I always read your old posts in an early LHotP Laura Ingalls voice.
Just an FYI.
Oh yeah? Check the records. I did some stuff. There was one time, I was on a hill covered with flowers and there was a beautiful girl with pigtails…
Sometimes. I’ve spent a third of my life here. Looking back on things that I said or cared about or whatever back then is kind of painful, but kind of funny.
Right now, I’m dealing with a somewhat-awkward situation with a kid who is the same age I was when I started. I’m treading very carefully because it’s such a weird, imbalanced relationship. I think she wants to be treated as a peer (I would have), but she’s not. She’s a kid. Our boundaries have to be different. I have to understand her level of emotional maturity and not expect it to be the same as mine (chick has a LOT of feelings…). So I’ve been going back and looking at how it was with me at that age in order to better understand how she might be thinking.
I do understand a bit better now why people still, to this day, sometimes make comments about how I’m just a kid or whatever, even though I’m a grown-ass adult now (well, sort of. I bet in another few years, I’ll look back and shake my head at how young and stupid I was. Really, I hope I do.)
Yes I did.
And I am embarassed by the fact that, due to my fast typing behavior, I never cared much about grammar.:smack:
Dopers have corrected my grammar and punctuation at least couple of times.
I too have spent a third of my life here. I was barely 22 when I joined, 33 now. I have checked old posts, but there isn’t a lot to check out and embarrass me because I was mostly a lurker back then. Two-thirds of my posts have been in the last couple of years.
Only when someone revives then and they pop up on my email. Generally when I see something pop up on my email I’ll click the link, if I have time, and go see what the thread is…and that sometimes brings up really old threads I (or my dad, since this was originally his account) participated in.
Yeah, it can be interesting when one pops up. I hardly remember a lot of them, and it can be a bit disconcerting to see some of my old positions. Some of them are definitely cringe-worthy.
-XT
HA!
I occasionally read my old OPs, and they are still pure gold.
I have several times before. I have this persistent idea that I was once much different than I am now. Nope, I have always been exactly the same base on what I have read in earlier thread going back over a decade. I get the same vibe from my saved Kindergarten drawings.
A really spooky thing has happened more than a few times. I have Googled the answer to a question and been referred back to a thread here. I look at the answer and think it is perfect for what I need and then realize I wrote it many years ago They say time travel isn’t possible. Not true, my past self sets me up quite well sometimes.
Thirteen years later and I’m still waiting for an answer to the first question I posted here.
It’s 42.
-XT
Every time I think of an old thread I want to revisit, it has fallen into the SDMB void so I rarely make the effort any longer.
No, I already knew that.
Wait, what was the question?
I am. Muffin is a nickname my parents gave me when I was a tot.
Speaking of your old threads being revived and your having to notice them, it’s been over a year, more than 750 posts, since I flipped the switch that “subscribes” me automatically to threads I respond to, so that the little flag shows up beside such threads. These days, if a thread shows up when I look at “New Posts” and doesn’t have the flag, I know it’s older than whenever it was I made that change. Therefore I have to check out what I must have said to be getting that thread on my list. Usually it’s trivial and borderline irrelevant, but every once in a while I said something memorable – at least to me. 
But I have developed a little hobby of looking back at older threads for fun stuff. I’ve even started some threads on such trivia. Perhaps you may have seen some of them.
When I’ve gone back and looked at some of my older posts, I sometimes don’t recognize them as my own. I’ve been here a lot longer than I thought! I have a similar feeling with my older blog posts, too. I’m starting to think that I have a second personality who only comes out when I write. Wait, is she writing this? How will I ever know?
Likewise! I always enjoy looking at some of the threads I started.
I’ve gone back and reviewed my top and bottom five most successful OPs, maybe that’s sort of related.
Yeah! That’s the sort of thing I was thinking of upthread!
(My 0-replies threads are a bit of a sore spot for me. 
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You mean “Dopers have corrected my grammar and punctuation at least a couple of times.”
Regards,
Shodan