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A place for any question you’ve ever been TooAfraidToAsk

Welcome to TooAfraidToAsk, a sub that's dedicated to providing a less restrictive question&answer discussion experience. We allow throwaways and do not remove 'google-able' questions. While your question may have been answered elsewhere, maybe its answer wasn't sufficient, maybe you didn't understand the answer or maybe you are looking for a discussion about the answer. At any rate, your question is welcome here as long as it follows our rules:

Rule 1 - Be Kind.

  • No asking methods of suicide or self-harm, even hypothetically

  • No providing methods of suicide or self-harm, even hypothetically

  • No advocating harm against others

  • No hateful, degrading, malicious, or bigoted speech against any person or group

  • No personal insults

Rule 2 - Be Helpful.

  • Top comments should try their best to be legitimate attempts to engage the OP
  • Cite your sources
  • De-escalate arguments if you can
  • No medical diagnoses, please encourage OP to see a physician if you are concerned

Rule 3 - Be Genuine.

  • No soapboxing, trolling, moralising, sealioning, or spamming
  • Try to give OP the benefit of the doubt
  • Don't question-shame the OP

Rule 4 - Post Must Meet Certain Criteria.

Feel free to suggest ways we can improve. Feedback is incredibly helpful to us. Please be kind when you write in. We are people like you, doing our best.

Check out our wiki by clicking here if you need further clarification, we have written much more detail into what constitutes our rules here.

All opinions are welcome as long as they are presented respectfully and follow the above guidelines. Rules here are kept more relaxed than our sister subs intentionally to allow as close to an organic user experience as possible. Automod uses reports to decide if a submission is removed and these are all reviewed by a mod within 24 hours. Bans are typically last resorts and the mod team maintains a strict open-door policy. New accounts are currently limited due to spam concerns, if you have a real post you’re trying to make, please write in so it can be approved. Do not hesitate to reach out to us about any questions, concerns and/or comments you have about the sub.

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Hit my head on the long shut part edge of laptop while falling backwards?Should I see a doctor?

Everyone is saying overreacting,so I can’t tell if it’s me or the school.I had heat and after hitting it have me rush of energy and had pain for 2 days in the area.I still have bumps but pain left.I was a couple feet on my sofa when I had let my head fall back to relax.But it’s the 1st time I felt that type of pain.

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2024/10/31
06:39 UTC

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To people who keep reaching out to others who struggle to reply: what makes you keep in touch?

I am 42 and have metastatic breast cancer. It’s difficult for me to ask for/accept help, seek connection, and even identify when I need any of that. There are some who continue to maintain contact, and I’m so grateful for them but feel bad telling them I’m still feel like crap 8 mos after diagnosis. I’m tired, I’m scared, I’m sad physically, I am fatigued, in pain, nauseous, etc. I think they expect to hear that I’m doing better, but it’s early in my diagnosis and I’m still learning who I am now that my chosen career is ending because of this, and I have all the medical things to deal with. I think I feel like I don’t deserve their continued effort and it’s easier to not reply than to risk that they might get tired of hearing how poorly I’m doing. Any advice?

1 Comment
2024/10/31
06:13 UTC

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How do I get my hands on a bunch of gold coins for donating?

In Australia, a lot of places call for a gold coin donation and I never ever have any gold coins on me anymore. How do I get some?

1 Comment
2024/10/31
05:44 UTC

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explain this fetish to me? Not a furry he says

I have a friend who has this fetish and I don't understand it at all. He likes me to make videos with me in costumes (always soft furry types) with blankets over me and then to talk while muffled, dance and make hugging motions. I asked if he was a furry and he said no. I don't think it's sexual. I think the person is autistic and virginal (haven't asked). I've tried to ask and they just say it's comforting.

Has anyone heard of this before?

This person is interested in me as a partner but this feels red flag to me. They also never say anything remotely "intimate".

6 Comments
2024/10/31
05:21 UTC

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Why do we not seem to care about victims of natural disasters as much as man-made tragedies?

For instance just recently 90 people died in Spain due to floods yet hardly any media outlets outside of Spain itself bothered to pick up on reporting it. Meanwhile if some gunman storms a school in London and shoots up 10 people, we'll see it reported all over the world extensively and then the general public mourning heavily and leaving behind tons of flowers at the site of the attack.

Isn't all lives equally to be mourned over? Oh I guess not.

3 Comments
2024/10/31
05:12 UTC

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How do I remove hair from my balls (permanently)?

Has anyone ever done laser hair removal on their scrotum? Does it sting? is there a better way for permanent hair removal of the ball area?

25 Comments
2024/10/31
05:08 UTC

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how to get rid of dead skin?

Hi, it seems no matter how many times a week i exfoliate with a body scrub i always have dead skin the next day when i’m in the shower, is this just a me issue or is it normal?

