Hey Pandas, If You Could Change Anything About Your Childhood What Would It Be? (Closed)

My childhood is the only piece of my life that I'm perfectly fine with.

Make it so I did have a childhood and wasn't forced to grow up so fast, starting at the age of 4.

I would rather have had fewer bullies, so... I would change my looks.

If I could change anything about my childhood, I would change the fact that mom would always blame me for how I would feel.

I was a little demon child from K-4, so I’d be a nicer person. Can’t count how many friends I’ve lost because of the stupid crap I did to them as a child.

So much that I'd probably start crying mid-sentence. Just don't want to recall/ remember those locked up memories :)

I was sexually assaulted for 2 years (1st and 2nd grade) and thought it was normal and that I just had to live with it until I realized it's actually really wrong and should be stopped. Now I have trauma and am fighting against it and am on a healing path, but I'll never be the same.

Kind of everything...

To cancel my birth

My parents would never have had divorced. They were both present in my life. I just wish they had worked things out.

If I could change something it would be for parents not to have divorced. But since I love me, maybe if I changed that it would change me. So I'll leave well enough alone. I will say this, their divorce is the number one reason I chose not to have children. I was afraid if my marriage ended in divorce, my children would suffer the kind of hurt my brother and I suffered. But get this: Ive been married to only one man for 37 years. Maybe we have lasted because we didn't have children, go figure.

When I was 1/3 through kinder and half through first grade I had a bully, her name was Carly. She would say and do some really mean things. I had these cute frozen shoes with Elsa and Anna on them, and she had the same pair as me, so anytime I wore them she would go CRAZY! One time I wore them when she was wearing them but she did not notice till we were running laps in P.E because this girl pointed them out... Well not to get into details but she yelled at me. Now to another time I was not in my frozen shoes but still being the bully that she was, she claimed I was "taking to long" to slide down the slide because her turn was next. So when she got to top I was climbing up the chain ladder, net thing I got to the top, she shoved me of the playground back onto the net AND IT HURT!
So now you know the story, I wish I could stand up for myself instead of backing down and feeling like total trash. I also wish I knew that it was not normal to be made front of by others, and to be shoved around.

my conception, i truly wish i wasn't born. My mom would be so much happier, and would be able to afford medicine for herself

Different parents. One has borderline personality and the other is an enabler.

I’d try to find a way to be closer to my mother. She’s a good person, but she wasn’t raised in an affectionate family, and consequently neither was I. Now that I’m a middle-aged adult hundreds of miles away I can tell she’s pained that we’re not close, but as we were never close in my youth and have no common interests, I don’t know how to bridge that gap.

Not that I hated or discount my life experiences I wonder what life would have been like had my Dad not died of a heart disease that doctors were just learning about. He was 40 years and 2 days old. I was 14 and forced to grow up quickly. His death caused depression in my my Mom leaving me to to do more for my siblings who were 10 and 4 than a 14 y/o should.

Actually do my homework as a kid and LEARN TO STUDY, it has been proved hard to learn as an adult...

Also, not to be such an insensitive jerk to my family and friends at times. Didn't realise how annoying I was until much later.

Shut up about your English teacher. We don’t care that she’s abusing us, you’re digging your own grave. Don’t send that email, it’s going to make it worse. Just endure her.

nicer weater. I loved to play outside.

Every embarrassing moment