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At any given time, the average person has about 12 secrets. They don't have to be extreme; many people keep their political and religious views to themselves, especially when they believe others will agree with them. Some also choose to hide their finances if, for example, they have a lot more or a lot less than it appears.

Point is, we possess a wide variety of personal classified information. So Reddit user Zippping got interested in the most colorful chapters. They recently made a post on the platform, inviting folks to reveal the strangest secrets someone has ever told them. And replies didn't disappoint!

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"They Had No Plans To Stop": 30 People Share The Wildest Secrets They Were Ever Told I was 14, a female friend told me that her uncle was molesting her but she was too afraid to speak and asked me to please not say anything. That same afternoon i went to the police station with a friend, anxious asf, and told the police everything. The next week police came to my highschool and took my girl friend. A few days later her mother called mine to thank me and a few months later the uncle was in jail, and still is to this day. I don't know how i had the balls to do that but i'm very proud.

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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm proud of you too. I'm sure the girl ended up grateful and knows she has you to thank for putting this abomination where it belongs, in jail for hopefully a long long time.

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According to Dr. Justin Lehmiller, a research fellow at The Kinsey Institute, the host of the Sex and Psychology Podcast, and the author of 'Tell Me What You Want', our secrets can be "about something positive and exciting, such as a surprise party you're throwing, a new job offer you received, or an engagement proposal you’re about to make."

"Positive secrets like this are the kinds of things we often feel the urge to confess," Lehmiller told Bored Panda. "We want to share the good news and find a way to channel our excitement."

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But "at the same time, most of us carry negative secrets—that is, we hold information that could potentially make us look bad to others if it got out. This is the kind of information we're often afraid to share because it makes us vulnerable; however, we sometimes still want to share it anyway. For example, someone who is having an affair might confess this to a close friend, perhaps because they want to talk through the complex and mixed feelings they have, or perhaps they just want to share their excitement about doing something taboo."

When people confess their negative secrets, it's usually a means of facilitating intimacy with another person. "Disclosing information you wouldn’t normally tell other people can be a powerful way to build closeness," Lehmiller highlighted.
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"They Had No Plans To Stop": 30 People Share The Wildest Secrets They Were Ever Told Friend of mine pulled the plug on his father. Was very illegal to assist anyone where he lives but his father asked him to do it.

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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Shouldn't be illegal, and a person should be allowed to die how they want to. As long as nobody else gets hurt.

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"They Had No Plans To Stop": 30 People Share The Wildest Secrets They Were Ever Told My HS girlfriend told me her stepdad had been showering and sleeping with her since she was 13. I started dating her when I was 17. She was extremely experienced and very sexually active, which a young guy would enjoy, but it was over sexual and I knew something was up. I asked her and she told me all about it. I tried to handle it, but could not. Her little sister had also just started to be molested. I told them they needed to tell their mother or I would. Well they did and guess what? I was basically kicked out of the relationship. I became the bad guy. I wish now that I could have helped her or dealt with it better. But I hadn't dealt with anything like that. We broke up and their family carried on. It wasn't incest, but it was wrong. She did marry and have children and it looks like a nice situation. Unfortunately her younger sister died of an overdose when she was in her 30's. I'm now in my 50's and this whole situation still bothers me.

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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was illegal and paedophilia, much more than just "wrong".

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Lehmiller said that we're drawn to hearing other people's secrets for a variety of reasons.

"One is that it can make us feel normal. Almost all of us are carrying around at least some information we don't want to share because we're afraid of being judged, such as having a 'deviant' sexual fantasy. When we hear that other people are having the same thoughts, this can help to reduce feelings of shame, embarrassment, and anxiety because we realize we aren't alone," the psychologist explained.
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"They Had No Plans To Stop": 30 People Share The Wildest Secrets They Were Ever Told When I was like 10, my father bragged to me about basically torturing another kid in his highschool. They called him names, locked him into lockers frequently, laughed at him crying in there.. and one time, drenched him in gas and pretended to light him on fire with their cigarettes. He thought it was funny that he cried and pleaded for them not to light him on fire.

