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Creeped Out Adults Share The Scariest Thing A Child Has Ever Said To Them

Creeped Out Adults Share The Scariest Thing A Child Has Ever Said To Them

Creeped Out Adults Share The Scariest Thing A Child Has Ever Said To Them

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Kids are scary. Sure, they can be cute and cuddly but I've always found much of that suspicious. Nobody smiles that often without a plot lurking behind the eyes. Somethings that children say may just be random and off the cuff -- sometimes we need to listen, because they're warning you and it can be downright spooky!

Redditor hlwoolly __wondered what sort of eerie things adults have heard from the mouths of babes. Turn your lights on, y'all!

OK NORMAN BATES... BACK UP!

"Mummy, I love you so much I want to cut off your head and carry it around with me so I can see you all the time and kiss you."

We explained photographs to him but he was still pretty keen on having my actual head.

I SMELL SMOKE. RUNNNN!!!!

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At a campfire this little girl threw some sticks in it and while hearing those crackling noises she turned around, looked into my eyes and then casually said: "I want to know what sounds you make when I throw you into that fire!" Yeah that was pretty creepy.

SO 'THE SIXTH SENSE' IS A DOCUMENTARY?

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"Who's that at the desk over there?" We were in an empty room, no one was at the desk. Was also at a funeral.

SHUT UP KID! SHUT UP!

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My now wife and I were staying at a relative's house close to the airport so that we could fly out early the next morning. In the morning we had breakfast with their ~5 year old son and we were telling him how we were getting on an airplane to go to Florida. The kid looked at my wife and me and said "Boom! Crash! Black smoke!". I still can't believe we got on that airplane.

RED FLAG! RED FLAG!!

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'Stick a knife in yah, bleed like the Devil, yah?' - Some random kid on the playground.

DON'T WATCH ME GO!

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My 4 year old son had a habit of announcing when he had to use the bathroom. He would say "I gotta go potty". One time he makes his business known and heads off toward the bathroom. He returns seconds later and says "There's already someone in the bathroom". Now I do know for a fact that it's just the two of us home so the hair stands up on my neck. I ask him, "what do you mean". He repeats, "There's already someone in the bathroom".

Now I'm thinking, is it someone "I see dead people" or someone in a hockey goalie mask.

So I grab the biggest knife from my knife block and tell him to stay here. I walk to the bathroom, take a wide angle to see in, nobody. Slowly and quietly walk toward the shower and pull back the curtain. Nothing.

By now my son has walked around the corner and I ask him "where did you see the person?" He points to an un-flushed toilet and says "See, someone's already here". His big brother didn't flush the toilet...

WELL WE ALL HAVE RECYCLED WITHIN THE FAMILY.

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When I was younger, my family was driving around an old part of town, and my 3 year old sister suddenly announced "this is where I used to live when I was grandmama's mom".

We looked at her and asked what she had said, and she repeated it.

Our grandmother didn't grow up there, so it wasn't a total crazy thing, but still creepy at the time.

GOOD TO BE ABLE TO NAVIGATE ANY TOWN.

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When my brother has a toddler he used to tell stories about "when he was a man." He knew specific details about a town he said he used to live in, and life events, but he didn't remember his name.

He eventually grew out of it and has no memories of it now.

WAY TO BE A DOWNER!

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I teach hebrew school. We were talking about Purim and Queen Esther, and how the story happened a long time ago. One of my students says, "They're all dead." She then proceeded to tell her classmates that everyone dies. They nodded. She then points to her two classmates, then herself, and then me, saying, "You're going to die, you're going to die, I'm going to die, you're going to die." I teach five-year-olds.

CLOSE YOUR EYES.

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She told me to lay on the floor, and I obliged. She then held a pillow over my face and whispered in my ear "go to sleep."

TIME FOR SOME HOLY WATER.

