You have the option to redo your life from any point but with full memory* and no trauma effects from it. What age do you choose?
0-3 years old
3-7 years old
8-13 years old
13-18 years old
18-21 years old
21-25 years old
25+ years old
I wouldnât, set me free
*As of the moment you first read this poll. Unless you already have specific winning lottery numbers memorized you arenât going back with that knowledge. You can remember the majority of the information from your prior life, but it wonât cause traumatic/PTSD effects - itâll feel like youâre remembering someone elseâs story in great detail. Unless you do something to change it specifically, all world events will remain the same including major economic events, wars/famine/pandemics, etc.
Anything can be changed if you can figure out a way to start the change yourself, however.
go back 16 years, buy Bitcoin before the first boom, transition early, dodge a lot of abuse from my family by either Playing more defensively or GTFOing, dodge the money pit I got put in by a well-meaning idiot, dodge my first engagement, sell btc in q4 2018 and set myself up to actually give aid rather than having to be a recipient of it. actually get all my vaccines at the correct time. actually get help for my depression before the age of 20. actually get physical therapy so my body doesn't rebel on me at 24. so much to do better and then all I have to do is go to the right Starbucks in 2023 to get my fiancee back.
Since people keep asking, Iâm a 0-3 voter and would shoot for 2.5 because of two reasons.
1. I started reading/speaking/walking fairly early (at 2) so I wouldnât be forced to pretend about any of that.
2. My mom is decently conspiracy-prone (though also smart/logical enough I can usually talk her out of them early) so Iâm pretty sure I could use information sheâs told me about her life to convince her that Iâm actually a time traveling adult stuck in the body of my kid self. I was a non-religious unschooled homeschooler so I already had a lot of freedom as I grew up. I even asked her what she might do lol.
So I think Iâd try to pretend to the rest of the world I was just a very talented child while working together with my mom to do as much to my benefit with future knowledge as possible.
As for why Iâd do it, personally? I donât think I could fully save the world or anything with the things I know now alone, but I could dramatically change my life and that of a lot of people around me/I grew up with, *maybe* that of more.
1.
I wouldnât be disabled except for my adhd anymore, and my adhd got significantly worse after my back injury (yes itâs linked, complicated) so even that would be less disabling. This would mean that not only would I be able to retrain my body as a dancer once more (for those who didnât know, I used to be a professional dancer) but with significantly more dedication and enough knowledge to seem like a prodigy taking to it like a fish to water.
Iâd also be able to start seeking apprenticeships outside of montana sooner and know how to go about it properly, so instead of just being professional inside of my home state, I might be able to become part of a larger dance company and make a better name for myself.
2.
Iâd be able to avoid or combat so much of the racism and white supremacy I dealt with as a child but didnât have the words or knowledge to fight yet. I could help protect the few other kids of color I knew growing up and just. Make a lot of shit better. Iâd also be able to avoid a lot of people that hid their racism or abuse - I would never have been enslaved, I would have avoided so much community abuse, I wouldnât have suffered if I knew who to keep at a distance and who to keep close.
3.
I couldâve transitioned younger and gotten access to meds earlier. This one is kinda obvious lol. My enslaver forcibly delayed my transition for three years but if I know from a young age Iâd have so much more leeway. Iâd also have avoided a three year stint doing youth group at a southern baptist church that fucked up my shit and I had to unpack until I was 18.
4.
Lotta my longest friends (like @skelejor) are just weird enough that if I came to them and told them the situation theyâd likely just roll with it from the jump. I have minimal concern about re-finding the people I love or who serve a specific role in my life and reclaiming them.
5.
Set up a Google digest for a bunch of terms like Bitcoin to get in at the rock bottom of things I know will become successful the moment they get publicly mentioned. I could also stop a lot of shit that massively affected my life growing up, such as a company illegally draining the bank accounts of my entire family (including that of like 3 year old me who was trying to save up for my first computer :c ) that sent us from being middle class to âjuggling what bills we can pay this monthâ poor. My mom was very good with money and was able to give the outward illusion things were still fine after that, but they werenât lol
6.
Bc of the whole âunschooled homeschooledâ and the âcoming back with all my knowledgeâ thing I could use the âyoung brain plasticityâ thing to actually learn languages, learn more complex topics young, etc. I had a voracious desire for knowledge when I was a kid but didnât direct it well.
7.
I fully believe that I could get some 4ch chud or three to [REDACTED] people like M*sk and Mold Queen who actively funded and caused significant negative world shit if I made a persona âpredictingâ real life events consistently and used that to feed them conspiracy theories and future knowledge.
Thereâs probably more shit Iâm not thinking of right now but this is my general plan if this happens lmfao
