Sharing Personal Information

Miakal

This is lifted from The Failure thread, obviously.

How easy or difficult is it for you to share personal information about yourself?

On the message board I typically don't share any personal information. A lot of people, in private conversations, have said something about that to me. I'm not even fully sure why it is I do this.

I'm like this in real life as well. Growing up I felt extremely ashamed of the things that were going on in my personal life, with good reason, and never told anyone about them. I never let people come over to my house because I was afraid they'd tell their parents. I hated to tell people anything. I didn't like telling them where my father worked. I absolutely never talked about my mother, for any reason whatsoever. I would just not mention her.

I remember in 7th grade this girl, who had a crush on me (of course), asked me if I was a test tube baby because apparently I had no mother. Ouch! Though I think even test tube babies technically have mothers, she was obviously hitting on the fact that I never said a word about mine.

Now things haven't changed much. My mother has passed away. If I'm in a relationship with a woman it's months before I actually reveal that she has died. I've often joked that she dances on Broadway or does theatre in New York to avert attention. I say it as a joke and it's taken as such but the fact that I do this at all seems curious.

My father has only met one girl I've been with. One. Out of several billion. The last relationship I was in was fairly serious. We had been together for almost two years and she never met my father. We made plans once and I canceled. One time I even showed her where my father lived, yet I didn't invite her to meet him for 1-5 minutes.

I seem to have this weird thing where I prefer to be unknown.

It's easy for me to talk/joke about sex and drugs on the forum because I know nobody really takes it seriously anyway. There's a kind of power in that. If you doubt if I'm telling the truth then you're not realy getting to know me.

I've probably shared the most in this one thread than I ever have in all my previous posts combined on the board.

Jackie Pies

I've been watching you w/ bi-noculars anyways, so I already know all of your personal info. get some curtains you filthy man.

Miakal

I needed to use my curtains as a pair of pants when my old ones were thrust out the window in the heat of passion.

Jackie Pies

since when do you wear pants?

Miakal

Before I make love I like to put a pair on so I can have something to take off.

Joe Cool

Administrator

Obviously it depends on what you consider personal.

Each of us have a different opinion on this.

I have no problem relating past events that effected me or made me into who I am if it relates to a topic or can help people understand where I am coming from. Again I don't use names and people have no idea of the history of said people so I don't consider it "personal" in the way that would stop me from discussing it with people.

In regards to my family (IE. Wife and Child) most of you know that my wife is expecting and I try to keep everything else private.

P.S. Miakal's love poems to me I will show to any one who asks :erm2:

Randy Orton

WC's Resident Alchoholic

I try to keep things secret for the most part. If i talk about people I know to others I just say my friend and don't use their name at all. To my friends I'll tell them everything I don't really care because I can trust them.

Twisted Nerve

keeping stuff secret is good, in a way that we have something to ourself . Most people who hide stuff ,to me are jus afraid that they wont be accepted , not saying thats what anyone does here. But in real life (lol) people who i have encountered who are very reserved only are because they long for normality and by sharing stuff they think they will not acheive it. When to be fair by opening up people actually do. There is not one person in this world who doesn't hide a personal side of them.

Also all what i wrote mainly applies to real life situations, on the internet i will share some things but nothing that will reveal my inner fears or how i am feeling at the moment. Also i would never share certain aspects of my past only happy memories . :happy:

Chewy

You can pretty much piece together my life through my putting together all my posts. Like for example Quagmire (my first Character) was at first just a joke, but after awhile just a stoner on my way down to depersion, I traveled to England as Quagmire and some other stuff happened, but this character was the beginning of my down fall. Then Demetrius happened a.k.a My Depersion Character, I decided I need a change, I started to feel Dark deep down and was starting to experiment with new drugs ("Hey Guys im High On E"....sound familar *sigh*), things were getting worse, my world was crumbling. So I ended up going into rehab (Demetrius disapeared for awhile recently) and got my self cleaned up. So now enters Chewy, (the new charater) im now been clean for 39 days and havent felt better. So that concludes the in a short story....

THE 3 FACES OF MATT