That I’m in fact NOT dead and she should probably plan for that.

Being a few months from 40 when you were told by all your doctors you won’t make it past 18 has made things very complicated and difficult

That I actually WILL carry a calculator in my pocket all the time, and use it to talk to people across the world

There will be rockets that land themselves back on the ground after launching sattelites, but the people that make them are evil.

How much I get paid and how poor I still feel.

That we voluntarily face our lifelong fear of needles once a week so that we can be a girl. Yes we basically just shoot up pure cooties all the time, yes it’s extremely worth it.

Gestures broadly

Most of it, specifically the not being strictly “Christian” anymore and the being queer/nonbinary.

A laptop that I use every now and then today was already manufactured when I was 10 years old.

Me in 1998 watching ZDTV and playing quake and loving everything about computers and the internet.

Me in 2026 me straggling to even like computers and loathing the internet.

it’s worse than you imagined… yes, even worse.

That I didn’t grow up to be a train driver

Oh and gay and married

none actually , I’m as failure as exactly my parents told me

“It’s actually downhill from here lol”

Just being a rad dude, honestly. My past self would be so stoked

That I am actually able to sit in front of a desk for 8 hours straight