Secrets

There are some things we choose not to share even with our closest friends and loved ones. But carrying around a secret can be an isolating experience. This is where the anonymity of Reddit, and the perverse curiosity of internet strangers, can be a useful tool. In a popular Reddit thread, someone <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/r5c36o/what_have_you_never_told_anyone/" target="_blank">asked</a>: &quot;What secret have you never told anyone?&quot;<h2>These 17 people spilled the secrets they&#39;ve been keeping from everyone, until now:</h2>1.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Jasonhopkins99/">Jasonhopkins99</a>:<blockquote> I still have dreams about the love of my life, and we broke up almost 12 years ago. </blockquote>2.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/StillTalksToCeilings/">StillTalksToCeilings</a>:<blockquote> No one, and I mean absolutely no one (aside from my wife) who attended my &ldquo;wedding&rdquo; knew that it was actually our one year anniversary party. </blockquote>3.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Bluebehries/">Bluebehries</a>:<div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> That I had an affair with my boss and each time I look at him, I remember the wild nights we had on his desk, his car and the balcony. Whew! I still have to keep a straight face when I see him at the office. </blockquote>4.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TeenageDream1234/">TeenageDream1234</a>:<blockquote> Back in high school, my friends and I had a secret alcohol stash in the woods. They pissed me off one day, so I took the stuff I wanted to drink for myself. They later discovered the best stuff was gone and they never suspected it was me. They thought a parent or sibling had found out and almost gave away their own secret trying to find who did it. It was entertaining for sure for me </blockquote>5.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MissMetalSix/">MissMetalSix</a>:<div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> That I just can&rsquo;t f**king care like I want to or should. My empathy battery has been in need of recharging for years and I&rsquo;ve not figured out how to do that. </blockquote>6.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ohmysunnyday/">ohmysunnyday</a>:<blockquote> I farted really loudly during a quiet assembly </blockquote>7.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Giveushealthcare/">Giveushealthcare</a>:<blockquote> That I&rsquo;m pretty sure I have Borderline Personality Disorder and as I get older (especially this past year) I see signs that I may be incapable of being happy </blockquote>8.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Accomplished_Cup_922/">Accomplished_Cup_922</a>:<blockquote> I&rsquo;ve been out as gay for 8 years and just now coming to realize I&rsquo;m actually bi. I&rsquo;m terrified to &ldquo;come out&rdquo; again and potentially ruin relationships that&rsquo;s taken me so long to build. I haven&rsquo;t said anything to a soul. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>9.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ghostgrabmynipples/">ghostgrabmynipples</a>:<blockquote> I have made it my mission 13 years ago to make it as uncomfortable as humanly possible for my best friends mom because she made fun of my mom&lsquo;s cancer and by uncomfortable I mean <ul> <li> stealing utensils </li> <li> stealing plates </li> <li> taking out the gas from her car (it was a trick that I learned from my dad) </li> </ul> </blockquote><blockquote> <ul> <li> unscrewing her cabinets and closing them so when she opens them they would fall </li> <li> stealing one sock of the pair </li> <li> taking out every single battery that is in the house including one of the two that is inside the remote </li> <li> wetting the toilet paper </li> </ul> </blockquote><blockquote> <ul> <li> switching the placement of specific things ( such as detergent and sugar) </li> <li> stealing her dogs leash </li> <li> stealing her shoelaces </li> <li> hiding pans </li> </ul> </blockquote><blockquote> <ul> <li> erasing the expiration date on every product that I could get my hands on to </li> <li> misplacing her hard drive </li> <li> mixing her dirty clothes with her clean clothes on numerous occasions </li> <li> &ldquo;accidentally&rdquo; spilling chocolate on her white furniture </li> </ul> none of them realize that it&rsquo;s me and I have been doing this little by little for the last 13 years and I can confirm that it&rsquo;s driving her absolutely insane </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>10.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/That-Guy59/">That-Guy59</a>:<blockquote> I&rsquo;ve never told anyone that when I move out of my parents house, I never want to see my family again and if I have kids I won&rsquo;t let my parents and siblings see them. </blockquote>11.