Now, because I miss being in my 20s and not feeling weak or easy to injure
Same. I would take it now, so I could go back to being 20, but this time I would not fuck up all my joints because I know I’m not actually invulnerable.
45 for sure.
It depends whether I can somehow go back to the body of a 20 year old but keep my current 40 year old brain. I’m not going to pretend the majority of my improvements in patience, empathy, humility, work ethic and dgaf-ness are me consciously maturing instead of improvements in brain chemistry.
I think it’s a little of column a, a little of column b
I’d imagine so long as your brain is fully matured (~25+) you’d get to keep all those benefits you’ve accrued
Take it at 30 so you’re physically 10 but mentally 30.
All your peers would be annoying little kids D:
I’d still consider the 30 year old crowd to be my peers. I am still technically 30, I just look 10. The only downside to this is like that time I saw a dwarf being accosted by an elderly woman when she saw him light up a cigarette from behind and incorrectly assumed it was a child.
Why would you want to look like a child?! Although it could be funny showing bouncers your id (assuming you’re able to update the pic)
So I take this pill, and I become physically younger. I don’t move back in time, I’m still legally a 36 year old, but I look and feel like I’m 16.
It depends on how this works. Is the pill a magic spell where there’s a poof and I’m in my previous body as it was 20 years ago, or is it just “damage and wear and tear are undone?” Because I’ve had a few surgeries I don’t want to redo in the last 20 years; I don’t want my wisdom teeth or appendix back. I’ve had a dental implant since then, does that reverse itself…is a bicuspid going to try to grow out of my skull through the titanium socket bone grafted into my face?
For practicality’s sake I think no earlier than 43, simply because…at that point your younger self is a fully developed adult; if someone cards you and says “You’re telling me you’re 43 years old?” You can say “Yeah I’ve had some work done.”
Much younger than 40 years old and you have to repeat portions of adolescence and/or childhood, which would be inconvenient at best.
Counterpoint: I didn’t discover I was trans until after the wrong puberty made being trans a lot harder. Going back to before that would let me right a pretty grand sense of wrongness.
The day I turn 40 probably
Like, if I go from 35 to 15 do I go back to school, clear student loan debts, etc?
Because redoing the lead up and college with the maturity to actually try would probably be good.
Key question here. I’d take it at 37 and go back to being 17 with the skills, knowledge, and experiences and most importantly income of my 37 year-old self. But, I’d pass myself off as 18. Unless, of course, it’s not a secret. In which case the strategy totally changes.
If it’s known and knowable that I took this drug, then I’d take it at 55 and de-age to 35. Then, when my kids are in their teens and tweens, I’ll have the energy for their B.S. Also, when I retire at 95 (b/c seriously, retirement wont be a thing for me), I’ll only be 75 and I’ll still be able to fight off some of the horde of lawyer-bots, advertisclones, and chain letters that are coming after my pension.
I was thinking 15 so I can do homework in high school and get As instead of Bs to play the whole “good college” game. Maybe actually try on SATs. Etc.
Assuming this is a tablet, I chop it in half and my wife and I both enjoy being in our twenties again.
Your left side gets 20 years younger while your right side stays the same. Or top and bottom half, depending on how you cut it.
Let’s say hypothetically this repairs organ damage.
I have 2 choices. I can save the pill for when I or a loved on is in serious danger of death or I can do a shit ton of LSD, like an absurd amount of LSD, enough to actually break me and then reset.
It’s a tough choice /s
My man
I’d probably go back and beg for puberty blockers
I’d take it right now.
I’m not married, not dating, and have no kids.
Getting 20 years back means I can correct a lot of mistakes and I’ll have way more energy and focus to be the me I want to be. My 20s were so stressful I started getting white hair.
It just de ages you, you’d still be married I guess lol
I think they’re not married and they’d like to find someone.
I added some words to clear it up. I often write how I talk, which is to say extremely informal. Around my area it all makes sense. It was meant to imply that I don’t have those things so I’m not abandoning anybody or leaving anybody. If you were able to magically de-age yourself it would be viewed as somewhat selfish.
Lots of people are treating this like you would go back in time and get a do over, rather than being de-aged.
I’m assuming that de-aging would roll back any age related aches and pains, but not affect my memory, other than possibly making it better. It would give me more energy, so I’d be overweight and young instead of overweight and old :D
I’d take it at around my late 30s to early 40s to get back to my late teens to early 20s. My body was fully developed, so I wouldn’t have to go through puberty or have too many teenage hormones, and I’d have enough energy to get in shape again.
If it de-aged me by putting me back into my body from the time, then it would be when I was 42. 22 was when I was in the best shape of my life, and before I picked up a few long lasting injuries. I found out in my early 30s that I’ve got a chronic illness too, and it hit me hard.
I’d get the doctors and dentist to work on the health issues that I didn’t know about when I was young, and stop them from becoming serious, and generally get healthier.
Most importantly, I’d take my kid out and do all the things that we haven’t been able to do together :)
Good point! I didn’t consider this. In this case I’d probably just start taking better care of my body now and wait to take it until the pain gets real bad or I find out I have cancer.
24 seems a decent time. Returning to the brain plasticity of a 4 year old with all of the memories and knowledge of a 24 year old would produce a horrific intellect and potential. Society would leap forward in any task you decide to advance. The indescribable isolation may well be the only issue, but piles of money heal many forms of hurt. See: Magic Johnson
That. . . sounds horrifying.
The words of one to be cowed by their malignantly depressed, cherubic god.
Exactly at 20 so I become a fresh zygote and die on the spot.
