- My husband won't have sex with me anymore,
so I masturbated with a cucumber
and served it in his salad for dinner .
- I couldn't orgasm because you looked too much like Jesus.
Yeah, I get that a lot.
- You still have to find ways
to take care of yourself .
- It's kind of what I'm going for.
I just need to get the abs going, but.
- I masturbate with my mom's electric toothbrush .
- I'm a racist sometimes, and a non-racist most times.
- Yeah, you must really hate your mom.
- I kind of think you're racist because of the environment
that you were brought up in,
like if your parents were racist and your forefathers
were racist, you're probably gonna be a little bit racist.
Thank you for sharing this.
Please work on your racism.
- I realized at my mom's funeral
that I didn't know her very well.
- I'm 22 years old.
I don't have a girlfriend, driver's license or a job.
- I wet my bed into my teens.
I was also molested for several years.
- As her friends got up to share memories of her,
I found myself with a total new sense of grief.
I wish I could have known her
as a woman and a friend, as well as Mom.
- Dealing with the bed-wetting is much harder.
Everyone laughs at bed-wetters,
but neither one was my fault.
- I'm also overweight and suffer from social anxiety.
Most of the time I feel like a complete loser and failure.
I'll never give up.
This speaks to me on so many levels.
When I was 23 years old, I was fresh out of jail
with a heroin habit of eight years.
- Fuck.
- With nowhere to live.
Definitely not a relationship,
and I had absolutely nothing.
- Growing up as a kid, I used to live with my mom,
and my mom was my best friend.
And when I was, I was really young,
I was probably like four, and I moved in with my dad.
- I, too, was a bed-wetter,
and I didn't stop until I was eight years old.
- I had never missed someone before,
and I feel like I missed my mom for most of my life.
- And my mother's boyfriend raped me
for the first time when I was four.
And I feel like that having happened to me
is partly why I started bed-wetting.
- My dad's Iranian.
My mom's African-American,
and I was 12 years old, and he's like,
"Hey, I'm moving back to Iran.
"You guys are coming with me."
- I was afraid to come out of the bedroom
and go to the bathroom.
He was always standing behind the door watching me.
- We did not have a chance to even to tell our mom
where we were going, we didn't know.
It was very sudden.
- It's now been three and 1/2 years,
and I'm a server.
I barely got my license at 26 years old.
- When I turned 17, my mother's boyfriend came to me
and said he was planning to kidnap me
and take me from Ohio and marry me in Florida.
And I would have rather died.
- Most of the time I feel like I'm existing and not living.
- When I moved back finally trying to find her,
it took us like seven more years.
- So I came home from high school, took out the trash,
and kept walking away from the trailer court we lived in.
- So then I finally found her,
and if I hadn't, and I was always worried that we were
gonna search and find an obituary or something,
and I don't know what I would have done.
- I'm 61 now,
and I wouldn't change a thing about my life.
I have learned so much empathy and compassion,
and I have become the kind of person
that I needed back then.
- I have grown from that, and I've done so much healing,
but at the same time, it's kind of questioning
that existence, but I'll never give up.
- I do know my mom as a friend,
and I know a lot of people
don't always have that opportunity.
- So I know the humiliation of bed-wetting,
and I know the humiliation of being molested.
And I know that it wasn't my fault.
And if this kind of thing is something you've gone through,
it's not your fault, either.