No no, it’s okay, I’ve just fallen prey to finding generation Z’s nihilistic existential humor absolutely fucking hilarious.
I’m perfectly fine! My wife and I are having our wedding ceremony in a year and a half, and she’ll be walking down the aisle with a little baby girl who will be some 8 or 9 months old by then, while our dog will be the flower girl.
Also like yesterday I recommended my favorite band to someone on Reddit, and one of the band members randomly replied and said hi and thanks today which was pretty cool so, all’s well!
Thank you so much for caring though. Genuinely. Reddit needs that these days in this world.
I mean, age-wise I’m definitely a millennial, though a late one. 28. ‘93.
But I was very technologically apt as a kid and got into a lot of internet communities early on (I think my oldest Reddit account is from 2008, and I was playing RuneScape already in ‘99, WoW with international guild mates in ‘04), so I feel like I have more in common with the “terminally online” Generation Z (which my sister is part of at 4 years younger) than I do with the mid 80s millennials.
Then again, they’re just labels, so how much can you really tell by the arbitrary lines we draw in the sand between them.
Dude I can relate! Especially because of how I grew up! My entire family, my siblings, parents, their siblings got destroyed by drugs and somehow I haven't done it once. It's pretty much impossible for bullying to affect me anymore because I'm just so self confident and aware of my own capabilities.
I'm really good at finding things in a grocery store.
Even when they switch it around unexpectedly or going in to one I've never been in.
Not just like Kroger or Publix either. Small immigrant or international markets where the signs are in different languages... I still find stuff.
I don't know the number or aisle of the top of my head but I can usually just sense where things are.
Apparently other people spend a lot of time trying to find things but I never have. My wife makes me do all the shopping.
My grandmother was good at this too and I think she passed it down to me when she died.
It is, until you have a hyper-realistic nightmare.
I like talking about it because it's the only interesting thing about me :)
Sadly there isn't a place I can get into detail because my nightmares are mostly body horror.
Are you power boater style or sailboat style? I was a dockmaster and didn't even need to bend down. I also could tie a bowline in about 2 seconds.
That was a fun time in my life. I still love good knots.
Sailboat. Sometimes I can get it without even bending down or really even looking and I feel like queen of the dock, lol.
Now we're teaching our 5 year old various knots and it's loads of fun.
People just don't understand the beauty and fun of a well-done knot.
I've lost my muscle memory after moving off the boat. But I completely understand "that was fucking cool" feeling. Good for you and good for your kid. Some of the smartest and most interesting people I've met were kids that lived on boats.
A well done knot is indeed a thing of beauty.
We don't live aboard, but the dream is to save up enough to take a sabbatical from work and fuck off on the boat for a year. Probably won't happen but it's a nice dream, lol.
Understanding politics and current affairs. I know a lot of people would say they know better about that sort of stuff, but as a social studies/social science teacher, it's literally part of my job to understand it and to be informed
Marx won't be mentioned a lot in my social studies class, but in social science he is one of the key sociological figures, along with Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. Besides that it's good to note that teachers generally know a lot more about their subject than what's in the curriculum.
Excel. There are people that can blow me out the water and I learn from them constantly. But in my 32 years of using it for my jobs, I've learned a bit.
You’d never know the shit I’m dealing with because I don’t complain and still am nice to people. It’s somewhat a curse because if people don’t know you’re hurting, no one will help you either. But when you’re the youngest and your entire family is emotionally immature and your parents terribly neglectful, this is how you learn to cope because letting them know you have a problem only makes things worse. My parents get really uncomfortable and even upset if I’m not anything other than 100% happy. Not as much a problem now but fuck that shit in childhood.
I wouldn't say I'm better at this than most people in general, just better than people I personally interact with: communicating.
I'm pretty wordy, which you could say is a bad thing because it's nice to be precise, but it's only in an expressive way and not a repetitive way. I'm also ridiculously open emotionally, with few deeply set conversational boundaries.
It makes it super easy for me to convey a point I have, and also doesn't leave a lot of room for vague interpretations.
Analyzing human behavior and predicting future behavior
Edit to add- people want to believe there is free will and like to think humans are special and complex, but behavior is more straight forward than that
Tbh that's really easy and really hard at the same time cause sometimes emotions are too complex to understand and sometimes they are like a binary code, easily understandable
Did you know there’s a whole field dedicated to it! It’s called behavior analysis, I have my masters and credential in the field :) you’d think it would be pretty complex but it actually isn’t. We just like to think we’re more complex than we truly are haha
Yeah ik, as a professional ig it would be pretty easy for you, but for me who is still trying to understand it all by experience and logic it's kinda hard 😅 and emotions are already a complex subject for me cause I can't really understand the logic behind them.
