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Where were you 10 years ago today?
Looking back at email, or social media posts, can you name where you were ten years ago today? If not, give us the general idea of where you were and what you were doing.




I was 13 years old, so my online presence was runescape and Playstation 2. In addition, I could barely use a computer - now today I'm a web dev with an account on pretty much every social media site, moderator on a few sites, and am called day and night for pc help from family members.
My email from 10 years ago has a draft saved of a drawing made in paint and a whole lot of spam.
I am 11, I would have just been kicked out of my second school for getting into fights. I got told if I did summer school they would let me back in, they did not. We did not have a computer at the house I occasionally had internet access when I went to the public library. My school had some macs with no network connectivity. At this time I think 1-2 years ago I was diagnosed with Depression and Anxiety. That turned into ADHD, and eventually getting diagnosed with Autism. I would have probably been cleaning up some of our combines after wheat harvest.
I'm in West Yellowstone, Montana, and it's my first summer as an actress at the Playmill Theatre. We've just finished rehearsals, and all three shows are now open and performing in rep. I spend my days chatting with my roommates and exploring Yellowstone, and my evenings singing and dancing (and kinda pining for a fellow cast member, who made out with me the summer before but now acts like it never happened). I'm young and adventurous and a little foolish and a little impulsive.
I am 21 years old. Right now I'm going to summer classes at my college in the hopes that I will be able to graduate early (I don't). I'm not over leaving my boyfriend the year before even though it was for good reasons. I'm throwing myself whole heartedly into everything I do to distract myself from this overwhelming sense that I dumped someone Very Important, and it actually works out amazingly for me.
What I did not know is that coming August I would be forced to take a class with said ex boyfriend. We have been together ever since. (And the shit we broke up over has never been an issue since then)
I'm 28, working a salaried job downtown after an extensive period of homelessness. I have my own apartment for the first time ever, I have a bit of disposable income, and a modicum of self respect.
I'm exploring a new side of the city and doing a lot of dating. Nothing serious. Just casual meeting people, having dinner or coffee or seeing a movie, and then maybe some sex. Some people I'll see twice, but we all know what we're getting into, and I make it clear I'm not looking for anything exclusive.
I don't remember any of their names now, and sometimes I feel bad about that, but only for a little while. I don't regret anything.
Well.
Not much of anything.
By the end of the year I give up my salaried job for a shot at something bigger, move across the country on a whisper and a promise, and my life will change completely again.
I'm a 22 year old, having moved back home after failing out of college a year before, but also having lost my mother just a few months ago. I'm seeing this girl I like but it's just dating, nothing serious. I'm working at a theatre managing their front of house.
Today I'm married to that girl and living in the other corner of the country.
I'm 40. I'm struggling to deal with becoming disabled and a year away from being fired for it by a boss who is angry over the accommodations she had to make.
Although it is legal in the US to be fired for any reason that's not illegal, bosses can find ways around it. The company also had rules to follow if a boss wanted to fire someone. She found every little mistake possible and documented it all so she could get HR to approve firing me. It took a year.
I was fired the day before my birthday. I'm pretty sure that was intentional, too.
End of middle-school. I didn't know how closeted, traumatized, and repressed I was. I had big dreams about sports and writing and travel. I didn't know where I was going, but it sure was a disappointment to my hopes. I definitely needed guidance and it would have made overcoming some stuff much easier.
But I took the long road, hurt myself some more trying to find out who I am, decided I was sick of self-destructive behaviour, and came out stronger and bullroar free.
10 years ago I was in my early 20s and in a terrible relationship. Working crappy minimum wage jobs to pay the bills because the person I lived with wouldn't lift a finger. Super ugly and abusive situation. That was the year I got away....
10 years ago I didn't have social media or anything of the sort I was probably just starting to reach out to people on web forums because I didn't have anyone close to me that I could trust.