I’ve made stupid decisions – this is the advice I’d give my teenage self

If I tell you that you’ll grow up and be paid way too much money to dress up in long blonde hair, excessive make-up and tight, flowing dresses, I’m not sure if you’d believe me (Picture: Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Netflix)

Drag queen Alaska shares the advice she would give her teenage self as part of Daniel Harding’s book Letters to My Younger Queer Self: Inspiring, influential voices from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Dear Younger Self,

I have a serious problem with this assignment as I vehemently believe that travelling back in time and tampering with the past is a sure-fire way to throw off the current timeline.

If you read this information from your future self, it will surely alter the course of events within your own life and beyond. Reading this letter could cause massive devastation, nuclear disaster, or worse – The Golden Girls might never get made.

Perhaps there are some general, evergreen pieces of advice that might be useful to you and anyone reading this without throwing off the space-time continuum:

Learn to meditate. Even if you don’t do so regularly, knowing how to do it will give you something to do if you are ever buried alive. Stretching is good for you. If you watch Sex and the City, watch it in the knowledge that Carrie Bradshaw is an unsympathetic protagonist – not a role model.