what??

Nope. Like you, I find it impossible to answer. Nothing I could have said to my young self would have made any difference anyway. If, on the other hand, I could go back and actually change myself, give myself some confidence, amongst other things, that would be a very different matter and could have completely changed my future life for the better. Ah, if only!

I think I would tell myself not to be so trusting

Not to waste time trying to make other people happy but to concentrate on making myself happy first!

Be brave enough to go with my heart.

Make more effort at school and follow my dreams.

Same here, Annie. It took me until my late 50s to wake up although my own daughter had been trying to educate me for years.
Also, it's not up to you to fix everyone's problems.

Same here nina, I got there in the end on both counts
(not school but further education) but it could all have been much simpler ......!

For me it's a combination of what mollie and petra said.

It's not your responsibility to fix everyone's problems and or to make them happy, especially at the cost of your own happiness.

I wouldn't know where to start but I think I would 'let go' bad relationships much earlier rather than being too afraid to face life alone.

I would tell myself to learn to drive. It's held me back for years. On the other hand, I'm sure I wouldn't have made a good driver.

Oh yes, cornergran so very true, to me aged eight “she won’t bite, just tell her you like her and you would like to be friends”; perhaps sixty years of sadness and feeling I had wasted an entire life wondering “what if” might have been avoided, one way or the other.

Ditto with icanhandthemback !

Move out of London! ASAP!!

Say what you really feel even if it means upsetting someone else holding it all inside doesn't help anyone at the end of the day

I would have taken better care of myself. Not eaten all those chocolates, gone to more exercise classes and cleaned my teeth a lot more thoroughly.

To be more independent, and not believe people who told me that I couldn't do something.

Never trust a man with contraception! Always rely on yourself....!

Younger self ?what age ?.
Until I reached my mid thirties when asked to jump I would say how high? Then a move to a different part of the UK due to DH work, my past was behind me as a change of scenery, a new home meant I made new friends and I was able to obtain a better job. This made me realise I should have grown some long before that but I soon made up for it with no regrets..

Not to waste time of a man who drank.

Not to worry abut things I had no control over or that hadn't even happened.

That should be 'on' a man who drank!

Just get on with it! Don't hestitate for fear of not suceeding or making a fool of yoyrself.

Oops....yourself

That I am not responsible for everyone elses happiness.
And just because I grew up with bullying parents it doesnt mean I'm useless and I dohave a mind of my own.

You did well! .....but you could have toned it down a bit!