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?”
More info: Reddit
#1
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!
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#2
I’m a janitor. But I’m worth over a million dollars because I own real estate.
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#3
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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#4
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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#5
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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#6
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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#7
How much of an emotionally exhausted and fragile wreck of a person I am right now.
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#8
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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#9
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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#10
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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#11
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.
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#12
I have so much unresolved trauma and I’m just trying to have a good time
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#13
My mental health is circling the drain, I’m horribly depressed, but I am trying *so hard* to get better.
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#14
I was an abusive boyfriend, I still can’t forgive myself for it
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#15
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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#16
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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#17
I’m empty inside and have been since 2019.
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#18
I have schizophrenia.
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#19
..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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#20
I was in a cult for a couple years.
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#21
I like both men and women It sounds trivial but my family is mormon and I wound be able to handle it if they find out
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