What would the African you do?

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I wanted to distance it from the regular western context and place you in an almost undeniably hopeless and miserable scenario where most of the deck is stacked against you (the person you are today).

But if you have a problem with the OP then just choose another scenario

I wanted to answer, honestly, but the parameters were confusing. Hard to figure out if your hypothetical meant we kept our current knowledge (and western context), and magically awoke in an African child's body/reality....or if we were to "imagine" our childhood personalities as African children. It's hard to flip back and forth from adult to child, or between cultures, when our adult perceptions influence our answer.

So the scenario is really: If we believe we live an undeniably hopeless and miserable life, would we contemplate suicide?

Or giving up, which in certain parts of Africa means a slow suicide.

It's a tough question, minx, because children don't have the same experiences or knowledge as adults, and rarely contemplate suicide. Even African children slowly dehydrating toward death don't approach their problems the same way their parents or elders might. Our adult knowledge (the people we are today) isn't a very good context to understand or empathize with African children in hopeless and miserable scenarios.

Might as well ask us how our "inner pediatric cancer patient" would react, even in a western context.