What type of secrets are there

They can also be silly, no big deal , and hella embarrassing at the same time. The truth is that secrets are largely dependent on those we tell them to. If I told my mother that one time I heard a police siren in the background of a rap song and got so paranoid I threw my entire purse out the window, it would be a really big deal. Telling that same secret to my best friend would be as easy as telling them about brushing my teeth.

Context matters , people. When it comes to sharing my secrets I tend to have an entire system. First, I make sure I know the severity of my secret. Is it a small little lie I want to come clean about, or a huge life changing secret that would ruin my life? Once I have that figured out, I rank the outcomes of their revelations against one another. If people knew that I hate sloths would it cause my world to crumble all around me?

How about the fact that I love eating blocks of expensive store-bought cheese? Would my four-month long love affair with the band Tokyo Hotel in high school fare well with my loved ones? Once that is all figured out, I turn to the final part of my system. Who will be on the receiving end of my truth? I am lucky enough to have friends on the entire friend spectrum that runs from "being part of me like a lung or a bladder" to "met them by accident at a deli and we hit it off".

Because of this, there are certain secrets I reveal to some and not to others. Not everyone is privy to finding out about the one time I scared Adam Pally at the Universal Studios lot by very forcefully saying "sup" as I walked by.

Below are some secrets that you tell certain types of friends and not to others. Because we all have that one friend we tell everything to This type of friend has always pushed you to be the version of yourself your parents would talk up at parties. In fact — they are basically your third parent. Your achievements are met with celebratory cheers and they are always the first person you would share your secret promotion with.

Their life is coming together while yours consists of flopping around aimlessly, so This type of friend puts you to shame on the accomplishment scale. What I did was a [terrible] thing, and my family is continuing to drown in debt from medical bills I plan to pay them back someday. Today I feel horrible about what I did, and I desperately want to tell everyone that it was a lie, but I know that I cannot because I will never gain credibility back again.

Everyone has fantasized about winning the lottery at one point in their lives, but what about what happens afterwards? After all, baking from scratch is a meticulous art that requires accuracy and this one budding baker, Redditor iGotYouThisCake, decided to skip all that. The baker continued confessing.

What exactly is the point of lying about being colorblind? Redditor ABCH was raised by foster families starting around the age of seven. She found out was a boy at a late ultrasound and then moved across the country. It was just the two of us all my life, we had contact with other people, of course, but they rarely got very close. I had lots of friends, but was always supervised. I just accepted all of this as fact, having never been told anything different.

I knew about men and women, but had never really seen much of naked people. And then they found out. Meanwhile, my mother was taken in for questioning, too. It was really really traumatic. He had some depressive issues as an adolescent, but fortunately, one of his foster families helped with the transition.

His first foster parents made him cut his long hair; his second set of foster parents allowed him to keep it long and choose activities that he wanted to do—no matter what it was. School can be stressful, as Redditor HalfEducated confesses. They never got their degree—but told their parents they did. Lied to everyone. Made up fake transcripts. These were then reviewed by a researcher, who manually created 38 broad categories into which these could fall.

For instance, stealing from a person known to you, and stealing from an organisation were put into the category 'theft'. Distinctions were made between things like emotional infidelity flirting , and sexual infidelity cheating.

Some secrets were so personal to a participant that they did not fit into one of the other categories. The study found that secrets weigh on us, even when there's little danger that they will be uncovered.

Measuring the frequency of 'mind wandering' onto one's secrets, the study found that people dwell on their secrets on a more frequent basis than when they are 'actively concealing' the secret from a person or group of people. Trending Emily Ratajkowski explains why Pete Davidson is seen as so attractive.

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