u/doggoswoofwoof

Hello! I hope I understood the rules correctly and this is allowed but if not I sincerely apologize and if you need me to change anything about the post or take it down I will gladly do so as I do not want to cause any issues.

A friend of mine had posted a personal experience of his on a VERY popular subreddit and the post itself had followed all of the rules to the best of our knowledge. I was in the room with him while he was writing it and was helping him find the right words as he sometimes struggles with how to best describe things.

The post was about his personal experience that happened when he was a child that was crazy but completely possible and very much did in fact happen. We did not know each other yet at the exact time the story had happened but knowing him, especially how he acted as a child, I have no doubt in my mind that this is absolutely something that happened, not to mention how I would trust this friend with my life.

I won't go into the full story here but basically it can be summed up as: a neurodivergent child ate the toys of his childhood bully to spite her

The moderators of this very popular subreddit had removed the post for being false/a shitpost, and they then banned his account from the subreddit for "clickbait" despite the title actively describing what had happened in the post. he had messaged the moderators explaining that everything was truthful and asked if there was any possibility of getting it reinstated or him being allowed to slightly edit it for any issues the moderators saw and repost it, we were quickly met with a message that just consisted of the phrase "you knew what you were doing." Followed by a Reddit notification that he had been banned from contacting the moderators for 28 days. They did not give us any other explanation for "what he was doing" for either potential rules we were breaking or about the story of the post itself, I am extremely pissed off on his behalf, and he is pretty much indifferent as he is not a typical user of Reddit, and I'm just not really sure what I should do? Like how do I contact a higher moderator or admin if I have been banned from speaking to the only moderator that I have access to through modmail? I know I should probably just let it go but that is something I have always struggled with especially when it comes to people I care for deeply being harmed. I love this friend like a brother and I would do anything for him even if it's just fighting tooth and nail for us to be able to reply to comments and see him smile.

Thank you for reading this, genuinely.

This is posted on behalf of my best friend who does not use Reddit, any comments will be shown to him and I will reply with his answer:

I (18m, 7f at the time) ate my bully’s Polly Pocket clothes and ruined her birthday party after being invited as a joke and a target. Here’s the story: L (8f as of the party) was the class bully, really, but was particularly fond of picking on me. She would steal things, verbally berate me, insult my weight, my family, etc. You know the type, I'm sure. So when she invited me to her birthday party, I told my parents she was mean, and asked if I should go or not. They said try it, and I hoped she'd be nice. She wasn't, wow, but I digress.

I got there, present in hand, and the teasing started. So I, at my wits end, started grade school psychological warfare.

We played a board game to decide who won the pretty princess crown, and L was obviously cheating and her friends letting her since it was her birthday and this was important to her. So. I cheated even harder, and won the crown again. And again. And again. This pissed her off, naturally, so she demanded presents. She ripped them all open, said no thank yous, threw packaging everywhere, then left them unattended and wandered off.

I stayed behind to help her parents clean up, and they talked to me quite a bit, and went to get me an extra cupcake. In that time, I spotted something even sweeter than reduced WalMart confections:

POLLY POCKET CLOTHES.

Brand new, just out of the packaging.

So, I looked around, and, being alone, ate them. All of them. Then went on like nothing happened. I ate the cupcake. Went back to meet the other kids and got met with a demand to replay for the crown. I kept the crown. She called the party over like an hour early, so I phoned home, and then she went to play with her presents.

And, somehow... her Polly Pocket's clothes were missing :) She melted down!

I went home. Never mentioned it again. She did stop speaking to me, though.

SO. AITA.

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in about 2013 at my public school in Canada we had a book in the classroom that had a semi realistic digital art style similar to what you see on a lot of middle grade chapter books nowadays. The book was picture book sized with glossy pages and each one to two pages told a story from folklore. It may have been regionally specific as one of the stories was specifically from the nearby New Brunswick, Canada, and the others I remember were Celtic.

One of the stories retold the story of the Coleman frog which is an alleged giant frog that died in a "dynamite accident" and whose alleged taxidermy body is in a museum but is very obviously just paper mache. The illustration showed a child staring into the display case at the museum that houses the alleged taxidermy. The second story I remember was about a woman who married a man who gave her a gun and silver bullets on their wedding night and she later had to use them to kill him as he was a werewolf. The next story was about a woman who fell in love with a male selkie and the two of them would meet on the beach at night. The final story I remember talked about Kelpies, and how they would drag people into the ocean to be eaten by seahorses and that if you covered yourself in soap and managed to get a magical bridle on them they could be tamed. This book is what got me interested in mythology as a kid but I cannot find any trace of it on the internet.