What seems to be difficult to many other people but isn't for you?
What seems to be difficult to many other people but isn't for you?
No political posturing.
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Navigating UIs on PCs, Smartphones, Ticket Machines etc.
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Reading UIs is definitely a skill, I can navigate most menus regardless of language. But it makes it harder to design stuff for the average user.
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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.
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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.
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I can also do this but it feels like I’m flexing them outwards, not down. Weird!
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Ear rumbling!
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Do you know people who can't do this? Seems pretty common.
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TIL there are people who can’t do this
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Same; can you also, by any chance, wiggle them?
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I can pop them also! Which is good because I need to do it frequently because of sinus problems 'clogging' them.
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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.
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I can do this but it makes me yawn
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I can only do it by yawning, funnily enough
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Holy shit, I can do that too. I noticed just now because of your comment.
Thank you for unlocking my new power.
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Basic hygiene, sadly
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Explaining difficult technical concepts to laypeople. Just gotta find the correct analogy.
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't know it well enough.
That's one of my favorite sayings.
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The problem is that people who are subject matter experts in a field tend to over estimate the amount of knowledge a layperson has about their field.
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With the caveat that a simple explanation stipulates a basic understanding of the topic at hand. I could explain the concept of First Break Positioning to anyone, but it's gonna take a while unless they have a basic understanding of how a seismic survey works.
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I am grateful and envious: I would love to have the same ability. Stuff is crystal clear in my mind, and I still hardly can transform it into something someone else can parse… analogies are great, but finding the correct one is often beyond me
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I'm not a fan of analogies. They can be very condescending and convoluted and I find I dont learn much from them. I dont think there are any shortcuts to learning in that way really.
I find most the times the issue I have with someone teaching me something is that they are treating it as a one sided communication. If the person teaching won't learn about the student, they end up assuming a lot of things and that is what breaks understanding.
Analogies are nice when the purpose isn't to really learn but to socialize, though. Its more a way for people to acknowledge each other and show respect for the things we are interested in. Its a mutual thing in that way.
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I excelled at tech support with this skill. I can quickly figure a person's technical ability. If you talk below them, they're insulted. If you talk over them, they're insulted. Gotta hit 'em where they live.
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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.
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It's the dead eyes. Every photo of Mr. Beast has them.
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In my case I just feel like I have a strong intuition about there being something off about someone. Usually I can't even put my finger on what it is exactly yet I seem to often be right.
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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.
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Spotting fake BS on the internet. It just seems so obvious to me when someone is making up a story for clout, or to plug a GoFundMe scam, or to push an obvious narrative of hate toward a group of people. And then I go into the comments and want to fucking scream.
And then, when you point out that something is fake, half the time people get all defensive about it. "Who cares? It's still a good story" or "Well, it might be fake THIS time, but I can imagine people actually doing this, so I'm going to internalize this as more proof for my biases."
I don't get it, how is it so hard for people to spot? Like, yea, there's the occasional one that's done so well that it's easy to fall for, but 99% of these kinds of posts and videos are so blatantly fake that I worry about the level of critical thinking skills the average person has. I thought the explosion of AI shit would make people be a bit more skeptical with the things they read and watch, but it feels like it's going the other direction.
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Two things to keep in mind here.
Firstly, the toupee fallacy: all toupees look fake. You may be able to spot all bad toupees but the good ones fly under your radar and thus you can't ever know how good you're actually at spotting them.
Also the assumption-as-fact bias. You think a story is false but did you ever get confirmation that you were right or are you treating your assumption as a fact?
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Yeah, this is just confirmation bias at work. Nobody is immune to propaganda, because our brains are biologically hardwired to initially reject data that contradicts our worldview.
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They are stupid and take everything at face value and their brain things the world is as it appears. They think marketing is real.
You are skeptical. The other thing is skepticism... is mental work... and most people are incredibly lazy mentally.
