No political posturing.
I can stop hiccups the moment I notice I have them, usually after the second hiccup. It started as a conscious effort to change the breathing rhythm through diaphragmatic breathing, now is almost like a reflex action.
Writing with my left hand.
Designated Southpaw.
Talking to strangers. I’m always the person my introverted friends push to the front if the group has to say something. Ohh, and phone calls! I’m the designated “Can you call them please?” person.
Plumbing. I’m not a plumber and I’m not particularly good at it, but it’s one of those things that most people won’t even consider looking at.
Also, 3D visualization. I had a carpenter do the gutters on my house and I explicitly told him that the reason I didn’t do them myself was that the eaves are slanted inwards so that the slope on the gutters would cause the gutters to go inwards when it goes downwards, and I was unsure what best practise was for that case, where to get the proper hangers for this or if we’d need to put a vertical board up first in order to make it work. He assured me that it’d be fine, having done many gutters before. When I got home, he had put ordinary hangers right on the slanted eaves, and the gutters were halfway under the roof at one end. He stood there scratching his head and tried to argue that the wall of the house was not straight, because he could simply not see any other reason for it to do that.
Being isolated. It’s always confused me how much people complain about loneliness. I genuinely don’t think I have ever felt that emotion before.
With age, I have become more introverted also. I guess i havent met that many amazing people. But ive been working in offices a lot, so probably why.
STEM back in school. That’s how I make a living now.
Living below my means. Moving somewhere where pay to living cost is better helped.
I can do an oil & filter(s) change and or a brake job on most normal cars pretty easy. Many people I know would have trouble with these.
I’m really good at finding flaws in things. It’s not that I’m trying, I guess I just use things differently. A colleague of mine told me I should be a tester for product development to help find the problems when I asked him why some software worked the way it did. He just said, “I don’t do it that way.”
Consequently, I’m excellent at writing manuals because I always write them in such a way that no one will make the mistakes I did. The real bummer is I HATE WRITING MANUALS.
Computers just work around me. Steady the software and programs. I’m not in the tech or it field. I’m in retail management.
The amount of times people call me over only to say “well now it’s working but before it took me to some other screen”
“Glad I could help”
My husband is this way. I take advantage of it regularly. I used to consider myself tech savvy but I went into the arts and the tech world left me behind. I used to try and muddle through it, but eventually I just stopped trying because I’d be doing everything “right” without success and then my husband would look over my shoulder and suddenly it would work. So now I swallow my pride and ask him sooner.
I get hit and screamed at a lot…just as a part of my job, and it doesn’t seem to phase me other than the mild inconveniences of injury. I’m sure my brain is a bit wonky. I do take summers off, and I get so bored.
WTH do you do for a living?
Bouncer, nurse, special education, or law enforcement are the ones that come to mind for me. The summers off part especially makes me think education.
What about something that everyone else thinks is easy but it’s difficult for me?
Whistling. I’m fucking 35.
Reminded me of a time when my gf’s dad blamed video games for why gf and I can’t whistle.
Once I took this giant thc gummy and learned how to whistle quite loud. Went to sleep, woke up and can’t do it anymore 😭
It’s funny you say that. When I was a child, I could whistle for one day. It just… Worked all of the sudden. But, like you, I slept and then could never do it again.
I’ve never felt existential dread while contemplating life or death or the scale of the universe so being comfortable with mortality I guess.
Being happy by myself.
Time management seems to be something so many people I know struggle with, but I rarely ever have. I’m early for a lot of things, but never too early to where I’m waiting a long time to get to what I want. Only times I’ve been late is if it’s something out of my control and even then I usually try to add enough of a buffer that it doesn’t negatively impact me too much.
Popping their ears. I can “pop” my ears by opening my eustachian tubes on demand. I can even hold them open if I want to. Apparently a lot of people can’t do that.
That right there is a skill I learned. When I was a teenager I got these terrible sinus headaches, driving up and down hill would get me. Then I went to flight school. I can control the pressures in my head pretty precisely now.
I can do this but it makes me yawn
I can pop them also! Which is good because I need to do it frequently because of sinus problems ‘clogging’ them.
I can do this too. It feels like I’m trying to flex my jaw muscles downwards. And makes that satisfying crackling noise when they open up.
I can also do this but it feels like I’m flexing them outwards, not down. Weird!
TIL there are people who can’t do this
Same; can you also, by any chance, wiggle them?
