Is it normal i wish i could redo being a teenager?

My parents always told me that misery builds character, and they made sure that my high school years were indeed miserable. I left home at age 18 for college and rarely, if ever, talked to them again.

I would not want to go back and redo my past .
We are where we are for a reason .
Good or bad
So going back or wishing you can go back is just going to delay your future .

Love to re-live being a teenager then I wouldn't make the same mistake marrying the guy I did. Was swept off my feet at 17 and married when I was 19 years of age, probably the worst decision I ever made. Thought i was making the right decision at the time but in retrospect I should have married someone else.

I can relate to a point. I'm 25 and knowing what I know now, there are so many things I could've handled better and I could've made life so much easier on myself. However, the teenage years were hell for me and I'm glad to put them behind me. On a positive note, they did help shape me into the person I am today, and I'm thankful for that.

I do wish I had been more social in high school and wasn't too shy to ask some people I really thought a lot of to hang out. I had such low confidence I was sure they'd want nothing to do with me, but looking back, these people liked me and probably would've loved to hang out, but I couldn't see it at the time.

However, keep in mind that the media absolutely glorifies the teenage years and most teenagers' lives are not like that. I think we all expect the teen years to be like in the movies or on TV shows and are let down when it's actually a really awkward and insecure time.

Personally, the best times of my life have been after high school so far, and I believe it's only going to get better from here. I love being independent and having my own responsibilities, making my own decisions, and how much nicer and easier the adult world is than high school. My early 20's still sucked for me, but now it seems the more I find out about life and the world, the happier and more confident I become.

I wish I could redo age 11, 12 and 13. Those years fucked me up.

I feel this. I’m 19, almost 20, and I’ve spent almost 6 years of my life at home. I have abusive parents, and I’ve more or less been locked at home since I left junior high at the age of 13. It hurts, really hurts to have missed out on what are supposed to be the “best years of your life”. I missed out entirely on the high school experience. I’ve never had any friends, much less a friend group. I’ve skipped over all of the most important childhood milestones. Hell, I haven’t even had a birthday since I was 12.

It hurts to be this lonely all the time. And it hurts to see kids in high school hanging out with their friends, to see kids around my age graduating and talking about all the great memories they had, even to see things like what you’re talking about, on TV or in the movies, and know I’ll never be able to go back. I’ve been telling myself for years it would end sometime and I’d get to have a childhood. But now it’s too late.

At 19, everyone my age is heading off to college (or spending the next 5 years at home), so I passed the GED and applied to college last fall. I thought, even though I missed out on high school, that I was finally going to have the social opportunities, friends, and memories I’d longed for for so many years. But I was rejected. One after another. Rejection after rejection. They told me I wasn’t socially ready for school. So it looks like I’m stuck here at home, for god knows how long.

You don’t need to redo teens, all those hormones and body changes really suck, I would never want to go through that again. What you need to do is make the most of your life from this point on. At 21 you have the world at your feet. You have youth but you are an adult, the next 15 years or so are the prime of life. Don’t get bogged down to quick with heavy relationships or having kids. Enjoy your youth while you have it, all to quick you will wake up to being middle-aged. After that life can only be as good as you make it, but for now there should be no holding you back, the world is your oyster.

I wouldn't redo it, for the most part. I had friends & was happy to beat the crap out of anyone who fucked with them, chicks competed for me, I befriended a bullied dude who's one of my best buddies to this day. I got to flood the bathrooms, set off fart bombs and release rats into the hallways. My grades could've been slightly better but I did well enough to go to college.

But I had to tolerate seeing the one girl I'd have gone to the ends of the earth for walking around with a dorky dickcock she friend-zoned me for. That kept my ego in check. A little.

Just find a time traveller.

Thats how it is. If I were 15 again by the time I was the age I am now I would have been a millionaire. Took me until I was about 27 to pull my head out of my ass and start doing the right things and quit throwin myself a pity party about failures that were my fault

Same. And love That 70s Show. I had absolutely no friends as a teenager but I still don't regret things a ton, just a little bit sometimes. I have those things I wanted then now instead so it's better to focus on that than to dwell on the past.