Poll : What do you think of your younger self

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  • Wise
  • Idiot

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I was stupid and got into all sorts of trouble. I wish I had a normal childhood so I could have got educated sooner and not have to deal with all the â– â– â– â–  that comes with taking drugs.

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Just very uneducated about things

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I tried crack once lmao. Glad I’ve got my ■■■■ together now, could have gone a completely different way.

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I’ve been making stupid decisions my whole friggin life!!!

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It looks like we got at least a 75% idiot margin there!!

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I made a lot of idiotic decisions in my younger years.

Pulled it together and started turning it around when I got pregnant.

Been living well since,

Trying to be a good example for my son.

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I was a flipping moron but all I can hope is that I don’t look back on today and think I’m a moron now.

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I was a big idiot.

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I was ignorant. I suppressed my emotions and was unable to recognize them in other people - made socializing difficult.

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I had about 3 years of being stupid. Got a sz dx when i was 18. Apart from that I did ok.

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Dumb, I was so dumb. I thought I could handle the illness without proper medication. Didn’t realize how much it would help me.

I’ve grown a lot since then. By the sound of it a lot of people have grown for the better too.

That makes me happy.

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I wasn’t wise but I wasn’t a complete idiot. I probably shouldn’t have partied as much as I did. I probably shouldn’t have done stupid stuff like stealing.

My crime was hanging around the wrong people and doing whatever they did.

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I didn’t think I was an idiot, I did my best with the conditions I had… Maybe I did stupid things and was very sensitive to other people opinions.
I was followed by a therapist at the time so I was a bit guided to not do stupid things, although at the time I played a lot of counter strike and that may have lowered my grades, but I had to have something to escape from my depression symptoms and forget how I felt at the time.

With that said, we all do stupid things even when we grow up, sometimes I regret giving my opinions to some people here and feel bad about it because it’s a bit pretentious to say whatever somebody could do to help themselves. But again I try to think in similar past actions and most of the times I get to the same conclusion. I just wanted to help…

Besides that, on the beginning of my teen years I did some harassment that I have shame about it, but sometimes I think I only learn doing some mistakes. From that point on I tried to treat girls with the most respect I can possible give(sometimes I’m a bit rude but that’s because I’m upset with myself).

Nobody is perfect and I try to do my best ever since I’m aware of it, and when I fail I try to think of the causes of my failure and try to improve from that point on.

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Somewhere in the middle? I did typical stupid teenager stuff, but I also did a lot of really responsible things that even a lot of adults have terrible with at an age I never should have even had to think about them. 🤷

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I voted “idiot” for myself.

I mean, I am not sure if I was very dumb though in my younger years.

I do remember being fairly streetsmart, but also very arrogant.

I thought I had the whole world figured out. Then my diagnosis threw me a curveball, that’s for sure!

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As a kid the types of ways I treated my siblings was soooooo embarrassing for me to look back upon as an adult – i dropped out of high school because I had wanted to get high instead…
I dunno I guess I could’ve done far worse damage to my body

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Pre-Internet exposure I had some smarts. Read books all the time and such. As soon as internet entered the picture I became a full-on self-destructive hedonist that didn’t think beyond the next dopamine hit.

Took an actual elbow injury from overuse for me to come to my senses.

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I was an idiot, but I was HAPPY

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I have some accomplishments, but I always feel stupid around my brother and his wife. I once told them to take shelter because a tornado was near my parents house and they live around hills and a lake. They immediately shouted “That can’t happen! Tornadoes don’t go over hills!” I stayed silent and just felt horrible for how they yelled at me. If you research this, tornadoes can in fact travel up and down hills. Ugh! I can’t stand them!

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