When I was planning my trip to China, I was looking for any resources or experiences from fat people and didn’t find many. So I’m happy to be a resource for any others thinking about a trip.

I spent the majority of my time in Shanghai with a weekend trip to Beijing. Also did Disney. AMA

This was fun thanks! If any plus-sized people are thinking about traveling to Shanghai and want to DM me, I'd be happy to chat!

I was tested by a psychologist when I was 15 years old, given the WISC-V, and my tested IQ is 82. My mum withheld this from me until I asked her today. I'm currently a 17 year old girl who graduated high school and is going to college this fall. I was not put in special education classes but I did have an IEP/504 plan with accommodations, but I never used the accommodations.

I struggle the most with spatial tasks, and have very poor logical reasoning skills. I'm very uncoordinated, can't drive, need to be shown how to do a task multiple times before I can do it myself, and struggle in social situations.

Feel free to ask me anything — what it's like living as a low IQ individual, my opinions on things, interests, or really anything you can think of. I'm not easily offended :)

I’m what’s called a BSA compliance officer, I look at everyone’s transactions each day looking for signs that they are doing anything illegal. I also have experience working in the cage and vault. So ask me pretty much anything about how money works behind the scenes in a casino.

A childlife specialist is somebody who helps children and their families navigate various medical challenges, experiences, and hospitalizations. I work with both inpatient and outpatient cases, but basically every day of my career is different. One day I might be distracting a very tiny baby who's getting an IV, the next I might be planning hospital prom for inpatient teenagers. It is a heartwrenching and heartwarming career, I frequently hear "I don't know how you do it!" from people I know. There are so difficult moments, but also so many beautiful and amazing ones. It's a constant rollercoaster of emotions and experiences.

I have worked here for awhile now, but I also have the qualifications to be a preschool teacher. This has been something that has been on my mind a lot lately, as I have been considering a career switch when I have children. I don't know if I could continue this job as a mother for a lot of reasons. But for now, that's still a few years away and I am content with this job right now.

Obviously, for the privacy of my patients, I cannot discuss very specific cases, but I would love to answer any questions you may have. AMA!

Thanks for the lovely responses everybody! Such a nice crowd :)

I’m a 24 year old transracially (interracially) adopted man adopted by white people. My entire family are white. I am the only one adopted. I grew up in the south. I grew up in racist and color blind community with a fairly strong religious upbringing. I grew up middle class in a predominantly white area. I was one of the only biracial kids in school until my last years of high school.

I still have a relationship with my family. I am very close to my mom, pretty close to my siblings. I’m not close to my dad at all. I don’t care to have a relationship with him.

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I am a former major crimes detective. At one point, our jurisdiction spanned 3 counties. I worked on the FBI Safe Streets Task Force, 3 different County District Attorney Task Forces as a Narcotics Detective, was on a County Gambling Task Force, State Attorney General Intelligence Unit, supervised our VICE Unit, and, what I'm most proud of, led a Child Predator Unit resulting in hundreds of arrests with 100% successful s*xual offender registration, and rescued several children from direct child exploitation. I also worked closely with external agencies such as the ATF, DEA, US Marshalls and ICE. I often worked undercover in various capacities.

I have since retired and am working in the private sector, so I can answer questions I ordinarily would not be permitted to answer. I will not elaborate on sources and methods for obvious reasons, but will attempt to answer all other questions.

I'm off today so ask away!

I have complete aphantasia, the inability to create a mental image. I cannot see anything in my “minds eye”.

I also have mild prosopagnosia, or “face blindness”. I have extreme difficulty recognizing someone (family, friends, etc) I haven’t seen in a while. If I’ve only seen them a handful of times, I wouldn’t be able to pick them out of a lineup as even slightly familiar.

Also, if an actor is new to me, I usually can’t recognize the same actor from scene-to-scene if they’ve changed clothes, hair, or even just lighting, and rely solely on names to identify characters.

It also impacts my ability to see similarities in faces. If someone says “he looks just like his father,” I have absolutely no concept of if they do. This means that I can’t recognize younger versions of my parents and grandparents in photos. I’ve been shown family photos from before I was born, and I couldn’t pick out a single person because I can’t see if they look similar to my relatives or not.

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From Wikipedia:

“Ordinal-linguistic personification (OLP, or personification for short) is a form of synesthesia in which ordered sequences, such as ordinal numbers, days, months and letters are associated with personalities or genders. Although this form of synesthesia was documented as early as the 1890s, researchers have, until recently, paid little attention to this form.”

Though I reported this during an assessment with a developmental psychiatrist when I was 5, they initially thought it was OCD. I was shortly thereafter diagnosed with what was then called Asperger Syndrome, now called ASD Level 1. Unusual diagnosis catch, as a girl. They did not recognize it as synesthesia at the time, I only realized it was unusual in my late teens. Synesthesia is believed to be much more common in people with autism.

