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

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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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

Final score:

235points

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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…

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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.

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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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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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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.

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145points

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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 much of an emotionally exhausted and fragile wreck of a person I am right now.

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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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#10

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.

crashmurph , Ruslan Zh Report

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128points

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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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114points

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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

chinchenping , Pixabay Report

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107points

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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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98points

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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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92points

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#15

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

KittyNinja135 , Dmitry Schemelev Report

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80points

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#16

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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#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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80points

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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

_blueberrypancake_ , Andrea Piacquadio Report

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69points

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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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69points

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#20

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

Bron_3 , MART PRODUCTION Report

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60points

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#21

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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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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#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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#35

I'm scared of girls

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What do you think ?

Weasel Wise 1 year ago (edited)

To all my fellow peoples suffering with mental health, I have found Headspace (it's an app as well as a website) to be incredibly helpful. I'm currently listening to the guided meditation courses on Happiness and Compassionate Communication; and found Calming the Inner Critic both insightful and tear jerking. I highly recommend at least trying it, there's a free two week trial period too. There is also a mini version on Netflix you can try as well (I recommend it even if you don't suffer from mental illness). If you like the mini version on Netflix, you'll really love the full version. Hope this helps some of you. Love to all my fellow broken-brains out there!

12points

CrazyCatLady 1 year ago

I like Finch. I tried Headspace but it wanted me to pay for everything. Finch is cute and doesn’t make you pay

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in.love.with.taylor.swift 1 year ago

lots of signs of mental illness

11points

Hei Hei 1 year ago

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StrangeOne 1 year ago

I used to be very naive and still am in some ways. I'm overly trusting when I warm up to people, but I am very wary of everyone. From past experiences going to 8 different schools within 4 cities, and being instantly taunted, teased, mocked, bullied for stupid reasons, and being told I'm ugly (lips too big, gapped teeth, gangly) by nearly everyone (still happens to this day) other than family (most), I'll be too willing to accept niceties in hopes of gaining friends, or give things, at the same time thinking they're just using me. It's a terrible mindfuck cycle that I'm all too comfortable with. Because it's in my mind and that's the most private place I have. More private than my own home.

7points

Powerful Katrinka 1 year ago

I'm a 64 year old, well-spoken, highly educated, upper middle-class white woman. 10 years ago I was a heroin addict who did some very dicey things to support my habit. People are absolutely astonished when I tell them.

6points

Becca Kuehn 1 year ago

I am happy that you are sober now.

3points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago (edited)

People think I am quite conservative in my country, and have no idea who I am or what I am really about as a person - only those close get to see part / most. I think that we all conceal parts of ourselves to be socially acceptable. As an ASD we call this "masking". But I don't like to think of it that way. I prefer to say "selective revealing". And I think that's ok, not everyone wants you to bring TMI to work.

1point

ThisIsMe 1 year ago

Hardly anyone knows that I'm in therapy and have been this time for a couple of years. My emotional instability and crazy though processes drove my marriage to the brink of divorce. But amongst family and friends I have always been "mature for my age" and "the unflappable one". Most of them have no idea who I've really been. Finally found the best therapist for me, took it slow, and am proud of the person that I'm becoming again.

Exotic Butters 1 year ago

Please don't put things that you don't want the world to know online.

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