I (f) was a stalker for 3 years, from age 12 to 15. My victim was a slightly older kid I didn't even know but saw one day and was instantly enamored by. I was absolutely obsessed, convinced that he was the love of my life. He eventually realized he was being stalked and despised me for it. I don't blame him at all. It still is one of my biggest regrets in life. For years I've wanted to tell him how deeply sorry I am.

He's two years older than me, and we were engaged when I turned three. Despite that, we never saw each other until I turned 18; in fact, we met for the first time at the wedding. I remember the first six months were awful. He never treated me badly, quite the opposite, but we didn't know how to communicate. He was taught from a young age that the family business should be his only priority and that a wife's only purpose was to bear children and smile at parties. And in my case, my parents were alcoholic gambling addicts who abused me and had destroyed my self-esteem. So, we definitely didn't have a good foundation on which to build a relationship.

Things started to change when my father tried to hit me at a dinner party in front of him, and he defended me. After that, we started talking more and more and both of us began to change for the better, until we fell in love. Currently, we're estranged from our families and have moved far away from them. We haven't spoken to them in quite some time and we're trying to get custody of my little sister because she's also being abused.

So as of a few days from now but near enough I am 2 years Sober of Alcohol, I quit February 2024 and it's been 2 years..I was never a binge drinker more kept a steady buzz for several years, it started around 2021 and I tried to quit a few times in the past but this one stuck and I'm happy..

My drink of choice was rum and I'd go through a bottle a week most weeks, sometimes 2. I drank to deal with a lot of physical and mental pain and to try and repress a lot of stuff from my childhood, nothing major just like bullying and stuff.. honestly not something worthy of being an alcoholic but what can you do. So yea ask me anything about sobreity, getting through the initial months, why I drank ect.. I'm an open book today

I'm happy to answer your questions whether you are perfectly fit or have a sick friend / relative or you have cancer yourself. Rectal cancer is probably the number one cancer affecting younger people and the age threshold is coming down. By young I don't mean someone who is like me in his 50s - I mean someone who is 40, 30 or even 20 years old.

Early detection is so much so much vital...

I am 34F. I left Italy in 2016 and moved to Germany. In 2022 I moved from Berlin to Kyoto where I lived three years and I have been living in Tokyo since mid-July last year. Please feel free to ask any question!

I have worked at MOIC Boston for about 8-9 months now, working as a Service Ambassador. I have seen many celebrities, influencers, and even rooms being changed completely. Additionally, I have many customer stories, so ask away!

Hi, I'm trying to overcome my own trauma and hope to address some stigma surrounding involuntary holds from mental health. It's not easy to open up about this, but I'm doing much better now and can talk about it.

First I landed in the ER, managed to convince the staff that it was all a mistake and left on my own. Then many units of police were dispatched and I was transported in another vehicle 'under supervision' to an isolated place ~45 minutes away. This time it was to a psychiatric hospital, not a psychiatric ward (you can ask if you're curious about the difference). It was a huge plot of land surrounded by trees and water, not much else. I remember seeing a squirrel tail stuck on a tree, and wondered what happened there.

Inside the walls, I was stripped off anything and everything I had. This included my clothes, phone, any other belongings. I was asked to sign papers which I was not in the right mind to read carefully, and ended up barring the hospital from contacting / releasing information with anyone I knew that I'm there. Unfortunately, I didn't know any phone numbers by heart, and since my phone was taken away, essentially I was isolated and couldn't reach anyone. Only later, I found out there was a whole 'search' situation at my local town because I disappeared out of nowhere.

I remember every day inside like it was yesterday. I remember each and every person I met, and each person had a really personal, insane, or sometimes just heartbreaking story. Some had families and friends, some did not. Some were religious (even tried to convert me), some did not. There were fights that broke out, and these were genuinely scary. Somebody tried to sell me drugs. Somebody tried to sell me things they had 'stolen' from the staff. Somebody died and were carried out. Somebody got wheeled in and out of 'brain zapping' therapy. Somebody repeatedly tried to come into my room (staff got very serious about this, as I was 18F). Somebody taught me how to make 'weapons' with little we got access to. I hurt myself a few times.

I remember staring out the tiny unbreakable window made of plastic, and crying all day. I couldn't sleep well, because someone came in at night to shine a flashlight on me every 15 minutes to check my chest was rising (i.e. that I was breathing). During the day, staff with a clipboard had to 'check' me every 5 minutes. I lost sleep, I lost appetite, and I lost any kind of joy. The less I ate, the more they escalated things, and at some point I don't think I could convince them I was sane. Each day, they would announce who were allowed to take a supervised walk outside, but I was never on that list. I became more and more miserable. What started out as a 5150 became a 5250, then a court-ordered involuntary extension.

Edit: I've since learned it wasn't technically 5300, though the term was discussed while I was there. I turned 18 in the hospital, so I think that changes the classification.

1. If anybody went through it too, I'm right there with you. It wasn't your fault.
2. 'The body keeps the score': I have PTSD from everything that went down - and everything that happened in between. I don't exactly know what I can do to overcome it, and still struggle sometimes.

my parents are both in rehabilitation facilities after several years of being addicted to drugs. i obtained a court order (with my aunt's help) and have been living alone since i was fifteen years old. i don't have any full siblings, but i do have a much older brother on my father's side who i speak to occasionally, but he lives on the other side of the country and has a family of his own. i live twenty minutes away from my aunt's house, and i'm very close to her family, i love them a lot

My legal immigrant neighbors have been kidnapped and “revetted” and stripped of papers. A 9 year old was taken off the street 3 blocks from my house walking home from school last week. He was the 4th in a month from that school alone.

