Privacy

The Talk collects stories anonymously. We don't ask for your name or email.

What we collect: your story, your wish, and any optional research answers you choose to share (like your age at the time, your gender, and how religious or political your home was). These are used only in anonymous, combined statistics.

How stories are used: we may publish a story on this site and in short videos on social media, edited for length and clarity, and read by a narrator, which may be an AI voice. We remove names and identifying details before anything is published.

Who can submit: adults 18 and older, sharing their own experience.

Changing your mind: if you'd like a story removed, submit a note through the form with the story's first line and we'll take it down.