Insensitive Things People Asked (/r/AskReddit) Reddit Stories

what is the most insensitive thing you've ever been asked [Music] soon after I got home from cremating my child someone asked if the cremation left chunks of bone and if so did they grind that down thankfully I saw the humor in it largely because I could see his wife wanted to kill him I worked as a waiter for a few years in high school elderly gentleman came up to me and asked is it okay to be dealing with food with all that acne why did you give him the money my managers response to me telling her I got robbed at gunpoint in our store they asked how my daughter was murdered I said a knife they then said but I mean how you found her tell me how what did she look like was she tortured got back from the bathroom at a restaurant my mom asks in front of my family do you go into the bathroom to throw up after you eat I've only been conscious of what I eat after that edit there appears to be some confusion my bad it does look like she's concerned but she spent many years of my life telling me I'm too skinny I don't eat enough etc I was borderline underweight for a long time because of an untreated thyroid condition but since that incident my mom has gaslighted me about the body shaming she used to encourage in me and and people around me I have a complex about going to the bathroom around mealtime now because I don't want people to think I have a needy when in reality I just need to pee I had a mandatory one-on-one meeting with my high school counselor about college prep in the first thing he does when I walk in as scan me with his eyes and says well I guess we don't need to worry about filing your college athletics form now do we and put the form I came in there Fortis women college back in his desk edit there appears to be some confusion I'm a male and the counselor was implying I was scrawny and ultimately I decided not to swim in college because the school I chose was d1 and feeds directly into the u.s. Olympic swim team and I'm not good huh I broke my back when I was a teenager and AM paralyzed from the waist down a girl from school asked me are you planning on killing yourself me what No why would I kill myself oh it's just if I was in your situation I struggled with trijata lo mein er as a kid my mom tried all kinds of things to help me quit the habit but since it wasn't the root problem just a symptom of anxiety most of her attempts made it worse instead of better I remember one time when my cousin's were over for lunch we were all gathered around the table enjoying our food and having pleasant conversation when out of nowhere my mom announced to everyone have you noticed that YouTube the do bob has no eyelashes she always pulls them out everyone turned to stare at me and one of my cousin's said disgustedly why would you do that when I was 16 I got asked by some random guy at my aunts house if I knew that I was prettier when I wasn't smiling I've always been self-conscious of my teeth and he made it so much worse I'm 28 now and still hate them but will at least smile in some pick too are you self-conscious about well you you can just guarantee that didn't play out very well especially in the long term my dad to me did you get fat so I wouldn't molest you father-in-law asked me if my husband and I if we were eating okay while at college my response was yeah were able to make ends meet and get groceries and even have a little money left over his response was yeah I can tell you've been eating plenty looks like you ate the whole damn grocery store I was five feet four and weighed 110 pounds why don't you just like have a baby asked a day after I told her I had a miscarriage when sitting my dad and stepmom down to tell them I had cancer are you sure you're always overdramatic like your mother she watched too many soap operas then the following months after treatment and a major surgery they told people I didn't have cancer and I faked it they were they there for the major surgery and the treatments so I get asked by family did you really fake cancer WTF edit thank you everyone for your support it means the world to answer the question yes I kicked cancers ass I am very limited contact with all of my parents due to their toxic nature I keep minimal contact for the sake of my siblings I have confronted them but they act like they don't remember or don't know what I'm talking about I've showed my medical records to my other family and they were shocked my biological mother also supported me do you really think you deserve better than my abusive ex I was asked to find you what I was putting people through by having cancer I'm so sorry that I woke up one day and decided I wanted to have cancer just to incants you if I knew it wasn't convenient for you to worry about me I never would have decided to jump on the cancer bandwagon who told you about this party what did you do to cause that after I told a female friend of my ex-boyfriend he cheated on me when I was 9 my best friend passed away from a stroke I was the one who brought her to the school office and state with her as paramedics came to take her to the hospital she died four days later it was an extremely traumatizing experience and caused a lot of pain and mental health issues I learned to cope by giving myself two days of the year devoted to thinking about her and letting myself feel my emotions fully those two days are her birthday and the day she died one day when I was in high school I think around fifteen or sixteen years old I was hanging out with my friends at the local park we were discussing what we were going to do the next end I told them that it was the anniversary of her death and that I might not go to school that day that's when one of my friends turned to me and said what are you going to do Mon and then she laughed like it was a joke all I could say to that was yeah of course that was the first time I noticed that my friends didn't respect me like they did each other now that your father is gone you can have your own life are you going to have kids ask to me by an older cousin at my dad's wake his body a few feet away from us in a casket no I would much rather have my father alive than dead at 63 years old not ask to me but directed at me which makes the question worse my mum once took me and my sister to the farmers market for this story it's important you know I'm half Mexican but my mother is a very white American this woman at one of the stalls stares at us while we walk towards them they had something we had come specifically for as we get to the table she looks at my mom and dad us and then whisper yells what are they exclamation point I was probably about 16 at the time so I was especially pissed off that she couldn't even pose I read