I'm just curious because it happened to me when I was about 16yrs. This girl I had known ever since the 3rd grade spread a horrible one about me that i had AIDS. Never knew why she did it, although some months ago someone showed me on facebook that she brought it up after seeing an old photo of me on facebook that someone posted and left the comment OMFG! The guy that posted the old pic of me said "feel guilty?" and she said something like "thats what she told me" (referring to the rumor) She tells people I told her that, which I never did. First off if I did have a deadly disease I wouldnt have told her..my family would have known and maybe some really close friends, secondly since I didn't have it I wasn't the type to make up lies about myself. This thing has haunted me for years, some people even thought I died! No obituary obviously. People just seem to believe whatever they hear and I find that disturbing. Which is why today I don't trust many people because in the back of my head I fear humiliation like I went through back then, and also that people just believe anything they hear, they don't even ask you if its true or not.
I really think this is one of the underlying reasons for my avoidance and S.P.
Partly what's bringing this to the surface is I joined facebook, and on there it seems like everyone knows everyone so therefore I see people I used to be friends with back then and it just really throws me back to the past and gets my mind reeling..and I worry about the rumor coming up again and destroying the life I have made for myself, I mean I got a decent job, I just got married etc. I don't need that extreme humiliation.
I really think this is one of the underlying reasons for my avoidance and S.P.
Partly what's bringing this to the surface is I joined facebook, and on there it seems like everyone knows everyone so therefore I see people I used to be friends with back then and it just really throws me back to the past and gets my mind reeling..and I worry about the rumor coming up again and destroying the life I have made for myself, I mean I got a decent job, I just got married etc. I don't need that extreme humiliation.
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