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

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

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Meet my dad who died a few years later
hang out with David Bowie
Buy a house

Enjoy my youth and my 24 inch waist and not fret about being "fat", I was tiny!

Climb to the top of the amazing HUGE slide that used to stand in the park when I was seven (1983) and scream at the Council not to pull it down!!

I would absorb the ovum that was to become my older sister so that I could be an only child when I got fertilised in 1988.

@BadForBusiness I saw Bowie at Murrayfield, backed by the Thomson Twins and somebody else. It absolutely poured with rain and we were standing on the pitch. It was magic. Highlight of my then young life.

Me too!

I wasn't born til 87 but I'd love a fag In the pub and to visit my nan, great grandad.

Tell someone my stepdad was abusing me, rather than believe him when he said he’d kill anyone I told. Bastard had a horrible death not long ago. Sorry, but he deserved it.

Ask my maths teacher to move me into the class that didn't start preparing for A level maths before we had sat O level maths. Study more for maths.

Hold out for a nicer boyfriend.

Read contemporary literature instead of the victorian authors I liked.

Be nicer to my lovely mum.

Kick myself up the arse to do some work for my A ievels, ignore my mother's husband who told me I wasn't applying to uni.

Persuade my parents to buy their council house so that my DB and got some sort of inheritance when they died 23 & 24 years later.

I wish I’d phoned my mother more often. And persuaded DH to take out critical illness cover. Tell my children they would have good careers, and fantastic kids!

Great thread.

Buy houses & shares that would now be worth a mint. Do better in my resits, not my original A levels as I would never have met my amazing university friends who have been my bedrock for 40 years.

Most I’m importantly I’d tell my friend to be careful in the sea as the current was so strong. I miss her & it’s been 40 years.

There are some very sad posts, but this one is heartbreaking.

I'm so sorry @Bodybags . Suicide leaves a particular scar on the ones left behind.

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As a six year old but knowing what I know now? I'd never spend my school days excusing my younger sister's poor behaviour and life choices. In fact I'd have nothing to do with her. I'd insist on different schools and different clubs, and no I would not be taking her out with my only friends because she didn't have hers round to play. I'd also make sure my room had a lock to keep my brother out. I'd work much harder at school, and move out as soon as possible. Then maybe I'd have a life now?
It all sucks the more I look back on it.

No need to apologise. If he deserved it, he deserved it.

Too many absolute bar-stewards live long and happy lives while good people are taken.

Any child abuser deserves to rot in hell for all eternity.

Train for social work or nurse

I'd go and have tea with my grandparents. God, writing that brings a tear my eye. I still miss them so much

Depends. If it's October 1983 then the first thing I'll do is be born!!

Buy a house in London that would now be worth millions.

Just choked on my dinner!

Hastily publish a short story called 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'😀

Find my DH as a baby and say hi.

I loved my 1983 year, aged 15/16. But I would so love to see my best friend from those days. Helen, are you are there? I miss you buddy.