Secrets

A big part of childhood is keeping secrets from your parents&mdash;and that can stretch into adulthood, depending how strict or judgmental our parents are (or how good we are at hiding things). Sometimes, these secrets come out when we&#39;re in your 20s and a little too wine-drunk over Thanksgiving. But some secrets should be kept for life.<h2>In a popular Reddit thread, someone <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/spcbdo/what_is_a_secret_that_you_hid_from_your_parents/" target="_blank">asked</a>: &quot;What is a secret that you hid from your parents?&quot;</h2>These 20 people reveal the biggest, darkest, dirtiest secrets they kept from their moms and dads:1.) From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/retroedd/">retroedd</a>:<blockquote> The really great report card I brought home once was actually a fabrication I made on the home computer while they were sleeping. Mom was so proud, I never told her. </blockquote>2.) From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/comicsnerd/">comicsnerd</a>:<blockquote> My mom is not so good with finances and the internet. I have been paying a significant portion of her bills for the past decade and she has no idea. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>3.) From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/JTGoran/">JTGoran</a>:<blockquote> I got a tattoo on my shoulder blade. Kept it hidden for years after a shower etc. Found out years down the line my brother told them a week after I had the tattoo! </blockquote>4.) From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/CallForBootyMW69/">CallForBootyMW69</a>:<blockquote> My sister once pointed a Roman candle to my head. Had a severe burn and hair loss. I combed it over and agreed never to tell. I was 10 and she was 16 btw </blockquote>5.) From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/serveyer/">serveyer</a>:<blockquote> I used to drive the family car when they were away at work. Like everytime. Just drive around the neighbourhood. I was 15. </blockquote>6.) From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Gearsforbrains/">Gearsforbrains</a>:<blockquote> In high school, the melted floor mats in my mom&#39;s new car were because I sprayed febreeze on dog crap that a friend&#39;s shoe brought in and it &quot;reacted like that&quot;. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> In truth, it was a firecracker that someone tried to chuck out the window and it bounced off the glass and landed inside the car. They forgot the child safety windows didn&#39;t go all the way down. </blockquote>7.) From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RealSteelHrothgar88/">RealSteelHrothgar88</a>:<blockquote> When I was a junior in high school, my mom and I got into a low speed accident with minor damage to both vehicles. Later that month I was so exhausted from school that I decided to ditch. I drove on the backroads for 10 minutes send parked, and then slept. </blockquote><blockquote> My mom found out and was furious at me. I lied and said that it was because I wasn&#39;t feeling good and I had headaches and some bs like that. She took me to the doctor and they found that my C3 vertebrae was fractured on top of having a tumor growing on it. I ended up having a gnarly 10 hour spinal surgery that honestly completely changed the course of my life. And we only found out about it because I couldn&#39;t think of any other bullshit excuse to use </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>8.) From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/pnut88/">pnut88</a>:<blockquote> My mom raised me in a pretty aggressive christian household. When we finally got tv, I discovered HBO had like a 5 minute preview of movies/shows whatever. Then I saw the late night shit. Well our tv was locked down with a passcode. I had to be like 11 or 12 but I put a vhs in then hit record. I then told my mom that I wanted to watch a animal documentary but it was locked tv14 for the animal violence. Well, she had me turn around while she scrolled the password in. After she left for work, I rewinded the vhs and got the password. Sorry Mom! </blockquote>9.) From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/itzykan/">itzykan</a>:<blockquote> There&#39;s a little entryway off on the side of my mother&#39;s house and into the basement. I realized how easy it was to sneak in and out of that thing when I was sixteen, and asked if I could move my room to the basement to &quot;feel like I had my own space.&quot; </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> Actually, I snuck people in and out of it constantly. My girlfriend at the time stayed over two or three times a week, and I would sneak friends in constantly to drink and party with me. Either that or I&#39;d sneak out on weekends and go party and hang out with people. My mother is a very very conservative Christian, and if she ever found out, she would lose her mind and probably disown me. I think about this sometimes. </blockquote>10.) From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/cereal_killerer/">cereal_killerer</a>:<blockquote> That photo of Cindy Crawford wasn&rsquo;t downloaded by the computer repair men. </blockquote>11.) From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Tex_Delingo/">Tex_Delingo</a>:<blockquote> TL;DR - I didn&rsquo;t graduate college when they thought I did &amp; instead used an elective course I took after my brain injury as my last required course for graduation. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> Got a little lax my last semester of senior year and came up a few hours short of graduating. Parents were already planning on a big graduation weekend &amp; traveling in from out of state. So I &lsquo;walked&rsquo; anyway and had the celebratory weekend and dinners and the whole lot. </blockquote><blockquote> Few years later my friend&rsquo;s car got T-boned while he was turning left and I wound up in a coma for a month. Had to relearn how to walk and talk and blink my right eye (hemiplegia, paralysis of one side of the body). After a boatload of concerted, diligent rehab &amp; an extraordinary amount of luck, it was presented to me that the next step in my recovery might be to audit a college course. </blockquote><blockquote> My crafty little post-coma brain might&rsquo;ve been severely compromised, but was still operating well enough to recognize an opportunity. Sure enough, I managed to pass this &ldquo;voluntary elective&rdquo; (wink, wink) and capture that degree. All while having the innards of my brain slightly rearranged. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>12.) From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Vicimer/">Vicimer</a>:<blockquote> My two younger sisters and I peed in a ziplock bag for the hell of it and kept it in the closet. I don&rsquo;t know what we planned to do with it, but eventually one of them panicked and told our mom and she was like &ldquo;Wtf is wrong with you guys.&rdquo; </blockquote>13.) From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Khuzah/">Khuzah</a>:<blockquote> It was me that crashed their new computer with viruses... because puberty </blockquote>14.) From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/random_inmyhead/">random_inmyhead</a>:<blockquote> i didn&rsquo;t get fired from that job and stay unemployed for 4 months , i quit </blockquote>15.) From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kaaltm/">kaaltm</a>:<blockquote> I didn&rsquo;t finish university. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>16.) From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/BraxtonXD/">BraxtonXD</a>:<blockquote> They still think I&rsquo;m a virgin at 23. </blockquote>17.) From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/nightsinwhitesatin07/">nightsinwhitesatin07</a>:<blockquote> I still hide my tattoos from my mother. </blockquote>18.) From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/AskMenModsSuck/">AskMenModsSuck</a>:<blockquote> I never graduated college. Im the youngest so they were pretty &quot;over&quot; going to graduation ceremonies. I said I got my degree in the mail. I still got a decent job, they never asked for my degree but I said I had one on my resume. Been 8yrs since I &quot;graduated&quot; </blockquote>19.) From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/metalbill64/">metalbill64</a>:<blockquote> I got married and didn&rsquo;t tell them until my wife began to show her pregnancy. We had been married for over a year at that point. They did not approve of our relationship because of outdated reasons. We have been married for 37 years now and have 4 kids and 7 grandkids </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>20.) From <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/asparagus112/">asparagus112</a>:<blockquote> Ive made a lot more money than they think I have and the only reason I haven&rsquo;t moved out is because I&rsquo;ll miss my parents too much :( </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

20 people share the biggest secret they've kept from their parents.

A big part of childhood is keeping secrets from your parents&mdash;and that can stretch into adulthood, depending how strict or judgmental our parents are (or how good we are at hiding things). Sometimes, these secrets come out when we&#39;re in your 20s and a little too wine-drunk over Thanksgiving. But some secrets should be kept for life.In a popular Reddit thread, someone asked: &quot;What is a secret that you hid from your parents?&quot;These 20 people reveal the biggest, darkest, dirtiest secrets they kept from their moms and dads:1.) From retroedd: The really great report card I brought home once was actually a fabrication I made on the home computer while they were sleeping. Mom was so proud, I never told her. 2.) From comicsnerd: My mom is not so good with finances and the internet. I have been paying a significant portion of her bills for the past decade and she has no idea. 3.) From JTGoran: I got a tattoo on my shoulder blade. Kept it hidden for years after a shower etc. Found out years down the line my brother told them a week after I had the tattoo! 4.) From CallForBootyMW69: My sister once pointed a Roman candle to my head. Had a severe burn and hair loss. I combed it over and agreed never to tell. I was 10 and she was 16 btw 5.) From serveyer: I used to drive the family car when they were away at work. Like everytime. Just drive around the neighbourhood. I was 15. 