Actually probably yes.
That kid was the WORST
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Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 7 hours ago
I just want to hug him and tell him and anyone his age that “teenage/school years are the best years of your life” is a bold-faced LIE.
It gets better.
It gets WAY better.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Leaving a small town, with small people, with small minds was a revelation
I was finally able to start becoming who I am, rather than what was needed to survive
EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
That little fuckhead got me into this mess.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
14 y/o me would be pretty damn jealous.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It’s a good feeling
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Yeah, 14 y/o me had a lot of shit to wade through before he could be me.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I’m an incredibly lucky man
I’ve led a life that even I sometimes have to remind myself isn’t a dream
I have loved deeply, been married, divorced, engaged again to the person who is my best friend
I have travelled, seen amazing things, lived in a few countries and experienced things I couldn’t have imagined
I have studied at university, as well as getting a trade and progressing a very long with that
I have been wealthy, I own some stuff that the younger me would think is pretty cool, but I have few material possessions now because “stuff” doesn’t really matter to me
I have lived in some of the biggest cities in the world, and now I enjoy peace and quiet in one of the most beautiful places in the world
The porn I create has tens of millions of views, I’ve done things that are wild, creative and on occasion, sexy
I’m the luckiest bastard on Earth
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
The porn I create has tens of millions of views, I’ve done things that are wild, creative and on occasion, sexy
Username checks out
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I don’t believe in false advertising
tetris11@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
more people need to make pornos, it’s a rite of passage
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It’s not something I recommend
Mine is performance art more than porn, but for those who enjoy it, they really like it and that’s lovely for them
I just think it’s funny
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
More than anything he’d probably be enlightened by the fact that I like banging dudes too.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Considering how horny I was at 14 I’d have been stoked to know there was even more sex I could have.
Shame I not even a little bi.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
Shame I’m not even a little bi. (I checked.)
Well as long as you did your due diligence, I’m sure no one will complain.
EonNShadow@pawb.social 1 day ago
Relatable lmfao
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Did he think he’d stop banging dudes when he got older?
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
No, he didn’t realize that he totally wanted to
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
He’d probably give suicide a lot more consideration.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I’m playing video games all day every day. He would be amazed. It’s adult me knows it’s bad
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Probably not, but the Steam Deck would blow his mind.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I would’ve shat myself over VR and so many other things.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 day ago
I would still shat myself over vr if i could ever play it
Grimy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
He would admire my game library, maybe even hate me for it. I wouldn’t tell him I don’t play any of them.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Look, I’d like to see that little shit do better.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I would just encourage 14 year old me to knock my dad out until he figured out I wasn’t his beast of burden to yell and scream at. The last time he laid hands on me was 14. At the time I didn’t realize I physically intimidated him.
Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Look man, If I wanted to disappoint two people at once I’d take my parents out for dinner or find a couple of neurotypicals and have a threesome.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If dinner goes well enough with your parents, maybe you can kill two birds with one stone.
vanillama@programming.dev 1 day ago
Made me actually laugh out loud
isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I’m going to enjoy torturing my 14-year-old self. My 14-year-old self was a shithead. But I was raised in a conservative Catholic house, and at that age I firmly embraced the version of reality common among the Fox News set. I was that annoying conservative high schooler. Sure I was repping hard, but I was still an idiot.
Now I’m a late-30s trans woman, about to celebrate 8 years of marriage to my wonderful husband.
The things I can say. I’m going to haunt this kid’s dreams.
vanillama@programming.dev 1 day ago
I’m happy you found yourself and your husband, that’s awesome!
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Haha oh fuck yeah!
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I think 14 year old me would be most disappointed that I’m no longer catholic. She’d probably be a mix of angry and excited that I’m trans. Shocked and confused when I explain to her that her parents’ marriage is really really bad and she’s going to need therapy for the way her dad treats her. Then she’s going to be kinda pissed when I tell her that her dad is right about her needing to do better in school, it’s just that he shouldn’t be yelling at her until she self harms about it. She’ll be proud I’m still friends with her friends and that I got out of Ohio to somewhere cool.
