One thing people get wrong about you. Write where it starts.
What do friends think wrong about you? Write it.
Everyone gets the same subject. What differs is the follow-up: one question for children, two for teens, three for adults. Only the children's wording is simplified.
Find the sentence you are least sure about. What you actually meant is usually hiding there.
Skip it and start at the second. The opening writes itself once the rest exists.
Delete every line anyone could have written. What is left is yours.
If it still flows without them, the flow was already there.
'Thing' hides the real word. Name it.
'Three years' always beats 'a long time'.