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I'd tell her to slip laxatives into my packed lunches that the bullies used to nick.
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I'd say kill the dirty pervert ,before he wrecks your life
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I would say find a sport you like, or an aerobics class, and keep with it.
Find a subject you really like and work hard at it. Don't let Dad pick your O Level subjects. Read more. Listen to a wider variety of music. Try and work your way out of the debilitating shyness and develop a social life. Get into computers as soon as you can. Learn more about politics. |
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Don't start smoking and be more confident.
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In about 3 years time this thing called the national lottery is going start. I've got some numbers I want you to write down....
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i`m not sure i would have listened.
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Funnily enough that is exactly the age I would like to go back to and change everything - but you can't no matter how much you wish you could.
Entropy and the Arrow of Time are a bastard. |
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You have an undiagnosed, mild form of dyspraxia, which explains many of the issues you face in life: poor handwriting, poor organisation of folders, poor management of time, a little socially awkward, poor spacial awareness. The fact that so many teachers have failed to spot this is extraordinary. It might be a good idea to change schools. The school you attend really isn't that good - a lot of the teachers are crap, they don't know how to deal with bullies, and quite a few of the kids are horrible brats.
However, you are an intelligent, kind, thoughtful decent young man, so don't let anyone tell you you're stupid or incapable of achieving your dreams. Work hard, and you'll do very well indeed at your exams. Your parents are about to separate, which doesn't really surprise you. Don't be too judgemental with your mother. Your father is a difficult, controlling, self-centred manipulative bully. He's good at playing mind games, though. In years to come, the way he behaves will be called 'emotional abuse'. Your father certainly isn't fit to bring you up. He will gradually descend into alcoholism and his mental health problems will get a lot worse. You'll end up wasting a lot of your youth looking after him and covering for his 'mistakes' if you're not careful. You'll encounter various health problems in the next few years, and will have two major operations, plus some minor ones. But you get better and you have many years of good physical health ahead of you from your late teens onwards. At the age of 18, you'll move away to university and that's a good time to cut your links with most people you know locally, aside from a small number of good friends, and to put some proper distance between you and your father. He is beyond saving and will die when you're 21. You'll still be awkward around girls at 18. However, at uni, you will meet a girl who is about 22 years of age. She IS as nice as she seems, but you won't believe for a second she's marriage material, and you'll be right. However, she will become a good friend of yours. Confide in her about your awkwardness - she may well be a good person to lose your virginity to and she'll certainly remain a good friend well into the future. Decontaminate yourself from a lot of the rubbish your father has tried to impart on you over the years - and that means everything from his racism, to his appalling attitudes towards women, to his belief that dressing appropriately and turning up to things on time isn't important. There are reasons he has no friends, struggles in his work and why people don't generally like him. Don't fall into those same traps. But all in all, continue your faith in God and your belief that things will work out. You've been given a very wobbly start in life but by your late 20s you'll be in a much better place. |
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That thing you like is called a fetish. Other people like it too....
For god sake, dont do it in public..... |
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I would tell him not to let himself get bullied and stand up for himself a bit better.
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That my parents aren't looking out for my best interest, at all.
Do not worry about what anyone else thinks of you or about you. Look after my body and keep fitter, for my own benefit so I can 'look after myself' Turn around and punch the bully - lots. Don't worry about getting in to trouble at school for punching the bully - it means noting and **** what your parents think abut that. Don't worry about doing silly things. Don't worry about doing things just because you think people are expecting you to follow a certain path. Don't get a job in IT |
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I'd tell 12 year-old me, don't worry, in a few years you'll start to understand a bit more about politics than just the 'Labour good, Tories bad, that's all you need to know' mantra your dad comes out with.
I'd also say, enjoy the good sounds of 1981 and the four years following, while you can. Pop music's going steadily downhill thereafter. |
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Don't choose cookery classes for one of your final year subjects, you'll end up washing sodding dishes for a week on job creation
.Don't pinch that porno tape from your parents room. Or if you do, don't be stupid enough to let slip to your mum that you have done so. It won't go down well .When you go to Tesco, if there's a red band around the door handles and a security man standing nearby it means the door is alarmed and should not be shoved with great force to make it open in the belief it has simply stuck.... If your riding a bike and the pedal comes off, don't tie your shoe to the bike so you can cycle one footed... it's a really really bad idea... You cannot put the toaster on its side to make cheese on toast. |
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One day you will realise an extraordinary thing. Avril Lavigne really sucks, and she can't sing.
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"I'm your future self, here talking to you, so this must be a dream ......''
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Donny Osmond will never ever marry you. Oh sweet misery .
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I'd have been a lot gobbier than I already was, because I'd have had a lot more people figured out and would have known how to put them in their place when they needed to be (bullies, etc). Got some name-calling, but wasn't bullied myself, but there's times I look back on now where I think I should've said something but didn't.
I'd probably have done a lot better at school too if I had a word with myself. And at University. Basically, I'd have just said, "You'll do alright if you don't apply yourself, but you'll be pissed off that you didn't"! Although perhaps it wouldn't make much sense to past-me without the experience of hindsight. |
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Oh, and "one day, you're going to love Science", just to see my horrified expression.
And, "For the love of God, keep up with the ****ing piano lessons". |
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Don't start smoking, it'll be your worst habit.
Realise that you are pretty and stop hiding behind the tomboy look, make the most of your youth and stop wanting to grow up so fast! |
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I would say - call childline - what they are doing is not right.
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Don't choose cookery classes for one of your final year subjects, you'll end up washing sodding dishes for a week on job creation
.Don't pinch that porno tape from your parents room. Or if you do, don't be stupid enough to let slip to your mum that you have done so. It won't go down well .When you go to Tesco, if there's a red band around the door handles and a security man standing nearby it means the door is alarmed and should not be shoved with great force to make it open in the belief it has simply stuck.... If your riding a bike and the pedal comes off, don't tie your shoe to the bike so you can cycle one footed... it's a really really bad idea... You cannot put the toaster on its side to make cheese on toast. |
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Try harder at school, learn a skill and stick with it and make more of an effort to meet new people.
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Adults are actually not really that different to you, they just have more hangups and don't like kids.
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