What would happen if I woke up back in my 9-year-old body back in 1994 and did all these things with the foreknowledge of the future?

r/AskReddit asked:

> You wake up. It’s 1994. What’s the first thing you do?

I answered:

​* Do a lot of yard work for a lot of families around my Village, for pay, when I'm back in my 9-year-old body, and then put my savings towards buying Apple shares, Amazon shares, Nvidia shares, etc.

* Make notes in my journal to buy Bitcoin in 2009 , Google in 2004, Facebook in 2008, etc. I'd beg my parents to help me buy these shares and also buy some for themselves.

* ​​Remember all of my future mistakes and to avoid them the second time around.

* Ace my academics and get on the gifted program at school.

* ​​Leave an anonymous tip to the FBI from a payphone about the upcoming Oklahoma City Bombing and the 9/11 attacks.

* Leave an anonymous tip to the Ukrainian Embassy in DC, also from a payphone, about the upcoming 2014 seizure of Crimea and the war with Russia that starts on 2-24-2022. And warn them not to give up their nukes.

* Due to knowing all the future Presidents, Vice Presidents and Popes, I'd tell my parents to place political bets wherever they could at the time and cash out when said future presidents and popes win their elections and share some of the winnings with me, which I'd then reinvest into shares of future top companies.

* Warn Dad about all future bad decisions he will otherwise make. Also beg and plead for a brother.

* Warn some friends who will die in accidents about the dates of their upcoming deaths and how they die, so they'll know what to do differently and not do the next time.

* Beg my frugal parents to take me to low-cost summer camps for kids - Salvation Army's camps charge only $10 in 2025, they may have charged less in 1994, and Kansas Bible Camp which is paid for only by a free-will donation; no hard-and-fast amount. Also to take me to Space Camp at the Cosmosphere here in Hutch. (Don't know how much that costs, but probably a good amount.) Make a crap-ton more friends there and anywhere.

* Go to free Norwegian college while it's still free for all foreigners. Avoid taking out student loans.

(I've made some addendums from my original answer from AskReddit.)

When people who care about me ask how I could have foreknowledge of all these things, what if I'd tell them that I was a 40 y.o. in 2025 who suddenly ended up back in my 9 y.o. body back in 1994? I'm sure they'd say I have an overactive imagination, but if I type and write sentences at an adult-level ability, do advanced math all of a sudden, and suddenly have a lot more academic knowledge, then what? Will they believe me? What will the reactions be like? They'll sign me up for MENSA, will they?

And how would the FBI and the Ukrainian Embassy react to a 9-year-old boy's voice leaving phone-in tips about horrific future events? They'll still keep call recordings even many years later, right?

Edit 1:

* Warn the CDC about the upcoming COVID-19 pandemic from Wuhan via an anonymous phone tip.

* Short GM, Yahoo, Lehman Brothers, and Blockbuster shares as soon as I'm able. Buy Netflix shares when they come available.

Edit 2:

* Warn Grandma on Dad's side about her upcoming breast cancer that will kill her at age 85 in 2023, and to stay away from refined sugars and anything known to create an internal bodily environment conducive to creating and spreading cancers. Encourage her to eat greens and drink health drinks instead.