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There are levels of utility to identifying such things though. Like the amI
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subreddits, in fact who gives a shit if that's made up? Its entertaining. But for news, yes, critical thought is useful.-
The thing is, on places like AITA, those made up posts may seem benign and just entertaining, but I encourage you to look with a more critical eye. Well over half the time, there is usually someone in the story specifically acting unreasonable or idiotic or "bad" in some way or form, and they tend to belong to some group or another that the poster is relying on biases of to try and make more convincing. It's not usually minorities exactly, but things like bosses, or in-laws, or tourists, or women in general. Just some group that people often have preconceived biases against. And then people read the made up story and go "Yea, those people really ARE like that!" and even though it's completely fake, there is now mental support for those biases; and the world gets just a tiny bit more unfriendly and a tiny bit more isolating.
Another common defense I see is "the same thing happens in all forms of fiction, but I don't see you complaining about movies or books!" which completely ignores that other forms of fiction aren't trying to pass themselves off as something that actually, really happened, for real; with real people, that actually exist and act like that. And that's the difference between telling a story for entertainment, and just fucking lying.
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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.
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i feel it when I'm in a group of people who I find alienating and miserable to be around. or after breakups briefly.
i recently had to quit a group i'd been a part of for years... because the new members were really petty and vindictive people and being around such people is awful. they'd sit around after activities and just talk shit and mock people, it was disgusting.
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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.
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Embracing the chaos.
Not everything works out, not everything goes to plan. Routines will be disrupted. -
Doing basic research on the people I vote for.
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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”
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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.
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Having calm discussions without screaming. Even if its a passionate discussions for example about Cheese. (Yes this gets very heated with me and my friends haha love them so much)
Openes to new facts even if it challanges your world view.
Empathie
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Not being on my phone at work.
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I yelled at a coworker once for this. He was kind of a slacker, and known as such. One day I was to be teaching him my line (plastic extrusion and slitting). It was a tough product and the blade box was shit and wrapped. It's a tense moment, we have to fix it quickly and do a restart, there is so much to do, and it's a giant pain in the ass.
I go to grab a tool, and like, be on your phone when things are good, I don't care, but it takes two to run this shit. I come back and he's still just staring at his phone, Facebook of all places, instead of fucking helping clear the wrap and prep the line. I yelled at him to go sit down if he wants to be on his phone as now he's in my way. I told him to get tf off my line if he wanted to play gossip on Facebook.
The only lady in my department, I don't think anyone spoke to him like that before. He put his phone away the rest of the shift and I avoided working with him again. This dude worked there longer than I did, knew less than I did, and got paid more. Fuck outta here.
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Manufacturing is an attractive environment for that type of person. The guys who skate by doing the absolute bare minimum and keep the job because finding new people is hard. They never excel, never rise above "machine operator 2" or whatever grade allows them to work the coil line with the least physical interaction possible. Every year or so they'll be caught on their phone by the wrong person or at the wrong time and the company will issue it's cell phone usage policy again, reminding everyone to keep the phones away until break time. And then for a few weeks bathroom stalls will be in short supply because 5 versions of that guy just can't be bothered to actually do their job.
Then the crunch will come, overtime will be posted and that dipshit will volunteer every fucking weekend.
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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.
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Are you also good at catching stuff that falls without ever looking?
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No. Most of the time I just bat it into the air, higher than it originally fell from, thus exacerbating the situation...
I do occasionally "pin" something to the wall/table/storage apparatus with my hand. That's about as good as it gets though :/
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Due to waaaay to much hackysack in my youth, I'm very adept at catching things with my foot. Phones, empty mugs, that sort of things.
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I partner dance and I joke that I'm graceful as long as I have on dance shoes. Off the dance floor I'm always bumping into things, knocking stuff over, just generally klutzy seeming. On the dance floor I'm able to navigate the crowd and prevent collisions.
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I was in my 40s until I admitted to my self that spatial awareness simply doesn't work in my brain. My young friend across the street is excellent and I often have to call him over to assemble something I've taken apart. In fact, I'm going to hit him up to help me reassemble a shed. Used, it came with no directions and no way in hell do I figure out how it goes together. And I took it apart!
