If you could go back to 1983, what's the first thing you'd do?

[Sinat]

I'd buy a brand new Volvo 340 straight from the Volvo dealership

Not get married

Some of these are so sad 😢

I wasn’t born then but I try not to have any regrets as they’re what made me what I am today.

I would love to go back and tell people (women, black people, gay people) that there are many more equal rights.

Found somebody that actually cared enough to do something about it what my mother was doing instead of letting the inaction of the person I told (in public, more to the point, there was no way that nobody knew) embolden the vicious bitch.

I'd also tell that person that I wasn't allowed to take the entrance exam for the private school offering a 100% scholarship because she thought they'd listen to my 'whining ''Poor me, my Mum beats me, boo-hoo-hoo'' please help, I'm scared because she says she's going to scar me for life if I tell anybody' and ask them if they could try and find my father so he would have least had the opportunity to decide whether he wanted a relationship with me before he died - failing that, I'd have opted to go into care.

Give my Mum all the hugs.

Have a good old wee and poo in my nappy without having to get up and move

Buy gold. Probably a stack of Sovereigns.

I woulda dropped the O levels and just done good old CSEs 👌

Spend more time with my family, it ends too soon!

I went there in 1976 to stay with a penfriend in Rostock on the Baltic coast. Had a Communist German teacher! We flew to West Berlin with Laker Airways and crossed at Checkpoint Charlie. The border guards took all our magazines away and started to read them. Then got a train to Rostock.
Back to original question though, I would not have got married but I would have bought my own flat in London and travelled much more. Would also have had more self belief. I wasn't fat and I wasn't ugly!!!

Ask the love of my life to take me with him

Be born 😂

Hug my nana

Give my Granny a hug and have a long conversation with her.

Move to a better part of London and have the confidence to go for a much better job.

😁

Not be born.

I would tell S how much he means to us all. How loved he is, how we all would do anything to help him.
1983 would give us 3 years to prevent what was to happen.
I was a kid but 3 years later, life went down a black hole. Never would any of us recover. To this day, what happened is still an awful painful block of black shite.
To this day we still suffer as a family.
Suicide is just the pits.

Persuade my mum and dad to move back to Ireland.

Me too 😂
Then I'd dump the self-centred wanker I stayed with for a further 7 years.

Go to college and get decent qualifications

But and wear lots of tight and sexually revealing clothes. I thought I was too fat to wear clothes like that, I wasn't, I was slim and had a warped idea of what I actually looked like.

Oh, @Bodybags 😥😥 I'm very sorry.

Snog my boyfriend

Get out of the bed of whoever I was letting shag me at the time, get therapy for my self esteem issues, and take an entirely different path through life.

Stay there.