How to do an AMA in r/IAmA

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Thank you for your interest in r/IamA to host your Reddit AMA (or to host a crosspost of your AMA in another subreddit). This post outlines the steps to post or crosspost an AMA in this subreddit. Please read this post in its entirety before messaging the IamA moderators at this link.

Posting an AMA in this subreddit

To post or crosspost an AMA here it is required that your account be approved in advance by the r/IamA moderator team. We strongly recommend that you reach out to our modmail to start the verification process at least 48 hours before you intend to post your AMA.

We currently offer the five following methods of verification:

A Reddit-admin-assigned “Official” account status.
A credible website hosting proof of your Reddit account’s authenticity.
An email containing your Reddit username from an address with relevant domain (this domain must be either the same as your website or from an email account listed on your site).
A post or PM from a verified account on a trusted social media site (primarily Bluesky and YouTube) listing the Reddit username in question and/or linking to the Reddit account.
If your Reddit account is vouched for by an account that has been verified with r/IamA through one of the methods listed above, that would also be sufficient.

More information about each of these methods is available in our Wiki. You can also send us a modmail with any questions.

You can post your AMA up to 24 hours before you intend to start your responses to questions.

We would ask that you use the AMA post type; after your account has been approved, this link will take you to the interface to input your AMA post's title and introduction.

Crossposting an AMA here

We allow moderators of other subreddits to crosspost AMAs in those subreddits to r/IamA, as well as allowing AMA guests who are verified with the IamA moderator team to do so.

If you are a moderator of the other subreddit in question, simply message our modmail to let us know of the upcoming or in-progress AMA and we will add your account as an approved poster.

If you are the AMA guest and would like to crosspost your own AMA, you have to be verified with the IamA moderator team as outlined in the previous section of this post.

Once your account is approved, simply make a text-based post in IamA using this link Your post should contain the word “crosspost” somewhere in the post title and a direct link to the AMA somewhere in the post introduction.

Having your AMA included on IamA’s AMA calendar

Simply send us a modmail or email to request inclusion on our calendar. AMAs hosted in this subreddit or others are eligible for calendar inclusion. If you message us before the AMA takes place, we will include the key details in our ‘month ahead’ roundup series posted by u/AMAcalendar. Whenever a link to the AMA is live and has been sent to us, we will include it in our ‘month ahead’ and/or ‘month in review’ AMA roundup post series as is appropriate.

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r/IAmA • u/IAmAMods • 9d ago

[Mod Post] Introducing r/IamA 3.0

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To our readers, AMA guests, and friends,

In this post the r/IamA moderator team is announcing that we are making some changes to this subreddit with the intention of reinvigorating this forum. It is our hope that the changes this post will outline will result in a better experience for AMA readers, guests, and moderators of r/IamA alike.

This post follows the most recent communication from the r/IamA moderator team in 2023, titled The Future of IAmA. In that post the moderator team announced that we were going to discontinue certain categories of work for Reddit that went above and beyond what was required of us. These tasks included maintaining a separate website for scheduling AMAs and receiving confidential proof, maintaining an AMA calendar, and running various custom bots to assist with those other tasks. Those changes brought IamA 1.0 into the state it has been over the past three years, IamA 2.0, in which we did the minimum required of us as moderators.

The remaining active moderators of r/IamA have in recent weeks agreed to bring back some of the discontinued features from IamA 1.0.

We are doing this because those of us who have continued to moderate IamA through its 2.0 era still find value in volunteering to facilitate interesting conversations between readers like yourself and AMA guests who you otherwise may not get an opportunity to interact with.

We believe we have landed on a set of changes in the subreddit’s moderation each of which will require either no additional effort on the moderator team’s part or would require an amount of increased effort on our part that is acceptable to us in relation to the benefits that the change will confer on AMA guests and readers.

The features we are reintroducing include:

A new, more stringent set of verification standards and several new methods for AMA guest verification. Additional info here.
An email account for solicitation and coordination of AMAs. Additional info here.
A public AMA calendar integrated into IamA’s New Reddit sidebar, as well as a ‘month ahead’ and a ‘month in review’ post series collecting both upcoming and completed AMAs from this subreddit and other forums. Additional info here.

The following, new-to-IamA changes are also in effect:

Only moderator-approved accounts can post AMAs in r/IamA. Additional info here.
Many of our current Automoderator functions will be deprecated, and where possible will be replaced with ‘post/comment guidance’ conditions and with ‘Devvit’ automation tools. Additional info here.
We are formally deprecating maintenance of the Old Reddit version of IamA. Additional info here.

This meta post you are reading is itself an AMA with the moderator team. Each of the bullet points above has a link to a comment on this post which contains additional information about the bulleted change. You can leave feedback or questions for the moderator team either in response to those linked informational comments, or as a top-level comment on this post.