In elementary school standard tests I'd excel at every subject except spatial reasoning. I'd try! But no, I have no idea how those shapes rotate to make the shape wanted.
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Spatial awareness/reasoning. How far things are, where are we relative to this landmark, which direction are we headed, how to account for the moving shadows when choosing a place to settle down at the beach, and so on and so forth. It seems like people around me are utterly lost in space
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Cold turkeying stuff. It's not a superpower level but I can quit most stuff then and there without thinking about it again.
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Same. It's the only way to actually quit stuff for me. I'm all or nothing and don't do moderation.
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Executive function.
I don't know but it seems like a lot of people around me are just in a haze. Probably some of it is ADHD.
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I thrive in my chaos thank you.
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Not engaging with other humans. Whether in person or online, I simply don't feel like talking to people is necessary.
Will I do it? Sure. It's fine. But the difference is that I can go weeks without speaking to someone else - and frequently do since I'm disabled and a bit of a shut-in. However, it seems to really bother people to not have others with which to speak. I've never understood this.
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Yeah, any time I watch Alone I don't get how people can tap out after like a week because they're lonely.
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It’s not that it necessarily becomes unbearable after a week - it’s more about realizing that if you’re already struggling now, it’s not going to get any easier later. Better to tap out early than drag it out for two months just to reach the same conclusion.
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I don't think that they want to talk to you....😁
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Easy to understand! We're social animals and evolved to cooperate. We're not strong enough to survive 100% on our own and thrive in groups of ~150. You can only live like you do because it's now and not 10,000 years ago.
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We thrive in groups of around 150 people? That seems like a lot to me
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What about something that everyone else thinks is easy but it's difficult for me?
Whistling. I'm fucking 35.
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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 😭
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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.
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Reminded me of a time when my gf's dad blamed video games for why gf and I can't whistle.
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it's genetic. some people just don't have the right mouth shape to whistle easily. just like you might not be build for distance running or power lifting. we all have different dispositions. i'm super flexible and i'm in my 40s. often way more flexible than kids. i've always been that way.
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My younger brother, who taught himself how to play guitar, was amazed that I can whistle in tune.
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Fixing things. Repair. Assembly. Construction. Diagnosis. It always surprises me how many people are incapable of understanding how something works or what needs done to repair it.
From engines to furnaces to plumbing, computers, electronics, whatever, I do it all myself. And it's not even remotely connected to me career. Repairmen hate me!
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Repairmen hate me!
No I don't. I sometimes even give free tips to my customers on how to do something themselves so that they don't need to pay for me to do it for them.
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I struggle with mechanical jobs, but I try anyway. About everything I can repair, upgrade, repurpose, etc. I but almost nothing new. If everyone had those habits and knowledge, the economy would collapse.
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Actually getting annoyed by ads to the point I do what I can to block them. I work with IT and yet a good number of my coworkers don't use any adblock at fucking all
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Being happy by myself.
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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.
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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?
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Ive done both but always go to the first interview. It all depends on how the interview goes. If they seem desperate for help and seem to have high hopes they found their guy, ill flat out tell them that I will be allowing my current employer to match their offer. Thats only happened a couple times over the 5 times I've done this. I try to bring no less than 3 offers to the table for my employer to match. So even some of the shittiest companies I had zero intentions of committing to, will still be used.
The two biggest cards in my deck tho, in my opinion, are 1. That most people who work with me know that I dont balk at much. If I say im guna do something, I make sure I do everything in my power to make sure it happens. 2. Im 37 year old male unmarried and childless, my risk management allowance is muuuuuuuuuch wider than most people I compete with on the job market. If my current employer doesnt match someday, then I have no problem jumping ship and changing course.
The key is that your employer knows you would jump ship if it comes down to it. At rhe same time, you need to know what your value is for your employer and the cost they will pay to train ypur replacement so they know they aren't only retaining a valuable asset of their company bit theyre doing it at a lower operating cost than it will cost them to train someone compleyely new to get them up to your current work load.
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cutting off toxic people
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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.
