No political posturing.
Driving without touching my phone.
So close to an upvote until I saw it said phone.
WHAT DID YOU THINK IT WAS???
I genuinely do not know
Penis
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.
Navigating UIs on PCs, Smartphones, Ticket Machines etc.
Being happy by myself.
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.
I can pop them also! Which is good because I need to do it frequently because of sinus problems ‘clogging’ them.
Same; can you also, by any chance, wiggle them?
TIL there are people who can’t do this
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!
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.
Being able to see through fake people’s masks. Like, people who appear nice and friendly on the surface, but are narcissistic snakes who will destroy you to benefit themselves. The people who everyone will swear “oh, they aren’t like that.”
It’s so obvious to my wife and I, possibly because we’re on the spectrum, but no one else sees it until one of us lays out all the supporting evidence that they are in fact like that.
It’s the dead eyes. Every photo of Mr. Beast has them.
I grew ip with a narcissistic mother and I can spot those people, too. Sometimes others don’t believe me someone is bad news until month later when they get screwed by that person. I’m always baffled how people fall for the obviously fake niceness.
Before every 3rd annual review I set out getting competitive wages from competitors to bring to my review for my current employer to match or else I accept the competing offer and my current employer can use my annual review as my 2 week notice.
Has worked 5 out of 5 times accross 3 different companies over my 20 year work span.
Do you go through the whole interview process or do you just reach out to competitors and ask what they’d pay for someone with your resume?
Spatial awareness.
I was in gymnastics as a kid, so built up a strong sense of balance and where my arms and legs are in relation to the stuff around me.
I have a good imagination. After meeting people with aphantasia it seems I have an exceptional ability to call to mind sights, smells, sensations, sounds, and simulate the interactions they would have entirely in my mind. I can imagine a different set of curtains on the wall and tell you if it would clash with your paint, and I can taste a spoonful of a soup and go through a mental library of tastes and combine it with more salt, onion, wine etc and make a suggestion based on what “tasted” the best. I thought everyone could do it but some people don’t have a “mind’s eye” at all. Some people only can see in their imaginations, not smell or taste or hear etc.
It’s funny - I am very good at knowing what will look good, design sense is strong, and I can throw together food and know what it will taste like.
But I wouldn’t say I literally see or taste when I do this. It’s a different sort of perception.
I do absolutely see, hear, taste and feel in dreams so I know my mind CAN do it, it’s just not how I figure things out, it’s a different sort of imagining.
It apparently doesn’t have to be as realistic as hallucinating or dreaming to be exceptional though. There are tests for aphantasia that involve picturing a loved one, their face, then some common piece of clothing they wear and if you can see them clearly in your mind and describe them as if they were in front of you that is something reasonably out of the ordinary. You might be “hyperphantasic” too
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.
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.
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.
Getting places on time