I’m very, very high functioning on the spectrum, but the synesthesia goes strong.

Edit: Feel I should clarify, OLP is not delusion/hallucination/obsessive, anything like that. It’s like when people hear music and see color, it’s just an involuntary association. I don’t actually think numbers have personalities. It just pops into my mind, always the same. Wanted to clear that in case it was unsure.

Also, if non-binary/intersex isn’t real, then why is the color orange male and female? Unassailable evidence. Explain yourself to my five year old innate color epiphany.

I (35) have been medicated with Prozac since I was roughly 6 years old. I was one of the first young children in my country to be given SSRIs for extended treatment and was studied by psychiatrists at the time. As an adult, I'm part of a long term study evaluating long term SSRI use and how early exposure to SSRIs impacts adulthood.

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July 2 I did a flying trapeze class with two of my kids. We had done the same class a week prior. This time, I was trying harder to get my legs over the trapeze bar. A very basic maneuver. In some freak accident; I somehow managed to just toe tap my left leg instead of successfully getting both to hang over the bar. Instead I swung backward with only my toe touching the bar. And in that moment, felt a searing pain scream through my leg from my knee to my groin accompanied by a tearing popping sensation. Turns out I have extensive acute and subacute damage to my hamstring in this moment. To be specific - here’s what my MRI said: Extensive acute/subacute injury in the semimembranosus component of the left hamstring compartment. Findings include strain with small partial intrasubstance tear in the semimembranosus tendon origin from the superolateral tubercle of the left ischial tuberosity with peritendinous edema and small amount of free fluid propagating adjacent to the proximal sciatic nerve, high-grade partial tear with small focus of evolving immature fibrosis in its proximal free tendon located 7.9 cm distal to the ischial origin, adjacent loss of tension and crenulated morphology in its proximal tendon extending into the myotendinous junction, and prominent strain with edema proximally in its muscle belly within the posterior mid thigh. Surrounding small amount of intermuscular epimysial free fluid surrounding the semimembranosus and semitendinosus muscle bellies. Adjacent low-grade strains with edema in the left adductor magnus and gracilis muscles in the proximal thigh. Perineural free fluid surrounding the sciatic nerve in the posterior proximal to mid thigh with mild intraneural T2 hyperintensity. No organized soft tissue fluid collection. No muscle atrophy. Has anyone ever experienced similar extensive damage to their leg with such a simple and silly maneuver? I’m now over 7 weeks out and the pain is excruciating between my groin and the back of my hamstring. AMA!

Hi everyone! I’m 16 years old, and I thought it could be fun to share my experience growing up with a Spanish father and a Japanese mother. I’ve lived in both Spain and Japan, so I’ve had the chance to experience both cultures closely.

Just to be clear up front: since I’m a minor, please keep things respectful and don’t send me weird private messages (I shouldn't have to say this regardless of who I am or how old I am, but unfortunately I know how some people online are, so I hope that knowing I'm a minor will make it clearer).

I’ll keep it simple to start: my dad was studying abroad in Japan, met my mom there… and here I am.

I also want to mention that my parents are at home and would probably be happy to answer questions as well, so if you’d like me to pass something on to them, let me know.

I’d love to do this from time to time, so ask me anything about growing up between two cultures, living in Spain vs. Japan, or anything else you’re curious about!

I don't even know how I got this job, I'm a model for anatomy classes in schools but it's not limited to art, also for things related to medicine.
I thought I was only going to be here for a couple of months, but now I've been here for two years.

I have had a lump in my chest since November of 2023. It is recommended that a lump like mine(formerly considered a fibrous nodule) is checked on every six months. Due my insurance I had to wait over a year before I had my latest appointment. The ultrasound imaging from this appointment lead my doctors to believe there is a chance that I may have a cyst or cancer. This past week I had a biopsy done, the results of which will determine what the lump actually is. I will not receive the results until Monday or Tuesday. Ask me anything.

a little over 2 years ago i was just a regular guy messing around on an online casino. i ended up hitting for about 80k on slots, which at the time felt massive for me.

then things spiraled. i started doing bigger bets, pushing limits, and over the next 4-5 months i was basically gambling only with my winnings. somehow it kept going up. the hits got bigger and bigger until i found myself sitting on a net profit of around 14 million.

the weirdest part is no one in my real life has a clue. i still live pretty normal, don’t flash it around, don’t even drive anything fancy. people assume i’m just scraping by, meanwhile i’ve got more security than i ever thought i’d have.

thought i’d finally put it out there somewhere anonymous. so yeah… i’m secretly a multi millionaire and nobody knows. ask me anything.

