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Childhood: Swag
Teens: Swag
20s: Swag
30s: I'm only 27
40s: Lol

Childhood was awesome

Teens were awesome, joined the military (U.S. Navy) and travelled the world multiple times over

20's were pretty great too but I kind of settled into my current permanent job at 23 after the military and everything kind of became the same from then on.

30's were just working and kind of settling down

40's are more of the same but my body feels the aches and pains a bit more. I'm 47 now. I go to bed a little earlier now and sleep a little longer. Don't recover as easily. I'm on year 25 of my job and time just has become a blur. I don't do much in my off time except try to relax as much as possible. i game, read, watch tv and just hang out at home.

Childhood: Awesome, but retroactively realized it was setting me up for failure.
Teens: Fun for a little while, then failure.
20s: Fun, but aimless with some depression.
30s: Awesome.

Childhood - pretty good overall. I was admittedly spoiled
Teens - I was clueless and fairly awkward and finally got a gf by happenstance at 19
20s - semi happily married and slowly getting worse
30s - very unhappy married, but I got my daughters
40s - best decade by far. I am happy and getting married again next weekend

Childhood - Unfortunate introduction to death early on, thusly rendering me emotionally inert and very shut within myself. Had no real friends except my cousin until about age 8 when I would meet my best friend who still remains that.
Teens - Very awkward, but had fun. High school wasnt too bad. Wasnt with anyone until about 21.
20s - graduated college, started seeing a woman around 24 who I would be with until early thirties. That sucked to lose.
30s - Besides the above mentioned, thirties have been ok. Ive been at my career for a decade, Im making money, and my current girlfriend is pretty great.

childhood: privileged but troublesome
teen: angst
20s: SLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT
30s: kill me

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Childhood - Fairly privileged
Teens - Exposed to how difficult things can be when you are ugly and below average intelligence
20s - In and out of tertiary education that ultimately led to nothing
30-35 (present) - Waste of time so far
40s - Obviously unknown but theres a good chance I wont actually live this long

Childhood: Poor. We had no money anything, often had to go without food or power. Parents were abusive. Had several critical injuries that almost ended my life. But I also had fun just being a kid, so it wasn't purely bad. But in my later childhood I began to understand what my life was and what was going on, which caused issues to begin sprouting.

Teens: Rough. Those sprouting issues blossomed. I was already shy and reserved anyway, but I developed full blown social anxiety and depression. I was bullied at school along with worsening home situation. I withdrew from any and all social situations that I could. Basically became a shut in.

20's: Bad. On top of having jobs that I hated, dad's abusive behavior went out of control. Everything felt hopeless, and I was afraid to do anything and mom wouldn't leave him. So I was afraid of what he'd do to her without me around. It culminated one night in him trying to murder me. We fought the gun away from him, but he ended up surprising me with a tackle and while I was winded he straddled me and started trying to beat me to death, and eventually strangling me. Cops took his side and kicked me and mom out, but we went and filed a complaint and whoever we spoke too was shocked that I was the one kicked out after the beating I took. Got a restraining order on him and they had to go back and remove him... But after a few days he came back and mom didn't want to cause problems again so things just went back to normal. Me and Jim basically hated each other from that point forward, but I was forced to swallow my feelings to keep him happy.

30's: Mixed bag, some life events occured that both improved my life and made things harder. Dad almost died of an aneurysm(twice), and he finally started treating me like a person. We've grown to understand each other and are on ok terms now, but still didn't get along very well outside of just basic interactions.

I had also opened up about my life and struggles here online, which was a both a blessing and a curse. I got an outpouring of concern and support that I'd never had before. But I grew reliant on that, and opened up more and over time people soured on me. So it really also destroyed my mental health at that point. I tried therapy and medication, but that didn't do much. I was in a few small friend groups from here as well, and something happened and turned everyone against me. So while it was my likely some of the better years of my actual life, I was at my lowest point mentally. I truly felt worthless and like I didn't deserve to be happy.

40's: I've only been 40 for a month, but I'm still struggling to recover from all of the above. Still trying to figure out my life, and realizing I'm about 2 decades behind everyone else. Though, things are finally ok both online and in life... So, hopefully things continue to go ok.