Ah yes, missed opportunities. I could slam dunk a basketball at 17, but dropped out of school after 9th grade due to not being able to do ANYTHING. Life of a JW child is torture if you are not a huge fan of the JW's. I was 'homeschooled' which equaled havign a computer purchased with some fly by night Internet school (when the internet was just emerging 1990's) so my mom could go out all day to do door to door. Even though I never got baptized and never liked the organization, many of the dogma's came home and were ingrained in me, for instance, college was never an option, organized sports, obviously the list goes on, but these two probably affected my life the most.
The sitting for the pledge, not being allowed to celebrate holiday's at school, being generally forced to feel like an outcast everywhere... that didn't bother me as much as not being allowed to have a normal chance at competative income and life.