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Rich Marzullo
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| Posted: 19 May 2025 at 8:37pm | IP Logged | 1
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Interesting thought experiment, Craig.
1985 here. I was born with bladder exstrophy, a rare birth defect. My surgeon did a great job over the years and I have a great quality of life compared to others born with the same or similar condition. But being born even 5 years later may have really changed my childhood.
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Eric Smearman
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| Posted: 20 May 2025 at 1:14am | IP Logged | 2
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Born in '66 and wouldn't change it.
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Brian Rhodes
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| Posted: 20 May 2025 at 1:01pm | IP Logged | 3
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I've often considered that I was born 10 years too late, and if I could do it again - knowing what I know now - I would probaby choose 1959.
That puts me at 5 years old when the Beatles hit America. 10 years-old at Woodstock (not that I would have encountered either in person). Old enough to watch the Moon Landing. But still too young to have been drafted into Vietnam.
But being 15/16 in 1975? Old enough to see JAWS in the theater first run (which I supposed I could have at 5 or 6; it was PG-Rated after all (!), but the point is...I didn't. And wouldn't see it in the theater until many years later). To see KISS in their early tours - as a teenager? That'd been something.
And I would have become a serious comic collector that much sooner, I think.
But...hard to say. What other parameters change? My oldest brother was born in 1961. So then, all else remaining the same, I'm now the oldest. Or, after achieving this level of perfection on the first try, do my parents continue to have children? ;)
My parents divorced in 1975. So, I'd be in my mid-teens instead of 5/6 years old. Does that still happen, and if so, is it more devastating than it was? Or less so, if I know it's going to? And is it weird if it, for some reason, doesn't? And how does that change me? Do I still end up with the same interests?
And if you do it all without memory of prior existence, hey, maybe my choice was to go back (or forward) to be born in 1969, and this is where I really wanted to be.
Edited by Brian Rhodes on 20 May 2025 at 1:02pm
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 20 May 2025 at 2:10pm | IP Logged | 4
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When I turned fifty I started wondering about being born ten years later, in 1960. But it didn’t take long to realize what I would have to “pay” for that rejuvenation. Too young for the first five or six years of the “Marvel Age”. Too young to appreciate the original STAR TREK. Too high a price!
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Jonathan A. Dowdell
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| Posted: 20 May 2025 at 2:30pm | IP Logged | 5
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Born in 1966, one big reason I think about being born later -- maybe the early '90s?
I am dyslexic and spent most of my school years strugglingwith spelling and that caused a fear of people reading what I wrote. I would love to have grown up in the era of spell check. |
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Mark Haslett
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| Posted: 20 May 2025 at 2:56pm | IP Logged | 6
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That’s a powerful statement, Jonathan.
I have a weird wrinkle - I just wish I had an earlier birthday. Being born in
late October made me always the youngest in my classes and often a year
younger than my classmates. That’s a lot for a kid and I see it in my
children’s classes. Many things would have been easier and more rewarding
if I just got 10 more months jump on things!
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Steve Adelson
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| Posted: 22 May 2025 at 2:48am | IP Logged | 7
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I'm good. The only thing I've considered is that, had I been born 20 years later but the same interests in computers and comics, I would have been the coolest kid in school, rather than... not.
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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 22 May 2025 at 11:21am | IP Logged | 8
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I think there are pluses and minuses to changing birth
date.
earlier I would get to experience some things first hand,
later and I would have missed some things that really
formulated me - music and films especially.
Not sure I would like early goth and ambient, which runs
through my musical taste like words in a stick of rock.
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