How do your childhood photos make you feel?

[u/xqpry]

[u/wolfstoneman]

i burned all of them, they are lost in time now.

[u/Godleastfavourite]

I have one of me smiling as a baby its a really nice and cute picture i should have died after just be remembered as that one cute child would be much better than whatever is going on now

[u/Veloxa_14]

I’m going to be honest I don’t think I have any

[u/Sarastuskavija]

It feels like it isn't me. The memories are so distant that it's like I'm looking at another human being. I'm only almost 30 but even stuff 5 years ago feels like it was in a past lifetime. I guess it makes me feel uneasy.

[u/Leatherdanger03]

Hollow inside. Feels like a different life. Like that's not me anymore. I used to cry. Now I just keep looking because it doesn't feel familiar anymore. Even if the other people in the photos are still around me. They feel different too.

[u/Full-Equipment-4922 → u/Leatherdanger03]

Legit it’s like I lived that dudes life and have his memories but that’s not me

[u/marquis_fm]

Sad

[u/IsawitinCroc]

I have barely any bc I chose to take a bunch of pictures as I grew up and kinda disassociated myself from when I was young bc I went through being pessimistic for the longest.

[u/ddv15]

Makes me happy and sad at the same time. I feel better remembering the best time of life and sad that childhood won't return in this lifetime

[u/depressedwithniceass]

Nostalgic, i want to go back to those simpler times. Then after i feel sad and guilty im glad younger me cant see me rn.

[u/Electronic-Ear-5509]

Want to protect this baby and this child…

[u/maxo458]

Sad, I used to be happy and have a normal life

[u/ShadowDDD1992]

I look quite dumb in my old pictures, I always felt different, got bullied and mocked, had troubles studying, always felt there was something wrong with me, and my face on my pics reflect that.

Im amazed that none of my pediatritians noticed something wrong in me. Many times Ive wondered if any Dr said I had some kind of disorder to my father and my father never told me, or my father didnt know how to process that information, making not a big deal of it.

I got diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder couple years ago, it all has sense.

[u/Expensive_Border5149]

I don't think he's me. I'm so distant from the person I used to be

[u/FightingFutility99]

It gives me existential dread. It reminds me of my mortality and that makes me uncomfortable

[u/Beneficial-Age-7819]

Disgust

[u/Benjilator]

Makes me happy to know I will never be in such a state again. I’ve never understood how people long for childhood, it’s traumatizing to think about how vulernable I was. How I just fell for every commercial trap, blindly went into all the conditioning and slowly turned into a mindless zombie like society expects you to.

I’ve never been at a point where I even just wanted to go back a week in time so all I feel when thinking about my childhood is terror.

Would be different if one could trust humanity I bet, but honestly now it feels like children are just tools, means to get something or somewhere and I don’t want to ever be something like that.

[u/useful_h20]

It’s very hard to believe I was that person, even though I remember being that person. I wish I could be that person again though.

[u/Greenavy1]

I feel indifferent from it. I can't "feel" from it. Because I don't remember it. It shocks me when my sister can recall so much of her life, she can recall a specific moment (or more) when she was around 3.

I can't remember anything. I want to feel, so much... from these photos. I can't imagine myself there, because I forgot.

Is it bad to concern the past so much? I honestly forgot who I was my whole life, even recent things.

[u/definitelynotlazy]

i once looked at them and felt anger, sadness, hatred, fondness, and nostalgia at the same time

[u/yeggha9]

Nothing really. They are kind of funny. In one, I am just eating ravenously. I have mashed potatoes on my nose. In another I am playing with a toy before my first day of school, completely unaware of the horrors of anguish that life would thrust upon me.

[u/itsnumbersz]

I've destroyed all them

[u/RedDesertAvenue]

I dont look at those.

[u/Myst_of_Man22]

I burned my yearbook and it was the best thing to do. Memories are meant to be forgotten