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People Divulge The One Secret About Themselves No One Would Ever Expect

People Divulge The One Secret About Themselves No One Would Ever Expect

We are human, we contain multitudes. And in those multitudes are some surprising nuances about us as people.


We sort of develop public personalities that we assume around others, and hide bits of ourselves that we don't deem acceptable for public consumption. But just because we aren't public about those things doesn't mean they don't exist.

u/objectivelygrey asked:

What's one secret you have that nobody will expect from you?

Here were some of those answers.

Thanks, It Was The Drugs

I lost close to 50 pounds in the span of 3 months because I was doing so many drugs. My (super religious) family all complimented me on my "hard work" but they have no idea how I did it.

nectarine_booty

The Worst Kind Of Secret

I had a miscarriage and no one knew I was pregnant.

foullittletemptress

I had a miscarriage right after I got off birth control. I was waiting to surprise my husband. I miscarried the day before I was going to tell him. I couldn't bring myself to tell him, I knew it would devastate him. I'm so sorry you went through it alone.

carriebearieismyname

Reality And Fantasy

I'm actually dead poor but I live in a country clubhouse that isn't mine and just was lend to me to take care of it by family members. I drive a nice sports sedan and a luxury SUV that are not mine ......I have been involved in the community as a respectable member and they think I'm a successful businessman, I get along very well with everybody and go to reunions that I'm invited and stuff. I have hung out with beautiful rich women that I never thought I would.

I try to take care of my body and present myself nicely but I'm an impostor. I have gotten great things thanks to this fake persona, but actually, I don't genuinely feel happy about it.

Everyone thinks I'm well-grounded when In reality I'm severely depressed that I still can't find my way in life due to other circumstances that I won't talk about in this post.

VillaGave

Nobody can know our true selves if we don't let ourselves be known.

Keeping The Silence

The boss I have that everyone loves and thinks is amazing? I think she's a sh*tty boss and a sh*tty person. I don't say anything, cos it would make things weird, so I just kind of play along.

AlterEdward

It's Great For Anxiety

I'm the director of a preschool and over time have garnered respect from my community. No one knows I go home and smoke a ton every day after school.

mollakinz

I'm pretty sure somebody knows. You may not know, but they also smoke a ton every day after school.

FlowZenMaster

Forging My Identity

I've changed a lot about myself when I was a kid.

I used to be one of those "strange" kids. People in my class didn't like me. I was also big - tall and chubby.

I had my secret plan to become someone else. Day by day I used to observe other girls. I tried to remember their moves and words. I even learned their jokes and practiced everything at home. I used to draw pictures of "future me" - slim, with nice hair, having my own style. I designed my personality and planned all my social life the way I wanted it to be. I even wrote a letter to the "future me". One of the sentences was like "just tell me that you finally have friends".

Then I changed my school and everything just started. I acted like I planned to, I looked like I wanted to. I even stopped growing up at a young age so I got middle-height and slim. I met wonderful friends and introduced them to each other to create a strong group. I used to party a lot and I had a lot of crazy adventures. People really wanted to spend time with me. It seemed so unreal even after few years. Sometimes I had this fear that one day I wake up as the lonely awkward kid I used to be before.

Some of my friends used to tell me that I was just lucky being pretty and popular. Nobody knew how much effort I've put to create the person I became. Now I'm a bit older and I do my best to stay sociable (which is more difficult when all your friends are more into stabilizing and start their families).

spinach_tart

A Daddy's Girl

I am raising my daughter on my own, her mother didn't tell me she was pregnant and tried to put her up for adoption.

I am proud. Very proud. In my mind if I talk sh*t about my daughters mother if reflects poorly on me which in turn reflects poorly on our daughter. She didn't ask for any of this.

Sorry-for-long-post

But Reddit is a safer space to divulge these secrets.

This Mortal Coil

Im extremely afraid of death, and I'm sure most people are. But when I think about it on some nights I just feel this complete emptiness inside me like as if I have already died. Maybe once that day comes it'll be such a surprise to me that I won't expect it or I'll be old and at peace with my life.

anony5435

A New Nationality

I have a secret when it comes to talking to people or playing games online. I never actually told anyone the truth about where I'm from. I always wanted to be either Irish or English and I love those cultures but sadly I don't really enjoy the culture and tradition of my country (Poland) and I especially love English itself as a language so I've spent some time perfecting my accents and speaking with them on daily basis (online as it is where I spend most of my day anyways)

So everybody always assumes that I'm either English or Irish and I always say that I'm Irish living in Netherlands (so I can explain my Time zone being different from theirs) I always dreamed of moving there and I'm actually planning to once all the mess with Covid clears.

Obviously not England since Brexit but Ireland for sure. So here it is I don't admit to being Polish because I don't enjoy anything Polish. That includes, movies, music, language, traditions and all. I especially hate disco polo music to which everybody here listens all the freaking time...

B4R7H0L0M3W

Money Money Money

My grandfather was relatively wealthy (for our area) and left me a decent chunk of change. I haven't changed anything about my lifestyle besides wearing slightly nicer clothes than I used to, 99% of said money is collecting interest as we speak.