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The other night I heard my son through the monitor whispering "I need help. I need help daddy." I sprint upstairs to his room and he's sitting cross legged on his bed, with a sinister grin on his face. It should also be noted that his nightlight is a gummy bear light, so the whole room is bathed in red. when I get closer and told him to lie down and go to bed, he giggled and said "bye bye daddy."

I was genuinely shocked when I woke up the next morning still breathing.

GOOD LUCK AND GODSPEED.

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Dropped my son off at before-school care yesterday morning, and he said "Bye dad, I hope you live for another day."

He's six, I would have thought he'd be past the eerily-inappropriate stage by now.

IT'S ALL IN THE EYES.

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"There was a tall man in the doorway. He told me not to worry. He had no eyes."

THIS GO ROUND ISN'T WORKING.

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"I liked you better when we were in our last bodies."

MY PRECIOUS.

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Waking up at 3 am my 5yo niece standing on by my side she said "I was watching you sleep".

BOYS HAVE A PENIS, GIRLS... DON'T.

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My friend and I rented a room from a family when we were in college. The family was overworked and had no time for the children in the house. One day, the son walked up to us, pointed to my friend's chest and said "Big. Juicy". He was 4.

TIME FOR THERAPY.

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A year ago I took my kid to the park and she made friends with this random girl that was seemingly alone and about 6. She wanted to play in a sand pit so they started digging a hole. When it was time to go I walked over to get my daughter and the other little girl jumped into the hole and laid down then screamed out "hurry up and bury me just like my parents. They're both dead, I'm all alone and miss them." Then she started covering herself in sand.

BYE FELICIA. AND TAKE NANCY WITH YOU.

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I worked in an after school program and this little girl had this "doll" that was the most nasty creepy thing I had ever seen. I forget the dolls name but lets call it Nancy... so one day she told me "Nancy doesn't like you, she makes me think bad things about you" and I was like "LOL well tell Nancy I don't like her either"

That was my first mistake. I had a flat tire when I left work that day. A couple days later the girl asks me "Nancy wants to know if you learned your lesson" and I had no idea what she was talking about so I said "I don't take lessons from toys" and the girl said "Nancy wont like that"

nothing happens for a couple weeks and one day the girl is really tired and she says that Nancy kept her up all night talking and being mean and scary... I told the girl she needs to get rid of Nancy and the girl said "When I tell her you said that shes going to punish you again like the last time" which I then realize was the day my tire went flat.

so now I am convinced Nancy is a demon and I forbid the girl from bringing the doll to the program and talk to the parents. The parents say she's been saying really weird things about the doll and they've tried to get rid of it but the first time they tried she said she was going to drown herself and the second time they tried she held her breathe until she passed out so they let her keep it.

Im like dude this thing is a serious possession or ghost ... so I start being nice to Nancy... Im like coloring with Nancy. I made Nancy a separate snack at snack time. I already have a shitty existence I don't need the wrath of some doll after me.

So after this goes on for a while, me sucking up to Nancy as to not be murdered, the little girl tells me Nancy is moving... Im like GREAT BYE NANCY thinking the girl has outgrown her and is getting rid of her.

Nope the next day the girl comes in with a new doll ... that looks JUST LIKE ME and says "This is Nancys new house" when I say this doll looked like me I mean exactly like me. It was my skin color (Im Dominican so like a light brownish color) dark big curly hair same length as mine. Freckles under the eyes like I have. It was a little over stuffed and so am I, but like my heart dropped.

I know this seems dramatic but I switched schools after that and haven't heard from Nancy since.

FOCUS ON THE DINOSAURS.

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I used to babysit an 8 year old boy and one day as we were playing he stops, looks out the window and asks me "is this a dream? How do we know it's not a dream?" I ask him what he means, he looks at me and starts talking about his dinosaurs.

THERE'S A DATELINE NBC WAITING TO HAPPEN.

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I'm in a shopping store, minding my own business. A woman walks past me with a child over her shoulder. I am bad at gauging ages but maybe 3yo?

Anyway, it points at me and says:

"I want you to hold your mouth shut until you die"

People Reveal The Weirdest Thing About Themselves

Reddit user Isitjustmedownhere asked: 'Give an example; how weird are you really?'

