I'm 26. At 20 I was a college soccer player with zero engineering experience cutting up a 7UP can in my dorm room trying to build something for my mom's arthritis. Six years later, 8 prototypes, 300 cold LinkedIn messages, an engineer who took our money and delivered nothing, and a lot of ramen, it's a real product going through regulatory clearance now.

The catch is I've had terrible stage fright my entire life, and this month I had to pitch it at a live competition. A few hundred people in the room, 30,000+ on the livestream. I wore camera glasses on stage so there's actual POV footage of exactly what I saw up there.

We won.

Ask me anything. Building hardware with no background, chronic pain, cold emailing 150 investors a day, sleeping in my car, stage fright, my mom, whatever you want.

Proof / the POV footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr64JQadQpo

I am a 16 year old boy and I have two moms, but their relationship and how my family started wasn't really a typical situation lovey situation My bio mom got pregnant with me under bad circumstances After I was born she moved away and eventually met the woman who my other mom. They started dating, and she was part of my life really early on, so she's been there for as long as I can remember.

My mom did break up at one point and me and my bio mom and I moved away. But they did get back together, and later got married. I was also their only child, so it was always just the three of us. And our endless pets we have a lot of animals,

I call them mom and mami. Bio mom is Mami, and the other mom is mom

As the title suggest, i grew up in Jordan most of my life and moved to Germany 6 years ago.

I studied, Worked (got laid off as well), got married, and became German citizen at the end.

I visit Jordan 2-3 times a year now.

I work at a family office that manages the wealth of a small handful of billionaire families wealth. I do not give specific investment advise, because I cannot understand your entire financial situation in a single reddit thread. But I am happy to answer questions about the role, investment products in general or any other non-recommendation advise.

I’m 17 and an only child. When I turn 18, I’ll be getting access to my money from my trust fund that I can use for whatever I need. I could use it for college, but since I have a baby on the way, I’m thinking about using it to help support my child and prepare for our future and not blowing it off

I’m 17F, and I quit soccer after playing for 12 years. I started playing when I was 5 years old, and soccer was baiscally the biggest part of my life growing up. I played center midfielder and spent years practicing playing games and traveling going for tournaments.

I started getting attention from college coaches and received offers to play at the college level. But I decided to quit I realized I didn’t want to continue playing anymore, and I don't want to go to college

Three years ago, I sustained a severe traumatic brain injury falling from an heigh.
This resulted in multiple neurosurgeries, a two months ICU stay and seven months hospitalisation for rehabilitation. I had to rebuild my life from scratch: first I had to learn how to breathe autonomously again, then how to eat, to speak and finally how to walk.
This was probably the hardest thing I did.
Having spent so much time in the hospital, I learned a lot of things and gained some new perspectives on reality. I don’t think other people can fully grasp.
I also met a lot of amazing people I will forever be grateful for.
I came back to thank the doctors, nurses and hospital staff who cared for me in the intensive care unit; meeting them, contacting them, talking to them meant a lot to me and made my life much more richer.
I am now facing a hard challenge: coming back to normal life after the word quite literally fell on me.
I study literature in university, I do para climbing as a sport and every week I go to therapy and physical therapy to always try to become a better version of myself.
I am a writer, I write mostly poems and sometimes short stories. Writing has been truly therapeutic to me and has helped me a lot on my journey.

As the title says, I’m a 25-year-old grown man who still sleeps and cuddles with a stuffed animal. I’ve done this for years, pretty much whenever I'm at home and relaxing. For me, it is just really comfortable to have something to hold onto while resting.

Hello to all my lads, i'm Arthur. Recently i had turned 82 (August 27, 1944) so i thought creating an AMA was a good idea.

I personally didn't discover reddit until a month ago. And it seems so interesting.

My career is long.

I graduated from Northwesten Pritzker School of Law (1970) with a JD!

I currently have 6 children (all of these born in the 1970s-early 80s) and, sadly. Almost all my family is dead.

My wife (1946-2024) left me on 2024 due to cancer. And i was and i'm still destroyed today.

Did not fight in vietnam, I'm not a Vietnam Vet.

I play golf, i like to read. Etc.

I'm not abandoned by my children, they still care for me. I feel grateful, proud.

I hope to answer all the questions (obviously, as i'm old. I could have bad memory or understanding, or maybe some typos) you make here

Thanks for reading!.

I have 16 aunts and uncles (excluding their wifes and husbands) and more cousins than I can count.

I thought you might find it interesting so I decided to make and Ama. Ask me whatever you want and I'll answer.

Won’t say who but we were in the same grade and played varsity basketball together. He is a really good NBA all star player and I’m an engineer instead 😭 although I did have a few clutch blocks and a buzzer beater when I was in jr varsity, so I think back at those moments to feel sometimes lol

I’m a lot younger than most Clauses out there, which has more advantages than disadvantages. Been doing this for multiple years now. There’s lots of “rules” to being Santa, and I live strictly by about half of them, and proudly break the other half. The beard is real. The suit is custom. I’m based in NY. Ask away.

