What's a relatively minor thing to most people that you WISH you could have?

I hope you have a good weekend, my friend.

100% why I stopped engaging in activism.

You make a mistake and people always assume malice. It was too bad.

Nah, because it's communism /s

was trying to figure out what the stats are on vision impairment, and found this:

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/study-finds-most-americans-have-good-vision-14-million-are-visually-impaired

A National Institutes of Health (NIH) study has found that although 94 percent of Americans aged 12 and older have good vision, the remaining six percent, or 14 million, are visually impaired.

So 6% of Americans are visually impaired, and of those, 3/4 can be corrected with glasses.

My eye sight is so bad I can only see 15cm in front of me correctly, and I can't enlist in the army.

Hah, that's hard to come by for MOST people! I'm not even sure Norway is actually a democracy!

I would say that’s not really minor

Not to brag, but god I love waking up to a clean, quiet, empty house with my dogs every day. I don't understand why people want a spouse or kids.

You trade me some of your friends and I'll give you some of my alone time, dealio?

My heart goes out to you, sweet stranger. ❤️

I'm so sorry, right there with ya

As in parents or spouse and kids?

I was gonna write the same thing. You're not alone on this one.

Same here, I’ll take a fully functioning skeleton while we’re at it.

I feel you, although I'm not sure this counts as minor

I'm a shut-in and I'll say it doesn't help living in a sparse area with only a bike. I usually just ride on the trail to a very close bridge, sometimes I go to the closest town over and buy a few things from the produce section from the local grocery store and that's it.

Admittedly, I probably still wouldn't be very social in a denser place (money, but also other issues).

I don't want to drive, though lots of ditches around here and there is no north/south trail. So it is a factor.

I feel you. I'm allergy to all nuts (that are tested for) and soy. Dairy, eggs and nuts sounds like a shitty combination because a lot of the vegan stuff is nut-based.

Well spit it out

I'm constantly tripping over mine

Holy fuck this.

My parents haven't seen their only grandchild in like 6 years and it seems like they couldn't care less.

Total aphantasia? Same here, but:

No intrusive thoughts, ever.

No visions of, or reliving, trauma.

No sad-memory sounds or tastes.

No facades, so no energy wasted.

And if you got the SDAM bonus, you can re-discover all your favorite books and movies like you never read or watched them before!

Oh but it CAN be measured.

It is simply that value is too short for what you need it to be.

Paying the price for that today myself. Ate a big ass bowl of cereal last night while sleep walking. My sleeping self didn't know to take lactaid... 🤢

But why? The dairy industry does some truly evil shit.

Saaame. A sip of milk is like poison for me, 20 minutes later and I'm stuck in the bathroom for the next 4 hours.

I have minor lactose intolerance, and I drink coffee regularly.

I shit out diarrhea if I mix it with milk with lactose of any kind.

Do you like cats? Or any other animals?

I understand this well. Spent a few decades in dysfunctional relationships rooted in my lack of sexual desire. Happily married to another ace woman today, where sex is only ever suggested as part of joke and we've never even came close. She is liberating, freeing, incredible and safe.

Yet I still hold a lot of guilt from previous partners who spent time thinking something was wrong with them or I was cheating because I always made "not tonight" excuses for several years straight. It wasn't fair to either of us, but my lack of introspection, self-honesty and fear of being alone kept us years of strife.

Things are wonderful now, no complaints but GAWD a lot of heart ache could've been avoided if I had a *normal" sex drive.

I'm ace in a demi relationship, but I'm NGL, it's still hard. I'm suuuuper glad sex isn't the focus of our relationship and we've been going strong for a while, but it does also add complexity

I'm aro/ace and sometimes I feel like this. But I guess what I want is just another person to have a connection with. If more people were aro/ace my problem would also be solved. Still I do sometimes wonder what I'm missing out on. Everyone seems to like it, yet I find it yucky. There's plenty of other things in life to enjoy though, so no biggie

Illness or lifestyle related? The latter can always be changed, it's never too late to turn things around. A small step every day!

I'll trade you! I have to pee about every 20 minutes due to malnurishment as a kid.

I'm here with you. I've spent the last two years no contact with mine and undoing the damage they caused to me and my kid. The worst part is, they weren't always like this and I'll have to mourn the death of who they were long before I mourn the death of who they are.

Hypothyroid?

Make an OK symbol with your middle finger

Move every finger except your index finger to your palm as close to your wrist as possible (in a comfortable manner)

Adjust your thumb so it is on the edge of your middle finger closer to your pinkie (this is to cause more friction between your middle finger and thumb)

Press down with your middle finger and then move your thumb, as quickly as possible, to around where your index finger is

If it works, it'll cause some burning on your finger and a loud noise, you can massage your palm where the middle finger hits if it's still muffled, it's likely stiff.

Which finger do you use other than your thumb? I use my rong finger, but I've seen others that use the middle. I'm sure some wierdo is out there mastering the pointer thumb technique

Practice. A lot.

In my teens I wasn't able to carry a tune at all. Our music teacher marked me as "hopeless" after hearing a me singing a few lines.

This pissed me off royally. I had no desire or illusions of becoming a great singer, but I would not accept being "hopeless". So I started practicing with simple children's song melodies and recorded my singing with an old cassette recorder. It was indeed pretty awful at first, but I slowly got better. Then I got my driver's license and could sing along the songs from the radio and my cassettes while driving alone, it was a big step up from singing quietly in my room.

I also started playing the guitar to get a better understanding of musical theory, which was helpful. After I had learned the basics of playing rhythm guitar firmly I learned to play the piano. I believe that singing the melodies while playing them on the piano was essential to my development, since I could instantly hear if I did not hit the correct note.

By my mid-twenties I could already carry tunes easily and even got a complements about my singing voice. Key changes and modulations were still pretty challenging, but I kept on practising whenever I found the time.

Now in my forties I can repeat a melody correctly after hearing it once or twice and I consider myself a decent singer. I don't sing karaoke or any solo performances, but I do love singing backup or as part of a group.

If my music teacher hadn't embarrassed me publicly all those years ago, I most likely would have never put any effort in getting better at singing or learning to play instruments. I started this lifelong project purely out of spite, but it became a major and very dear part of my life. I even owe my marriage to music, while we were still dating my wife confessed to me that she most likely wouldn't have even noticed me if I hadn't been playing the guitar at that one summer party. Thankfully I wasn't too hammered at that time ;)

My ankles, wrists, fingers and hips pop so loud the secret police would hear it from down the road and bust me in the attic

Do you go to the gym, or do pushups frequently? If you do, you should manage to do that thing with the pectorals after a while

I don't think that's relatively minor to most

Public transport would count for USians, maybe cheap flights for Asians

People are useless stupid cunts

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