Let's get one thing straight: no one is normal. We're all weird in our own ways, and that is actually normal.

Of course, that doesn't mean we don't all have that one strange trait or quirk that outweighs all the other weirdness we possess.

For me, it's the fact that I'm almost 30 years old, and I still have an imaginary friend. Her name is Sarah, she has red hair and green eyes, and I strongly believe that, since I lived in India when I created her and there were no actual people with red hair around, she was based on Daphne Blake from Scooby-Doo.

I also didn't know the name Sarah when I created her, so that came later. I know she's not really there, hence the term 'imaginary friend,' but she's kind of always been around. We all have conversations in our heads; mine are with Sarah. She keeps me on task and efficient.

My mom thinks I'm crazy that I still have an imaginary friend, and writing about her like this makes me think I may actually be crazy, but I don't mind. As I said, we're all weird, and we all have that one trait that outweighs all the other weirdness.

Redditors know this all too well and are eager to share their weird traits.

It all started when Redditor Isitjustmedownhere asked:

"Give an example; how weird are you really?"

Monsters Under My Bed

"My bed doesn't touch any wall."

"Edit: I guess i should clarify im not rich."

– Practical_Eye_3600

"Gosh the monsters can get you from any angle then."

– bikergirlr7

"At first I thought this was a flex on how big your bedroom is, but then I realized you're just a psycho 😁"

– zenOFiniquity8

Can You See Why?

"I bought one of those super-powerful fans to dry a basement carpet. Afterwards, I realized that it can point straight up and that it would be amazing to use on myself post-shower. Now I squeegee my body with my hands, step out of the shower and get blasted by a wide jet of room-temp air. I barely use my towel at all. Wife thinks I'm weird."

– KingBooRadley

Remember

"In 1990 when I was 8 years old and bored on a field trip, I saw a black Oldsmobile Cutlass driving down the street on a hot day to where you could see that mirage like distortion from the heat on the road. I took a “snapshot” by blinking my eyes and told myself “I wonder how long I can remember this image” ….well."

– AquamarineCheetah

"Even before smartphones, I always take "snapshots" by blinking my eyes hoping I'll remember every detail so I can draw it when I get home. Unfortunately, I may have taken so much snapshots that I can no longer remember every detail I want to draw."

"Makes me think my "memory is full.""

– Reasonable-Pirate902

Same, Same

"I have eaten the same lunch every day for the past 4 years and I'm not bored yet."

– OhhGoood

"How f**king big was this lunch when you started?"

– notmyrealnam3

Not Sure Who Was Weirder

"Had a line cook that worked for us for 6 months never said much. My sous chef once told him with no context, "Baw wit da baw daw bang daw bang diggy diggy." The guy smiled, left, and never came back."

– Frostygrunt

Imagination

"I pace around my house for hours listening to music imagining that I have done all the things I simply lack the brain capacity to do, or in some really bizarre scenarios, I can really get immersed in these imaginations sometimes I don't know if this is some form of schizophrenia or what."

– RandomSharinganUser

"I do the same exact thing, sometimes for hours. When I was young it would be a ridiculous amount of time and many years later it’s sort of trickled off into almost nothing (almost). It’s weird but I just thought it’s how my brain processes sh*t."

– Kolkeia

If Only

"Even as an adult I still think that if you are in a car that goes over a cliff; and right as you are about to hit the ground if you jump up you can avoid the damage and will land safely. I know I'm wrong. You shut up. I'm not crying."

– ShotCompetition2593

Pet Food

"As a kid I would snack on my dog's Milkbones."

– drummerskillit

"Haha, I have a clear memory of myself doing this as well. I was around 3 y/o. Needless to say no one was supervising me."

– Isitjustmedownhere

"When I was younger, one of my responsibilities was to feed the pet fish every day. Instead, I would hide under the futon in the spare bedroom and eat the fish food."