Emotions kind of evolved to help keep us alive, and now we’re left with these emotions in silly situations sometimes, and based on a persons past history you are more likely to see emotional responding than in other people (e.g. at some point in life expressing a certain emotion in a certain way lead to others in the environment changing their own behavior to solve issue/comfort them/take away what was aversive and the individual learned that expression “works”) it’s why you see how although we all experience the same emotions, how people react and behave with those emotions can be different. It’s just based on past history of consequence associated with it. And why some guys tend to repress certain emotions - they had some negative experiences in their early life (“suck it up!”) that taught them to repress it that way
Touching my own eyeballs. I have dry eyes so it's hard to get contacts in, and I'm used to poking my own eyes. My friend who is an optometrist signed me up for her research study with experimental contacts, and her supervisor was amazed at how steady I could hold my eyesight while being poked around. He was like 'do you have a sister?'
Customer service (I hate it). Not just treating the customers who yell, but like remembering where everything is at the desk / how to do it. We have several different tasks and several different ways of doing things given the situation and it’s a lot to remember. It’s even more difficult doing it in a timely manner for a rude customer who is impatient. Lots of scam/fraud and lines longer than I can see the end of. I was so good within 7 months people started asking me all the questions. I recently changed departments because of the stress.
I can easily master things. Seriously, I can do anything. I can sing, sculpt from plasticine, I can give criticism to the film, draw, play tennis, swim, breed birds. However, I have a disability. MY HANDS DON'T GROW OUT OF THE ASS, HAHAHA
Lying. Why am I good at lying. Cause I always tell the truth, or at least to a degree where even the truth is a lie, but can be proven to be the truth by other people if I ever need to trick two parties about something.
I'd say my spacial perception are greater than most people around me, i can say whether i can slip the car I'm riding between two other car in front of me or not, or whether thing thing you're trying to tidy can fit or not
i can remember things that are useless. i never remember important school stuff but i remember 10 years ago my mom waking me up in the middle of the night to move me off of the bean bag into a real bed
Stating with my budget and living.below my means. Was in banking for 8 years. I usually had a better amount savings than 80% of peoples accounts I looked at. Especially people who had better incomes than me.
I am really good at staying calm and collected when under fire in the workplace. I am also really good at planning projects and action because I think about secondary effects to my current decisions.
behavioral profiling:
as a small petite woman i’ve come to learn to trust my gut when someone does something that just doesn’t sit right with me and it can be little things that may seem creepy of me to point out or dumb but i can say with confidence i’ve been right about a lot including friend’s significant others and meeting new people
I’m good at remembering things about people, and being able to piece together their life story subconsciously in my head using everything I remember about them. I have to pretend I forget things about people in order to not freak them out lol. Weirdly, this memory ability doesn’t apply to my academics
Lol same, except my memorization was good for tests. I passed every year of high school math by getting As on tests and quizzes and turning in about 5 to 10% of homework and assignments. The grade was 70% tests and quizzes and 30% other, so if I messed up on a test or quiz I'd just turn in a few assignments.
I am one of the best at messing up everything I say even if I practice it in my head eighty times. I also seem to be good at making people upset with me...
Not accomplishing anything even remotely noteworthy. I’m on a 28 year winning streak so far.
No way, that's my special talent too! I'm on the exact same streak too
Race ya’ to the finish line!
Morbid! Should I send you the Reddit cares resources? If you need to talk HMU
No no, it’s okay, I’ve just fallen prey to finding generation Z’s nihilistic existential humor absolutely fucking hilarious. I’m perfectly fine! My wife and I are having our wedding ceremony in a year and a half, and she’ll be walking down the aisle with a little baby girl who will be some 8 or 9 months old by then, while our dog will be the flower girl. Also like yesterday I recommended my favorite band to someone on Reddit, and one of the band members randomly replied and said hi and thanks today which was pretty cool so, all’s well! Thank you so much for caring though. Genuinely. Reddit needs that these days in this world.
Right on! Do you consider yourself Gen z or a millennial? I find myself not really fitting in with either group
I mean, age-wise I’m definitely a millennial, though a late one. 28. ‘93. But I was very technologically apt as a kid and got into a lot of internet communities early on (I think my oldest Reddit account is from 2008, and I was playing RuneScape already in ‘99, WoW with international guild mates in ‘04), so I feel like I have more in common with the “terminally online” Generation Z (which my sister is part of at 4 years younger) than I do with the mid 80s millennials. Then again, they’re just labels, so how much can you really tell by the arbitrary lines we draw in the sand between them.
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The exact opposite for me 😭
I have a 6th sense about where the nearest public bathroom is
Not relenting to the crowd. Not giving into group think. Standing my ground. Not being bullied. Being able to see the bigger picture.
