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There are some things that you just can’t tell anybody. These facts, thoughts or opinions can be so controversial that maybe you think that people will judge you, they won’t agree with you or be scared of you once they learn them.

But sometimes it’s nice to release it to the world and the internet with the safety of anonymity that the platform often provides. Which is why people were open to discuss it when they were asked “What’s a secret that would change how the people around you look at you if they knew?”

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#1

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group What I’ve been through in the past, and what I continue to go through (because of my “broken brain” due to all that). I make a deliberate choice each day to choose love and connection, as cheesy as that sounds. I don’t want anyone to ever feel as alone and unwanted as I do. I’ve gotten a reputation as “the sweet innocent one” and I come off as a bit naïve, it really shocks people if they learn about my past. It’s like no, my kindness is a choice. I can’t change what happened but I can change what happens now, and what happens to others. Break the cycle, everyone!

BabaTheBlackSheep , Tom Parsons Report

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#2

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group I’m a janitor. But I’m worth over a million dollars because I own real estate.

Flashy-Weather3529 , Verne Ho Report

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30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group I have a very hard time liking/growing fond of people, even after knowing them for years. I could just drop all contact with them and not miss them at all. Was like this even as a child, all the way to now…

Infinite_Ebb_2856 , Helena Lopes Report

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#4

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group People think that I’m a good listener, and that just makes them say things to me that they really shouldn’t. I’m only listening because I don’t want to be rude, not because I care. Don’t tell me your family secrets, please.

A_Guy_From_The_ME , Brett Sayles Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel this one. People tell me all kinds of things, and because I'm 'listening' aka not being rude, they keep talking, divulging all kinds of personal nitty gritty details .. wow People like to talk!!

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#5

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group All of my friends and family are Jehovahs witnesses, they think I am but I plan to leave. 85% of them will shun me when I leave.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don't worry. They'll eventually show up on your doorstep one day....

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#6

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group Our house was the first one on our street to be built. My husband and I [made love] in every single house on our street while they were under construction. I imagine our neighbors would look at us differently if they know we’d f****d in their house before they even had a chance to.

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#7

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group I'm a Christian (thus isn't the secret. I hope.) and am disgusted by a lot of things that fellow Christians do in the name of Christ. My spouse and I have a hard time going to church. Trump supporting, covid deniers, anti masking.

Yet hosting a vaccine clinic in the early days of mass vaccination roll outs as a service to the community and I'm sure to show Christ's love.

HelpMySonIsARedditor , Pixabay Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank no one I don't get into such moral dilemmas. Atheism rocks, folks

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#8

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group How much of an emotionally exhausted and fragile wreck of a person I am right now.

julvin9mM , Andrea Piacquadio Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Again, not a skeleton in a closet, just a state of being that might require a doctor. Have we digressed again in our thinking of people with mental health struggles?

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30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group A few years ago, I went to the zoo during their Halloween celebration month where costumes were allowed. I dressed up as a zoo keeper. I told people that the penguins were animatronic. That when the giraffes get sick we feed them to the lions. I told a group of children that scientifically speaking, snakes and apples are cousins.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm thankful you didn't go to a hospital, dressed as a doctor.

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30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group My sense of smell is off the charts. I can usually tell if someone showers in the morning or at night by the way their hair smells. If someone ate a yogurt in an auditorium hours prior but threw out the container in the trash and I walk in on the other side of the room I can smell the yogurt. My memory is also sense-driven. I remember people by their voices or scent, not their faces, or if there is something different about them (odd gait, odd body proportions, etc). My touch memory is also weird. Did I lock the front door? I focus on my hand and go through what my hand has felt in the past 20 minutes and if the feeling of locking the door is there I’m good. I’m literally a freak and if people knew how much of their behavior/body-oddities/scent I actually have no choice but to remember, everyone would look at me like I’m a monster.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a weird sense of smell too but not the touch thing thankfully I also can't for the life of me picture any face of anybody in my head but I do remember what people/their houses/their stuff smell like.

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#11

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group My intrusive thoughts. Holy s**t sometimes i surprise myself on how gnarly i think in just a second.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel this one to my core. Add the fact that I am a chronic over thinker. It never fúcking ends. The best I can do is try to distract myself, which helps, but it always comes back like a toxic ex-lover.

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#12

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group I am married, I own my house (half-half with my wife) have 3 kids and I have a steady job. I have no clue how i got there, and i have no clue what I am supposed to do 90% of the time

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is most of us. Making it up as we go with no real clue why certain things worked and others didn't. Why was I the only one not arrested at that party? What was the real reason I was laid off?

