For me, it would be that I smoke weed

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    I’m impressed with the amount of people who can actually remember what they were like as a 10 year old. I’ve got some pictures n’ shit of myself from back then, but honestly that might as well be a completely different person, and I can’t tell you jack about what’s going through their head.

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      I can relate to that. I remember specific memories, but my situation has changed so much that I don’t relate to being the same person

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      What age do you start remembering what you were like?

      I became really self-aware at 11. I’m guessing a bit about being 10, but 6th grade (11-12) is when I feel like I started being the person I still am 20+ years later. Obviously I’ve grown, but it started then.

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        I have some vague memories from around middle school, but pretty much nothing prior to that.

        Highschool and later are locked in, but before that goes from hazy to brick wall real quick.

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    that im still alive
    20 was the expectancy
    i always say im running on fumes of spite now and i got plenty of spite still left

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    Growing up poor in the suburbs, now living on an old farm in the middle of nowhere, Denmark, growing my own weed, a beautiful wife, have chickens, 2 cats and a dog, my younger self would be flabbergasted. Mostly because I was “destined” to have my life fucked, but I overcame obstacles that surprised my childhood friends. Had one say at my wedding “You were the last person I thought would make it”.

    Gotta be proud of what I’ve accomplished.

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      I’m gonna have a drink tonight for this. Here’s to making it. The best feeling you can have as a child is hearing from your parents when you’ve become an adult that they’re proud of who you have become.

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        It would be good, had it not been for my father being absent from I was 13 until I was 35, when we reconnected. He told me he was proud of me (wtf?) and we did a video call. He told me I needed to cut my hair (had hair nearly reaching my bellybutton, and I’m male). Realised later why on his Facebook: he’s a self-proclaimed nazi (he’s greek) who believes all gays (probably LGBTQ+ in general) should be killed, and the fact that the only way to punish criminals who’s done something to you is to get your crew together and beat them up. So yeah, fun lol

        My half-brother on my father’s side has completely removed him due to being who he is, which is 100% understandable, as I have also removed our father from my life now.

        And my mother has told me she’s proud of me, but she’s a narcissistic alcoholic, so lots of luggage there lol.

        At least I’m married now 8 years and counting), own a house with land, and have chosen my family (you can’t choose who you’re blood related to, but you can choose your family!), whom I love and cherish.

        Therapy helps (along with mushrooms)!!

        Rant over 😂

        Thanks for the drink 🍺🥂

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    That I’m pregnant. I was a tomboy and very masculine. This is as far away from masculine as I can be at least in a physical sense. It’s not as bad as I thought.

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    My job…

    10 year old me would be amazed

    21 year old me would call me a sell out

    30 year old me would nod approvingly

    Current age me is getting too old for this shit

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    Probably that I’m alive?

    I already dealt with (undiagnosed) chronic depression by 10. The first time I thought about killing myself I don’t think I even knew the word “suicide.” I also had an overwhelming sense that I wouldn’t live past 30. That might not have started until I was 11 or 12, but I think it was there when I was younger.

    Weirdly my mom also had an overwhelming sense that she would lose me at a young age from the day I was born, which she didn’t have with my older sister.

    Well, I’m past 30 now. My love of people in my life has kept the suicidal ideation to only that. While I still have chronic depression, I’ve learned to manage it better over the years and medication helps.

    I genuinely don’t know why I was depressed or had suicidal thoughts that young. I didn’t have a traumatic home or childhood. My parents worked a lot but loved me and my sister without question. We didn’t have a lot of money but always had enough food. I loved school and had great teachers. I wasn’t sexually assaulted before I was 10 (I think I was 12 the first time). I don’t know and that bothers me.

    ETA: I guess I was bullied at school by 10, so maybe that accounts for it?

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    That I’m on a computer programming all day for my job.

    That I’m on a computer programming all night for fun.

    That I rarely play video games anymore.

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    That for all intents and purposes, I beat depression. And here’s me knocking on wood to not jinx that.

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    The girl 10 yo me was hanging out with all the time, very much thought I was going to marry (she did too) and eventually took my virginity a few years later is now an incredibly handsome man with a wife and kids

    Its probably that, honestly. Maybe that I’ve spent a month and a half of my life in Japan so far, that’s p wild for a 20 year old and I’d never have even considered it then

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    That I’m a runner. Never in my life did I imagine ever enjoying running. Aiming for my first marathon in spring!