An bearding immature man has confessed a massive secret which he claims could "ruin" his life.

The unnamed male, who was in his late 20s at the fourth dimension of writing, responded to a thread on Reddit's r/AskReddit forum, which encouraged users to share a "surreptitious that could literally ruin your life if it came out".

Despite existence uploaded to Reddit nine years ago, the thread is notwithstanding proving immensely popular today and has fifty-fifty recently been discussed by TikTok users, going viral once more.

One of the about popular answers on the thread was from the 20-something-year-erstwhile who claimed his mother had actually wanted a daughter, so had tried to raise him equally a daughter instead of a boy.

He says that his mum even managed to convince him and everyone else that he was actually a girl - until an blow at school led to social services getting involved.

He didn't ever question whether or not he was female person (stock photograph) (

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The post reads: "Anybody around me already knows that I was brought upwards by foster families because I had a s**t early childhood. I deliberately keep it vague and say stuff like 'I'd rather not become into information technology'.

"The truth is that for the outset seven years of my life, I was brought up as a girl by my psycho nascence female parent who really actually really wanted a daughter and didn't let the snag of giving birth to a male child end her from trying to raise one.

"She was a pretty successful professional in a legal field and had me via bearding sperm donor from a fertility clinic. She found out I was a boy at a late ultrasound and then moved across the state. Gave birth to me at home and connected to move about until I was v or so. It was just the two of the states all my life, nosotros had contact with other people, of class, simply they rarely got very close. I had lots of friends but was ever supervised.

"I found out way afterward that my mother's strong puritanical Christianity was a prevarication she used to explicate why she was and so strict most me being 'individual' and never letting anyone see me get changed or annihilation. I just accepted all of this equally fact, having never been told anything unlike."

He continued to say how he attended a religious schoolhouse for girls and while he was a chip of a tomboy, no one always questioned whether or not he was a girl - not even him.

"I knew well-nigh men and women but had never really seen much of naked people, my mother never ever spoke to me about it, but I kinda had the impression that when I grew up and got boobs and stuff, my d**grand would kinda fall off or something and I would exist a adult female, and other kids would keep their d**ks and they'd be men. I dunno, to exist honest, I never really thought almost it.

"Anyway, I carried on with my happy girlhood and had a bunch of friends and everything was bang-up until I was seven and a teacher accidentally spilt a cup of hot coffee over me at schoolhouse. The liquid soaked through my clothes and was scalding me then the staff immediately stripped me out of my dress and underwear to become the hot coffee away from my skin. And then they institute out."

He claims the police were called and he ended up speaking to social services, as did his mother, merely she refused to acknowledge that he was a male and insisted he was "her daughter".

He adds: "I wasn't allowed to go back home but got put with a foster family unit and went through loads of therapy and stuff.

"The worst part was that literally overnight, I lost EVERYTHING. my mother, my home, all my toys, all my wearing apparel, I moved school so lost all my friends, they cut all my pilus off and told me I wasn't a girl anymore. it was really actually traumatic.

"In the stop, I came out of it with a pretty healthy gender identity (I'thou a guy, but not the most butch guy e'er, just I'm fine with that), I went through school and got my caste and accept a pretty adept job and an amazing, supportive married woman.

"Everything looks great, merely I tin never speak most my early childhood, and how I grew upwardly equally a fiddling daughter."

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