To ask what incorrect statements/assumptions have made about you on Internet forums?

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Back in the early days of Internet forums, I posted on one (not MN) as a student, celebrating that I'd been offered a particular grad job.

Someone replied that I was clearly lying because only people with a certain degree could do that job. I most certainly wasn't lying and am still in the same career almost 2 decades later. I will never forget the disdain it was written with by this snooty know-it-all (and how much it hurt as I was only 20 at the time).

I was also accused about lying about my religion because I'd also mentioned Christmas gifts (many of us living in the U.K. do still give Christmas gifts even if not Christian).

Curious to know what else you've been incorrectly accused of lying about online?

My profession
My politics
My education

Sometimes if someone posts ‘I have a concern about Biden’ lots will think - concern with Biden = hates Biden = loves Trump = bad person = extreme right wing nutcase. Lots of folks struggle with nuance online!
Disclaimer: this is an example and an illustration. I have not posted this and I have not seen this exact example to link to.

Voted leave = Tory racist xenophobe Boris lover.
Never voted Tory in my life. Can’t stand Boris.

Agree about no nuances.

Because I said I disagreed with a second EU referendum that I was a Tory voting hard Brexiteer, or that I was lying or a Russian bot for this view.

Meant to add I voted Remain.

Been accused of being a man a few times

I won't out myself but I was a member of a forum a good ten years or so ago now where someone asked a question about something that was in my field of work. I answered it, accurately, and then had a pile on about how wrong I was and then disbelief that I did the job I did and must be lying etc. I was absolutely correct but the experience of a whole host of people being very snipey and personal was not a nice one and does sit with me when I think about how well known people must feel reading unfair awful things about them online daily

I once submitted a story about my boss to a website that was absolutely pulled apart in the comments for being "clearly fake". It was 100% true.

Someone on FB said I clearly hated old people because I said I doubted the veracity of some of the stories doing the rounds when Covid first hit about old men clutching shopping lists and sobbing in empty supermarket aisles.
Apparently since I am “very young” I can’t possibly understand but might when I get older - I am nearly 50!!

I was called Anti Semitic on here the other day too when I said the treatment of Palestinians by Israel was wrong.

Several times on here I've been called a lying bitch for saying I don't have Facebook. It's apparently impossible that I don't have it and that my family don't have it either (I have about 6 family members in total with an average age of about 65).
I don't have any other social media accounts either. MN is the closest I get to anything like that.

I was told I was lying about having a degree in Ancient history when I mentioned it on an article about a dig I had actually been on, that was run by my university. Apparently I worked in McDonald's. (Total strangers, male, on Facebook.)

I was accused of having a grudge against the NHS a few years ago on here. No idea what that was all about, I can't even remember.

Because I was upset about my (rubbish hen do) I was told that my marriage was failed to doom, I didn't deserve to be married etc. Was bloody brutal.

It was 5 years ago and I am still happily married.

I was not believed when I says I earned 10x my husband’s salary. One person got quite angry about it.

I'm on a break now for children.

However been around years due to long history of infertility.

Years ago when I joined I used to try and help in legal when people posted asking for Scotland advice. I am a family solicitor normally.

I had to give up because of the amount of people telling me I was wrong, the law was wrong, the advice was wrong, all based on English law which is entirely different. I still cringe when someone posts something about a Scottish query and people pile in with the English position. I even had a client come to see me once with a printed mumsnet thread and hundreds of people giving her advice about English law.

@Shoxfordian

Been accused of being a man a few times

Same.

Highly ironically, I get accused first of being a man, then of suffering from "internalised misogyny" for disagreeing with other women.

It doesn't go down well when I point out that assuming a woman is a man and marginalising her opinions is a far more egregious case of internalised misogyny.

Being a socialist lefty who is just jealous of people with money. I work in the City!

That I cannot be both dyslexic and a fully qualified, working, teacher.....apparently the training would make it ILLEGAL to qualify if I had dyslexia....

That I’m ‘bitter and hateful’. Slightly bemused by that at 7 o’clock in the morning I can tell you. I was actually concerned and frustrated so quite what was going on in the posters own life at the time I’ve no idea.

Someone once called an AIBU of mine into question because I had mentioned blackberry picking and her blackberries weren't ripe yet

The best one was someone questioning whether it could be true that I had a career that I could only do in London. "What is she, a Beefeater?" I mean it was annoying, but at least it was funny.

Oh I’m always a troll because I was teen mum who now earns good money 🙈

Oh and I don’t care about my eldest DS.

I started a thread on here a couple of years ago that attracted a couple of negative comments. Totally inert topic along the lines of healthy eating. Somehow I got wind of talk on Reddit (never been on Reddit before or since) and found a whole section on there where they just slag off what's going on on Mumsnet that day. I got ripped to shreds, saying I was a troll, a pervert, I should be banned. It was vicious. It really upset me. It was disgusting how vile these people could be.

@brokengate

I'm on a break now for children.

However been around years due to long history of infertility.

Years ago when I joined I used to try and help in legal when people posted asking for Scotland advice. I am a family solicitor normally.

I had to give up because of the amount of people telling me I was wrong, the law was wrong, the advice was wrong, all based on English law which is entirely different. I still cringe when someone posts something about a Scottish query and people pile in with the English position. I even had a client come to see me once with a printed mumsnet thread and hundreds of people giving her advice about English law.

Urrgh, I feel your pain.

I was told I was lying or mistaken about my car only having 4 seats on here

Even after I’d pointed out it was a convertible and definitely only had 4 seats, I was just lying to get out of giving someone a lift.