question to me directly my mom was upset but answered my husband is from Mexico the woman then said oh so they're not adopted from somewhere I'm a spitting image of my mother except slightly tan with daca hair my mom again answered no then she asked if we were here legally we were born here and my dad is lucky enough to be a citizen then she went on a tangent about some illegal lazy Mexican kid she fostered and how they are all the same the entire time she talked as if we couldn't hear her the entire experience was very dehumanizing I'm glad that I've never seen her at that market again have her a few of you were asking why my mom didn't berate fight that woman it's simple my mom is a teacher in a small town news travels fast she didn't want to lose her job why are your boobs so small like bra are you going to make your sister's death a national holiday this was because my sister died at 43 the first significant loss ever in my life this was the one-year anniversary of her death and I knew it would be hard for me so I requested the day off of work this was a co-worker who could name all the her people she'd lost so she bragged , since her brother died at age 14 and she said she knew like 30 people who had died since then I used to put up with her weird quirks but from that day on I hated her and didn't remain friendly with her why did you tell me and what did you do to make him do it asked by a family member after I told them about the abuse I suffered from my ex-husband finally felt safe to talk about it after 6 years and that was the response why did your mom try to kill herself are you adopted I'm a nation female I was working at a restaurant in college part-time and one of the white male customers just asked me that with no preamble because all Asian girls are adopted out obviously I told him I wasn't after I got over my shock like WTF why would you ask a stranger that wish I had some would he come back at the time as a 19 year old disabled woman I've been asked tons of insensitive things the most is probably a tie between someone asking me if I'm using a walker for the perks and if I'm faking my disability for better accommodation at university I can't handwrite can barely walk without assistance and can't stand for periods of time what are the perks and where can I get them my brother died while I was in college and I went to talk to one of my professors in person about missing some important class work for the funeral I told him why I'd be gone and all he said was how did he die and I was kind of taken aback but told him his response was oh yeah I guess that's fine if you miss class and turned back around to his computer edit this professor was also my advisor and the only professor for my major so we spent a lot of time together we'd had an established relationship for three years at this point and I'd never missed class before he definitely knew I wasn't making anything up my ex mill ran into me and asked when I was due thing is she knew I had miscarried a child with her son one of the reasons we split up and also knew because of that I could not have children I just happened to have a still slightly swollen abdomen after a full and total hysterectomy at the time needless to say I had a very hormonal and emotional response I have a seizure like disorder Corie refer ptosis they present themselves in these really inconvenient episodes where I lose partial control of body parts one time I was on a date with a dude and after I told him of my situation he said wow it had be pretty hot to have you seized while we're freaking think you could arrange that didn't bother with him after that first time meeting my fee and Kay's arms she mentioned that I was part Mexican and her ons first question was are you here legally d'art I answered with my Pennsylvania accent yeah I was in born Delaware County PA my family background is just Mexican Edit grammar one time someone asked you know adoptive father isn't your real dad right no poop he's not my biological parents but he is still my dad nonetheless what a hurtful thing to say you know her brother's death is her fault ask me by my mom at the hospital when I was six after we just got into a car crash and he shielded me and took most of the damage which killed him she blamed me for his death for eleven years after that edit well thank you for the gold stranger edit - I'm very overwhelmed by all the lovely supportive comments and everyone praising my brother it means a lot to hear all of this after dealing with my brother's death alone for 10 years and believing it was my fault thank you all so much you're all so sweet edit three as supportive comments made my girlfriend cry she's very happy my sister tried to kill herself and my ex room had told me it was because she didn't believe in Jesus why are you gay I'm a famine at for a man Shore but I am not even gay I have an Arabic sounding name to Westerners anyways and half my family is Muslim I am white and look the part ethnically Slavic I was dating someone a while back who took me to meet their family they did warn me that their father was terribly racist so I figured that I'd have to endure a couple of uncomfortable questions sucks but it wasn't anything new by that point first thing I was asked as the man shook my hand was so how much poop skin is there in you just turned around and left the flat without another word what can you even say at that point I'm Hispanic and a co-worker saw a random Hispanic family and genuinely asked if that was my family oh so you won two twists and thirty now but grew up with a lisp was in speech therapy for years when I was about eight years old or so I went up to a concession stand at my brother's little league game asked to buy a Twix the teenage guy behind the counter trying to impress his lady co-worker decided to repeat my words back to me made me cry one of the only times in my life I've ever seen my full mama bear she asked me why I was upset and when I told her she marched after that dinky little stand and tore the guy a new one but yeah that's the first thing I thought of when I saw this question weird how little things like that stick with you some people freaking suck but then you get to see the ones learnt like my mom defender of the little people lover hi there look if you enjoy the video well why not go ahead and hit that like and subscribe to Reddit stories in fact if you want to see even more responses to this thread well then take a look there's the link in the description below and remember show some love to those authors while you're there and I look forward to seeing you next time [Music]

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Length: 16min 26sec (986 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 15 2020