He told me about these stories at dinner to "calm me down", after I cried and screamed like hell when he forced me to extinguish a candle with my fingers.

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#5

Not told to me directly— My evil ex-roommate was laughing about how stupid her boyfriend was because she manipulated him into paying for an abortion that wasn’t his. 

She thought it was absolutely *hilarious* that he never asked, and was *truly* concerned for her health and wellbeing. 

She was loudly bragging about it on the phone and I could hear her through my bedroom wall. She’s genuinely one of the worst people I’ve ever met. .

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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At least she's an ex roommate...and it's probably for the best she didn't have that child I can't imagine it would have a good life with someone like that :(

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But we also understand the burden that comes with it. "When someone volunteers a secret, we may also be reluctant to hear it because we then bear some responsibility for keeping the other person's information secret," Lehmiller said.

"For example, let's say your best friend tells you they cheated on their spouse—but you're friends with their spouse. Now you're in a pickle. You might feel the need to keep your friend's secret, but you might also feel the need to disclose it because someone else really needs to know it. And no matter what you do in this situation, someone will get hurt."

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#6

This girl told me she spanked her daughter until she threw up because she wet her pants when she was 18 months old and then she had no trouble going to the bathroom. This her advice when I said my daughter was just over 2 and not quite ready for potty training. I didn't take her advice.

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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OP should have reported that woman to Child Protective Services

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"They Had No Plans To Stop": 30 People Share The Wildest Secrets They Were Ever Told She was aware that one of her children were being abused by his 2 brothers and did nothing.

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#8

"They Had No Plans To Stop": 30 People Share The Wildest Secrets They Were Ever Told Guy told me he and his cousin had hooked up at every family get together since they were 9. He's almost 40 and married.

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Every now and then we hear someone say they lead completely honest lives and do not keep any secrets. According to Lehmller, there is a chance they might be telling the truth, but we will never know for sure.

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"Sometimes we lie to keep our secrets hidden. And, sometimes, the information we keep secret is the information we've lied about. As a social psychologist, I suspect it's the rare person who never keeps a secret. The ability to keep a secret has a certain power—as does the ability to selectively reveal a secret when it suits your purposes. Humans are reluctant to voluntarily give up power, and the ability to keep a secret (or choose when to reveal it) is one power that everyone has."
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"They Had No Plans To Stop": 30 People Share The Wildest Secrets They Were Ever Told Guy told me he’s sterile. His wife doesn’t know, nor do her 3 kids.

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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is it possible he's wrong? If he had a vasectomy, men who've had have them have gotten people pregnant. It's very rare but if he had one and it didn't take that'd explain the kids. If he was tested years ago and been told he was sterile his sperm could have increased and he isn't aware. Hopefully it's one of those and not that his wife has cheated.

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"They Had No Plans To Stop": 30 People Share The Wildest Secrets They Were Ever Told Dude straight up said out loud in class "idk what the big deal is about sleeping with a cousin, it's no different than a FWB"..... The silence after that was sooooooo loud.

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#11

A coworker told me that his son had been molesting his daughter. They were 10 and 8, or somewhere in that range. I gave him some phone numbers to get help.

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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's awful, both being minors makes it the hardest to navigate.

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"They Had No Plans To Stop": 30 People Share The Wildest Secrets They Were Ever Told He was sleeping with his male friends on their guy’s only camping trips. Wife didn’t know.

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#13

A classmate at her old school had a deadly peanut allergy so she put peanuts in her food to see what would happen….

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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's attempted murder. Classmate should be in prison for that

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They they gave their 5 year old step daughter spoiled milk because the little girl “is a b***h”.

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"They Had No Plans To Stop": 30 People Share The Wildest Secrets They Were Ever Told When i was a kid an aunty admitted to burning down her boyfriends sisters house with kerosene.

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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like to imagine that she just said that casually over dinner like it was nothing.

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"They Had No Plans To Stop": 30 People Share The Wildest Secrets They Were Ever Told Classmate in grad school was in a long-term relationship with her brother. They lived together and had no plans to stop.

