Ever wish you could transform yourself to a different age?

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i hate to break it to ya, but age is no guarantee of gravitas- i am several times your age yet everybody i meet assumes [presumes?] that i am a simpleton.

in my case it would do no good to magically go back to my youth even with all my present hard-won knowledge, because the same limiting circumstances would bedevil me and thwart my attempts at self-improvement. so with that in mind i might as well wish for a totally different life to live, starting from the beginning.

Indeed!

A core part of my depression was wishing I could go back and relive everything knowing what I do now, but I realized that knowing isn't the same as coping, so I don't know how far I could get or that I'd be any more successful at typical things than I am now. So I stopped worrying about it.

speaking of stopping worrying, i knew from an early age that i was just laying a big egg in the big nightclub stage of life. would that i could have know that it would take me decades [in the words of a famous movie title] to have "learned to stop worrying and love the bomb."

I would be happy to live the life of a 5-7 yo (now my avatar is my 6 yo self), and I wouldn't mind if I had the brain of one. Life was much simpler and happier then. Although at age 8-9 I had severe behavioral problems, I would be happy until I reach 11.

Probably. I think we just have to walk our "life-path", all the mistakes we've made, all what we've accomplished count to what we are now. If we have a purpose in our life, we have to go for it. Gauge by what you do to accomplish it.

Staying around age 18 would be nice

People who look down on you because they're older than you are going to do that even if they're only one day older. Just avoid these people in general.

I constantly wish I was a child. The pressures of interacting in an adult world are hard to cope with.

I wish me and my entire family could relive life from the age 14 onward but we would all know everything we know today. We'd have such a blast and a lot of ugly memories erased.

But being more true to the thread... I'd go back and relive 12 onward, dropping out of high school since it was such a waste of time and a miserable experience and taught me nothing I use today. I'd probably become an electronica musician, work on being normal, and get a head start in life. I'd find a way to do something amazing and really try to find a way to go far in my fields of interest while curtailing the aspects of my AS that have always kept me out of them (Fashion, Design, Architecture, Music.)

I wish I was 5 or even younger because people of these ages don't have to worry about a career or anything in the adult world yet. They might not have the knowledge of an adult but its fun to learn things for the first time! At that age you don't have to worry about money or the future. I wish every day in my life that I was young again. I HATE being 28. I hate having to worry about the future at every waking minute of my life and my family's life as well. Another great thing about being young is that your parents are younger as well with less of the age related health problems. My parents are getting older now. I have to worry about my dad retiring without any money and us from have way decent living style to desperately poor. Once again being young you don't have to get in that situation or wouldn't understand money problems in the first place. God do I wish I was young. I do want to not be autistic at that age because when I was 5 I was the most autistic of my life. That is the age I was diagnosed. I just want a normal childhood. Also I don't want all the bullying i had during my childhood.

It would be interesting to know which personality types would choose to live in their childhood, which in their early teenage years, which in their late teenage years, and which later.

In the other thread "Enneagram" I was measured as being type 4 with 5 wing.

"Rather than look for practical solutions to their difficulties, Fours are prone to fantasizing about a savior who will rescue them from their unhappiness." - Uh, not so much...

I think of it in a broader sense as waiting for someone or something to alleviate my problems with a magical twist, like placing me in the childhood again, for instance. Or, more realistically, someone could help me out by choosing me as her mate and finally accept me for who I am.