each other at the right place, right time, and right frame of mind. Honestly any slight change could have led us to never meeting or never liking each other.
Scream.
The real answer
I would teach other 8 year olds how to butcher a hog.
Invest in bitcoin
Did you have access to crypto as an 8 year old? Or would you just wait until you were older?
The latter
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Sorry if it wasn’t clear. I intended it to mean you were sent back in time to when you were 8, but you can interpret it however you like.
Depends on whether that’s 8yo now or back when I was 8.
In either case, a lot more fucking around as a teenager and a lot less fucking around in my 20’s.
Transition at 10, as soon as the egg cracks.
I used to think about this a lot and, despite having largely resolved my relevant trauma now, I think my answer is still the same.
I would try to convince my parents that I’m the Antichrist, and if that didn’t work, I’d just stab my dad
I’d try to be less sensitive and socially awkward, since that’s how i was when i was younger and it affected me heavily later on.
I’d also try to be a better person to all my ex-friends, and give them more attention; try not to drift away.
Besides that? I don’t know. Nothing, I guess. I wouldn’t go back to being 8 even if i had a choice, tbh. I don’t miss those times.
Probably be catatonic. This kind of stress, self-doubt and loathing require those extra 32 years of building resilience. Transplant it into 8 year old me and he just shuts off I imagine.
