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I'll start it off.

Not joining The Royal Navy when I was younger.

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I'll start it off.

Not joining The Royal Navy when I was younger.

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you just wanted to have a sailor suit



and, unlike Dafydd, I stayed in the closet too long

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I regret not buying Bitcoin when it was a dollar a coin. 10,000 coins would have been $10,000. Today that would be worth about $650,000,000. But who's counting...?

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I'll start it off.

Not joining The Royal Navy when I was younger.

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you just wanted to have a sailor suit



and, unlike Dafydd, I stayed in the closet too long

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Funny you should say that,the reason I didn't join the navy is because my old chap said only queers join the navy (his words not mine) so I didn't join. That old cunt really fucked my life up.

I'm glad you finally got to your happy place

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Hard to say. For any regret, I try to discount what I could have known at the time. I have all the symptoms of being on the autism spectrum, but back in the late 1970s to early 1980s, our understanding of autism was so limited. My life would have been so much better had I known THEN what I was and what I could (and could not) do to adapt and function in normal society. Instead, I was 40 when I realized I may be autistic and learned how to adapt.

I also try not to regret things I had little to no control over. My dad and I never had a healthy relationship, but the vast majority of that was on him. By the time one could say I was also an “adult in the room,” I had nothing but hate for the man…something I couldn’t bring myself to openly admit until 3 years after he passed.

There are a couple of life choices I regret. At 18, I walked away from what had to have been the greatest opportunity I would ever have in life because I arrogantly thought I could do better elsewhere. As the years passed and my life went nowhere, I realized how foolish I was to be so dismissive of the opportunity. Yeah…with what I now know, odds are it would have ended badly, but I regret being so arrogant and proud.

When I pursued a career in law enforcement, I knew in my gut it would never happen. Don’t know how it is in the EU, but in the USA, you don’t get the job for being qualified…you get hired because you fit in with the “office culture” or you’re a diversity hire. Sometimes the candidate is qualified, sometimes they are not. I thought if I just worked hard enough it would happen for me…wasted almost 10 years just trying to get my foot in the door instead of putting that time, money and effort into something more attainable.

I had three big opportunities to screw up my - otherwise promising - education, and I grasped two of them with both hands. But I did eventually obtain a good degree in electrical engineering.

Cannabis was a big factor in my second screw up