What If You Aged Backwards?

You're born with a white beard, round glasses and the knees of an eighty-year-old. And every birthday, you blow out the candles and get one year younger. Your body loses a year. Your brain grows up like everyone else's, and keeps every single memory. At seven, you look seventy-three. At sixteen, strangers give you their seat on the bus. At forty, for one year, you finally look your age. And at seventy, you have the body of a ten-year-old, with forty-six years on the fire department. Then your old school catches fire, and a kid is trapped behind a gap only a child can fit through. Watch for the green REAL stamps: the immortal jellyfish that turns back into a baby, and the four genes that make grown-up cells young again. So, would you want to age backwards? Or is it way too weird? Tell us in the comments. Chapters: 0:00 Born eighty years old 0:47 How it works 1:20 The immortal jellyfish 1:43 Theo 1:57 Old at sixteen is kind of great 2:29 The hard part 2:50 The doctors 3:17 The fire department 3:46 Count the doors 4:25 At forty, you look forty 4:57 Going the other way 5:37 Sixty, and looking twenty 5:58 Too young to work 6:22 The school is on fire 7:19 Two juice boxes 7:29 Back where it all started