– -GateKeep-

My Favorite Subject

"I'm autistic and have always had a thing for insects. My neurotypical best friend and I used to hang out at this local bar to talk to girls, back in the late 90s. One time he claimed that my tendency to circle conversations back to insects was hurting my game. The next time we went to that bar (with a few other friends), he turned and said sternly "No talking about bugs. Or space, or statistics or other bullsh*t but mainly no bugs." I felt like he was losing his mind over nothing."

"It was summer, the bar had its windows open. Our group hit it off with a group of young ladies, We were all chatting and having a good time. I was talking to one of these girls, my buddy was behind her facing away from me talking to a few other people."

"A cloudless sulphur flies in and lands on little thing that holds coasters."

"Cue Jordan Peele sweating gif."

"The girl notices my tension, and asks if I am looking at the leaf. "Actually, that's a lepidoptera called..." I looked at the back of my friend's head, he wasn't looking, "I mean a butterfly..." I poked it and it spread its wings the girl says "oh that's a BUG?!" and I still remember my friend turning around slowly to look at me with chastisement. The ONE thing he told me not to do."

"I was 21, and was completely not aware that I already had a rep for being an oddball. It got worse from there."

– Phormicidae

*Teeth Chatter*

"I bite ice cream sometimes."

RedditbOiiiiiiiiii

"That's how I am with popsicles. My wife shudders every single time."

monobarreller

Never Speak Of This

"I put ice in my milk."

– GTFOakaFOD

"You should keep that kind of thing to yourself. Even when asked."

– We-R-Doomed

"There's some disturbing sh*t in this thread, but this one takes the cake."

– RatonaMuffin

More Than Super Hearing

"I can hear the television while it's on mute."

– Tira13e

"What does it say to you, child?"

– Mama_Skip

Yikes!

"I put mustard on my omelettes."

– Deleted User

"Oh."

– NotCrustOr-filling

Evened Up

"Whenever I say a word and feel like I used a half of my mouth more than the other half, I have to even it out by saying the word again using the other half of my mouth more. If I don't do it correctly, that can go on forever until I feel it's ok."

"I do it silently so I don't creep people out."

– LesPaltaX

"That sounds like a symptom of OCD (I have it myself). Some people with OCD feel like certain actions have to be balanced (like counting or making sure physical movements are even). You should find a therapist who specializes in OCD, because they can help you."

– MoonlightKayla

I totally have the same need for things to be balanced! Guess I'm weird and a little OCD!

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Experiencing death is a fascinating and frightening idea.

Who doesn't want to know what is waiting for us on the other side?

But so many of us want to know and then come back and live a little longer.

It would be so great to be sure there is something else.

But the whole dying part is not that great, so we'll have to rely on other people's accounts.

Redditor AlaskaStiletto wanted to hear from everyone who has returned to life, so they asked:

"Redditors who have 'died' and come back to life, what did you see?"

Sensations

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"My dad's heart stopped when he had a heart attack and he had to be brought back to life. He kept the paper copy of the heart monitor which shows he flatlined. He said he felt an overwhelming sensation of peace, like nothing he had felt before."

PeachesnPain

Recovery

"I had surgical complications in 2010 that caused a great deal of blood loss. As a result, I had extremely low blood pressure and could barely stay awake. I remember feeling like I was surrounded by loved ones who had passed. They were in a circle around me and I knew they were there to guide me onwards. I told them I was not ready to go because my kids needed me and I came back."

"My nurse later said she was afraid she’d find me dead every time she came into the room."

"It took months, and blood transfusions, but I recovered."

good_golly99

Take Me Back

"Overwhelming peace and happiness. A bright airy and floating feeling. I live a very stressful life. Imagine finding out the person you have had a crush on reveals they have the same feelings for you and then you win the lotto later that day - that was the feeling I had."

"I never feared death afterward and am relieved when I hear of people dying after suffering from an illness."

rayrayrayray

Free

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"I had a heart surgery with near-death experience, for me at least (well the possibility that those effects are caused by morphine is also there) I just saw black and nothing else but it was warm and I had such inner peace, its weird as I sometimes still think about it and wish this feeling of being so light and free again."