Oh then she’s going to be incredibly disappointed I married someone with tattoos, especially since I’ll call her a classist little shit about it.
nickiwest@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
14-year-old me would also be very disappointed that I’m no longer religious. She would be afraid for me because I have gay and trans friends.
Poor little Nicki. She was brainwashed and didn’t know better. Fortunately, she got better after her first semester at university.
fartographer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m not sure if I’d be proud or disappointed.
trigger warning
By age 10, I’d already decided I was going to kill myself at 24, and I was looking forward to it, assuming I hadn’t already died by then. By my 14th birthday, I was doing my annual countdown from 10.
I don’t know if I’d be excited that I found things that made life worth living, or consider myself a failure for getting it wrong when I tried. Reflecting on that age, I don’t think myself an idiot or anything, I just see a kid who tried their best with what they had, and had already given up on what seemed like an inescapable situation. I feel bad for 14 year-old me, and I’m not sure I’d be able to face that kid without feeling completely destroyed.
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 21 hours ago
Why 24? If you don’t mind asking. That’s kinda odd number.
Like i chose 18, as im an adult by then and all the drug lectures at school painted a picture that I’d be offered drugs everywhere. So the plan was to OD at 18th birthday, seemed kinda nice way to go and a better alternative than become communal Fleshlight in the prison. Not that there was even any realistic threat of that happening, but thats in hindsight.
fartographer@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
From a school assignment asking what I would be like at 25 years old. I decided that I never wanted to be 25.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
So, I don’t know if there’s some kind of psychological phenomenon at play here — but it sounds like something very similar to a circumstance my mom went through (albeit, the stakes were much different).
She used to smoke, and when she decided she wanted to have a kid (eventually me) she gave it up. What she told herself was that if she quit and wanted to start back up at 65, ok? Who cares, she’s already old at that point so it’s not like it’s worse than having smoked for the previous 45 years.
Eventually never went back to them. She is actually repulsed by cigarettes now.
I think what I take from that is my mom didn’t really give up cigarettes, at least not psychologically. In her mind she could go back at any time and there was no issue, she’d just go back to not smoking (and she didn’t even do that, she just quit). I wonder if maybe a similar thing happened to you here? You gave yourself a goal so far ahead in the future that you also gave yourself ample time to grow — even if that goal was inevitably death. It’s almost like sewerslide was your way of equalizing the playing field.
Idk, I could be wrong — I’m glad you didn’t, though.
fartographer@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I accredit proper medication, scaring the shit out of my friends and family who I thought would have been happy if I were gone, and LARGELY that change in mindset that you’re talking about.
Thank you for sharing that story
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Yeah I’m what my 14 y/o self never wanted to become and I’m fine with disappointing him lol
Malyca@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Hell yeah she would. I’m relatively safe and no longer being traumatized, that’s all she ever wanted.
Crt_static@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I mean…14 yo me would be pretty put off by my smoking fentanyl on the weekends to feel normal again cause methadone is a hassle / the bupe shot feels like being set on fire. The prescription drug addiction started at 15, so ehhh. 26 years later and I still love dope. Put it in my lung, veins, nose, mouth, I don’t care. Just want to nod into the void.
Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Brotha have you ever thought about starting to cut back and see how it feels?
Man I really hope you can get this under control for yourself dude. The methadone might be a hassle but it can seriously be one of the best ways to get you out of the cycle. It does work and will make you not get sick which can then help you focus on living your life like other people that aren’t using drugs.
That’s the hardest part is transitioning back to what normal people do and are about and it takes awhile to actually feel that joy from those things but I swear dude it will happen after enough time and it will move you like nothing else has to be on that end of it and look back and see what you overcame. I don’t know you, but I believe in you seriously. Believe in yourself because you can overcome this problem in your life if you put all your effort into it. I promise its worth it.
osanna@lemmy.vg 1 day ago
At 14 I was self harming and only couple years from my first suicide attempt. I don’t do either now, so yes, probably
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 21 hours ago
14 year old me would not even have the capacity to comprehend it.