DesperatelyLust

Two identical goats stare into the camera while standing in a field.
Photo by Jørgen Håland

When discussing love and relationships, the motto is usually less is more.

But what if there is more of one partner?

Being involved with identical twins can be quite the experience.

Can you really tell them apart?

Is everything identical?

If you're attracted to one, aren't you automatically attracted to the other?

So many questions.

Now we need some answers.

Redditor nicknamesofdaveryder wanted to hear about love and the twin experience, so they asked:

"Redditors who married someone with an identical twin sibling, why are you glad you're not with the other twin instead?"

I've never met a lot of twins, let alone gotten involved with a pair.

I have questions.

Hopefully I get some answers.

Saved

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"My late husband's twin was a non-functioning alcoholic and my husband wasn’t. My husband says joining the navy was what saved him from going down that road."

iteachag5

Falling Asleep

"Story time! I am an identical twin (we still look so much alike!) and one night I spent the night at her house. She and I fell asleep in the same bed because we were up late talking, etc. Her husband slept on the couch. The next morning my twin went to take a shower and her husband laid down on the bed with me (thinking it was her of course). I jokingly said 'Hey sailor, looking for a little variety?' He shot off the bed and said 'If I was looking for variety, do you think I'd choose you??'"

tanyagal2

The Good Guy And The Other One

"I didn't marry him but I dated an identical twin. His twin's girlfriend and I used to joke around that she got the evil twin. He was just a selfish, messed-up person. One of the benefits of breaking up with my boyfriend was no longer having his twin in my life. Plus, his ex gf and I are still great friends! The good guy was just the lesser evil. She wanted to get as far away from that family as I did. The best thing to come out of those relationships was our friendship."

super-ro

Love Wins

"My dad's an identical twin. People have a hard time distinguishing them, but to my mom and me, they look like two completely different people because of the way they walk/talk/etc. Obviously, my mom only fell in love with this one person. When you love someone it's actually pretty easy to tell identical twins apart."

michaelsgavin

Issues

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"The other twin has the same personality as I do. We argue readily and are super competitive with each other. We butt heads on a lot of issues."

why_not_send_a_nude

Personality clashes aren't just a twin thing.

It's a human thing.

We can't help ourselves.

Different People

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"I work with a guy who married an identical triplet, one of the triplets also works with us. I asked him one day if it was weird working with someone who looked just like his wife. He got a little pissed and basically said they are all very different people and he doesn't see much of his wife in her."

LeafMeAlone_99

He's Evil

"We’re not married but known each other since we were 12 and have been together 3 and a half years. His twin is a massive di**head who tried to break us up multiple times, was madly in love with me in his own words, and after 2 years of pursuing me declared I was a terrible person and put him through hell. Because I didn’t break up with his TWIN BROTHER to date him."

xMollyP

Life Choices

"My husband and his twin brother look very different to me, although they are identical and get mistaken for one another all the time. They couldn’t be more different in terms of personality. They have different values and life goals, hobbies, one is introverted and the other is extroverted. If they were two people who didn’t look alike, I would automatically not be attracted to my brother-in-law simply because we are not remotely compatible personality-wise."

"Also they have very different styles. I do not find the way my husband’s twin dresses/grooms his hair attractive. It’s so wild to me when people can’t tell them apart because they couldn’t be more different in my eyes."

lanieeeeeeee

Opposites

"Well, my wife and I have been together for 30 years. She has a 'mirror' twin. Even now, if you don’t know them well or interact frequently you will not be able to tell them apart. They are complete opposites. I married the extrovert, she has never met a stranger, will try anything at least once, and can find a positive aspect in almost everything she encounters, they are also best friends, my wife drags her sister along all the time."

"Once she’s out she enjoys our activities. I love my SIL, all three of them, but so glad I married the one like me. The mirror part even goes for looks, when I see my wife’s reflection I see my SIL, it’s weird sometimes. Also, attitude and personality are everything, I have never been 'attracted' to her twin."

redbonecouchhound

The Look

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"I used to date an identical twin. Although I found his brother objectively handsome, I wasn't attracted to him at all. It was cool to directly experience how attraction goes far beyond just the looks."

Liatessa

I've never been intrigued by twins, and now I never will be.

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My Father was considered a genius.

At 16 he graduated high school as Valedictorian, joined the United States Navy as soon as he turned 17 then was promptly recruited by Admiral Hyman Rickover's team converting the Navy from diesel to nuclear power.

He served as a nuclear and electrical engineer on naval vessels after the conversion project ended, then as a reactor inspector for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission after retiring from the Navy.

He also needed a full time babysitter in order to survive. Things like paying bills, buying groceries, feeding himself all escaped him. He lacked any semblance of common sense.

Really smart people doing very unsmart things isn't uncommon.

And sometimes a person is labeled a genius who's really an idiot with good brand marketing.

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Corporations don't get big overnight.

A lot of tough decisions, big wins, and sometimes even bigger losses, go into their growth.