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"They Had No Plans To Stop": 30 People Share The Wildest Secrets They Were Ever Told My grandmother was pregnant before marriage (the father was someone other than my grandfather). She put the baby in a home for the mentally ill. My dad had no idea he had an older brother until after both his brother and his parents died. It explained why we weren’t allowed to talk to certain family members. They knew and disagreed with my grandmother. They were the ones to spill the beans many years later.

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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How on earth would a BABY be considered suitable for a mental hospital??

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Thought I caught my gf cheating. Turns out she was selling her urine to some internet pervert. So I guess I did, but not what I expected.

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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would be willing to bet you a tenner the "internet pervert" used it for a d**g test.

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In college our biology lab was about five benches, with four to five people working at each one.

My bench had three girls on it, one of whom would tell the others stories about how she was dating her uncle.

The stories were all graphic, horrific, and weird. She did not have an inside voice, and the entire lab was fully aware.

Not sure if its a secret? But it should have been...

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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How does someone even come up with the thought: " hmm, i think i'm gonna date my niece".

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"They Had No Plans To Stop": 30 People Share The Wildest Secrets They Were Ever Told Girlfriends brother pretended to go to school for 3 years and made fake school reports.

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That she was now married to the man her ex-husband caught her cheating with - his father/her kids' grandfather.

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"They Had No Plans To Stop": 30 People Share The Wildest Secrets They Were Ever Told I had a friend come home to visit and during a lunch out he told me he had messed around on his wife. But he didn’t stop there, he went on to tell me that he had slept with over 100 women since they had gotten married. He then broke down and cried in a crowded restaurant and sobbed for like ten minutes. That was like 5 years ago and they’re still married.

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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wonder how many sexually transmitted infections that poor wife has had from that POS cheater?!?

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"They Had No Plans To Stop": 30 People Share The Wildest Secrets They Were Ever Told Less depressing one: A friend told me once that they use a hairdryer to dry their whole body off after a shower... not friendship ending but it made me realize that people truly have completely different perspectives.

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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This isn't weird, this is the healthy thing to do! My daughter has sensitive skin, so I have hee dry all her little nooks and crannies with a hair dryer. Especially her armpits. Poor baby gets horrible rashes if she doesn't make sure she is completely dry.

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Girl I used to go to school with would wait till her parents got drunk and nick cash from their wallets.

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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This doesn't seem that odd. When I was a young miscreant I would steal a little cash from my folks now and then. They weren't even drunk.

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"They Had No Plans To Stop": 30 People Share The Wildest Secrets They Were Ever Told During a class reunion a high-school classmate admitted that cityscapes turned him on. Apparently he had a skyscraper fetish.

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"They Had No Plans To Stop": 30 People Share The Wildest Secrets They Were Ever Told My friend told me he would regularly lurk around hospitals at late hours with his dating apps on and pick up nurses.

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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's an easy way to get a face full of pepper spray!

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"They Had No Plans To Stop": 30 People Share The Wildest Secrets They Were Ever Told One of my coworkers, 6 months pregnant at the time, smoking in the employee parking lot.

“Please don’t tell anyone!”.

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"They Had No Plans To Stop": 30 People Share The Wildest Secrets They Were Ever Told She and her husband, with whom she has two kids, are first cousins.

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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am in USA Tennesse. First cousins is not illegal, but still frowned upon. Illegal incest is limited to siblings, parent and child, and grandparents.

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"They Had No Plans To Stop": 30 People Share The Wildest Secrets They Were Ever Told I reunited with a friend I hadn't seen for a while and she told me she's poly now, she has a boyfriend, but her husband doesn't know.

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"They Had No Plans To Stop": 30 People Share The Wildest Secrets They Were Ever Told My nephew told me he ate a Skittle from out of a garbage can, yesterday. He didn't mention who's garbage it was, so...the size of the Eww is dependent on where the garbage came from.

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5 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My ex-best friend once ate a starburst from the street. No wrapper - nothing

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