I am 17F and a teen mom to my 2 year old son . Growing up, I was never the kid anyone thought would end up getting pregnant. Honestly, when I was younger, I never even wanted kids. I used to despise being around them, mostly because I found my younger siblings annoying, I grew up bapist and was more religious then most of my siblings I went tk chruch every sunday everything

But when I was 14, I ended up pregnant and gave birth to my son when I was 15. His dad and I co parent, and we're on good terms. A lot of sad things happened that year when I got pregnant, and I was honestly doing anything I could to distract myself and get my mind off everything that was going on. That's how the situation happened. Basically and I dont want anymore kids at all, Ama

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Software Engineer who got laid off in August of last year. Went from making decent money to living day to day. After a year of constantly applying to jobs (unsuccessfully) I finally accepted an offer last week. Been through all the thoughts and emotions regarding a job search so AMA.

I'm, an IT professional from India. In the IT industry for the last 20 years. Have worked with multiple organisations and technologies with global experience across multiple industry verticals.

AMA especially from younger generations.

There ya go, exactly this. I'm a 52 year old man that provides massage services from my home studio in the country. I've been in the business for twelve years now. I never thought i'd be doing this as a career. Ask me anything!
This is officially edited now, if there are any more questions about erections or inappropriateness, they won't be answered. If you have legitimate questions about the field or modalities, please ask away. Otherwise you perverts can go straight to H E double hockey sticks

I’m Irish, grown up in Ireland, if anyone has any questions or is curious about anything, ask away. Anything related to what its like to live here, culture, misconceptions, life, history, society, ( let me know where you’re from as well lol )

Feel free to ask me about the service, the job, the behind-the-scenes info, the calls we receive - whatever you like, and I'll do my absolute best to answer what I can (obviously without compromising confidential or sensitive info, or info which might identify me or my workplace/employer/region)

For context, NHS 111 is the urgent-but-not-emergency-but-still-needs-help medical phone number in the UK. Sort of like 999's (our 911 or 112) little sibling. Much fewer ambulances and a lot more same-day primary care, ED, urgent treatment centre, minor injury unit, etc. referrals. Maybe the closest USA equivalent is a 24/7 nurse advice line? (except we're free of charge, no insurance required, just like the rest of UK health services except weird outliers like prescriptions, dentists and opticians) ((but some people still get those for free if they qualify)) (((just flexing sorry 😚😛))).

We also handle miscellaneous admin or internal healthcare/social care requests, e.g. emergency prescription refills, palliative care teams, expected deaths, members of the public seeking health or medication advice/info, etc. We do it all, really.

A 111 health advisor is the person that picks up the phone when you ring 111. That's me. I'm sure most people in the UK are familiar.

I'm sure most questions (if i get any that is) will be from UK residents though. I imagine this is all quite boring to those who don't live here. But anyone is welcome to ask!!!

I'm also very aware some will have their grievances. It's sad to see the stories people have about their interactions with the service, when they've been let down, or left worse off for whatever reason after contacting us. I'd love to hear these and maybe clear some things up or clarify things, but remember that we are people on the other end of the line, often acting as the first point of contact for a crumbling health service, and we really do try our best. Or I do. I can't really speak for anyone else. But I'd like to think they try their best too!

many thanks guys ask away if you wish

Pretty much as the title says, I come from an old money family. It’s been interesting seeing the “old money aesthetic” gain popularity over the last few years, and the misconceptions are laughable. I’m also in a unique situation where my family isn’t necessarily from a big city either, so Reddit, AMA.

Just like the description says, I’m my husband’s second wife living in the America. He’s from Africa, where having multiple wives is a thing in some cultures. We’re not legally married, but he does consider me and refer to me as his wife.

When he moved to the USA, he brought his first wife with him. She knows about me, but of course, she doesn’t approve of our relationship.

Ask me anything!

I work a lot and I’m pretty busy in general , so I don’t always have time to cook everyday. Instead , I meal prep the same meal each week ( I only eat once a day) and I portion everything out based on what I need to get me through the day .

Also, by the way, I was the slowest guy in school - literally everyone was faster than me - boys, girls, my first win was against an ex wheelchair guy. vo2max improved from 37 to 62.
i was lean and skinny

I am 19F and have 8 sisters. Our ages are 26, 25, 23 21, 20, 19, 19, and 16. I am a triplet Growing up, we were all very close and had a strong sibling bond. But since I left home, my sisters haven't been happy with some of the decisions I've made in my life. But i dont really care Despite our age differences and everything that has changed, we were all incredibly close growing up and girls run in our family my mom had all sisters and her mom had all sisters, but my first kid a boy so I broke the cycle