TooReDTooHigh

This is why I hate surgery.

You just never know.

Shocked

Giphy

"More of a near-death experience. I was electrocuted. I felt like I was in a deep hole looking straight up in the sky. My life flashed before me. Felt sad for my family, but I had a deep sense of peace."

Admirable_Buyer6528

The SOB

"Nursing in the ICU, we’ve had people try to die on us many times during the years, some successfully. One guy stood out to me. His heart stopped. We called a code, are working on him, and suddenly he comes to. We hadn’t vented him yet, so he was able to talk, and he started screaming, 'Don’t let them take me, don’t let them take me, they are coming,' he was scared and yelling."

"Then he yelled a little more, as we tried to calm him down, he screamed, 'No, No,' and gestured towards the end of the bed, and died again. We didn’t get him back. It was seriously creepy. We called his son to tell him the news, and the son said basically, 'Good, he was an SOB.'”

1-cupcake-at-a-time

Colors

"My sister died and said it was extremely peaceful. She said it was very loud like a train station and lots of talking and she was stuck in this area that was like a curtain with lots of beautiful colors (colors that you don’t see in real life according to her) a man told her 'He was sorry, but she had to go back as it wasn’t her time.'"

Hannah_LL7

"I had a really similar experience except I was in an endless garden with flowers that were colors I had never seen before. It was quiet and peaceful and a woman in a dress looked at me, shook her head, and just said 'Not yet.' As I was coming back, it was extremely loud, like everyone in the world was trying to talk all at once. It was all very disorienting but it changed my perspective on life!"

huntokarrr

The Fog

"I was in a gray fog with a girl who looked a lot like a young version of my grandmother (who was still alive) but dressed like a pioneer in the 1800s she didn't say anything but kept pulling me towards an opening in the wall. I kept refusing to go because I was so tired."

"I finally got tired of her nagging and went and that's when I came to. I had bled out during a c-section and my heart could not beat without blood. They had to deliver the baby and sew up the bleeders. refill me with blood before they could restart my heart so, like, at least 12 minutes gone."

Fluffy-Hotel-5184

Through the Walls

"My spouse was dead for a couple of minutes one miserable night. She maintains that she saw nothing, but only heard people talking about her like through a wall. The only thing she remembers for absolute certain was begging an ER nurse that she didn't want to die."

"She's quite alive and well today."

Hot-Refrigerator6583

Well let's all be happy to be alive.

It seems to be all we have.

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Trying to lose weight is a struggle understood by many people regardless of size.

The goal of reaching a healthy weight may seem unattainable, but with diet and exercise, it can pay off through persistence and discipline.

Seeing the pounds gradually drop off can also be a great motivator and incentivize people to stay the course.

Those who've achieved their respective weight goals shared their experiences when Redditor apprenti8455 asked:

"People who lost a lot of weight, what surprises you the most now?"

Redditors didn't see these coming.

Shiver Me Timbers

"I’m always cold now!"

– Telrom_1

"I had a coworker lose over 130 pounds five or six years ago. I’ve never seen him without a jacket on since."

– r7ndom

"140 lbs lost here starting just before COVID, I feel like that little old lady that's always cold, damn this top comment was on point lmao."

– mr_remy

Drawing Concern

"I lost 100 pounds over a year and a half but since I’m old(70’s) it seems few people comment on it because (I think) they think I’m wasting away from some terminal illness."

– dee-fondy

"Congrats on the weight loss! It’s honestly a real accomplishment 🙂"

"Working in oncology, I can never comment on someone’s weight loss unless I specifically know it was on purpose, regardless of their age. I think it kind of ruffles feathers at times, but like I don’t want to congratulate someone for having cancer or something. It’s a weird place to be in."

