What one thing would people never guess about you?

[Thisisit777]

Me - I was shy at school and rarely talked.

You?

That I was bullied relentlessly at school. Anyone I tell now is all "but you're so confident and funny and loud that can't be true"
It took 6 years of living overseas to be happy in my own geeky skin with my odd sense of humour.

Also, that I saved three people's lives. 1 from drowning and two from choking (1 of the chokers was my ds, I was terrified)

I have been very wealthy and very poor several times in my life.

I’m sexually very dominant.

That I grew up on a shithole council estate.

That I have a stammer. I pick my vocabulary so well I talk without using certain letters and sounds. I've been doing it for over 30 years since I was in primary school. I've mastered the art of it.

DH is the only person who's ever heard me stammer.

That I'm in love with a man 22 years younger.

I played bass guitar in a punk band in the late 70s.

That I have been pregnant 9 times.
7 miscarriages and 2 kids.

That I probably suffer from depression, never diagnosed, never seen a dr but I regularly have severe drops in mood, become almost totally non verbal, stop eating and have strong suicidal thoughts and urges.
No one notices.

That I'm depressed 'oh but you're so happy'. Fake it till you make it.

That I was brought up with English as a second language.
I have no accent that might give my heritage away when I speak English.

I used to be a glamour model and bought my first house from it. Very much a middle class / aged twinset and pearls type now.

I used to be an addict.

I'm hard as fuck, brown belt in kickboxing (long time ago) Nobody I work with knows this

my mum brought me and my siblings up on benefits and we witnessed regular verbal and physical domestic abuse towards her from my "dad".
I'm very middle class and a professional now.

I'm mildly disabled now but I used to represent my county in athletics. No one I work with would ever guess. Oh, and I have a tattoo

I did work experience at 14 at Page3.com and invented their 'Beer Zoo'
I kissed a premiership footballer on my 21st (but didn't know they were a footballer )
I work in a very cool/trendy job, I am neither cool nor trendy.

I have a permanent ileostomy. It all happened very suddenly 8 years ago when I knew nothing about colitis or bowel surgery and I thought I was going to be an invalid or something. I live a perfectly normal life with few limitations and you’d only notice anything untoward when I occasionally make extended visits to the bathroom.

I’m a witch 🧙‍♀️

That I have been both a drug addict and a prostitute. Although strangely, not at the same time!

I'm nowhere near as posh as people assume I am, and am generally skint.

I have 6 tattoos (so fist-bump to GertrudeCB)

I'm much shyer and more easily hurt/sensitive than you'd expect from someone as gobby as me.

Fabulous thread idea, OP.

That I love ABBA. It's more of a "my parents' generation" thing.
I am very chatty with my friends and family but very quiet with people I do not know.
I'm with the poster who grew up with English as a second language and nobody knows that unless I tell them. In my case, it was my grandparents who had come from this country, so my parents wanted me to be exposed to it from when I was little but we still primarily use English.

Gosh you’re an interesting bunch.

What else re me? Oh yes, that i have Trichotillomania - but only re hairs on my legs!

That i miss who i thought my stbxh was.

WaterBird Nowt wrong with a bit of ABBA
I’m about 30 years too young to publicly admit I love them though

That my husband of 20+ years is actually my second husband.