What would you say to your 15 year old self?

Don't be afraid to come out to mum 3 years from now. If you have the courage life might be different.

Do your coursework and take your GCSE's seriously.

Don't lose touch with your friends from high school - they get you more than anyone else you might meet in the next 2 decades.

Live in the moment and don't worry so much, life is going to be fine.

Nothing, as I know I wouldn't listen.

Your parents are idiots, and they don't want what's best for you. Do the subjects you want, do the activities you want, ignore their outdated status chasing.

Don't get into a mega serious relationship with anyone at 17, let along an abusive controlling idiot. I don't care how good looking he is.

Stop letting other people determine what you like, what you do, your ambitions. Stop letting your friends pick you and pay attention to the quieter less self centred people who you actually have more in common with.

Never cut your hair short. Do you really need to do it twice to learn it looks awful on you!

Don't waste all your money.

Travel more. Don't be scared.

Whilst your O-levels will be a walk in the park that you coast through, A levels are way harder. Do the work instead of partying.

Go to college to do something to do with horticulture/catering. You don't have to do something academic to please dad.

Tell people about the bullying at school - tell mum and dad, tell the teachers - make a fuss until something is done and the bullies are punished. They are in the wrong, not you. The adults around you should be supporting you through this.

Tell everyone how sad and worthless and invisible you feel.

It isn't right for someone of your age to be thinking about slitting their wrists or taking an overdose - you are depressed. If this is recognised now, and you get help, it could transform your life - you might not end up with a lifetime of depression that has blighted your life.

Take more risks with your career.
Don't get stuck as an underpaid public sector worker. Think about all those posh kids you met at University and how arrogant they were. You could have been like that too.
Look at them and their fulfilling, creative careers. And look at you scraping by.
Be more selfish.

Don't listen to your mum insisting you get married so young. Live with him instead for 6 months and realise he is an immature pretentious idiot without having to go through months and months of trying to make it work and then a divorce. Go to University while it is still free and save yourself years of hard part-time study while you work. Enjoy it and maybe think about a PhD -before you have too many life commitments. When the time is right you will meet the right guy and have lovely children, it doesn't have to be a choice between education/career or a family life. And tell the girls who are making your life a misery at school that you don't care- in 10 years they will be completely irrelevant, you will not be wearing NHS glasses anymore and your skin will be fine. Also your parents will keep rowing for another 15 years and get divorced- but you already know this is likely, just not the timescale. Tell them to hurry up and stop making each other and everyone else so unhappy. Finally matching turquoise socks and jumper is not a good look....

Stop plucking your bloody eyebrows-they aren't growing back.
You will have sex, but not for a while. Don't settle for the first one.
Work harder at school.(but if you don't, it won't ruin your life)
Find someone to take you to the mucky duck to see that band-you want to be able to tell your kids you saw the Sex Pistols.

Improve your attitude at school.
Don't throw yourself at boys.
Be nice to your sister.
Appreciate your mum.
Eat fewer mars bars.
Don't buy those god awful jeans

You are not fat. You are not ugly. Stop chasing after the most popular boys in school and beating yourself up because they don't fancy you. Find some nice quiet boys and talk to them. And don't start giving your body to men in an effort to make them like you. It doesn't work.

Nobody notices the hairs on your arms, feel free to wear short sleeves. You don't look ugly so it's fine to wear your hair back. Your tiny boobs mean you can wear fabulous clothes - so go for it!

I'd say get fit and work hard at hand to eye skills (very dyspraxic.)

I'd also say, don't copy the way your dad behaves just because you don't want to end up a doormat like your mum. No need to be so aggressive and chippy. Relax. Be nice.

And I'd also say - you are about to have the most amazing exciting life. You will have the career you want and meet the man and get the house and kids - you are a very lucky person, you get far more than most despite your rough start, so be gracious and thankful starting now. (I was a horrible bolshy, self-centred brat.)

Yep. Your Father does talk a lot of bollocks to you in the next 2 years trying to dissuade you from following your dreams. He will admit he was wrong, eventually.

But, do it because you truly believe in yourself, not because you have a point to prove, because you make it harder for yourself in the long run.

And go to the other University.

You'll be okay, and so will your friends.

Do not go into midwifery.

Get your teeth straightened now, not when you are in your 40s.
It's fine to be single.
You don't actually have to conform to what your parents want / expect.

Keep working hard. It will take you where you want to go.
Do not wear short skirts - your legs are too short and your knees are chubby. Other styles suit you much better.

Don't worry - everything will be great once you get to university. Just be patient.

Don't get involved with HIM. It will lead to 14 years of misery.

Take the courses YOU want to at college, not the ones other people want you to. You'll become disillusioned & it will make dropping out to get a job an easier decision to make.

Be more confident
Stick up for yourself
Stop hanging round with the mean popular girls, instead hang round with the quiter nicer girls.

Don't get attached to the first boy to ask you out, go to uni free and single, and there'll be blokes falling over themselves to go out with you if you actually believe it enough to see it.

And don't listen to the haters at school, you'll never have to see them again in 3 years.

I would say stop worrying about stuff so much and try not to be so self-conscious. Study harder and get to university. It was free back then as well! If I had done that I would have (probably) made friends with people I would have had more in common with, been financially better off, and in general had a much nicer life.

I'd say, hey my love, don't worry so much about your user interface: it's back-end functionality that counts. And also, popularity isn't everything, so be yourself, rather than the thing you think you need to be to get users to hit on you.

(And then I'd say: Don't invite Boris Johnson to your birthday party! fifteen is too old for a party clown.)