Raoul_Foil_Duke wrote:

What's up with all these people posting COMPLETELY WEIRD stuff for their first posts? It's like trolling on steroids...

artizhay wrote:

It's quite possible that this is a real person and she probably doesn't appreciate being called "COMPLETELY WEIRD." Now I haven't been here long so I can't differentiate the trolls from the legitimate people, but people come here for advice regardless of the severity or complexity of the situation. Therefore, it's a good idea to provide quality feedback instead of insulting someone who really needs help. If you search for advice websites in Google, this site comes up. So naturally, if someone wanted advice, they would come here and register, then immediately ask for opinions regarding their situation, hence the low post count.

Raoul_Foil_Duke wrote:

Yes, that's completely possible, in which I would apologize as I mean no offense. However, over the last week there have been multiple people coming on with 2 or 3 posts, all of which look a bit like trolling. They're all quite long, contain several implausible, off the wall fears (babies see my face in their mother's womb and that's why they're born, a family on a reality show that I never have or never will meet will be mad that I "copied" their name, my neighbors are turning on ambulance sirens to make me freak out, i have a husband but am going to ask the internet whether the neighbors think i'm insane and suffering from delusions thinking i'm famous because the oxygen man asked for an "autograph" on the bill, stuff like this)

They generally appear around the same time of day, and read like they could have been easily written by the same person. The OP never responds to anyone after opening the thread. Several of the similar threads written by different screen names all operate because of a misunderstanding of a common word or phrase.

I'm not saying someone can't just jump in and start asking for help, after all, that's what the site is for, but do you agree there are some coincidences going on here?

If I'm wrong, sorry to the OP. I'll give you my autograph to make up for it

Girlsnextdoor wrote:

My grandma lives with me-- I took her in. My husband agreed to let her stay with us in our apartment.

My husband was at work, my grandma has a breathing problem and she has an oxygen tank, that needs checked every couple of months. This older man checked hers today.


He didn't look at me once and barely smiled. He talked to my grandma but not me. I was upset because I felt like there was something wrong with me.


Before he came to my house to check my grandma's oxygen tank, I was writing in my spiral notebook, songs I wanted to download for my mp3 player.


We have a see-through glass door and like I said, we live in an apartment. Our neighbors live LITERALLY next door. They can see inside my living room. The man who checks the oxygen tank, asked my grandma to autograph this paper (verifying that he did what he came to do). When he said autograph I flipped inside. I felt like when he was coming into my apartment he saw me writing in my notebook and I also forgot to mention that I was writing my name in cursive because I like how it looks. And I was bored!


I am totally embarrassed because he and my neighbor's probably think I'm thinking I'm famous and that I am a mentally ill person who thinks I'm famous.

That to me is probably the reason he was so mean, is because he thought I was a mentally ill person. Now when I see my neighbor's coming into their apartment I have to stop writing for fear that they'll get a kick out of thinking I'm mentally ill and that they feel sorry for me cause in their mind I'm trying to be famous and they know I won't ever be (not that I want to).


How do I not let this bother me? I mean, the guy didn't have to say autograph, he could've said sign. Is it true that they were thinking I was thinking I was signing autographs?