If you could go back in time and talk to your younger self, what would you say?
Imagine being able to travel back in time and have a conversation with your younger self. What words of wisdom or advice would you share? What experiences or lessons learned would you want them to know about?
You aren’t a fuckup because you weren’t smart enough to protect yourself from getting hurt by others. Your parents are supposed to be looking out for you and they are not. They are to blame, not you.
I don't think I'm you, and I think it would have been harder for me to come out 10 years ago. The trajectory of my life would be completely different if I had, and my family that's cool with it almost certainly wouldn't have been as cool with it then.
Still, wish I could have gotten on estrogen WAY earlier for more effetmcts U.U Oh well.
I'm not sure I would. If I could have avoided the bullshit or done the things that would have optimized my income and wealth, I don't think I would have ended up where I am now. The risk doesn't seem worth it, I would be a completely different person with a completely different life.
Invest in you old age: Superannuation or some other savings device. You need to put on as much as you possibly can as soon as you can but this needn't mean you plow all your income into it straight away. Transfer or invest as little as $20 per week initially, you'll never miss it and after a few weeks or months keep increasing the amount till you've reached your ceiling. Reinvest your earnings or dividends, compound interest is a beautiful thing.
I would probably tell myself not to bother with college and suggest I go to a technical school instead. Apparently degrees aren't worth jack shit around here.
you're not being silly, you are a woman and these kinds of thoughts aren't just for "real trans people" (and also you are a real trans person)
you need to start giving more thought to how your words and actions affect people, or you're going to hurt someone you love
I know those two nuggets of info are hard to hear and are quite heavy, but I promise that observing them and taking them seriously will mean you live an immeasurably happier life
buy a bunch of bitcoin with your pocket money. Sell it on December 16th 2016, buy as much as you can with what you got on January 26th 2019. Sell it all on March 13th 2021. Donate half of what you made to stonewall, and use the rest for the house you'll be trying to buy.
Give him a high five and tell him to keep doing what he is doing. Since we invent the time machine, I wouldn't want to fuck that up. Really I wouldn't even visit.
I would however be expecting a visit from my future self, to get the details on how to solve global warming and a bunch of other issues.
I've always had this answer for any of these kinds of questions. I would never say anything to them, but I'd give them a USB flashdrive. In it are a series of documents and pictures. They're of things of importance that I've listed. Things of what to do and not do, people to meet earlier than later and things I've noted.
There are a lot of amazing people in your life, such as [List of great friends], be sure to be a excellent friend to them to. However, some of your relationships will break apart with others, be kinder and more understanding to/of [List of lost friends]