I remember that on Reddit, a few years ago, there was a woman on a subreddit.

I was just looking what was on Reddit and doomscrolling r/shitposting for 20 minutes was more than enough. I decided to just type-in random words to the URL bar to see what subreddits I would stumble upon.

After lots of private and NSFW subs, finally I ended up on r/alone and I found this lady in the sea of “i wanna kill myself soooo baddddd” posts.

The lady was autistic if I remember collectly. She had a boyfriend who also had a mental ilness. Unlike her though, he was violent. He would scream at her for pointless things and shit.

The lady was always confused. At least she seemed so to me. Which is probably the autism. She had a hamster cage and had a brain-injured hamster that she kept because it was sick in the head just like her, as she put it.

Have no idea what happened to her. I still think about her sometimes. It just felt so sad.

  • Yermaw@lemm.ee
    1·
    39 minutes ago

    That one video of dashcam footage of a random brick/stone going through a windscreen. The noises of sheer terror and grief they made.

  • NKBTN@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    5 hours ago

    One of the saddest things was a blog by a nanny to a little girl who was born without a face. She had eyes and a mouth, but that was about it other than random folds of skin. The nanny was so sweet, talking about all the operations the girl had had to slowly, over time, build her something resembling a face. The girl herself was apparently really sweet and loving too, but everyone who saw her would react as you might expect.

    It just struck me how cruel nature can be sometimes. At least she was born to very wealthy parents, but that was the only perk.

    I wonder how she’s getting on now. Must be 18 or so I imagine.

  • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    6·
    7 hours ago

    Wtf. The first time I deleted reddit was bc I stumbled upon a depressed woman’s reddit account from I think r/alone. I went through the profile and felt so stalkery and weird knowing such intimate details of a person that I deleted the account and app.

    I think it was an infertile woman, had vaginismus I think. Taking meds for depression etc. Posting very personal stories.

    Individually no post would strike me. But together, seeing everything. Including love for crochet and some TV show etc made me feel so weird.

    To this day I can’t explain what I felt. Like I was in her skin involuntarily. Very bizzare feeling.

    • Quintus@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      I had the exact same experience. It just felt so… eerie, you know? As you said, like I was in her skin involuntarily.

      It really is eerie. I guess it comes from the fact that we are basically observers that can’t do anything to her. I don’t know maybe the lack of a face to accociate the life that is laid before us is what causes this.

      I heard lots of worse stories that happened to people that I at least know what they look like. The posts on r/alone are just text. You don’t know for sure if the post is someone’s real life or not. Uncertainty. Combine that with a depressing story and BOOM! Eerie feeling.

      I’m just speculating though all of this might very well be bullshit.

  • hedgehog@ttrpg.network
    62·
    7 hours ago

    The lady was autistic if I remember collectly. She had a boyfriend who also had a mental ilness.

    Autism isn’t a mental illness.

    • Quintus@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      Oh, my bad. I’m so sorry. I’m not an expert on these things (obviously) I apologize if my comment is somehow offensive. I’m aware that autism is not an mental disorder. I thought it was like the way one’s brain is wired that causes them to have slightly different perception than the rest.

      I just decided to group it and other mental illnesses together because I… don’t know dude I was just lazy I guess.

      I am so sorry again. I meant no harm.

    • borokov@lemmy.world
      44·
      6 hours ago

      Depend on the level. It’s a spectrum, but at some point it do become a illness.

      • hedgehog@ttrpg.network
        42·
        6 hours ago

        Sorry, that’s incorrect.

        Autism is commonly comorbid with mental health disorders (aka “mental illnesses”) like anxiety, depression, ADHD, etc., as well as with intellectual developmental disorders, but autism is still considered, at worst, a neurodevelopmental disorder, regardless of where an individual falls on the spectrum.

        Both the DSM-V and ICD-11 are in agreement about this, for what that’s worth, but you could also just do a search for “Is autism a mental illness?” on Duckduckgo, Kagi, Searx, Bing, Google, or whatever, if you want to confirm.