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 Everyone's parents fucks their kids up somehow. The only difference is how. While many of us still love them, I don't think anyone would keep their upbringing the exact same. Hindsight lets us imagine life with an editor's pen. Maybe we'd be more adjusted if we had more home-cooked meals, or were taken seriously when we asked why our gym teacher made us pose for photos. Maybe we'd get someone to stop us from wearing Dragon button-up shirts every day in 9th grade, or take publishing that awful fanfiction seriously knowing that Stephanie Meyers and the 50 Shades lady can make it. The possibilities are endless. So if you could change one major thing about your childhood, what would it be?
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I'd get my parents to stop overpraising me like a puppy they just can't believe is learning to talk and read, and actually get involved in talking to me about growing up.
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Oct 27, 2017 03:24
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I'd beg my parents to move out of the poo poo-rear end southern nowheresville town I grew up in, it sucked there and will always suck there.
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Oct 27, 2017 03:25
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like a cigarette should posted:I'd beg my parents to move out of the poo poo-rear end southern nowheresville town I grew up in, it sucked there and will always suck there.
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Oct 27, 2017 03:26
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I probably would try not to get bullied so much
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Oct 27, 2017 03:27
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mind the walrus posted:How far away was your nearest Wal-Mart? I was far away from everything, even the Wal-Mart. I'm talking 'teens hanging out at the gas station because there's nowhere else to go' small town.
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Oct 27, 2017 03:28
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When it was becoming obvious that I didn't enjoy the same hobbies, social groups and activities as my older sister they should have let me do my own loving thing and not just whatever they signed my sister up for.
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Oct 27, 2017 03:30
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like a cigarette should posted:I was far away from everything, even the Wal-Mart. I'm talking 'teens hanging out at the gas station because there's nowhere else to go' small town. EvilJoven posted:When it was becoming obvious that I didn't enjoy the same hobbies, social groups and activities as my older sister they should have let me do my own loving thing and not just whatever they signed my sister up for.
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Oct 27, 2017 03:37
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Should have shot my dad. I thought about it, how I was a minor (about ten to twelve) and so I wouldn't be tried as an adult. But there was only a rifle, so nope. Other big regret is when my grandmother offered to put me in a prestigious private school ( I was smart) but she waited too long, I was about to start high school and didn't want to. That's actually my biggest regret really. Who knows what I would have become, maybe I would have gotten a scholarship and went to college. Regret is poison in your soul.
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Oct 27, 2017 03:38
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Shoulda played hookie more often. So much wasted time.
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Oct 27, 2017 03:38
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sometimes i wish i was forced to interact with people more other times i wish i was never introduced to society altogether.
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Oct 27, 2017 03:42
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It'd be cool if my dad had talked to me and taught me how to do things like the dads on the television set do
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Oct 27, 2017 03:43
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Spinster posted:Should have shot my dad. I thought about it, how I was a minor (about ten to twelve) and so I wouldn't be tried as an adult. this but also then go on to marry my mother. that would have owned
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Oct 27, 2017 03:43
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Alternatively, the ending of the butterfly effect
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Oct 27, 2017 03:43
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Spinster posted:Regret is poison in your soul.
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Oct 27, 2017 03:43
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Tolkien minority posted:It'd be cool if my dad had talked to me and taught me how to do things like the dads on the television set do You were raised by feral skunks
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Oct 27, 2017 03:43
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Should have learned to play the guitar. Should have learned to play them drums.
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Oct 27, 2017 03:47
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Should have learned to play the guitar. Should have learned to play them drums. lol
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Oct 27, 2017 03:47
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Tolkien minority posted:It'd be cool if my dad had talked to me and taught me how to do things like the dads on the television set do
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Oct 27, 2017 03:47
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more goldfish brand crackers
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Oct 27, 2017 03:48
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Oct 27, 2017 03:48
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Tolkien minority posted:It'd be cool if my dad had talked to me and taught me how to do things like the dads on the television set do Hell same. Finally ended up blowing up with me losing my poo poo yelling at him when I was around 20 and trying to fix something on my car and he just took over everything completely ignoring me. I realise now that alot of my worst traits I learned directly from him, so the next generation is probably hosed as well lol.
