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[–] [email protected] 10 points 49 minutes ago (1 children)

I have scars around and on my genitals. When I was young my mom told me that I had surgery just after I was born. Now as an adult, I think I may have been born with some sort of intersex condition but I am afraid to talk to my parents about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 minutes ago

Probably not, from someone who worked in pediatric urology and endocrinology. They don't tend to do surgery until you are older because you need to be old enough to determine what your gender identity is very clearly, which is not clear sometimes with intersex conditions. It's a really bad decision to make too early. Probably what you had was an undescended testicle or hydrocele or something.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 hour ago

When a friend of mine was a little kid, someone drove past, jumped out of their car, and ran over and grabbed him trying to kidnap him.

He was just confused about what the guy was even doing, but grabbed onto a chain-link fence and wouldn't let go, so the guy was yanking him and yelling at him to let go, but he was able to hold on. Eventually the guy gave up and ran back and sped away. While he was being yanked on the fence, he was worried because the ball he'd been playing with was rolling down the hill, and he was worried it would go somewhere he wouldn't be able to find it and he would lose his ball.

When the guy left, he went and retrieved his ball, psyched that he was able to get it back. He thought no more about it and kept playing, and then later that day told his mom about what happened.

She lost her mind. For some reason, he thought she had also been worried about the ball, and he kept telling her he'd been able to get it back after, so it was all good.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 43 minutes ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago)

Okay, so I have a mechanical heart valve. One time, while I was in the basement of my childhood home with one of my brothers, I was close to him as he was playing The Godfather PS2 (I'm pretty sure it was that game). It was pretty quiet, so he somehow heard the ticking of my valve and his mind went to some sort of explosive like a pipe bomb being close by.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 51 minutes ago* (last edited 43 minutes ago)

When I was 13 I helped the local burnout mow lawns. He was late 20's and hung out with us teenagers from the same block. Got us weed, bought us beer. The 16yo guys I looked up to were friends (?) with him, he'd hang in the backyard fort of the lead 16yo, and he basically ran the local lawn mowing cartel of all us kids. I wanted money and it was easy and fun, hangin' with the boys. We shoveled walks in the winter.

One snowstorm morning he wasn't at the fort where we'd meet so I volunteered to run across the street to his house. Knock. Knock loud. Try the door, he didn't mind if we came in his basement entrance to his parent's house. It's dark, light on in the bathroom. 13yo me saw his first dead body that day; full bathtub with slit wrists and neck.

E: oh, reason for suicide seemed to be that he had a DUI wreck a couple months prior where a young girl (like 7 or 8) didn't die but wouldn't ever be the same... like couldn't walk or brain damage or something. He couldn't handle what he did, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 hour ago

I'm, in fact, not a horse. I only pretend to be one on the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I once billed a man, just to see him cry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 33 minutes ago

That must've been quite the bill.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I can't own a gun because the call of the void is too strong.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 14 minutes ago

They have buses everywhere, man.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Since I most likely won't out live my wife, and she doesn't want to live without me, we have agreed on a murder/suicide when we are getting up there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago* (last edited 4 minutes ago)

✔️ Scary

✔️ Unsettling

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

My dad threatened to kidnap me and an... Uncle, i think, held me at gun point when i was a baby. I had a surprisingly violent childhood, don't remember any of it tho. Not many other 'scary ' or unsettling facts i can think of I'm afraid, if those even count.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'm curious, why do this over two different comments?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)

Because I couldn't get it to accept two images in the same post and I couldn't find a gif of this scene and I'm dumb

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 minutes ago

and I’m dumb

This is an acceptable excuse. Carry on.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 hours ago

Through a tube.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Your body will not let you drown yourself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Thank God! I'm a pretty stupid sometimes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Why did you both say the same thing minutes apart?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I’m thankful for such systems. My mind is pretty stupid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Why did you both say the same thing minutes apart?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

Looks like chance to me. We're both pretty old, established accounts with highly different history for your consideration. Also consider that federation may take a few minutes. It's possible neither of us saw each other's comments at time of posting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

Secret Telepathic Twins!