• MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social
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    5 months 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.

  • TachyonTele@piefed.social
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    5 months ago

    I think mine would be torn. On one hand I’m retired in my forties and play video games all the time… On the other hand that’s what I do with my life.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      5 months 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. (I checked.)

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        5 months 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.

          • Aniki@feddit.org
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            5 months ago

            in my personal experience, attraction has little to do with gender and much more to do with personality. if i just don’t vibe with the other person, it doesn’t matter whether they’re male/female, i can’t get with them. It has literally nothing to do with gender. everything with mindset. ok i admit it, the body does play a role, but not 100%.

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              Yeah a lot of bi people feel that way. I lose all horniness when I smell “man smell”. And I can say it’s absolutely about that because the incident was with someone who had just stopped testosterone and after a few weeks we were sleeping together a few times a week for months.

              Personality is nice for me, but it’s body shape and feel and smell that do it for me, and it all points to women for me.

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    5 months 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 life, 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.

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    5 months 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, and that I never had kids.

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      5 months 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.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    5 months 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.

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    5 months ago

    14 year old me would be very impressed with the things I have in my garage, but I’m not sure he’d be impressed with a depressed man in his 30’s.