This will not affect your original timeline.
And lets take take this hypothetical a step further:
Sceanrio 2:
Say, in the alt-timeline, present-you arrive in the year when past alt-you were 10 years old, your original parents/guardians/caretakers dies for some reason on this timeline, would you care enough about your alternate-self help them? Like take on the role of a parent/guardian in place of their now-dead parents? (Basically, its a roundabout way of asking: How much can you tolerate yourself?)
My answer:
I think I could probably remember enough of myself to understand my alt-self enough to become friends. But if their timeline got fucked up, and their parents die, I’m not sure I can actually deal with this kid who, is me, but not me, like… I would probably get so annoyed at this kid, but also, I’d think about myself when I was 10, when I was this kid, and then feel pity. Idk if I could ever abandon an alt-self, because I’ve already feel abandoned (not literally, but like as in terms of the emotional side of parental love that I never gotten), I wouldn’t wanna see someone who is practically me, also go though the same abandonment.
Idk… Time travel is so weird.
Scenario 1: For me it won’t be a matter of friendship or liking me. It would be a matter of duty. I would have a duty to save myself. Scenario 2: Oh…
Scenario 2: Oh, oopsie spacetime continuum failure, your parents got killed by terminators…
Can Adult John Connor save himself?
Edit: Also, is that profile pic Anya Forger? waku waku lol. Unfortunately my 10 year old self wasn’t that waku waku