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My wife and I joke that we found my mundane superpower. When she gets hiccups, if I go embrace her, they stop almost immediately. Otherwise, they'll persist for fifteen minutes.
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whew, nice. I can't do this. I can stop the sneezing reflex though
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It's pretty easy actually. When you want to get rid of the hiccups, make a conscious effort to have a hiccup, and then suddenly you can't.
It's why all those wives tale techniques work. Scaring people? Drinking water weird? Having your head upside down? It's the part after that works, where after someone has you do their flavor of weird hiccup ritual, they then look at you all expectedly and wait for you to try and hiccup. Then suddenly you can't. You're trying, but now it's a conscious effort, and it's really hard to hiccup when you're actually focusing on it.
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That one is hard! For me it's the same level as a yawn.
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I do the same thing.
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Situational awareness.
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Organization. By nature I'm extremely organized. People are always commenting on how well organized my home is, but this is just what's normal for me. I get kind of neurotic when things are in disarray.
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I'm organized but it never bothers me when things are disorganized. Like cleaning... it's just something you have to periodically do because over time shit gets disorganized/dirty.
What I don't understand is the people who have an emotional breakdown if a cabinet is left open or a drawer or a chair is slightly askew or a book/cup is left on the coffee table... those people freak me the fuck out. Sadly most of the women I meet on the dating market are these type of people and they think my home is a revolting because I let my dog leave his toys out rather than putting them back in the toybox every couple of hours.
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you might have overdosed on Tylenol.
edit: it's not a bad thing, I myself am a Tylenol addict.
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Getting up when the alarm rings
Not touching my savings
Paraller/reverse parking
Finding joy in mundane little things-
I'm a professional driver. Used to be a trucker, have spent a lifetime working shitty blue collar industrial jobs. I can back any trailer, with any vehicle, into any space. I'm a ninja on a forklift, a crane, a loadall, whatever. I've spent thousands of hours just parking stuff. I can't parallel park. I mean I can, just not quickly, gracefully, or taking all the gods names in vain.
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On Reddit (sorry) a million years ago, someone posted an image or maybe a gif that made it super clear for me and I’ve never had trouble with it since. It basically explained where in the process to turn your wheels. That said, I was an okay parallel parker already but my skills improved after I saw that gif. I’m not finding it on the web though otherwise I’d share it happily.
Strangely enough, I went to high school in a downtown area and often parked on the left side of a one-way street and therefore my parallel skills on the left are better than the right.
All that being said, I find trailer skills to be awe inspiring!
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Not judging other people. Partly, I'm just quite easy going, partly I've had enough personal history of making mistakes to understand that people often have others reasons for their actions. But mostly I just don't see the point in wasting headspace caring about someone's appearance, opinion or behaviour.
But I feel like I'm constantly hearing people bitching, moaning and picking at other people. There are situations where you need to take a decision about something (particularly if you're in a position of responsibility or authority) but most of the time there seems very little point in being judgemental about someone.
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I don't believe in free will so I always think to myself that if I was in their shoes I'd be acting the same way. It doesn't mean I have endless tolerance for bad behavior or that it doesn't affect whether I want to be around said person or not but I don't act as if they're personally responsible for who they are or that they're actively choosing to be that way.
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Our brains start firing to take action before we are conscious of that action. We can see this on a scan.
Not a comfortable thought, but our brains are driving and only after taking action do they send an executive summary to the little homonculous behind our eyeballs and we say, "I did that!"
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Reading an article before offering an option.
Building stuff out of a pile of scrap.
Assembling flat pack furniture, bbqs, bicycles, snow blowers, cement mixers. Pretty easy to do but customers will pay a fee to the store to have the assembly done.
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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.
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Same, but it sounds like you're a little better than I. Reading posts on reddit years ago was what made me realize that some people can't picture things in their head.
I'm a solid 1 on this scale, had assumed everyone else was as well.
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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.
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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
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I'm very aware of my own body and how it's positioned, so I have good balance, makes me a great dancer, and ambidextrous to some degree.
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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.