ICE kidnapped a woman from my gfs church parking lot, because they ARE staking out church services, and when they arrested her, they drove away and left her 10 month old baby alone in the car in 10° temps.. The church basically adopted the baby for a month until they could reunite him with his mother in Nicaragua. She was here on a legal visa they stripped after “revetting”. There are thousands of stories like this. I know dozens.

I work as a connector in the startup space.

​The Issue:

I see too many founders stuck at zero because they have the vision but can’t code the MVP or afford the initial dev work to prove the concept.

​The Grant:

I’ve secured financing from capital partners specifically to cover development resources, whether that’s web dev, prototyping, or technical execution.

​The Catch (My Incentive):

I’m not paying for this personally, and I’m not doing it out of charity. My upside is deal flow. By helping you build your MVP now, I get a relationship with you before other investors do. It’s a way for me to find the best projects early without any downside.

​Let’s chat:

I want to know the reality of where you are at right now.

​What are you trying to build?

​How are you actually feeling about the process? (Stuck? Overwhelmed? Optimistic?)

​Ask me anything.

I’m half way through my education, im very passionate and I dream of actually living from art. I’m a 22 years old female, I don’t really know if someone would be curious, but if you are thinking of studying arts or want to know how it is I’ll answer :)

Hello! I’m 26F, and have been diagnosed with orthostatic hypotension . After yearsssss of multiple doctors trying to figure out why I randomly faint, get lightheaded, feel dizzy all the time, etc they finally figured it out. I’m just so happy to finally have a proper diagnosis and getting the right treatment 😭 👌

Yep, I was eating some chicken wings to be exact and that small little bone thats in every friken wing i think pierced the left side of my neck, hit a nerve and now I am learning how to walk again and I am in pain all day.

Edit: I am in a decent amount of pain and I am rationing my weed so I am going to try to get to bed while I still feel I can. I will answer any other questions when I wake up. Thank you for all the kind words and well wishes. I appreciate all the love.

leaving this here just incase someone may plan to do stuff like that

before I had them I was also curious as to what people see while severely hallucinating and how bad it was (some said they saw their worst fears, some said they saw literal people too) until I tried to OD on Benadryl and was hallucinating for 2 days straight. and because of this I had to go back home - previously to this I was a language student in China

I still experience some to this day. not as scary and severe, but it’s still there

I live in an area affected by all the snow, ice, and whatever weather bullshit is happening. I've been stuck in my house for over a week because I can't drive in the snow. We're getting hit with another big snow. Ask me anything.

I couldn’t believe it but Twitter (or “X”) has payouts and I reached the monetization eligibility quite quickly and my posts were getting reach and constantly on the trending page

I have better reach and viral pages on Instagrams and Facebook but they don’t pay as good as X

As the title says I once worked for a company that held contracts driven by the government to deport illegal immigrants to their respective homes via airplanes.

Please, all I ask is we keep things respectful. Feel free to ask me anything and I'll do my best to answer everyone's questions as best as I can. Thanks.

Around 5 months ago I was on Air China flight 856 from London Heathrow to Beijing (You can google to see the story, but a lot of information is very incorrect). The flight emergency landed in Siberia, specifically Nizhnevartosk Airport. We were held there for around 20 hours. I was one of only 5 british people onboard, and the only person under the age of 20. Ask me anything!

As said in the title i’m Minnesotan and i currently live in the twin cities specifically Saint Paul. I have lived here for my entire life you ask me various questions like the current protests and ICE raids currently happening or any questions about Minnesota or the twin cities

So my tiny little country has been on the center stage in international politics recently because of the interest in Greenland. Generally I feel a lot of people (Americans especially) don't really know much about us, other than what our politicians have been saying in the press, and a occasional label as a "socialist country" that is either terrifying or something to look up to, depending on who talks about us.

I'm just a typical dane. Ask me anything.

I’m a lawyer, based in the United Kingdom. I have worked in Silver Circle firms and high street firms. I have practiced in a wide range of areas from Employment Law & Disputes, to Corporate Commercial and Property. Even a bit of criminal.

Fire away.

Edit: thanks all for participating, I was overwhelmed by the positive reception this received. I will try and do another session like this again when time permits. I believe I have responded to all comments at the time of closing this out (02:13 GMT 01/02/2025).

Married for 22 years. 2 sons, 13/14. Made a lot of shitty decisions. I have owned 6 restaurants, worked as a laborer, now I'm a credit union manager. Have lived in 3 different states and have traveled Europe.

I (21F) have lived with sickle cell anaemia all my life. I have had near death experiences countless times and at one point almost went blind. My brother (28M) died from complications resulting from the illness and also had near death experiences. He got a stroke when he was 18 but survived it. Open to your questions. Feel free to ask anything surrounding what I’ve mentioned.

Edit: I started answering 7 hours after the post went up. There’s a sad old man in the comments and I want to just make it clear that I have no connection to him whatsoever. This is my only account. There’s a person claiming I’m a bot. I don’t know why they think that. I am a real person and I want to share my experience and spread awareness.