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#13

I don't give a damn about anything or anyone at this point. Life feels like a game, and I'm just a spectator until this body fails. Any connections I form, I have no intention of nurturing. The human experience is so shallow compared to the universe at large that I can't shake the perspective that none of the tears, suffering, or smiles matter at all. They're a flourishing of energy that'll at some point be done flourishing.

I don't understand how people get so *invested* in life like any of this show is of any importance at all.

I enjoy a pretty sunset, or a laugh with ithers, but I'm not convinced any of it makes the game worth the candle.

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#14

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group I get more of a rush out of training my dog than any experience I've shared with humans. Dogs just feel more intense and genuine. when you look at them you know they are there, present, with you. There's only a handful of people I can say have ever even come close to that level of understanding and none of them managed to achieve it without words the way the dogs I've worked with can.

Avengerwolf626 , Yaroslav Shuraev Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think I've always preferred animals to humans 🤷🏼‍♀️

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30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group I have so much unresolved trauma and I'm just trying to have a good time

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

See if you can find a therapist that does brain spotting. It's kind of a game changer.

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30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group My mental health is circling the drain, I'm horribly depressed, but I am trying *so hard* to get better.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Take it from an MD and former psychiatrist: Get professional help, it's the surest way to effectively treat mental diseases. When your brain hurts you go see a brain doctor, you see🧠

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#17

I didn’t graduate high school. I was getting out of an abusive relationship my senior year, getting stalked, and was super depressed and ended up dropping out.
I got my GED at 20, and am now an engineering major at my university. But I’ve never told my friends or boyfriend that i didn’t graduate, and i even lie on job applications.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Getting your GED is the equivalent of graduating. You’ve completed high school education. Who cares if you didn’t “literally” graduate? I didn’t either. I was homeschooled and got my GED as well. No “graduation”. It’s sad that this person’s friends and significant other might treat them differently just because they didn’t “graduate”.

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#18

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group I cry almost every night but don‘t want to tell anybody since I‘d feel like a burden

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#19

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group I was an abusive boyfriend, I still can't forgive myself for it

Sam_Jack_ , Karolina Grabowska Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The only way to forgiveness is to make amends and even more importantly never be that person again

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30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group How incredibly terrified I am nearly all of the time. I'm not confident, I don't think I'm in control any more, I don't think I can do this. And still, here I go

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30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group I am under the constant and irrational assumption that everyone knows something that I don't. I fully understand that it is unwarranted and I'm being paranoid, but the mental blockade it has created means that it's really hard for me to trust people.

Think of it as constantly worrying that everyone has a snake in their pocket, and it's only until you know for sure they do/don't that you'll be fine.

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#22

The actual things ive been paid ludicrous amounts of money to do as a highclass escort in Dubai.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Probably the most randomly weird things ever. Like, prank calls, interpretive dance of the inner workings of an ear drum, or even reorganize a pogs collection …

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#23

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group I’m empty inside and have been since 2019.

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#24

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group I have schizophrenia.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm sorry. I hope they sought help and take their medication. With schizophrenia there's really no other choice than to take medication, even when you take the side effects into consideration

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#25

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group ..My parents had me chemically castrated as a pre-pubescent kid?


..not really a secret though, turns out pretty much everyone around me knew way before I did...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The person in question was probably intersex and the parents tried to suppress hormones of the other (not chosen by them) gender

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That I have serious gender identity issues and would transition in a heartbeat if I could, except I know that none of my family would ever accept me.

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#27

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group I was in a cult for a couple years.

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#28

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group I like both men and women

It sounds trivial but my family is morman and I wound be able to handle it if they find out

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you were really a Mormon, you could probably spell it correctly

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#29

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group I am an absolute horny mess right now…perimenopause is turning me into someone even I don’t recognize 😂

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm having the exact opposite problem. My mind says yes but my body says meh. And forget about having an o*gasm, ain't gonna happen. :(

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#30

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group Sometimes I crave attention from other people , like an attention hoe level

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#31

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group I can fart and sneeze at same time

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#32

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group I’m a convicted felon. Nothing violent, a white collar crime.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think of Moist von Lipwig in "Going Postal" by Terry Pratchett. He "only" does small scams, he is not violent, he does not kill anyone, but when you look further, these small scams can affect a lot of people and destroy lives, sometimes fatally

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#33

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group I’m gay

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unless you're in a country that doesn't permit it, it won't change most people's opinion. They'll accept you for who you are and applaud you for being honest - if they don't, they're the one with the problem.

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#34

30 Skeletons In People’s Closets That Could Drastically Change Others’ Feelings Towards Them, As Shared In This Online Group Sometimes, I shave my legs so they’re nice and smooth, and then I sit down, close my eyes, and rub my hands all over them, and I pretend that I’m actually touching a girl’s legs.

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I'm scared of girls

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