temporal thought

[bardiphouka]

If you had been born in the 50s would you be different? And why? Of course if you were born in the 50s what if you were born in the 80s?

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[pooklaroux.livejournal.com]

If I had been born in the 50's, I probably would have been given up for adoption, so I would have been raised in a different family. So I would probably be very different from the person I am now. Better or worse? Who can know that?

If I had been born in the 80's, I am not sure I would have been born at all, since abortion was legal and relatively easy to get. But let's say I had been born, I would have been contemporary to some of my cousins. Perhaps Mom would have had a different perspective on motherhood if her brother had been raising his kids at the same time. My aunt probably would have played a much more important role in my life, because she loves kids, and my mother would have sucked up every bit of free babysitting she could have gotten. Alternately, maybe they would have been more proactive for me regarding my mother's abuse, and perhaps they would have taken me in themselves under those circumstances. I know that all my uncles feel guilty about what they let happen to me at my mother's hands.

I really feel bad for the kids born in the 90's. I think they have had it a lot harder in the world overall than I did, so I am glad most of their parents are better and more child loving than mine. I thought I was overprotected by my grandmother - many of these kids have been really sheltered, because of all the scary new things in the public conscience, from pedophiles to child stealers, and as a result some have a heck of a time adjusting when they finally have to face the world on their own. I still ache for them, because I was basically pitched out of the house at 17 to fly or fail. So I know how hard life can be for someone who had been treated like a pet child.

[wyyknot.livejournal.com]

If I had been born in the 80s instead of the 50s I would be my children.

[kellingham.livejournal.com]

But I was born in the 80s...

[bardiphouka.livejournal.com]

well yes..but what if you had been born in the 50s?

[kellingham.livejournal.com]

I'd probably be a rather depressed housewife?

[waning-theurge.livejournal.com]

If I'd been born in the 50s, my wild guess is that I'd be dead or in prison.

If I'd been born in the 80s, I'd be 2 years younger.