– LizardofDeath

Unleashing Insults

"I remember when I lost the first big chunk of weight (around 50 lbs) it was like it gave some people license to talk sh*t about the 'old' me. Old coworkers, friends, made a lot of not just negative, but harsh comments about what I used to look like. One person I met after the big loss saw a picture of me prior and said, 'Wow, we wouldn’t even be friends!'”

"It wasn’t extremely common, but I was a little alarmed by some of the attention. My weight has been up and down since then, but every time I gain a little it gets me a little down thinking about those things people said."

– alanamablamaspama

Not Everything Goes After Losing Weight

"The loose skin is a bit unexpected."

– KeltarCentauri

"I haven’t experienced it myself, but surgery to remove skin takes a long time to recover. Longer than bariatric surgery and usually isn’t covered by insurance unless you have both."

– KatMagic1977

"It definitely does take a long time to recover. My Dad dropped a little over 200 pounds a few years back and decided to go through with skin removal surgery to deal with the excess. His procedure was extensive, as in he had skin taken from just about every part of his body excluding his head, and he went through hell for weeks in recovery, and he was bedridden for a lot of it."

– Jaew96

These Redditors shared their pleasantly surprising experiences.

Shopping

"I can buy clothes in any store I want."

– WaySavvyD

"When I lost weight I was dying to go find cute, smaller clothes and I really struggled. As someone who had always been restricted to one or two stores that catered to plus-sized clothing, a full mall of shops with items in my size was daunting. Too many options and not enough knowledge of brands that were good vs cheap. I usually went home pretty frustrated."

– ganache98012

No More Symptoms

"Lost about 80 pounds in the past year and a half, biggest thing that I’ve noticed that I haven’t seen mentioned on here yet is my acid reflux and heartburn are basically gone. I used to be popping tums every couple hours and now they just sit in the medicine cabinet collecting dust."

– colleennicole93

Expanding Capabilities

"I'm all for not judging people by their appearance and I recognise that there are unhealthy, unachievable beauty standards, but one thing that is undeniable is that I can just do stuff now. Just stamina and flexibility alone are worth it, appearance is tertiary at best."

– Ramblonius

People Change Their Tune

"How much nicer people are to you."

"My feet weren't 'wide' they were 'fat.'"

– LiZZygsu

"Have to agree. Lost 220 lbs, people make eye contact and hold open doors and stuff"

"And on the foot thing, I also lost a full shoe size numerically and also wear regular width now 😅"

– awholedamngarden

It's gonna take some getting used to.

Bones Everywhere

"Having bones. Collarbones, wrist bones, knee bones, hip bones, ribs. I have so many bones sticking out everywhere and it’s weird as hell."

– Princess-Pancake-97

"I noticed the shadow of my ribs the other day and it threw me, there’s a whole skeleton in here."

– bekastrange

Knee Pillow

"Right?! And they’re so … pointy! Now I get why people sleep with pillows between their legs - the knee bones laying on top of each other (side sleeper here) is weird and jarring."

– snic2030

"I lost only 40 pounds within the last year or so. I’m struggling to relate to most of these comments as I feel like I just 'slimmed down' rather than dropped a ton. But wow, the pillow between the knees at night. YES! I can relate to this. I think a lot of my weight was in my thighs. I never needed to do this up until recently."

– Strongbad23

More Mobility

"I’ve lost 100 lbs since 2020. It’s a collection of little things that surprise me. For at least 10 years I couldn’t put on socks, or tie my shoes. I couldn’t bend over and pick something up. I couldn’t climb a ladder to fix something. Simple things like that I can do now that fascinate me."

"Edit: Some additional little things are sitting in a chair with arms, sitting in a booth in a restaurant, being able to shop in a normal store AND not needing to buy the biggest size there, being able to easily wipe my butt, and looking down and being able to see my penis."

– dma1965

People making significant changes, whether for mental or physical health, can surely find a newfound perspective on life.

But they can also discover different issues they never saw coming.

That being said, overcoming any challenge in life is laudable, especially if it leads to gaining confidence and ditching insecurities.