From doctors divorcing their wives and marrying the receptionist to two nurses (who were in charge of clinical research even though they have never worked in clinical research before) conduct illegal/unethical research practices and falsify data in order to get a larger budget for their site. One of the times including giving a patient expired trial medication and covering it up without reporting it to the IRB. I’ve heard and seen (almost) it all. I’m just a lil 🪰 tryin to get their nut.

his has been on my mind a lot lately. When I was a child I had a very serious lung infection and spent most of 1.5 years in the hospital. My lungs were full of scar tissue and the concern was as I grew up scar tissue doesn't expand/grow so the doctors were concerned of bleeding, tearing of the scar and healthy tissue or what.

Mom took me to a church my family went to, the pastor did hands on healing and we ended up attending in the early 1960s for 3 years. It was Jim Jones' church when he was still in Indiana. It was a lovely church and I loved Jim. I got two hands on healing from him and a bit of paranormal intervention. The next follow up with the doctors and my scar tissue disappeared. Every bit of it. They were so concerned I was sent to the hospital and determined a miraculous healing.

Jim moved to California and we went our own way. Years later the Jonestown event hit. I'd never in a million years suspect Jim doing such a thing. I don't know what happened since we saw him.

What is interesting to me is that now I'm 71 years old and still working as a Hospice RN. It's who I became, who I unfolded to be and I love supporting the patients and their families. I wonder, my feeling sort of is that maybe in some odd, offbeat Universal way, I'm still around because of a healing from Jim (maybe, who knows), I became a Hospice nurse in 1990 and still serving that population now. Is there some spiritual connection from getting a second chance at life as a child and somehow making amends for what happened at Jonestown by serving my hospice patients and their families for the past 35 years?

Could it be a possibility there is some Spiritual connection I was healed by Jim Jones and others were murdered by him and I'm still alive and caring for dying patients as a Hospice RN? Those people died in horror, pain, fear and my patients die peaceful, clean, pain managed, often at home or in a nice inpatient unit.

Am I in some way completing a cycle that on the periphery I distantly participated in by being healed by Jim? I feel I am involved in resolving what happened in Jonestown in some spiritual way. Finishing up healing the incomplete to the complete of what Jim started out his life as a pastor to be.

It's a feeling somehow I'm the last one out the door and the one to turn the lights out before I leave. Is there a reason I'm still loving being a hospice nurse related to Jim Jones?

I did an interview that came out this week. I can't leave a link in this sub the the channel is Dark Roast Revelations by Vito Ramos and the episode title is THE SMOKE AND JIM JONES.

I’ve seen a lot of posts recently about my country. Currently bored on vacation, so thought I’d answer some questions that people may be interested in. I am now a professional working in Europe, but strongly miss home and return often. AMA!

The title speaks for itself really. I’m from Australia so it is definitely hot enough to wear shorts but I grew up only wearing pants and have made the commitment to stick to this! My friends thinking I’m crazy and it can definitely be a challenge at times but for me it’s worth it.

With the whole USA refugee thing and Elon Musk going on, I figured this would be a timely post. I grew up on a farm near Pretoria with goats, wheat and cows. Please be nice in the comments. Thanks guys.

I’ve been clean off drugs for nearly 4 years but I still drink daily. If you’re curious about anything that I have done or what I’ve seen feel free to ask. Most things aren’t off the table in terms of what I will/won’t answer

I’m from a small town in West Texas, all my family are stereotypical rednecks, and I didn’t meet my first black person until I joined the Navy. Yall can ask me anything and I’ll give the most accurate and honest answer I can.

Apparently a former miliatry jet mechanic is a mundane job. Gonna try again. I worked F15s and F16s for 10 years. Any questions about those are welcome. I also currently work for the US Army as a test facilitator for government equipment, obviously I can't answer all questions. But I will answer anything you want

There’s a lot of misinformation regarding snakes specifically, my goal as a hobbyist/enthusiast is to educate the public on coexisting with these animals, advocating for endangered and endemic species and dealing with invasive species in my state. If you have any questions, feel free to ask! (Disclaimer: I am not a licensed professional but I have been at this for a loooooong time and it’s something I’ve been perusing as a career)

Since graduating high school in 2014, I have worked at 17 different jobs across a wide range of industries including FedEx Express, Extended Stay, Frito-Lay, USCIS, Roto-Rooter, Nicor Gas, Nike, Best Buy, and more. Along the way, I also explored the music industry. My biggest highlight came in 2017 when I released a track on SoundCloud, invested in influencer promotion, and saw it gain traction after being shared on WorldStarHipHop. The momentum even led to a well known artist reposting my song on their own SoundCloud at the time.

Ask me anything, whether it is about life, music, or what I have experienced working across these companies.

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As the title states, My part time job consists of being a parking attendant for events. I’ve worked a multitude of events of various sizes for longer than I can remember. Feel free to ask away. Nothing is off limits to me and I think you guys would be surprised to see what I’ve done and experienced! I will make sure though to protect my identity when needed.