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People Share The Most Bizarre Thing They've Seen In Someone Else's Home

People Share The Most Bizarre Thing They've Seen In Someone Else's Home
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Who knows what things you can find in another person's house?

The place we call home can easily be a base for the strange, the bizarre and the unexpected.


Reddit user Aura_Blaze_Official asked:

"Redditors who have a job where they go into other people's homes (plumbers, electricians, etc) what's the weirdest most disturbing thing you've seen while working in a customer's house?"

At least she has a hobby.

"Was a firefighter another time in my life."

"Had a middle of the night call to a mobile home for an elderly lady once."

"We walk in and it's dark but as my eyes start to adjust I think 'oh that's weird wallpaper'."

"I keep looking around 'huh, it's on the ceiling too'."

"Weird inconsistent patterns and rectangle shapes."

"Eyes adjust some more while we are talking to her. "

"Wtf? 'Are those puzzles?!'"

"'She had hundreds of puzzles that she had glued when completed and then glued them to every surface of her mobile home'."

"Walls, ceiling, living room, bedroom'."

"'Every square inch covered'."

"'Weird.'"

"'But you do you'."

"Especially in your own home."

"Certainly not as bad as most ITT."- WhilstTakingADump

Look at all these chickens.

"Used to deliver oxygen to people's homes."

"Saw plenty of weird things."

"Lots of hoarders, but this one took the cake."

"He didn't want to let us into his house, but I had to do a home safety assessment before I could set up the equipment."

"He was anxious about letting me in because his house was mess."

"He kept telling me about his messy house."

"Come to find out, it wasn't just messy."

"It was filled with 200 chickens."

"He was proud of his show chickens and wouldn't let them live in a barn or coop."

"The smell was unbearable."

"Other than that, he was a super nice guy."-Good_Looking_Karl

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What an awful sight.

"A few years back I worked as an electrician."

"I found a guy with a rifle laying next to him where he had tried to shoot himself, but he had 'missed' the vital parts."

"Blood was all over the bed but he was still breathing, he was in coma state of mind, heard later that he died that day."-dude_above_me_is_gay

No idea.

"Long ago I did estimates for fire and water damage repairs for a restoration company."

"This couple had a smallish fire in their bedroom."

"When I enter the home it's seemingly normal, smells like smoke (there was a fire, makes sense)."

"They take me to the bedroom and it was the mattress that had endured the majority of the fire, along with some of the wall above the head of the bed and smoke damage to the ceiling."

"Next to each side of the bed are 10 gallon buckets FILLED TO THE BRIM with cigarette butts, and hundreds of spilled over butts all over the floor."

"I was just in awe how they could live like this in their bedroom, especially since the rest of their home seemed tidy and normal."

"Also completely beyond me why they wouldn't clean it up after the fire if for no other reason than insurance adjusters being able to blame them (rightly) and possibly not pay out."

"'How did the fire start,' I asked. (required to ask)"

"'No idea,' the husband replied."- Living_Kumquat.

Gross.

"I was a paramedic in Oakland and once I was in a home where a child has been bitten by a rat in her crib."

"As we were standing there talking to the mother about her options a rat walked up to one of the firefighters and bit his boot."

"The firefighters stomp to the rat to death and the rat was taken to the health department for testing."

"That was a strange situation."-HenryRN

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Awkward.

"Fire Alarm Inspector."

"Working in a cheap long term hotel and knocked on a door where a larger man dressed in essentially a purple bikini opens the door half asleep."

"Enter to test the smoke detector and tried to keep my eyes off the bed but I knew I had seen something."

"Tried not to look but I did and there's a big old purple adult toy next to the tv remote."

"The detector then decides to not alarm in a timely fashion so I'm just staring at the wall hoping it will alarm so I get out of the room."- Karlen89

Probably the right move.

"Bunch of used pregnancy tests on the floor of the teenage daughter's closet."

"I didn't say a damn word to anybody."-stupidlyugly.

Anxiety sucks.

"Just read a post in another subreddit about a girl with social anxiety who hid under her bed when the plumbers came and then the plumbers caught her under there."

"And then she ran and hid in the bathroom until they left."

"Wonder if those plumbers are on reddit."

"I most definitely want to hear their side."- killthecacti

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Good call.

"I use to do flooring and when we had to get up the sub flooring due to water damage."

"Underneath it there was a black garbage bag."

"When I opened said bag it had a bunch of women's clothes in it."

"Didn't think anything about it until we dumped it out and found ripped underwear and torn dresses."

"Told the owner we had forgot some stuff at work and wouldn't be back until tomorrow."

"Called the police and never went back."

"The house was soon up for sale a month or so later."- Rzr117.

That's kinda wholesome.

"Food bank delivery to home bound elders."

"I always fill two banana boxes (around foot and a half by 3 and a foot deep) of all types of food and deliver to his house."

"One time after delivering to him for 3 years I have to come inside because he hurt his foot."

"He had never thrown out a single box."

"They lined every wall and entrance."

"He built a castle around his bed, and a series of paths through his house. It was like those pillow forts you would make as a kid but with boxes."

"I asked him if he wanted help getting rid of them and he said no."

"That it was fun and helped with his dementia. He's super fun."- DirtyMartiniMan.

Who left the window open?