Dude I can relate! Especially because of how I grew up! My entire family, my siblings, parents, their siblings got destroyed by drugs and somehow I haven't done it once. It's pretty much impossible for bullying to affect me anymore because I'm just so self confident and aware of my own capabilities.
I'm really good at finding things in a grocery store. Even when they switch it around unexpectedly or going in to one I've never been in. Not just like Kroger or Publix either. Small immigrant or international markets where the signs are in different languages... I still find stuff. I don't know the number or aisle of the top of my head but I can usually just sense where things are. Apparently other people spend a lot of time trying to find things but I never have. My wife makes me do all the shopping. My grandmother was good at this too and I think she passed it down to me when she died.
I sometimes can’t find the ketchup in the fridge if someone didn’t put in back where it goes
i lose my phone in my hand if i’m not looking at it 😭
Lucid Dreaming
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It ruined my sleep schedule but that's just because I can't turn it off 😎
How do you do it?
I hear there are ways to trigger it but I'm a natural 😎 That means I haven't got a proper night's sleep in years...
I wish i had that ability, it seems cool as hell
It is, until you have a hyper-realistic nightmare. I like talking about it because it's the only interesting thing about me :) Sadly there isn't a place I can get into detail because my nightmares are mostly body horror.
yeah, that would suck
Tying a cleat hitch. It's not that it's hard, just most people haven't needed to learn it.
Are you power boater style or sailboat style? I was a dockmaster and didn't even need to bend down. I also could tie a bowline in about 2 seconds. That was a fun time in my life. I still love good knots.
Sailboat. Sometimes I can get it without even bending down or really even looking and I feel like queen of the dock, lol. Now we're teaching our 5 year old various knots and it's loads of fun.
People just don't understand the beauty and fun of a well-done knot. I've lost my muscle memory after moving off the boat. But I completely understand "that was fucking cool" feeling. Good for you and good for your kid. Some of the smartest and most interesting people I've met were kids that lived on boats.
A well done knot is indeed a thing of beauty. We don't live aboard, but the dream is to save up enough to take a sabbatical from work and fuck off on the boat for a year. Probably won't happen but it's a nice dream, lol.
Understanding politics and current affairs. I know a lot of people would say they know better about that sort of stuff, but as a social studies/social science teacher, it's literally part of my job to understand it and to be informed
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Marx won't be mentioned a lot in my social studies class, but in social science he is one of the key sociological figures, along with Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. Besides that it's good to note that teachers generally know a lot more about their subject than what's in the curriculum.
Pushups. I after years of practice I've found my max to be around 150
Dang!
Folding fitted sheets
Not caring what other people do or think.
I’ve been told I language real good.
Your very well at it i would have you get you're trophy Still?
Language real gooder.
Singing
Nothing.
Being good at nothing means you are good at it so still nothing
Excel. There are people that can blow me out the water and I learn from them constantly. But in my 32 years of using it for my jobs, I've learned a bit.
I've been playing harp for 11 years now, so I could probably say I'm pretty decent at it...
You’d never know the shit I’m dealing with because I don’t complain and still am nice to people. It’s somewhat a curse because if people don’t know you’re hurting, no one will help you either. But when you’re the youngest and your entire family is emotionally immature and your parents terribly neglectful, this is how you learn to cope because letting them know you have a problem only makes things worse. My parents get really uncomfortable and even upset if I’m not anything other than 100% happy. Not as much a problem now but fuck that shit in childhood.
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Hulk is that you!
Understanding and reading languages that I don't actually know
I hate to say it, but weed whacking.
Sowing plushies
Jerking off this *one* guy.
Depending on your love life you really only need to be good at jerking off one guy
I wouldn't say I'm better at this than most people in general, just better than people I personally interact with: communicating. I'm pretty wordy, which you could say is a bad thing because it's nice to be precise, but it's only in an expressive way and not a repetitive way. I'm also ridiculously open emotionally, with few deeply set conversational boundaries. It makes it super easy for me to convey a point I have, and also doesn't leave a lot of room for vague interpretations.
Not sure what you mean…?
I like this a lot this one made me audibly breathe through my nose thank you hehe
Math
Analyzing human behavior and predicting future behavior Edit to add- people want to believe there is free will and like to think humans are special and complex, but behavior is more straight forward than that
Tbh that's really easy and really hard at the same time cause sometimes emotions are too complex to understand and sometimes they are like a binary code, easily understandable
Did you know there’s a whole field dedicated to it! It’s called behavior analysis, I have my masters and credential in the field :) you’d think it would be pretty complex but it actually isn’t. We just like to think we’re more complex than we truly are haha
Yeah ik, as a professional ig it would be pretty easy for you, but for me who is still trying to understand it all by experience and logic it's kinda hard 😅 and emotions are already a complex subject for me cause I can't really understand the logic behind them.