Future was just some made up nonsense back then and absolutely every single adult was part of a hive mind connected back to my mother. In addition, people weren’t really people, they were more like background noise who i had to be cautious of. The world didn’t exist outside my field of view.
macro_byte@programming.dev 9 hours ago
Holy moely! Did something change your mind/perspective or do you still see people like that?
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 7 hours ago
Not really, still the same. Though don’t get me wrong, as i can assume it gets interpreted as i treat people badly or abuse them in any way. I don’t. I am not a sociopath or psychopath, that has been confirmed by a psychologist. I just completely lack the “connection” concept with people. ASD hits my social aspect the strongest.
For me people aren’t really special, we’re all just biological machines. Pretty much the same as a robot vacuum cleaner, just much more complex. I treat objects and people the with the same love and care, but that means that people melt into the same indistinguishable background noise. Like how much attention do you give to a random item on the street when walking past it? Just enough to not stumble into it and that’s it.Though I’ve never understood why it’s supposed to be bad? It’s not in any way harmful to others, maybe even positive as there’s no judgment or any negative treatment towards them and once i have to actively engage with anyone. I remain cordial and often times even outright friendly and helpful.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I would kick 14 year old me in the ribs without a second thought. Kid was dumb af.
InputZero@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
14 year old me knows that if he ever sees me he should start running. Unfortunately for him I can just run 14-year old me over with the family van. Then back up. Then drive again. Then backup again.
taiyang@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m one of the few people who’s 14 yo self would fucking admire, mostly for stupid teenage horny reasons but also video game industry reasons.
ignotum@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You work in the cultured video game industry?
You’re doing the lord’s work 🫡
taiyang@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Even better (by 14 yo me standards), I met a pretty girl online, whom I later married and got into the industry (albeit, less cultured? Lol).
When questioned by my childhood self why I am not making games myself, I point to my backlog and we both nod in agreement before I thoroughly wreck him in Smash Bros.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 day ago
14-year-old me would not be impressed, but 24-year-old me would be.
The difference is experience and understanding what the hell we’re all up against.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 day ago
Good answer
Lawyerator@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If I had advice to give my younger self, I’d have to be very careful about the whole causality problem. At 45 I have two awesome kids aged 5 and 2. I have an amazing wife who multiplies both my happiness and ability to make a living. Both my wife and I were previously divorced. I wouldn’t change anything that might prevent me from meeting her and helping to bring my kids into the world.
If I had perfect temporal guardrails that would ensure this family path, I’d tell my younger self that it works out pretty well in the long run, but huge mistakes were needed to forge me into who I am today. Also, buy Nvidia stock.
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 1 day ago
I think i would be mostly proud of myself. I did a lot of things right, but recently i keep asking myself the question “would i want to spend time with myself”? Like if there was a perfect clone of myself, same mindset, same body, same everything, would i like them?
Most of my time, the answer has been “Yes”. Now, i’m starting to respond to it with “no”, actually not. I’m just not the kind of person myself that i myself would like to be around; ironically that’s what makes me more popular among other people, it seems. So i’ve traded liking to be around myself to others liking to be around me. I still like myself, but i wouldn’t wanna be with another version of myself, if that makes sense. Of some things, there better exist only one of it, if you know what i mean.
Doom@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Absol-fucking-lutely they would. 14 year old me was dealing with some bullshit and would be ecstatic that we got through it and that things got better. Kudos to anyone who survived their teens and come out even mildly well adjusted, much less happy.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Listen, I’m not here to impress a mentally ill child. But also no.
ftfy.
STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I dunno about “proud”, 14-year-old me was around when saying “gay” was usually a punchline, or an insult. Maybe he’d be surprised about my ex-boyfriend. Or my current boyfriend.
Whatever problems he might have with my current self, he’d definitely come around after all the insider trading information I’d give him.
0ops@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Probably not, but I’m not very proud him either soo…
AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
Yeah my response will be almost same just replace impress with depress they even rhyme.