But sometimes companies make mistakes that the public simply cannot let slide, and it can be hard to imagine how the company could stay afloat after the backlash.

Redditor Astro_Shogun asked:

"What decision by a company received the most amount of backlash from the public?"

Dang It, Photobucket

"When Photobucket decided to take the whole internet hostage by asking for 400 dollars a year for what was previously a free image storage solution. The move broke years of forum posting and erased a significant portion of the web collective knowledge."

- denpo

"Yup. And now they're holding almost all of my son's childhood photos (some of which I managed to save in other places) hostage."

- KnockMeYourLobes

"Browse any forum thread from the early 2000s and practically all the images are gone because everyone used Photobucket back then. It will be the same way with Reddit whenever Imgur goes under."

- NothingOld7527

So Salesy

"JCPenny doing away with sales and trying to present itself as a more upscale store. Sales immediately plummeted, and they reversed course quickly."

- flyingcircusdog

Cheap Jewelry

"Gerald Ratner said the reason his jewelry company could sell stuff so cheap was because the products were crap. It destroyed the company overnight."

- simplemtbman

Front Wheel Drive

"Ford, in the '80s, tried to replace the aging Fox body Mustang with a front-wheel drive, Mazda-based car. This was pre-internet, but car people got UPSET and deluged Ford with a letter expressing their anger."

"Ford backtracked, kept the Fox body around, and released the vehicle that was going to be the new Mustang as the Probe. It lasted two generations, but the Mustang soldiers on."

- StillN0tATony

Online Only

"Microsoft got roasted when they announced Kinect and always-online were required for the Xbox One. Took all the momentum they had from the 360 era and put them miles behind Sony."

- Jerry_Williams89

Childhood: Destroyed

"Sonic having human teeth."

- LightDash

"I just immediately pictured teeth in a Sonic milkshake and had a horrified reaction before my brain caught up to you meaning the character."

- Rolizas

Questionable Upgrades

"Very recently, T-Mobile. A company that 10 years ago called itself the Uncarrier by making a series of pro-consumer changes to its plans and the previous CEO built almost a sort of cult of fans of the company. Then T-Mobile acquired Sprint and got a new CEO."

"A couple of weeks ago, T-Mobile internal documentation revealed it was going to automatically upgrade customers on old grandfathered plans up to new plans, which were more expensive. Customers would have to call in to opt out of the change. 'They weren’t raising customers’ rates, they were moving them to better plans.'"

"Well, major tech news got ahold of that, and then even some local news stations, and T-Mobile quietly 'clarified' a week later via internal communications that only one percent of their customers would be affected."

- artimaticus8

Coming Together in Hate

"Anyone remember the Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad when she solved police brutality?"

- vernon3

"Those moments are precious. There are a few things these days that bring everyone on the Internet together. That was one of those things. We all hated the Pepsi ad that solved police brutality."

"That ad had it all. Pandering, ignorance, arrogance, and talking down to their audience."

- notwoutmyprob

"And a Kardashian."

- Kitchen_action

With Every Purchase

"I couple of years back a local Detroit area car dealership decided the best way to celebrate MLK day was to give away free car alarms with every purchase."

"Nobody liked that."

- graveybrains

A Sale Gone Too Well

"Hoover UK offering two free flights to America if you spend £100 on their products. They anticipated that people would spend a lot more than the minimum required which would cover the approximately £600 value of the tickets."

"When the company was deluged with purchases around the £100 mark, they reneged on the offer, which prompted a very expensive lawsuit. The fallout was so bad that the UK division of the firm was sold to a rival company."

- Live-Dance-2641

New Drink, Who Dis?

"New Coke."

- PeggyWithPhatA**

"After the relations disaster, the public clamored for the decision to be reversed, and Coca-Cola released 'Coke Classic.'"

"Coke Classic soon had an even higher market share than Coke did before the public relations fiasco, and a new theory made the rounds: that Coca-Cola deliberately made these decisions, simply to gain publicity, and increase market share."

"The reaction from Coca-Cola’s executives was, 'We aren’t that smart, and we aren’t that stupid.'"

- Malthus1

A Tweet Turned Sexist

"Burger King stating that 'Women Belong in the Kitchen.' What they were TRYING to say was that they wanted more diversity. People didn't see it that way, and in the end, they had to issue an apology."

- zerbey

The Downfall of an Incredible Publication

"Here’s one there should be a public outcry about."

"Disney bought National Geographic and controls everything it does. This is the last year the iconic magazine will be available. I’m incensed."

- redheadMInerd2

(The writer of this article is equally incensed.)

Predicting the Future

"I feel like whatever YouTube is cooking up lately will be the next one."

- Just_Aioli_1233

"Tech companies sure know how to kill off highly popular and profitable apps, super quick. It’s interesting to watch it happen in real-time. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, all losing tons of followers and destroying their own stock."

- Eleanor_of_Accutane

It's easy to see how all of these mistakes resulted in huge backlash, sometimes at the total expense and downfall of the business.

But some of these mistakes were made by companies that are still huge today, and to a certain extent, that's kind of surprising.