6 Comments
2024/10/31
04:29 UTC

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Told my guy bff that I like him & he said he thinks we’re cool & that I remind him of some of his family. Did I misread his actions?

He's always taken me to nice restaurants & paid, stayed on the phone until 6 in the morning & also while he's at the gym working out. We've been vulnerable about personal things. Always sending songs to each other. I, along with all of my friends (including other guy friends), honestly thought the feelings were mutual but now I'm questioning myself.

7 Comments
2024/10/31
04:16 UTC

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How would a guy react if he knew I wrote a whole ass Wattpad story about him?

We are friends from college. We are flirty with each other but nothing has happened between us at all.

8 Comments
2024/10/31
02:41 UTC

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How common is it to remember the way a woman looked at you?

I just can't get it out of my mind. But we were in a group setting at work, I turned to my left, and some coworker was staring at me with dreamy starry eyes with a smile. Nothing ever came of it (a little too young) but that look is burned into my brain

7 Comments
2024/10/31
02:40 UTC

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Do other countries write in cursive?

I was thinking about it after I saw a billboard that had cursive writing, and it made me wonder do other countries/languages write in cursive as well?

16 Comments
2024/10/31
02:10 UTC

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Am I psychic or mentally ill?

How to tell the difference between?

4 Comments
2024/10/31
02:03 UTC

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Am I a dating red flag?

The more ‘self awareness’ I, 32F, get (thanks therapy), the more I feel like I’m a red flag as a person, especially when it comes to dating.

  • hyper independent
  • fearful avoidant attachment
  • late diagnosed neurodivergent
  • career driven (self employed)
  • never had a boyfriend/partner
  • never actively dated
  • overweight & I wouldn’t say pretty
  • few hobbies, most hobbies are solo hobbies (eg reading)
  • still learning emotional identification & regulation

Context, I had a few crushes when younger which were not reciprocated and have never been asked out by someone for more than s*x.

The unknown is scary, but more and more of my social circle are dating or finding partners.

I love my career and I openly acknowledge that I have a lot of self development to do.

I do feel sometimes like something is missing but I also don’t want to be with someone who I’m settling for or for the sake of being with someone. That’s unfair on them and myself. Sometimes I feel like I don’t want a relationship either.

Am I a red flag and is that something I can work on without compromising myself?

10 Comments
2024/10/31
01:59 UTC

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Assault or just harassment?

There used to be a guy at school who would always come up to me and jokingly talk about dirty things and wanting to "do me." I was always the weird disabled girl, so that's why he thought it was funny.

He would also start rubbing the inside of my thigh as he did this.

7 Comments
2024/10/31
01:58 UTC

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What happens to your foreskin after circumcision?

What happens to left over foreskin after circumcision like do they stitch it together into stuffed animals?

47 Comments
2024/10/31
01:43 UTC

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Why are so many rural US areas republican?

Even rural places like New York and California are red despite everywhere else voting blue. I know there's less people in rural areas, but why are those places conservative in the first place?

136 Comments
2024/10/31
01:20 UTC

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Why do indoor swimming pools have fire sprinklers?

They seem kind of pointless

14 Comments
2024/10/31
01:18 UTC

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is it unethical to talk with someone not looking at her?

i have autism and i usually talk with people without look at them, specially if i am nervous. but im scared that people will get mad at me if i keep doing this, but i simply can't, i get nervous and i stopped looking...

i need to get worried or is just silliness?

4 Comments
2024/10/31
01:17 UTC

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Men patriarchially, historically wanted women to wear less clothes and show more skin, and objectify them. Women generally now wear less clothing than even men for whatever reason. Isn't that a patriarchal bargain ? Do women know that men always wanted that ?

Clarification: my perspective is around Indvidual men and not the society at large when I use the word 'patriarchy'.
Collective Patriarchal behaviors have conventionally enforced covering women up however they have still provided access to women in what they thought was an acceptable practice e.g. marriage. Individually men in patriarchal societies also wanted to get access to woman to consume them visually or physically. Therefore, the outcome is the same i.e. men want woman to wear less clothes so that they can consume them visually or if the prevailing norms allow, physically.

16 Comments
2024/10/31
01:16 UTC

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is pooping blood always dangerous???

i have regularly had a small amount of blood in my poop for as long as i can remember. (both in the actual pieces and liquid drops in the water) i also chronically have bristol chart type 1-2 poop, rarely differing. i have discounted the blood as just a product of minor anal fissures (?) as i have very large, firm bowel movements due to dehydration or other factors. there is not blood every time, but about once a month there will be blood for ~3 times in a row. this has been happening for a very long time and i am otherwise healthy. could this be normal? am i gonna die? i understand the best advice is always to see a doctor but i genuinely do not believe it is that serious since its been happening so consistently for so long.

12 Comments
2024/10/31
01:07 UTC

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is it bad if being with an objectively beautiful women is important to me?

