A boy told friends I was a lesbian probably because I wouldn't got out with him.

I don't ever recall hearing any rumors about myself. actually I might need to start a few.

My mother used to say something when I was a kid, that has always stuck with me.

"As long as they're picking on me, they're leaving some other poor schmuck alone."

That's pretty much my attitude with people talking about me.
I honestly don't care what they're saying, and they really are leaving someone
else alone. I like that a lot more than I care what they're saying about me.

Through a combination of geography and happenstance I used to live in some rough places. I had a cousin come visit and he met some of the people I worked & hung with. Apparently later, for some reason, he told some of my family that live far away that I was "connected" to criminals.

I think some of them still believe it was true and I'm just "going straight" now lol.

That I was gay and had recently come out of the closet. people I knew were trying to hook me up on dates with gay friends and relatives. this one guy kept calling me for weeks trying to convince me that I actually was gay. had to threaten him with physical violence for him to leave me alone. he said that it was a hate crime. I told him he had been harassing me and to fuck off. still have no idea who or why someone would start such a rumor.

I pretty much flew under the rumor radar until I got divorced. Ex’s stupid friend and his wife spread rumors that the reason we got divorced was because I was having an affair. I’m actually friends with the guy and his wife who I was supposedly having the affair with. Thankfully she knows better and jokes about it.

I could deal with adults thinking that but somehow my daughter heard the rumors and asked me about it. That pissed me the hell off!

That I was dead already

There was a rumor years ago that I was single, sterile and I ate pussy. Actually only one of those was just a rumor for a while. Actually it is no longer a rumor. Actually I was the one who spread that rumor.

My MIL . Years after her death , I'm still learning about lies she told my children and other members of her family . Some are things she also said about my sister-in-law , after she separated from the younger son .

My MIL . Years after her death , I'm still learning about lies she told my children and other members of her family . Some are things she also said about my sister-in-law , after she separated from the younger son .

My kid's mother wrote this letter. It was filled with things like I was gay and was running a brothel and I was some drug overload. She put it on every one of my neighbor's homes. I was fortunate that at least one neighbor knew nothing was true and gave me a copy of the letter. I have it on file if I need it for future use.

I worked closing shifts -- 7 pm to 2 am -- as a bartender while going to college back in the 80s. At 6:55 one evening I was sitting at the end of the bar waiting to clock in when I was violently pulled off the stool and slammed up against a wall by a crazy b*tch screaming at me for "f***ing" her husband.
I didn't know who her husband was, but it didn't matter since I wasn't seeing anyone at the time and knew I wasn't guilty.

As I was 1) worried about losing my job, 2) going to jail, 3) getting kicked out of college for getting arrested....I talked her down off her crazy tree without taking a swing at her. Turns out, I wasn't the bartender she was looking for.....

After it was over, I smiled at her and told her if I ever saw her in the bar again during one of my shifts, I'd have the bouncer remove her. My boss did me one better, he told her never to come into the bar again.

Over the past 30+ years of my career, I have heard a thousand rumors about myself.... everything from sleeping with people to get jobs, to being a lesbian, to being a swinger, to being on drugs.....to being a "fake" vegan.....to having "made my money" by "selling drugs".....etc.
Oh....the crazy, crazy things I've heard about myself....some are so hurtful I can't imagine anyone trying to cause another human pain like that.

I don't waste time addressing them anymore or trying to defend myself.
People who don't know me, don't matter. People who do know me, know better.

No

Oh boy I flew under the radar on this one ?

When divorce took place 11 yrs ago , I lost 30 lbs in 3 months or so . I was only 127 lbs to begin with , so I was looking pitiful I am sure . At work , and these are doctors and nurses !, I heard that " she is sick ", " she has cancer ", " she has hiv ", and all type of things of same quality . And I smiled ?

There was a rumor that I was a successsful porn actor, but it died shortly after I started it.

Our lives have a lot of similarities. I was a faithful member of AA for 25 years, but stopped enjoying the meetings after the last guy died who was there when I picked up my white chip. I haven't been to a meeting in 4 years now. I'm sure there are plenty of stories about how awful my life is now, but they haven't gotten back to me.

My husband had a saying that I have always remembered.....”if they are making stuff up about you, then they are leaving some other poor bugger alone!” A certain type of person is never happy unless they are making up stories and maligning people. You did the right thing by laughing it off.....jealousy is usually their motive, or just maliciousness.

My brother pulled out in front of a white van doing 60 in a school zone with me as a passenger. It didn't end well. I got 9 stitches in the side of my head. I was lucky. I was dating a girl from another school. By the time it got to her, I was decapitated. She thought that I was dead. She had started the grieving process when I called her. I had to convince her that it was really me and that I was alive.

My sister told mutual friends and perhaps family members i was harassing her with hang-up calls. i actually don't know her phone number; we're estranged. i will never know whether she was receiving hang-up calls and assumed they were from me or whether she just felt like lying about me. i will also never know what else, if anything, she has said about me, or to whom. oh well!

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Not really. Maybe about my ex; I thought they were rumors. In high school, my sanity and being somewhat dangerous I helped propagate because I would fight back bullies and when threats came about giving "the long hair" a haircut, I let it be known I carried a knife.

Hmm. I heard it was PCP and bath salts. I guess you can’t believe everything you hear.

When I was in college, there was a silly story about how I performed a superhuman feat of tackling someone 15 or 20 feet away from a complete standstill. In high school, there was a much more cruel rumor spread by a malicious, bullying classmate that I'd been masturbating in the bathroom between classes (which was ridiculous for various reasons) — but that guy's dead now, from a suspected suicide, so, not to be petty or anything, but I won.

Humans!!!

Yes and it’s bullshit!