Would you like to be kids again?

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Remember the Bit from Tron? "NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO"

Mostly what I remember is being bullied at school and a lot of loud yelling and constant toxic manipulation at home - and being helpless to do anything about it.

Ok...so apparently I interpreted this idea different than others. It seems that the consensus is that it most people wouldn't like to go back to the childhood that they actually had--and I would agree on that one.

But the way I read it, I was thinking that the question was whether you would willingly live the rest of your life as a child again with all the knowledge and experience you have now. In that case, I would say yes, because sacrificing a few adult freedoms would be worth the social acceptance that I could gain.

...what do you guys think of it that way?

I agree, that must have been the point of the OP; reliving your childhood exactly as you were then... what would be the point? By definition, it'd be an exact repetition of what it already was, and furthermore, you wouldn't even have any conscience of being reliving the whole thing again.

But the way you put it... I dunno. On one hand, I think I would thoroughly relish the additional knowledge and experience... at least at first.

But logically, soon enough you'd be in a rather awkward position, a kind of freakish, over-matured child who, quite probably, would immediately be put apart as some sort of genius child, with other genius children (who would nevertheless be nothing like you), treated differently...

So, on the whole, I think I'd say, no thanks. I may have done differently (and probably better) a lot of things in my childhood... but what's done is done.

If it means going through all the same isolation and teasing again, then HELL NO!

Once I read some Russian novel whose title has vanished from my memory. It was about a teenage boy who inherited a watch using which he could turn back time. He came back to times of his early childhood and was a small boy again who remembered everything though but not having access to his amazing watch as a child, he couldn't return so he was forced to wait there until he's given the watch when he's in his teens.

Obviously, at the age of 4 he behaved so mature that his kindergarten teachers not knowing the child was in fact a young man more than 10 years older than his body was then put it down to the fact he was a child prodigy.

But the truth was the boy was the most normal teenager in the world so the older he was getting the more his "genius" was leaving him For several years of his new life he seemed a genius indeed because he used his knowledge he got until he became a small kid again but when he reached his teens for the second time in his life he was only an ordinary youth like other boys.

Yep, I too read a novel about this fantasy; this one was about a father and his (about 10 years old, I think) son, somehow switching places. It obviously dealt with children's wish to act and be treated as adults, and adults fantasy to revert to their infancy; and of course, neither the father or the son enjoyed the situation anymore, a couple days after the change: the son-turned-father simply couldn't understand and perform on the responsibilities of his father, and the father-turned-son couldn't bear being treated as a child and forced to interact with his (from his point of view extremely childish, of course) school peers.

I mean, it wasn't a good novel, but it still convincingly portrayed the futility of the fantasy: one way or the other, you just can't live the role of a (normal) child but with the mind of an adult; it's practically a contradiction.

There’s also one more thing I really miss about my childhood and earlier youth. You see: when as a child or adolescent girl I managed to reach another milestone on the path leading towards adulthood – when I started to wear my first bras for example or when finally I got a permission at home for doing something on my own or when first high heel shoes and more adult style clothes started to fill my wardrobe – oh, back then it was really SOMETHING, getting an “adult privilege” of this or that sort or the perspective of getting it in the closest future filled me with cheerful excitation while now things like those mentioned above are normal with a capital n; as obvious and usual as cleaning my teeth every day.

I would. I'd be the ages of about 8-11 for a short while, but I'd go back to how I am now afterwards.

If I was sent back in time and had to live through my childhood again, I think it's extremely likely that I would just kill myself. I tried a few times as a kid, but I know better now how to do it, so I'd probably succeed.

If I was just made young again, I might be able to cope with it... but not my childhood. Please!

Technically yes because ironically when I was a teenager, even though my parents were overprotective when it came to going out and/or curfews, but at least they did not question my abilities. When i was in school, especially high school, I was in honors classes and my parents were extremely supportive and had a ton of confidence in me, sometimes too much. Now that I am an adult, they are not only overprotective, but do not have any confidence in me that I can take care of myself and this is why I got stuck in a group home. They say that taking care of yourself is harder than going to school. That is a lie. If anything taking care of myself is the easiest thing, especially cooking, my medical needs, and everything. I excel at taking care of my health, medical, and my own needs. Working is the hardest part because I have to deal with people and their needs. taking care of myself, I am only responsible for my self only, and not others. Even worse being in a group home I am less safe than being by myself because I live with very behavioral autistic men with mental retardation who have violent tendencies and have attacked me before. My disability only affects my "social-emotional", which means dealing with other people and their needs only. As a child and a teen, I did not have to worry about that, and because I was in honors classes, i did not have to be with "special" students, especially the Violent ones. I miss my teens so much.

yes

Yes, definitely. My childhood was much better than my adolescent years.

No way. Being a kid was hell for me, especially school. Plus not being able to have beer would suck.

I don't know. I miss the peace I experienced in elementary school, but I was most definitely not totally happy. I was just too weird. Going back wouldn't really change anything.

I would do so many things different if I was a kid again. I would just be my crazy, interesting, loud-mouthed, opinionated self.

No.

I don't want to be forced to listen to people I don't generally like, such as parents, teachers, I don't wanna be forced to recieve a useless education, I don't wanna be forced to grow up again, and learn everything on my own.. being outcasted by peers..

Screw it. I'm fine.