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minor plumbing tasks sure, changing gaskets is pretty simple stuff though., but for major ones you need to know how to cut pipe, braze, or even weld. how many people do you know who have brazing equipment just lying around?
those aren't really easy/everyday things.
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I've never heard of anyone needing to braze or weld pipe for house plumbing. Most of the time you're soldering copper or gluing PVC. And soldering copper pipe is fairly easy. You can learn it with a 3 minute Youtube video, a $50 trip to the hardware store, and a few practice runs. Compared to a hiring/scheduling a plumber it's way quicker and cheaper.
Just remember to shut off your main line before working, and to test the pipes when you're done before walking away
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Nobody said this had to be easy/everyday things.
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Pissing outdoors... In the yard
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Using any sort of digital device. I've really never had a problem figuring out how they work and what needs to be done to fix them.
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Empathy. Some people just have a brain for math and understand numbers in ways other people just never will. Others, like myself, have brains that are really good at understanding others, and we perceive and understand others with a facility some other people just can’t. It sounds pompous to say, because all human beings are at least somewhat skilled in this area, due to our species being highly social, but it’s still a cognitive speciality and some of us are innately better at it than others.
It can be frustrating too, because when other people don’t understand what you see in someone else, they question your decisions about them, and it can be hard to see why other people don’t see what you find obvious sometimes. It’s a bit of an extreme example, but I know people who can’t see that Donald Trump is a highly transparent narcissist. Even ones who didn’t vote for him and hate him for all the obvious reasons can’t see the personality disorder in him, and I find it so glaringly obvious that I sometimes just can’t fathom how anyone could miss it. But, if I really think about it, and I imagine what it might be like for a person who doesn’t have a natural talent for empathy, I can see how they just might not connect the dots and just see a bombastic, arrogant asshole, rather than the much more complex pattern of malignant narcissism that underlies that comparatively superficial persona.
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A lot of math things. It hasn't been nearly as lucrative as people assume.
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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.
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Math is the big one, and logic by extension. Everyone around me seems to have difficulty breaking problems or logical arguments down into relevant incremental steps. They either get distracted by irrelevant things, or can't figure out how the output of one step provides the input for the next.
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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.
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I am this way. People think i’m being negative, but i don’t mean to be. Problems just jump out at me. Luckily, I found a job where this tendency is valuable.
People who write good documentation never know how much they are appreciated.
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Remembering long passwords. We're talking in the 30-40 character ballpark. And I still can't remember people's names.
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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.
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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.
tell your friends no.
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Spatial problem solving.
Problem solving.
Processing written information.
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Budgeting and staying afloat.
I'm immune to FOMO, I've been conditioned and hard-wired to resist a majority of what commercialism tries shoving in my face. I'll get what works for me and has proven to work for me and I'll consider alternative options if whatever that is, is proven to me that it is something better.
I may be living as an individual and alone, but I don't feel the need to spend $200+ on groceries just for me. Some people whose budgets are broken down when they go over their expenses just for them, I see so many flaws. Why do you need weed? Why do you need this or that? Why did you pick a place to live that costs you $2,000 a month? Are you insane?
Not trying to judge but you came here complaining to us (whenever I see it on social media) about why you're broke or struggling, until I see what you're spending on. Stop subscribing to bundled utilities where you'll use only ONE of them (Net), stop subscribing to things you know you'll use only once then forget about. It's not that freaking hard, but the only reason people do these dumb things is to feel inclusive or feel like they're saving on things but don't read the fine print. It is all on you for why you fail budgeting.
I'm not trying to make excuses for capitalism but it's survivable if you ask me.
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Public speaking. I just can't get my head around the fact that a crowd is composed of real, individual people. It just looks like an impersonal, lifeless blob to me, so I have no trouble performing in front of it.
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Waking up early.
It’s the fastest way to a cup of coffee
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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.
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Climbing, I see a path and just take it. Pretty crazy how many people are afraid of heights. I've been climbing towers for over 20 years and have seen a lot of people not make it through the day.
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I work at hight and one of my secrets is that I am afraid of heights, I am just really good at turning off the part of my brain that says what I'm doing is a terrible idea.
