What’s something you did once that felt completely unhinged… but you’d totally do it again?
September 1, 2025
What’s something you did once that felt completely unhinged… but you’d totally do it again?
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Ate fried chicken dangling outside the edge of my friends hot tub
I moved across the country days after I turned 18 to live with my online boyfriend who I had only met once in person. We’re celebrating 20 years together in November! He is truly the love of my life.
Rode on the top of someone’s car holding on to the roof racks. We weren’t going that fast, as we were only on side streets and no main roads.
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I’ve told this story before in great detail.
But it was the day of my 19th birthday, when I came of age and was legally eligible to take ownership of a trust fund that my biological parents left me when they died.
My foster parents had “decided on” (and gaslighted me into) the idea that when I gained rights to the money I would sign it over to them in “gratitude” for the work they’d done in raising me. Then they would continue to be my caretakers into adulthood, because (according to Mormons) a woman isn’t allowed to manage her own finances at that level. She needs a dad or a husband for that.
I decided no, I was taking that money for my own purposes. I arranged with the lawyer who administered the trust fund that an off-duty police officer would be present to escort the fosters out of his office while I did the paperwork and took full ownership like I was entitled to. Then I got an escort back to the fosters’ house to pack up my stuff and leave to a safe house I’d arranged.
I used the trust to fund my own Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees, and landed a dream job where I’ve been promoted to management already. Compared to the alternative, spending decades trapped as a Mormon breeder who has no value on her own merits.
No regrets!
I have a fear of heights and to tackle that fear I went skydiving today. Felt like a pretty insane choice, at least thats how my friends and family reacted when I told them about it
Im the kind of person that didnt stick with sports as a kid because I was always anxious id get hurt, didnt learn to ride a bike for the same reason…the most anxious and careful person, then this week I was like fuck it, lets jump out of a plane
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Ate fried chicken dangling outside the edge of my friends hot tub
I moved across the country days after I turned 18 to live with my online boyfriend who I had only met once in person. We’re celebrating 20 years together in November! He is truly the love of my life.
Rode on the top of someone’s car holding on to the roof racks. We weren’t going that fast, as we were only on side streets and no main roads.
[removed]
I’ve told this story before in great detail.
But it was the day of my 19th birthday, when I came of age and was legally eligible to take ownership of a trust fund that my biological parents left me when they died.
My foster parents had “decided on” (and gaslighted me into) the idea that when I gained rights to the money I would sign it over to them in “gratitude” for the work they’d done in raising me. Then they would continue to be my caretakers into adulthood, because (according to Mormons) a woman isn’t allowed to manage her own finances at that level. She needs a dad or a husband for that.
I decided no, I was taking that money for my own purposes. I arranged with the lawyer who administered the trust fund that an off-duty police officer would be present to escort the fosters out of his office while I did the paperwork and took full ownership like I was entitled to. Then I got an escort back to the fosters’ house to pack up my stuff and leave to a safe house I’d arranged.
I used the trust to fund my own Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees, and landed a dream job where I’ve been promoted to management already. Compared to the alternative, spending decades trapped as a Mormon breeder who has no value on her own merits.
No regrets!
I have a fear of heights and to tackle that fear I went skydiving today. Felt like a pretty insane choice, at least thats how my friends and family reacted when I told them about it
Im the kind of person that didnt stick with sports as a kid because I was always anxious id get hurt, didnt learn to ride a bike for the same reason…the most anxious and careful person, then this week I was like fuck it, lets jump out of a plane