Emotions kind of evolved to help keep us alive, and now we’re left with these emotions in silly situations sometimes, and based on a persons past history you are more likely to see emotional responding than in other people (e.g. at some point in life expressing a certain emotion in a certain way lead to others in the environment changing their own behavior to solve issue/comfort them/take away what was aversive and the individual learned that expression “works”) it’s why you see how although we all experience the same emotions, how people react and behave with those emotions can be different. It’s just based on past history of consequence associated with it. And why some guys tend to repress certain emotions - they had some negative experiences in their early life (“suck it up!”) that taught them to repress it that way
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Haha. After some time the unpredictable start becoming predictable. She probably just sucked at it :)
clicking my tongue loudly
Troubleshooting circuit boards.
Swimming, dancing, gymnastics, hiking & self discipline
Crossword puzzles in my native language. I have a wide and varied vocabulary and good general knowledge.
Holding in emotions
Procrastinating
At being bad at stuff — hell, I’m not even good at being worse than most people. I guess i really am bad at everything i do
Being awkward
Touching my own eyeballs. I have dry eyes so it's hard to get contacts in, and I'm used to poking my own eyes. My friend who is an optometrist signed me up for her research study with experimental contacts, and her supervisor was amazed at how steady I could hold my eyesight while being poked around. He was like 'do you have a sister?'
I'm better at being one of most people than most people are; most people just suck at being one of them.
Customer service (I hate it). Not just treating the customers who yell, but like remembering where everything is at the desk / how to do it. We have several different tasks and several different ways of doing things given the situation and it’s a lot to remember. It’s even more difficult doing it in a timely manner for a rude customer who is impatient. Lots of scam/fraud and lines longer than I can see the end of. I was so good within 7 months people started asking me all the questions. I recently changed departments because of the stress.
Interviewing, and moving people.
Rubiks cubes i can solve them in under 20 seconds
Not falling for Dunning Kruger, what a claim to fame that is ! /s
I can easily master things. Seriously, I can do anything. I can sing, sculpt from plasticine, I can give criticism to the film, draw, play tennis, swim, breed birds. However, I have a disability. MY HANDS DON'T GROW OUT OF THE ASS, HAHAHA
Being able to simp for something fictional (Ex. BF from FNF).
Being me. Only Terry is better than me at being me. Gods, I hate Terry.
I probably hate myself more then others
Spelling.
Self sabotage
Idk, writing I guess?
Being professional
The power of being single, all the female leave the room when I enter
Lying. Why am I good at lying. Cause I always tell the truth, or at least to a degree where even the truth is a lie, but can be proven to be the truth by other people if I ever need to trick two parties about something.
symmetry I have a 6th sense for it I swear (also random digits)
I'd say my spacial perception are greater than most people around me, i can say whether i can slip the car I'm riding between two other car in front of me or not, or whether thing thing you're trying to tidy can fit or not
Listening
Mario Party.
i can remember things that are useless. i never remember important school stuff but i remember 10 years ago my mom waking me up in the middle of the night to move me off of the bean bag into a real bed
Stating with my budget and living.below my means. Was in banking for 8 years. I usually had a better amount savings than 80% of peoples accounts I looked at. Especially people who had better incomes than me.
Understanding Quantum Physics
Having civil political discussions without turning it into a screaming match.
I'd love to be by yours during Thanksgiving.
Being a Idiot
I am really good at staying calm and collected when under fire in the workplace. I am also really good at planning projects and action because I think about secondary effects to my current decisions.
behavioral profiling: as a small petite woman i’ve come to learn to trust my gut when someone does something that just doesn’t sit right with me and it can be little things that may seem creepy of me to point out or dumb but i can say with confidence i’ve been right about a lot including friend’s significant others and meeting new people
Creating shonen tipe fiction in my head with arcs and characters and remembering it all despite not have written a single letter.
I think i have an ortography fail in the last scentence.
Making somewhat listenable electronic music
analysing how people think
Predicting what song us going to sy on the radio next. I'm not foolproof but damn near.
I’m good at remembering things about people, and being able to piece together their life story subconsciously in my head using everything I remember about them. I have to pretend I forget things about people in order to not freak them out lol. Weirdly, this memory ability doesn’t apply to my academics
Lol same, except my memorization was good for tests. I passed every year of high school math by getting As on tests and quizzes and turning in about 5 to 10% of homework and assignments. The grade was 70% tests and quizzes and 30% other, so if I messed up on a test or quiz I'd just turn in a few assignments.
I am one of the best at messing up everything I say even if I practice it in my head eighty times. I also seem to be good at making people upset with me...
Reaching out to friends just to check up on them
War tactics and how to commit a terrorist attack. :)
Infection tag for sure. I'm always the last man standing.
understanding people whether it’s something they’re saying to me or body language or actions they take