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Oct 27, 2017 03:55
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Get divorced sooner
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Oct 27, 2017 03:58
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I had a really good childhood OP and now I am successful because my parents were fantastic. XOXO
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Oct 27, 2017 04:01
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Les Os posted:Get divorced sooner Ch ild bride, so sad
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Oct 27, 2017 04:02
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buddhanc posted:I had a really good childhood OP and now I am successful because my parents were fantastic. XOXO Sure, rub it in. 
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Oct 27, 2017 04:03
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Shoulda probably smoked pot in high school and learned an instrument instead of just playing video games and reading these dead gay forums
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Oct 27, 2017 04:04
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Your parental guidance or lack thereof, and childhood experiences were all important in shaping the person you are today. Lots of people think "oh if X had been different I'd be such a different person" but the reality is different rarely means better, and even if it did how would you know, and why bother wasting time thinking about it? You are who you are and that's pretty awesome 
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Oct 27, 2017 04:06
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I am basically the version of Picard that went back in time and stopped himself from getting stabbed in the heart and ended up being stuck as a junior science officer for the rest of his life because he kept taking the safe route. Still waiting for future me to go back in time to fix that up. Any time now. Anytime now. 
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Oct 27, 2017 04:07
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If I had started smoking pot earlier in high school, I would have probably had a lot less of a hard time but I also probably would have fallen in with the pothead crowd in my school, most of which turned out to be assholes with no lives after HS If I had gotten a real job in my field right after college, I would probably be making pretty great money at a job I didn't hate, but I also wouldn't have ended up spending 8 years in a city I fell in love with, working some ridiculous and fun/crazy jobs, meeting my wife and stealing my cat from one of those ridiculous jobs all worth it IMO
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Oct 27, 2017 04:09
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I dunno ill leave it as is
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Oct 27, 2017 04:12
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For the love of god don't homeschool me and don't make my brothers shoot my guinea pigs in the head because we have to move
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Oct 27, 2017 04:12
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the one thing I'd probably change about my childhood would have been being a little more appreciative of my parents. My dad messed with me on my 11th birthday saying he couldn't find an N64, but sure enough there was one wrapped and waiting the next morning for me. My birthday is in December, and I still cringe to think how much time and loving effort he spent to snag an N64 on launch season right before Christmas, and how I was so bratty and lovely that I pouted all through dinner the night before because of it. poo poo like that. I'm glad I can still remind them I appreciate that sort of thing and am old enough to understand how often they almost pushed themselves into financial ruin to raise my and my sister with everything we wanted 
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Oct 27, 2017 04:13
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AWarmBody posted:For the love of god don't homeschool me and don't make my brothers shoot my guinea pigs in the head because we have to move Did that happen? Oh my god
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Oct 27, 2017 04:13
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AWarmBody posted:For the love of god don't homeschool me and don't make my brothers shoot my guinea pigs in the head because we have to move 
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Oct 27, 2017 04:13
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Kelp Me! posted:Your parental guidance or lack thereof, and childhood experiences were all important in shaping the person you are today. Lots of people think "oh if X had been different I'd be such a different person" but the reality is different rarely means better, and even if it did how would you know, and why bother wasting time thinking about it? You are who you are and that's pretty awesome Kelp Me! posted:If I had started smoking pot earlier in high school, I would have probably had a lot less of a hard time but I also probably would have fallen in with the pothead crowd in my school, most of which turned out to be assholes with no lives after HS
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Oct 27, 2017 04:16
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mind the walrus posted:Did you ever consider that this is maybe something you don't have the empathetic reach for? Not really? Obviously I've thought about this sort of thing, I just came to the conclusion that I'm content with the decisions I made and the surrounding environment I grew up in
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Oct 27, 2017 04:18
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probably the poverty and alcoholic single mom with 3 kids part, yeah
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Oct 27, 2017 04:19
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Kelp Me! posted:Not really? Obviously I've thought about this sort of thing, I just came to the conclusion that I'm content with the decisions I made and the surrounding environment I grew up in Absurd Alhazred posted:Sure, rub it in.
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Maybe I just read too much time travel sci-fi as a kid and am desperately afraid that even the slightest change in my past would have had massive repercussions to my current life basically 
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