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

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235points

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Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago

I wish more people would choose love and kindness

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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 janitor. But I’m worth over a million dollars because I own real estate.

Flashy-Weather3529 , Verne Ho Report

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174points

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Pedantic Panda 1 year ago

Sounds like they've really cleaned up.

73points

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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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164points

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karen Young 1 year ago

Did I write this??

62points

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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.

A_Guy_From_The_ME , Brett Sayles Report

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156points

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Heather Resatz 1 year ago

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!!

44points

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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.

Allegedlystupid , 7C0 Report

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153points

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Mike Y 1 year ago

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

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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.

MediocreMerkin , Steffen Coonan Report

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151points

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Mike Y 1 year ago

I guess everybody needs a hobby....

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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.

HelpMySonIsARedditor , Pixabay Report

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145points

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Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago

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

70points

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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.

julvin9mM , Andrea Piacquadio Report

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137points

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Weasel Wise 1 year ago

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.

Binder_of_chains , Anthony Yin Report

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137points

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Mike Y 1 year ago

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

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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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Ruby 1 year ago

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.

26points

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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.

MaybeNot_MaybeYes , Ketut Subiyanto Report

Final score:

114points

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Lisa H 1 year ago

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.

43points

SCP 4666 1 year ago (edited)

Could be a symptom of OCD Like a song you can't get out of your head. Or annoying flies buzzing around your head. You're not alone with this

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jennifer brinkman 1 year ago

Can't shut your mind off. Feel you.

2points

KombatBunni 1 year ago

Hugs to you! I get the same thing and it can really ruin a good day

2points

Lu 1 year ago

Thoughts are objects you observe, and are aware of - they’re not always linear, so it can be overwhelming if you start examine each thing too closely. Distraction will only help for a while, the best way is to relax and then take the time to observe the mind, slowly with practice your mind will settle into a restful state without too much effort.

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Max M 1 year ago

I always had hatefull thinking scenarios about people who wronged me. Over time it developed into i that i could feel their blood on my hands. In an attempt to avoid me going to jail, my brain put up other scenarios where ii had to "hurt" those i love, before i could hurt those i hate. That battle exhausted me so much that i had to admit those thought to the fullest, to my loved one. I couldnt handle it anymore and said i need help now or i will do something bad.

3points

Tree P 1 year ago

I hope you get/got the help you need. At least you realise you have a problem. Sending you hugs and healing thoughts.

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Ruby 1 year ago

Even more fun when you have to load/unload the dishwasher daily. So many things could go so so wrong with one flick of the wrist.

3points

Mike Fitzpatrick 1 year ago

Pro tip - load the sharp knives LAST.

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Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago (edited)

No one: ... Brain: Hey, why don't we just jump from the 12th floor?

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David 1 year ago

My brain makes serious stuff into Robot Chicken style skits in my head. Sometimes I smile or laugh at totally inappropriate times because of it.

1point

NonFiltered GoldFish 8 months ago

I don’t remember writing on this post… oh well this is it I guess lol.

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Sir Panda 1 year ago

I'm 100% sure this is the vast majority of humanity.

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the_harbringer_of_doom 1 year ago

who has been spying on me?

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tamèreestchaude 1 year ago

This was a huge sign of my OCD that I ignored. For example, I was holding my (newborn) niece and had an urge to just drop her, and the only way I could get these under control was if I snapped my fingers twice.

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Dizavid 1 year ago

This is a big one for me. I HATE seeing someone who was just happy be brought down to sad, angry, any negative emotion really. So when I see friends or loved ones having a good time, my brain will sometimes just spit out horrid, "What if this happened and absolutely ruined everything for them in this moment?" Could be something as mild as an argument breaks out to "omg, what if one of them has a stroke RIGHT NOW. Then I begin, following that same example, over worrying about if any of us know enough of the signs of stroke, do we know what to do for them. Intrusive thoughts, for me, were the final convincing I needed that the brain and the personality are two entirely separate creatures.

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3 Trash Pandas in a Trenchcoat 1 year ago

Yup yup yup. Intrusive AND Impulsive thoughts for me lol

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DP Nerill 1 year ago

I often think I'm fairly intelligent, but then when I try thinking about things to a deep level, I realize I'm not as smart as I think I am. I wish I was as smart as I wish I was.

0points

Olive of the Meowls 1 year ago

Me too

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KellyO 1 year ago

Yep.

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Audra Sisler 1 year ago

Definitely not alone on this one. Speaking for a friend...yep all I meant 😳😳😆😆

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Claire Bear 1 year ago

What does gnarly mean?

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Amy Burke 1 year ago

Yup x

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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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Two_rolling_black_eyes 1 year ago

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.

Whiskey-Weather Report

Final score:

98points

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Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago

Again, sounds like depression

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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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Carole G. 1 year ago

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

31points

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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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9 animals and counting 1 year ago

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

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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.

insertcaffeine , Pixabay Report

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80points

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Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago

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🧠

65points

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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.

kikidoesntloveyou Report

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80points

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Well-Dressed Wolf 1 year ago

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”.

67points

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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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Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago

So many signs of depression on this thread

67points

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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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Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago

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

78points

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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

Final score:

60points

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Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago

Fake it til you make it

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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.