Has anyone ever realised a thread is about them?

[Diel]

Wondering if anyone has ever recognised a thread is about them and responded?

I'm purely asking out of curiosity, no experience of it

Did you mean to include your real name in your post @Hairy?

I think there's genuinely a lot of overlap in many people's lives that even if you have a blazing row with your MIL about not having the rings at the wedding being held by a donkey in a giraffe suit, there's probably someone else having that argument also. But then it does depend on the level of detail as they could be Margaret and Ann and you Julia and Ygritte for example

Probably not Voodoo .

Although anyone involved would know it was me anyway!

Not about me but I recognised one that was about my mum and was grossly unfair. Told the person I'd seen it and they apologised and deleted. Never mentioned it to my mum but she'd probably not have been too offended. It does make me question what the other side to the story might be when I read MIL threads now

Not here but on a TES forum there was a poster I recognised, he mentioned the International school he worked at and enough information to identify himself. He made a negative comment that could only have been about me.

I'm constantly spotting my sister and her me. Hey there Oldbirdy

Pippa no come she would give up the constant attention! she asked me to take it down in case her partners pregnant wife saw and found out more details of their affair which may have interfered with their divorce and custody agreements

We speak very rarely now but of my choosing.

Once posted about DDs birthday party and an incident with another child was told AWBU which was fair enough, then someone came on saying she was a friend of DDs friends parents. No idea if it was true or not but freaked me out and now i don't really post about anyone (did do a recent one about my neighbour, but don't think she's on here) and just ask for general advice.

I know the gender of a friends baby.

She's posted her scan picture on the pregnancy/anti natal boards and although her name wasn't on it, it's the same as the one I was sent - so when she said what gender baby they were having on here, I knew it was her.

They aren't telling people in real life which I can understand, so I'm just saying nothing.

I recognise a thread once about a nursery i worked in. Op said child had got sunburnt at nursery. Everyone was telling her to report to Ofsted take child out.

I never responded to the thread as i am a professional but what the op forgot to say that a, she didn't provide suncream for her child! ( We did put nursery cream on child) b, she didn't provide a sunhat. ( We don't have spare hats) and that when she collected her child at 1pm they had been in a shaded garden area for about 45mins that morning. There was no mention of child looking burnt when she left with him. She rang nursery at 5pm to complain about him being burnt. A member of staff on their way home had seem mum and child in the park that afternoon, no Sun hat on and no shade on the play equipment area of the park.
Yet mum decided the sunburn was from nursery!

So things are not always as they seem.

She also went on to complain on thread that her son's nappy wasn't changed enough. Yet she never provided nappies and we were constantly having to borrow nappies for him!

She obviously felt guilty for letting her child burn and decided if she blamed it on nursery she wouldn't have to except it was her fault.

We never mentioned seeing the thread to her but after that we phoned her to bring her child suncream nappies,spare clothes everytime she forgot. She soon began to remember when she had to keep coming out of work to bring stuff in.

Not a thread but I've been mentioned in a couple of posts in quite an unflattering way, along with the poster's ex and his new girlfriend The poster in question is a total loon and I suspect they might be banned now. They had a serious crush on both Nigel Farage and Donald Trump which confirms their insanity as far as I'm concerned.

Bluebubble, that's a perfect example of 2 sides to every take. Did she then start a thread saying you kept calling her out of work because you'd used her nappies for another child?

Tale*

Voodoo, the situation got so bad with nappies i bought a pack of nappies myself as i can't bare borrow off other children. She did bring a few extra in a couple of times so i kept those back to build up a spare stock as everyone forgets sometimes it the repeat offenders that are the problem.

Bluebubble unless there was other identifying information, how can you be sure it was the same mum? On any hot day I would imagine more than one child attending nursery in the UK will get sunburn.

I've recognised a mum from school on here. I wouldn't have done if she hadn't told me she uses MN and I recognised a post about something that was happening in her life that we'd talked about. She's absolutely lovely so I purposely don't search for her posts as would feel wrong.

I posted something fairly recently about a work problem that I then worried would be too identifying and so stopped adding to my own thread. I'd have loved to update that thread as things did get quite interesting but daren't.

It was definitely her i could tell by 2 or 3 different things she said.

No but I really hope cake mum on the other active thread reads it and realises it's about her

I didn't recognise myself but during a particularly bad patch in my relationship witn DP when DD was a baby I posted for some relationship support/advice. Someone recognised him/me and told him. He was fuming, nor even upset just absolutely furious.

It was prettty vague so it's a mystery to me how anyone knew it was him but I think it was his sister. She made a bad situation so much worse. I know it's irrational but I have never quite forgiven her.

whatsthecomingoverthehill - sharp intact of breath there! .

I was recognised about 5years ago, different user name. I'd had a relationship problem and the mners awake got me through the night. A colleague put 2+2 together . I came off mn for a time but used to re read the thread as it gave me strength. I'm still not sure why the colleague told me, she wasn't a friend or supportive.

Not on here, but on a different forum I'd inadvertently given my sister the same advice that I had given her in real life. I didn't recognise her (to me it was generic baby advice) but she recognised me immediately as my posting style is fairly distinctive if you know me. I don't think she ever posted there again. I've no idea if she posts here or not, but just in case, Hello!

Not on here, but my SIL pretended to be my brother on a text. Ranting about me deleting her from FB, (she used it to spy on me and relay twisted stories to my mother) - my brother most definitely wouldn't have brought that up and added to that the style was so not him it was really obvious. I replied 'hi , you never spoke to me on FB so what's the big deal?'

Yes, read a thread about a situation at school involving DD. Now good friends with the OP!