NaBloWriMo 4 (Advice to 15 year old self)

What advice would you give your fifteen-year-old self?

I'm not sure the fifteen year old me has gone very far, I've just got better at being her.  The following applied then and applies now.

1. Get your hair cut and keep it sorted.  It will make you feel good.  The yak look favours nobody.
2. You can make friends.  You are quite a nice person when you're not so paralysed with shyness that you come off as passive aggressive and snarky.
3. Stop being so damned defensive all the time.  
4. Apologising for being defensive is a hangable offense.
5. Yes, you are allowed to feel depressed.  It's a disease, girl.  Take the drugs.  They're not a sign of weakness.  They are there to help and they do.
6. Feel free to enjoy the things you really enjoy, regardless of the fact that admitting to them may make you feel even more of an outcast.  You could be wrong.  
7. Even if you are right about 6,  you're still enjoying yourself.  Roll those dice, obsess over RPGs, do in depth research into hagiography and racehorse pedigrees and the NASA moon programmes.
8. If clothes are not something that interest you, don't let anyone take you shopping.
9. Chocolate is not evil.
10. It is not the act of a wimpy idiot to be polite to people.  It is the basis of civilisation.

This list could probably be extended, but that will do for now.