To ask if anyone has ever seen a thread about themself on here?

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Haven't been on here for all that long and was wondering whether there have ever been any cases of people recognising themselves in a thread and announcing their presence. It would make excellent entertainment for the rest of us. I live in fear of an AIBU about me mainly because I'm a teacher.

I think I might have a few years ago. She wasn't specifically talking about me more about the general situation (dangerous family dog, I told her me or the dog) and majorly played down how seriousness of the situation.
She was told YABU.

here is the lemon drizzle debacle. it is in classics.

she also has another brilliant thread there about ldc replying all when bitching about the pta & the head.

v funny.

Of sorts. I've noticed people I know from other forums. It has made me wary as I recognise how easy a couple of innocuous details can add up and I very soon realised who the ladies were!

Not a thread, but a post, and it wasn't mean - it was just a specific incident my DS created that happened when we were together.

We know that we both use MN though - however I didn't mention that I'd read that post

dingdongdonna that's the one!

Yes. Someone posted a thread about me and lots of other people and made suppositions about me which were unfair. But natural justice saw the thread run it's course ... I love telling the story now but it was pretty horrid for a few days.

If anyone does recognise me, I don't mind, this is a username I use quite publicly...

Thanks eddie. Superb!

I've spotted myself in a thread. but as poster was being very discrete and not trying to get me or themselves recognized I said nothing.

Not quite the same, but I did once have someone " quote" me on a thread once to make the point that I was lying or contradicting myself.. i started a thread saying I thought Prince George was a bit miserable ( ok it was a slow day chez Prima!) and they quoted me saying in other threads how I hated people commenting on my baby.. I gently pointed out couldn't possibly be right because I Dont actually have any biological children...strangely they never responded

So what's the conclusion? The conclusion is that ops on this site tend to twist the truth and so when you next declate that yanbu really you should be declaring yabu!

Yes, quite a few actually

I got one deleted just last night.

does anybody remember a thread about a birthday party, where OP I think said that another mum was trying to make her party into a joint one? Everybody agreed she was a total bitch. And then the other mum showed up and gave a totally different picture of the events.

I've recognised myself in two comments and thought another was probably about me as it seemed to fit and was by the same poster. The middle one was v upsetting and I flounced for six months, oddly nobody noticed

Sadly they were all fair comment, though from a very negative pov. It has made me look again at some aspects of my life, though unfortunately I think it made me give up completely in some areas rather than take more positive action. It is very strange on the extremely rare occasions when I meet the poster in question.

I think the conclusion is that knowing only what people post on here gives you very little information indeed. Most people respond in their posts on that basis but I do feel even worse about 'you sound lovely' and ltb responses than I used to.

Some interesting comments on here. Just this am I was thinking about a thread I have recently viewed. It sounded very similar to something going on to someone in RL. The person was getting lots of sympathy. If it is the person I know then it wasn't really deserved.

I've been recognised.
Which gave me a fright initially, but just reminds me not to post anything I'd not be happy to say in RL

I totally live in fear of someone I'm whinging about on here recognising themselves and being being upset ... So can I just say

I'M ONLY VENTING AND I LOVE YOU ALL REALLY

Except for the pushy drive-gravelly shouty men. You're still gits.

Not that I know of but I was told a story by a friend re her daughter d fiend and recognised I knew the story from mums net and blurted out I knew all about it.

Friend asked her daughter who said no way would her friend have posted on MN , she is apparantly a much too private person and wouldn't need the support.

I made sure I didn't let on I knew any ore as it was a long ongoing saga.

I am the very very last person anybody would imagine on here no worries.

I often wonder if people are massively unreasonable in real life! Like when they say, "I asked my neighbour to turn down the music and he called me a cunt" and of course everyone says YANBU...but perhaps the poor neighbour is sitting there thinking, "But you poisoned my cat and firebombed my ice cream van, and music is the only way I can numb the pain."

This made me laugh, so true, I sometimes wonder the same.

No, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was an AIBU about me lol!

I was recognised as posted primarily on a section about an interest I have the details of which would have - if you already knew me - made me pretty recognisable. I shared rather more sensitive info on a very different section and a real life stalker then took that info and shared it with very many people (who knew nothing of it) as evidence of our closeness!

I am now paranoid. It was bizarre and unfortunate. I never post about my job, interests or anything that might make me recognisable (or interesting!) and I have at least 50 alternative names which share no thematic link. You see - paranoid!

And now I will have to name change soon just in case.

Oh and the relevant bit was that she also posted about me ... It was all crazy and I pretended to never notice.