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mooseknuckle09/">mooseknuckle09</a>:<blockquote> I haven&rsquo;t had a good night&rsquo;s sleep for years. I fall asleep fine and sleep through the night, but never feel rested. Went to the doctor and did a sleep study. Turns out I have sleep apnea. My whole family knows this. What my family doesn&rsquo;t know is that I have rarer version called &ldquo;central sleep apnea&rdquo; basically, my brain is just straight quitting and not sending any neurological signals to my body to breathe when I sleep. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> It&rsquo;s most common in people ages 65+. In fact, it&rsquo;s estimated that only 0.9% of Americans in their 40s have central. I&rsquo;m 30, so it&rsquo;s basically unheard of for me to have it without some serious underlying condition. I have a bevy of tests,from CT scans to pulmonologists to heart doctors, lined up over the next couple of months to see what the hell is going on. </blockquote><blockquote> I haven&rsquo;t told anyone I know that it could be something serious. I&rsquo;m usually the stable one that everyone leans on, so I&rsquo;m trying to to make anyone worry until I know for sure what&rsquo;s up. But frankly, I&rsquo;m a little terrified because I have no idea what&rsquo;s going on with me and no real person I can confide in without everyone else in the world knowing. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>12.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Cyliasta/">Cyliasta</a>:<blockquote> That i wish i was born a girl, but am settled as a man bcs i wouldn&#39;t be able to be the girl i would like to be if i did transition </blockquote>13.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Dontworrybeappy/">Dontworrybeappy</a>:<blockquote> My entire family is Mormon, I don&rsquo;t know how to tell them I never believed in God, even as a kid I was like &ldquo;this feels like bs&rdquo; </blockquote>14.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/smokeandlavender/">smokeandlavender</a>:<blockquote> While I genuinely love my current significant other and he embodies everything anyone would ever desire in a partner, I feel like I&rsquo;m in the wrong timeline or whatever and I should be with this other man. </blockquote>15.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TheBestElz/">TheBestElz</a>:<div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> My body has this tendency to stop breathing. Just, like, not breath. I&#39;m always aware it&#39;s happening, and it never goes on for more than like a minute or two. My paranoia does it. But it&#39;s scary sometimes to just, not breath, for no reason. Like, just sitting doing homework and all of the sudden my lungs don&#39;t work and I sit there, zoning out without breathing until I snap out of it and consciously restart my lungs. Don&#39;t know why it happens and too scared of the consequences to talk about it with professionals. It doesn&#39;t hurt me, it&#39;s just weird. </blockquote>16.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SomethingS0m3thing/">SomethingS0m3thing</a>:<blockquote> I had sex with my friend&#39;s sister </blockquote>17.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Boncobo/">Boncobo</a>:<div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> That I&#39;m bi. And I just started dating a guy for the first time. Crazy how moving to another country away from everyone you know makes it so much easier to be yourself </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

17 people share the secret they've never told anyone until now.

There are some things we choose not to share even with our closest friends and loved ones. But carrying around a secret can be an isolating experience. This is where the anonymity of Reddit, and the perverse curiosity of internet strangers, can be a useful tool. In a popular Reddit thread, someone asked: &quot;What secret have you never told anyone?&quot;These 17 people spilled the secrets they&#39;ve been keeping from everyone, until now:1.) From Jasonhopkins99: I still have dreams about the love of my life, and we broke up almost 12 years ago. 2.) From StillTalksToCeilings: No one, and I mean absolutely no one (aside from my wife) who attended my &ldquo;wedding&rdquo; knew that it was actually our one year anniversary party. 3.) From Bluebehries: That I had an affair with my boss and each time I look at him, I remember the wild nights we had on his desk, his car and the balcony. Whew! I still have to keep a straight face when I see him at the office. 