Stasia Shepard Silverman

So about nine years ago, I was alone on a close family friend's property and I really had an urge to pee.

So I popped a squat and mid pee, I look up and I see a security camera on their property pointed right at me.

And I was so concerned, you know, what would they think when they saw the video?

They didn't even know I was in the property.

It was just super embarrassing.

And so for nine years, I couldn't look the, this was my friend's parents, either of them in the eye because I just, you know, I wasn't sure if they saw the video and what they thought and what they were wondering.

So for nine years, I kept this a secret and I didn't tell anyone in my family about it.

And then this last summer, I finally came clean and told my parents about why I felt so uncomfortable around their friends.

And they just looked at me.

They couldn't understand why I was telling them this, what they thought was a completely pointless story.

from nine years ago, which had been haunting me for almost a decade.

No one seemed to care.

I told, you know, my friend about it and nobody cared at all after nine years of being so self-conscious.

Now that a little bit of distance has gone by, though, I can point to the things that I did wrong and say, okay, I learned something from that.