An amazing post. And I was also in GATE (also MGM--"mentally gifted minor" and MCL "mentally capable learner") programs and think these programs were very odd, when looking back on them as an adult. And a specific CT forum/website has a very long thread about how these programs messed with us smart kids, and I have a feeling you have read that site's long thread. I am also a bit older than your average Reddit poster and used to watch that Buck Rodgers show when I was a child. Do you remember being your former self? Do you still look anything like her? (Just kidding about that last question). I have jumped timelines multiple times and am extremely Mandela effected. I also feel like I have been killed (actually murdered) a few times and every time I just immediately/seamlessly transfer to and adjacent timeline where nothing has happened to me--I do think a few, or more, of us do, in fact, have some quantum immortality--at least until our mission is complete. I also come from what others would consider important bloodlines, great uncle was a prime minister of a peculiar country that is now despised by the US and my grandfather was also top ranking UN delegate for that same country from the 1950s to the late 1970s and was an asset of US intelligence agencies at the same time. Also directly related to Adali Stevenson II via my grandmother as well. But I refused the gift of fame and fortune because I was not cool with the required club membership to play the game, I recognized their evil nature, and the master they serve, even as a young child. My entire life has been extremely weird.