You meet your 13-year-old self, but you can only tell them 3 words. What do you say and why?

21. “Stay off ATVs”. Rolled a 4-wheeler when I was 16. Left leg has never been the same.

– cloudkicker887

22. “People love you. ”

Those times were rough.

– kringe

23. I love you.

Nobody else was saying it to me and mean it.

– a-rabbit-cupcakes

24. You have ADHD.

Spent most of my life thinking I was crazy and a special kind of broken. It turned out to be just garden variety ADHD. I was only diagnosed at 26.

– Woedens-bakery-person

25. Mom kills herself.

My only regret is how I dealt with the years of lead-up, 13 would’ve been early enough for me to have made a difference, maybe…

– Panzuzu

26. Stay in school.

– Julie-Andrews

27. Talk about drowning.

When I was 12, I almost died in a riptide on a trip with a friend’s family. The family I was with told my parents it was nothing (afraid of lawsuit perhaps). And told me that they had told them the whole story. Basically, the lifeguard saved me at the last minute, and the rip ides were so bad the beach was shut down for days afterward. But my parents never knew a lifeguard had to save me and were told I got scared and overreacted. The PTSD from almost dying (I had given up and was dying when the lifeguard reached me) led to depression and drug use as a teen. If my parents had known I truly gave up and thought I was dying and was ok with it, they would have gotten me therapy and my whole life would have been different.

– sassycatastrophe

28. Leave Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Those 3 words would have the biggest positive impact on my life. Even more than crypto or covid.

– from-the-dust

29. Evie needs help.

Maybe then I’ll still have my big sister.

– SpaceGeneralAmbassador

30. Go to therapy.

– cornygiraffe