Do you ever not post things you want help with out of fear of being recognised IRL?

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I used to post a lot under a regular username until one day someone recognised a post. She contacted me direct and was lovely and supportive, but got a bit freaked out that I'd been recognised in a place I felt anonymous. So I don't really post personal stuff now and change username regularly. The thing is, I could really do with help from people not involved quite often, but I don't post because I am worried that my issue are too identifying. Does anyone else feel the same?

yes. I do. I don't post about a terrible trauma and I feel very isolated. I think I might be recognised so best not to.

Yes, absolutely.

i try to be careful sometimes the anonymity means i have posted at times more than i would in real life , i guess my saving grace is the fall back position of its just fiction.

I've never name changed and I'm not unduly worried about being identified. However I don't think I'd seek help on here.

I posted on here and someone recognised me from a Facebook support group I had posted in, they were quite nasty and started misquoting things I had said and threatened to “expose me” the worst part is I had no idea who it was from the group so I don’t post on there anymore now as it felt weird that someone was so invested in me and not knowing who it was I can’t even block them.

I have posted in the past but purposely changed things to keep my situation real but different if that makes sense. I also name change a lot. Probably every month.

There is nothing new under the sun. And if on a chat forum with literally millions of users, you are identified in real life, then you've given too many pieces of identifying information.

I recognised someone I knew once. She mentioned on her threads the (smallish) town we lived in, her precise age, her job and a specific issue she was having with it, her relationship woes and her new partner's fairly uncommon job. That's too much information.

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Name change and change details. I've always done this because unfortunately some posters make it a strange hobby to track posters down in rl and also if you used the same username and deliberately changed details to keep a post anonymous, they won't let you.they will track down your old posts and say ", you said you had 3 boys here. Troll.

So change names frequently and change details and post and ask.

Yeah change your name frequently and also reply to posts with different usernames especially if outing topics