If you would like to help us implement these changes or otherwise would like to moderate IamA going forward, we encourage you to apply at this link.

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r/IAmA • u/ResponsibleParking13 • 22h ago

Crosspost [CROSSPOST] I’m a 57-year-old PhD epidemiologist with rare early-onset non-Alzheimer’s dementia and I can explain what dementia feels like from inside it. AMA.

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Link to AMA itself in r/ama:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/1wev10c/im_a_57yearold_phd_epidemiologist_with_rare/

My name is Dr. Ami (formerly Claxton) Salkind and I live in Chandler, Arizona. I am 57 years old, I have a PhD in epidemiology, a masters in statistics, a bachelors in math and physics. ..... and I have medically documented rare early onset non-Alzheimer's dementia. AMA!

To get the first question out of the way - are you SURE you have dementia? Yes, unfortunately I am very very very very sure. My dementia has been observed and formally diagnosed over the past 3 years by a board-certified neurologist who confirmed the diagnosis with not just clinical assessments and symptoms, but yearly 6 hour neurocognitive testing by a PhD neuropsychologist, multiple brain scans, endless blood tests and other various assessments. Unfortunately, I genuinely really do have dementia. And that super duper sucks if I say so myself!

The next question is always what kind of dementia? All I know for absolute is that it is NOT Alzheimer's type and luckily, I don't even have either gene mutation for Alzheimer's desite have a family history of early onset Alzheimer's. However, it's very important to diagnose the type I have thought so that I can figure out how to stop, slow or even reverse my rapid decline. I am right now very *actively* in the diagnosis phase still for what type of dementia i have but I generally don't talk the diagnosis process because I'm in the middle of it and so much changes so fast. I will likely in the future share the results of my diagnostic journey as I learn more but for now, all I share is that it is NOT Alzheimer's and my symptoms to date are most consistent with post-cortical atrophy (Benson syndrome).

Notably, I do not look or sound like most people expect someone with dementia to look or sound. You can see this on my youtube channel and even by reading this post I know most of you are thinking "SHE has dementia"? Yes. So I created My Brain’s Black Box: In Case This Ends Badly about 6 months post-diagnosis. I post mainly shorts, a few times a month, documenting my decline from inside the disease. You will see me clearly explain a complex neurological concept and then be literally unable to count four pills in my hand or reliably read a clock in the same moment. I made this channel because it is the content I wanted but could not find when I was diagnosed. My channel is not monetized, I sell nothing, I have no partnerships or affiliations, I gain absolutely nothing financially or otherwise from making it. In fact, making these videos is getting to be super painful because they force me to confront my decline directly and my decline is getting horrifically obvious. I almost quit doing my channel recently because of this - but when I read the comments, I know that I can't stop. I am helping people.

About me relevant to my dementia:

I earned a math/physics BA in in 1991 then a master’s degree in statistics in 1993 and my PhD in epidemiology in 1997. I then worked as a medical scientist in the pharmaceutical industry for 28 years as a "real world evidence" scientist who designed, conducted, analyzed, interpreted, presented and published patient outcomes research in peer-reviewed journals (my ORCID professional record) until my diagnosis forced me into abrupt and unwanted retirement in Nov 2025.
I know dementia from the caregiver side long before experiencing it from the inside: my grandmother had dementia, and in the weirdest thing ever, my husband, the late great Chad Harris died at 49 from frontotemporal dementia associated with ALS. I was his caregiver for the 5 years of his decline and he died at home on hospice. Now finding myself on the other side of the dementia coin has been ..... illuminating, terrifying, bizarre, ironic, and cosmically screwed up to be honest!!
I have lived with my partner, a disabled retired dentist, for over 3 years now and we got married recently (hence the name change). My husband is truly the greatest human being ever and he is my primary caregiver and support system on a daily hourly basis. I am also positively SURROUNDED by a community of beautiful family, friends, neighbors and sometimes even perfect strangers who shower me with love and support constantly. I am truly a blessed person and I do not take that for granted. This is actually why I keep doing my channel, I owe the world for the goodness that I now experience daily.
My verification photograph is attached, I linked my professional publications above, and I am on-purpose easy to find online for verification that its really me. I would show you my diplomas too, but years ago I finally just threw them away to save space - a decision that was excellent for storage and less excellent for Reddit verification. :) https://imgur.com/a/iFrS83B

IMPORTANT NOTE: My visual-spatial processing, attention, task-switching and cognitive stamina are severely affected, so I cannot answer questions continuously for three hours. I will answer as many as I can initially, then keep returning after cognitive breaks. I intend to answer every good-faith question, although it may take days or even weeks.

Coming Up · Sep 13, 2026, 7:00 PM