6.) From Gearsforbrains: In high school, the melted floor mats in my mom&#39;s new car were because I sprayed febreeze on dog crap that a friend&#39;s shoe brought in and it &quot;reacted like that&quot;.  In truth, it was a firecracker that someone tried to chuck out the window and it bounced off the glass and landed inside the car. They forgot the child safety windows didn&#39;t go all the way down. 7.) From RealSteelHrothgar88: When I was a junior in high school, my mom and I got into a low speed accident with minor damage to both vehicles. Later that month I was so exhausted from school that I decided to ditch. I drove on the backroads for 10 minutes send parked, and then slept.  My mom found out and was furious at me. I lied and said that it was because I wasn&#39;t feeling good and I had headaches and some bs like that. She took me to the doctor and they found that my C3 vertebrae was fractured on top of having a tumor growing on it. I ended up having a gnarly 10 hour spinal surgery that honestly completely changed the course of my life. And we only found out about it because I couldn&#39;t think of any other bullshit excuse to use 8.) From pnut88: My mom raised me in a pretty aggressive christian household. When we finally got tv, I discovered HBO had like a 5 minute preview of movies/shows whatever. Then I saw the late night shit. Well our tv was locked down with a passcode. I had to be like 11 or 12 but I put a vhs in then hit record. I then told my mom that I wanted to watch a animal documentary but it was locked tv14 for the animal violence. Well, she had me turn around while she scrolled the password in. After she left for work, I rewinded the vhs and got the password. Sorry Mom! 9.) From itzykan: There&#39;s a little entryway off on the side of my mother&#39;s house and into the basement. I realized how easy it was to sneak in and out of that thing when I was sixteen, and asked if I could move my room to the basement to &quot;feel like I had my own space.&quot;  Actually, I snuck people in and out of it constantly. My girlfriend at the time stayed over two or three times a week, and I would sneak friends in constantly to drink and party with me. Either that or I&#39;d sneak out on weekends and go party and hang out with people. My mother is a very very conservative Christian, and if she ever found out, she would lose her mind and probably disown me. I think about this sometimes. 10.) From cereal_killerer: That photo of Cindy Crawford wasn&rsquo;t downloaded by the computer repair men. 11.) From Tex_Delingo: TL;DR - I didn&rsquo;t graduate college when they thought I did &amp; instead used an elective course I took after my brain injury as my last required course for graduation.  Got a little lax my last semester of senior year and came up a few hours short of graduating. Parents were already planning on a big graduation weekend &amp; traveling in from out of state. So I &lsquo;walked&rsquo; anyway and had the celebratory weekend and dinners and the whole lot.  Few years later my friend&rsquo;s car got T-boned while he was turning left and I wound up in a coma for a month. Had to relearn how to walk and talk and blink my right eye (hemiplegia, paralysis of one side of the body). After a boatload of concerted, diligent rehab &amp; an extraordinary amount of luck, it was presented to me that the next step in my recovery might be to audit a college course.  My crafty little post-coma brain might&rsquo;ve been severely compromised, but was still operating well enough to recognize an opportunity. Sure enough, I managed to pass this &ldquo;voluntary elective&rdquo; (wink, wink) and capture that degree. All while having the innards of my brain slightly rearranged. 12.) From Vicimer: My two younger sisters and I peed in a ziplock bag for the hell of it and kept it in the closet. I don&rsquo;t know what we planned to do with it, but eventually one of them panicked and told our mom and she was like &ldquo;Wtf is wrong with you guys.&rdquo; 13.) From Khuzah: It was me that crashed their new computer with viruses... because puberty 14.) From random_inmyhead: i didn&rsquo;t get fired from that job and stay unemployed for 4 months , i quit 15.) From kaaltm: I didn&rsquo;t finish university. 16.) From BraxtonXD: They still think I&rsquo;m a virgin at 23. 17.) From nightsinwhitesatin07: I still hide my tattoos from my mother. 18.) From AskMenModsSuck: I never graduated college. Im the youngest so they were pretty &quot;over&quot; going to graduation ceremonies. I said I got my degree in the mail. I still got a decent job, they never asked for my degree but I said I had one on my resume. Been 8yrs since I &quot;graduated&quot; 19.) From metalbill64: I got married and didn&rsquo;t tell them until my wife began to show her pregnancy. We had been married for over a year at that point. They did not approve of our relationship because of outdated reasons. We have been married for 37 years now and have 4 kids and 7 grandkids 20.) From asparagus112: Ive made a lot more money than they think I have and the only reason I haven&rsquo;t moved out is because I&rsquo;ll miss my parents too much :( 

A big part of childhood is keeping secrets from your parents&mdash;and that can stretch into adulthood, depending how strict or judgmental our parents are (or how good we are at hiding things). Sometimes, these secrets come out when...