Strange posts in ask me anything

[Bythehairywartsonmywitchychin]

There’s a couple of strange and not very nice posts in ask me anything....

I came by to mention these.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/AMA/4056437-I-used-to-hurt-animals-as-a-child-I-now-have-animals-as-an-adult-AMA

And

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/AMA/4056438-I-tried-to-murder-adults-as-a-child-including-my-own-mother-AMA

Awful

I agree. Deeply unpleasant.

Yea please do get rid, horrible stuff there.

I'm starting to wonder if new threads should have the first post reviewed before being published. These trolls are despicable.

Reported this too. Very disturbing.

Horrible

I reported one as well, where's @nightwotcha?

Also reported both threads thank you

Creepy.

Both taken down

I saw those too... very weird. Good they have been reported.

Thanks for the reports

I'm not sure I agree- I mean yes, not nice to read for sure but I was more shocked to see how in denial some people are. These things do happen to children and this is how some react, hurting others. Her story completely adds up, I'm educated in this field of psychology. It's hard to read, which is why it should be read. This was a brave post imo, turning the other cheek is exactly how abuse this OP suffered continues for so many children. Perhaps the OP was hoping to educate but got the cold shoulder by some. Personally I find this very sad. I applaud the OP they've come a long way.

Even if it were true, @Timetochoose123 (and I’m sure such things happen) it’s better kept to a therapeutic setting.

People don’t want to read detailed descriptions of animal abuse, and the time of night it was posted, suggested she knew that it wasn’t appropriate.

Didn't see the animal one thank god, but of a coïncidence it's at the same time as the other one though, ugh

@Timetochoose123 Animal abuse and homocide are not topics that are posted at 1:00AM in an "AMA" forum by people with good intentions. I'm sure people might have been more sympathetic to her plight if she had talked about overcoming her abuse without the graphic detail and triggering clickbait.

I also reported these threads.

@feministfemme Well said.

I think it's best if the posts are not discussed any further now

is it half term?

I can't remember exactly what her post was named but I do remember it was explicit. You knew what you were going to read about and then when the reality was exposed became angry at her. There is so much in that right there. Unbelievably symbolic of closed curtains, turn the other cheek behaviour. The day we as a society take responsibility for the abuse that children in our community suffer is the day we will see change.

Maybe it was a troll- whatever that is anyway.... A sociopath perhaps that enjoys upsetting people, has no awareness of their impact towards others only geared towards their gain? Well maybe then it was a 'troll' many, many abused children suffer lifelong severe mental health issues that they never asked for. But whoever they were, they showed change, a long hard struggle to do better. Would a troll do that?

I still think there was an education in that post and their other one. I don't know, part of me wonders that if it upset you so much you shouldn't have clicked onto it, you knew what you'd be reading. Other readers may have been able to offer her empathy rather than shut it down and be angry at the exposure of horrors that happen to children every single day, adding shame and isolation.

@Timetochoose123 Are you the OP's NC? Trolls and sociopaths are not the same thing. I think abused children can change, but that wasn't a good example of an improved mental state (if it was real, which I doubt).