It’s definitely an insecurity thing. i want to be with a woman that other men want to be with as well and i want to be a guy that other guys are envious of because i can date really beautiful women. I also don’t want other women to think i can only be with girls that are a certain level of attractiveness. i know this is very shallow and vain but is it normal or healthy to feel this way? i am in a relationship as well if that adds any context.

1 Comment
2024/10/31
00:41 UTC

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Do you think people would have more sex if we weren’t so addicted to our phones?

4 Comments
2024/10/31
00:38 UTC

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Did Will Smith slapping Chris Rock suffer any negative consequences with his career for doing it looking back almost 3 years?

92 Comments
2024/10/31
00:07 UTC

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What if a mall santa gets a boner?

What if a mall santa gets a boner is there some type of protocol?

107 Comments
2024/10/31
00:03 UTC

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Would this be morally wrong?

Hello I need some input. I have been basically out the door with this job but the job market doesn’t agree with me. I’ve been here for over a year. More and more everyday, my bosses become beyond insufferable. I have never worked for two people who are the biggest narcissists, manipulative sh*t talkers. I feel so trapped there. I’ve applied to so many jobs. It’s just taking a toll on my mental and I’m not the only employee who feels like this. My biggest tipping point was this: I was recently in a car accident and ending up with whiplash / mild concussion. I was at work when my adrenaline finally died out. I took my unpaid lunch and went to get checked out. My boss never asked me what happened, if I’m okay, so on and so forth. But what she did ask me if I was good to stay till the end of my shift. Meanwhile I had already forgot a client and the lighting was bothering me terribly. I was baffled and she then became passive aggressive after I said no. My point of this is would it be ridiculous of me to put my notice in when I get back from this short LOA, and attempt to try to file for unemployment? I’m really dreading going back and I’ve applied for over 100 jobs now. This job is just so AHHH

3 Comments
2024/10/30
23:56 UTC

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Going into army what do I do about this girl I really like?

I’m 18 have no experience in women or anything ain’t been in a relationship before. She is a friend from school we used to talk quite a bit from time to time and she is a mutal friend of my close mates who knew her better than me from school. Long ass story told her I liked her and we have ended up snapping but her replies are fucking horrible (she told me that her replies are bad with everyone even my mate warned me and said her replies are fucked. I got left on delivered for 6 days but my mate said she does that cause her replies are that bad)

I don’t know what to do with her ain’t really had a deep convo with her just spoke about basic shit and it’s annoying cause gotta wait like hours to even reply so it’s some long ass convo. I told her that if I’m wasting time please let me know witch was retarded to say to her but I was running out of time with army and shit and I’m so shit and stupid at it and am getting better. She didn’t say I was wasting my time but didn’t tell me she wasn’t interested either so I don’t know what she thinks. I’m going in soon and don’t know what to do with her I really like her loads I have liked her for 6ish years and just couldn’t get over her. Should I wait till I’ve done basic training then ask her out? Do I stay In touch with her or just completely disappear then come back. I don’t know what to do it’s so annoying. I sort of wish I never told her and just waited till after training. And I know I’m stupid for even worrying about this while going into army but I just ain’t done this before and really like this girl loads.

Cheers.

12 Comments
2024/10/30
23:55 UTC

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Which USA companies would be more open to hire people living abroad?

I'm trying to avoid the low wages in my country by getting a remote job in a company from USA or even other English speaking country. I looked up some chat moderation jobs but despite being remote they still require you to live in USA.

I got the advantages of having a stable internet connection and being bilingual (I speak english and spanish). Because of that I was thinking in getting a moderation job or a interpreter job.

3 Comments
2024/10/30
23:36 UTC

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How do I really count calories?

So recently I’ve been trying to track my calories and stay within a certain calorie threshold. However, I’ve always been confused. I walked on the treadmill today and burned 420 calories. In order to count my calories for the day, can I just add up the 1800 calories I ate today and subtract the 420 I burned during my workout to get the total calories I consumed for the day ?? Is that how it even works?

8 Comments
2024/10/30
23:31 UTC

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How noticable is watered down whisky?

I have this halloween party tommorow and i dont really know anyone there, so i took a few shots worth of whisky from my mums boyfriends bottle to make it seem less intimadating. I replaced it with a little bit of water but i thought that was probably stupid after i did it, do you reckon he'll notice that its been watered down, there was about a litre in the bottle originally and i took maybe 75ml. It was 40% if that helps.

18 Comments
2024/10/30
23:22 UTC

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How can i increase my speed for my gaming computer?

I hear Nvidia is a good download option but i want to know how i can made my computer faster without downloading a virus or spending money

for example i want to play blackmuth wukong and the game is fun as hell but sometime it lags a lot but when its not lagging hard it looks absolutely stunning

My Computer is a rog asus laptop windows 11

19 Comments
2024/10/30
23:00 UTC

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