4.) From TeenageDream1234: Back in high school, my friends and I had a secret alcohol stash in the woods. They pissed me off one day, so I took the stuff I wanted to drink for myself. They later discovered the best stuff was gone and they never suspected it was me. They thought a parent or sibling had found out and almost gave away their own secret trying to find who did it. It was entertaining for sure for me 5.) From MissMetalSix: That I just can&rsquo;t f**king care like I want to or should. My empathy battery has been in need of recharging for years and I&rsquo;ve not figured out how to do that. 6.) From ohmysunnyday: I farted really loudly during a quiet assembly 7.) From Giveushealthcare: That I&rsquo;m pretty sure I have Borderline Personality Disorder and as I get older (especially this past year) I see signs that I may be incapable of being happy 8.) From Accomplished_Cup_922: I&rsquo;ve been out as gay for 8 years and just now coming to realize I&rsquo;m actually bi. I&rsquo;m terrified to &ldquo;come out&rdquo; again and potentially ruin relationships that&rsquo;s taken me so long to build. I haven&rsquo;t said anything to a soul. 9.) From ghostgrabmynipples: I have made it my mission 13 years ago to make it as uncomfortable as humanly possible for my best friends mom because she made fun of my mom&lsquo;s cancer and by uncomfortable I mean   stealing utensils   stealing plates   taking out the gas from her car (it was a trick that I learned from my dad)      unscrewing her cabinets and closing them so when she opens them they would fall   stealing one sock of the pair   taking out every single battery that is in the house including one of the two that is inside the remote   wetting the toilet paper      switching the placement of specific things ( such as detergent and sugar)   stealing her dogs leash   stealing her shoelaces   hiding pans      erasing the expiration date on every product that I could get my hands on to   misplacing her hard drive   mixing her dirty clothes with her clean clothes on numerous occasions   &ldquo;accidentally&rdquo; spilling chocolate on her white furniture   none of them realize that it&rsquo;s me and I have been doing this little by little for the last 13 years and I can confirm that it&rsquo;s driving her absolutely insane 10.) From That-Guy59: I&rsquo;ve never told anyone that when I move out of my parents house, I never want to see my family again and if I have kids I won&rsquo;t let my parents and siblings see them. 11.) From mooseknuckle09: I haven&rsquo;t had a good night&rsquo;s sleep for years. I fall asleep fine and sleep through the night, but never feel rested. Went to the doctor and did a sleep study. Turns out I have sleep apnea. My whole family knows this. What my family doesn&rsquo;t know is that I have rarer version called &ldquo;central sleep apnea&rdquo; basically, my brain is just straight quitting and not sending any neurological signals to my body to breathe when I sleep.  It&rsquo;s most common in people ages 65+. In fact, it&rsquo;s estimated that only 0.9% of Americans in their 40s have central. I&rsquo;m 30, so it&rsquo;s basically unheard of for me to have it without some serious underlying condition. I have a bevy of tests,from CT scans to pulmonologists to heart doctors, lined up over the next couple of months to see what the hell is going on.  I haven&rsquo;t told anyone I know that it could be something serious. I&rsquo;m usually the stable one that everyone leans on, so I&rsquo;m trying to to make anyone worry until I know for sure what&rsquo;s up. But frankly, I&rsquo;m a little terrified because I have no idea what&rsquo;s going on with me and no real person I can confide in without everyone else in the world knowing. 12.) From Cyliasta: That i wish i was born a girl, but am settled as a man bcs i wouldn&#39;t be able to be the girl i would like to be if i did transition 13.) From Dontworrybeappy: My entire family is Mormon, I don&rsquo;t know how to tell them I never believed in God, even as a kid I was like &ldquo;this feels like bs&rdquo; 14.) From smokeandlavender: While I genuinely love my current significant other and he embodies everything anyone would ever desire in a partner, I feel like I&rsquo;m in the wrong timeline or whatever and I should be with this other man. 15.) From TheBestElz: My body has this tendency to stop breathing. Just, like, not breath. I&#39;m always aware it&#39;s happening, and it never goes on for more than like a minute or two. My paranoia does it. But it&#39;s scary sometimes to just, not breath, for no reason. Like, just sitting doing homework and all of the sudden my lungs don&#39;t work and I sit there, zoning out without breathing until I snap out of it and consciously restart my lungs. Don&#39;t know why it happens and too scared of the consequences to talk about it with professionals. It doesn&#39;t hurt me, it&#39;s just weird. 16.) From SomethingS0m3thing: I had sex with my friend&#39;s sister 17.) From Boncobo: That I&#39;m bi. And I just started dating a guy for the first time. Crazy how moving to another country away from everyone you know makes it so much easier to be yourself 

There are some things we choose not to share even with our closest friends and loved ones. But carrying around a secret can be an isolating experience. This is where the anonymity of Reddit, and the perverse curiosity of internet...