I've been in as much constant contact with mine even when I was
   a child. Always looking backwards and forwards at the same time
   while I'm travelling through life. Probably because I got hooked
   on Doctor Who when I was 8 yrs old and fancied myself a
   Timelord.

   Now I know that I am a Timelord - I just had to change a few
   definitions around.

   I always wrote letters to my future self - still do ; and send
   messages back in time to my earlier/younger self so he gets
   them. Fixing my past as I go along. It doesn't change the events
   but my reactions to them.

   I'm always explaining "what's going on" to my younger self in
   some form.

   My 11 year old self is my best listener. I used to think of
   inner child metaphorically but one day I realized, well, the
   nature of spacetime being what it is, it's not ENTIRELY
   impossible for it to be real? So why not behave as if time works
   that way?

   It's all stuff that happens in my head; not something I ever
   talk about. But it's a topic I've been fascinated with forever
   it seems.

   When I was 14, I wrote a paper for the school newspaper about
   the unfairness of school and how kids were treated wrongly.

   At 18, 1990 - in college, new to the Internet, I started a
   mailing list "on the rights of kids/teens". Gathered together a
   few thousand people to discuss things SOMEHOW, from people
   younger than me (there weren't many - I don't know how they got
   connected back then) - but lots of college professors, UNICEF...
   other rights-groups including GLBT (I don't remember the
   acronym).

   and it was awesome. Ran it for 5 yrs then passed it on to a 14
   yr old girl named Alex in Alaska and a university prof in
   Australia to run jointly 'cause I'd moved on to other things; it
   vanished one day a few years later, alas.

   At college, I took child psych courses - becoming a middle
   school guidance counsellor was my goal, or teacher of both
   talented/gifted and so-called 'slow' students as well...
   'outside the bell curve' ppl. Never finished, didn't do it...
   but I got to learn all about Piaget, Vygotsky, and other names I
   forget.

   First noticed how the world lies to you when I was 8 and
   realized commercials were BS and you get lied to. By 5th grade,
   I knew teachers lied as well. I honestly never got over it. I
   noticed how mean girls operated - how they'd hurt boys and girls
   with words and how readily and carefree they did it.

   So... I never had a chance to romanticize childhood really. I
   never really left it. I grew up. Got jobs, mortgage, learned to
   navigate adult life, except for once when I was 17. I cried that
   childhood was over one day. I went to a playground, sat on a
   swing, and cried.

   I wrote a letter to my future self later that night. Envisioned
   my future self looking surprisingly like I do now. (although I
   expected to be University Professor at that point) and told him
   to remember what it feels like to be young. Don't ever forget
   it.

   And I didn't.

   I hope I find that letter one day. It's in one of my little 3x5
   notebooks I'm always writing in.

   Anyway... yeah this is a life-subject for me. Thank you for
   bringing it up.

   My short answer is: YES. Still a child at heart. I see everybody
   as children, whose bodies just aged around them. ---- and sorry
   for the length. I've been working steadily at fixing my past
   self while continuing my present course while also working on my
   future self simultaneously for some time, and heavily doing so
   since April '13... and this is a part of my lifestory I'm still
   fleshing out properly. I don't mind appearing nutty in writing
   anyore; as I realized that my need to express was more important
   than appearing a certain way. So thanks again for the
   opportunity to express. You're awesome in my book. Hopefully
   more people give answers than just me but I'm glad I had my
   chance to speak