"I used to work for a exterminating company I went to exterminatw a house it was scheduled with the owner."

" I knocked no one answered ."

"I heard a woman screaming for help, so the door was unlocked I opened it went in followed the screams coming from the bathroom."

"I asked if she was ok, she said the door knob had come off and she was stuck so I got the door open."

"Sure enough she was stuck half way out the window, head first a** sticking out naked so helped her out she was so embarassed I'm just glad I could help."- dennyntx.

We've got a surprise for you!

"I am a plumber and I got a call to do an ice maker line in a small condo in my area."

"I arrived and met the couple and performed the work."

"After I wrapped up and collected payment, I was having casual convo with the couple and the guy says 'you haven't met someone yet'.

" And I said who?"

"He then moves a curtain that was in the doorway of a closet and the craziest f*cking bird."

"May have been a cockatiel started attacking me and chased me out of the door."

"The couple just laughed maniacally and I just got in my truck and left."

"No "'have a nice day' no nothing."

"F*cking weird dude."

"I have a ton of them lol."- PipelineKingJon.

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A memento of a special occasion.

"I am a housing officer."

"I visited a house last year where a lady who seemed completely normal, very nice, very together, was keeping the 'dropped off piece' of umbilical cord from her 9 month old baby, i.e. it dropped off 8 months ago or so on her bed side table!!"- Blackbird04.

It left a lasting impression.

"My father works as a plumber for 15 years."

"I live in a small town, where everybody knows every about each other."

"Once, a woman, who lived in my town for a long time called my dad to repair something."

"As I had holidays, my dad decided to take me with him."

"While he was working, I decided to look through the house."

"One of the rooms was full of Barbie dolls, but their heads and bodies were separated."

"It has been 10 years, I’m 23 now, and my family still live in that town."

"I’m married with that woman’s son."

"He doesn’t know what THAT meant."- thehornoftheunicorn.

One way to deal with the problem.

"Plumber."

"Back when I was in the install department my coworker and I were in the middle of a repipe."

"We have to Swiss cheese the home to get to all the pipes."

"The wife could not handle what was happening in the home seeing all the holes."

"Everyday we were there wanting to know why we had to cut so many holes yelling at her husband."

"Every single day the husband was dressed in a suit for work and would apologize for his wife."

"We showed up one morning and the husband opened the door in a robe, not closed, and a pair of boxers."

"And was Drunk as a skunk."

"Said he sent his wife to the beach house until the job was done with and the house was ours to do as we pleased."

"Job went smoothly after that."- MrJon0053.

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One and Done.

"I am a plumber of 20 years."

"I could go with serval stories."

"For example cat piss ladies home where the entire first floor was the cat litter box and the entire first floor smelled like cat pee."

"The basement, which was a relief, smelled like weed and cigarettes, from the son living in the basement."

"The owner had a leak under the kitchen sink so I had to lay down on the pee covered, dryed, floor to get under the sink."

"Long story short, I caused a minor flood which I contained."

"Owner however demanded a manager come to the home to look at the damaged I caused."

"When he showed up she took him to the spot I damaged, he looked at her and said 'you'rw complaining because he cleaned your floor?'"

"'House was put on the do not serve list after that.'"

"'Never went back.'"

"This was about 15 years ago.'"- MrJon0053.

"You're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

"Started as a furniture and appliance delivery driver and nothing too serious."

"Took an old guy a tv and he had pornhub open on his old one and a bunch of anal dvds laying around."

"Only other one worth saying is we took a really cute chick a bunkbed and after we got done building it, I told her i was going to grab my clipboard for a signature."

"I come back in the room and she's on all fours on the top bunk spreading the sheets in daisy dukes where I could, lets just say, see more than i should have."

"As I walked into the room her, a** was about 2 feet from me and i nearly choked on my own words."- VeilOFMayaa.

Hanging on to those we love.

"My mom was a parole officer in the 80's and they had to do house evaluations to be sure the guys could be sent to live with their family and/or relatives."

"Lot of gross and disturbing stuff."

"My favorite: went to visit a guy's mom to see if he could go live with her when he got paroled."

"The woman hated him since he was a failure (jail)."

"On the other hand, she loooved her other son and kept talking about him during the interview."

"He was some kind of magician and would do a show with his python in bars all over the province (Québec)."

"He would lay down in a casket with it and taddaaa! "

"Survive the thing."

"Except one time he didn't and the snake suffocated him during the show."

"The woman pointed her finger up and my mom lifted her eyes."

"She had the python stuffed and hanged along the upper part of the walls."

"It made almost the entire room."

"Looking down she realize the coffee table was, in fact, the "casket" the guy died into."

"Nice place."- sunforrest.

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A long uncovered secret.

"In my hometown, the landlord of a basement apartment noticed that the water pipes were getting backed up all throughout his house that he lived above from this basement apartment."

"Decided to call a plumber, hoping it'd fix the issue."

"Plumber finds mushy bits of human organs and dismembered limbs."

"After the police were involved, it was discovered about 6 months later that confirmed the human remains belonged to a 15-year-old girl who went missing months ago."

"So f*cking twisted."- erind22.

On the other hand, may it is best to just stay home, right?

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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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Photo by Jen Theodore

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."

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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

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"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.'”

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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.