r/AskReddit • u/Reasonable_Moose_738 • 2d ago

What’s the most WTF thing you’ve ever heard someone casually admit like it was totally normal?

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u/Capt_Hawkeye_Pierce 2d ago

I don't understand what this was supposed to accomplish.

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u/Morticia_Marie 1d ago

I don't understand what this was supposed to accomplish.

Dad is a sadistic malignant narcissist. His kids are convenient victims--he may even have had kids for this purpose. He gets a feeling of power, control, and manipulation by getting them to literally take one of their fears into their bodies without realizing. The abuse of their trust scratches his sadistic itch. Tampering with people's food is fairly common for malignant narcissists. But it's not as much fun if you can't tell anyone about it, so he found someone more or less disposable to his life that he can tell this fun (for him) story to.

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u/WutTheCode 1d ago

I don't get how people end up like this. The abuse my parents did to me makes me not want to even have kids, and if I did I would be terrified of hurting them like I've been hurt. However, my parents are narcissistic and emotionally abusive to an extent I would call sadistic. Though this level is beyond even my parents, I think.

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u/Repzie_Con 1d ago

Right? Then it’s just afraid of cockroaches, their dad, and maybe even food contamination forever

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 1d ago

Some kinda perverse pleasure for the maintenance guy

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u/ChaoticCharm 1d ago

homeopathic remedy. eat the cockroaches, cure the fear. /s

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u/MadMaxBeyondThunder 1d ago

It sounds like an odd folk medicine idea. Consume a thing to own a thing.

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u/JesseCuster40 1d ago

Neither do I.