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Been scared shitless of heights since I was a child. If I'm secured in any way, no problem. I can zip line, it's the tower climb that makes me nervous.
Used to be a cable and satellite installer. Still never got over it.
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Being assertive
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Believing people generally know what theyre doing. I get quite annoyed when I find out that people who are above me in the ladder dont have a clue what theyre doing.
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Believing people generally know what theyre doing.
Believing stupid things is easy. Visit any church and you'll meet plenty of people who believe the craziest things ever.
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As I've gotten older that annoyance has turned into disappointment. Especially when these "fake it til you make it"-people will take extreme offence to being proven wrong.
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Being open to learning new things which may contradict previously held beliefs. I enjoy becoming more informed and having my ignorance diminished, but I find for the bulk of humanity most people do not want to know things - they want to be continually assured the things they hold true are true, regardless of the validity.
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- To not feel the need to stay connected to social media.
- To not have an opinion on everything and on everyone.
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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.
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Writing with my left hand.
Designated Southpaw.
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I was playing a drinking card game with some friends a couple weeks ago and got to make a rule that you drank when you broke. I picked only use your left hand. There was a lot more drinking after that.
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I am pretty shit at writing with my left hand, but I am even worse at writing with my right hand. I know at school once I had a teacher that made me write with my right hand for a while and it was also terrible but also uncomfortable and incredibly slow.
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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.
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I'm not a picky eater. Too many Indians are averse to food from other places.
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Do you know Rohan, by any chance?
Probably not. I used to work with an Indian guy (Mumbai, IIRC), and he always ate sandwiches or cereal for dinner, because whatever was served on the ship we worked was so far removed from his usual cuisine.
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He didn't eat fish or chicken? I'm guessing he is vegetarian for religious reasons.
And any food can be made spicier with a combination of onions, garlic, ginger, or chilli.
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Abstract thinking. Forget the details, I want the most broad ideas.
Hence I liked trying to understand Hegel or why I liked cubist and other surreal and experimental artworks.
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I read comments and someone said "math".
Now I remember that I have a this 9x9 times table in my brain lol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_multiplication_table#The_Nine-nine_song_text_in_Chinese
Its like the PEMDAS thing, but its an entire multiplication table. I can recall the product of any [1 digit x 1 digit] within like 2 seconds. When I came to the US right after learning the 9x9, I found out my entire class has trouble doing the times table, and they were still learning it when I already had it memorized. They took longer than me to do multiplication. The teacher asked some kid a random [1 digit x 1 digit] and the kid just like sat in silence, I'm like: I KNOW THE ANSWER. I guess it makes sense... the "gaokao" there is a nightmare, overworking kids and rote memorization becomes norm in China. Depression also becomes norm and suicide rates go through the roof. I might've killed myself by now had I still be there.
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I've never felt existential dread while contemplating life or death or the scale of the universe so being comfortable with mortality I guess.
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Getting places on time
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Im a bit of a dillatant and don't think im really very good at doing anything. Im great with planning and thinking about things and such. I feel I seem to handle change easier than most and im good at loading things into a confined space. I joke its due to all the tetris when I was younger.
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I'm a voracious reader. Took me decades to realize that otherwise intelligent people sometimes can't follow a novel. Also, I can see it in my head, like watching a movie.
Good friend was over yesterday trying to read a username on my screen (which is a huge TV). The name was $SomethingDuo. He couldn't pronounce duo. The man is illiterate and I never had a clue! Maybe he's dyslexic? I would think the Marine Corp would have caught that. Maybe he ate too many crayons?
Never did well in chemistry, but give me a spelling I've never seen and I can nail it after a moment's thought. Reading the Belter's mish-mash of languages in The Expanse made sense, even in languages I don't know. I'm also great at learning languages, spoken or written.
One more thing, I have a strong sense for the weather and seasons. My wife and kids are clueless, can't even dress themselves appropriately. That's probably learned behavior though. I'm a wuss for being uncomfortable outside and I'm outside far more than most people.
One more. I'm not afraid of wild animals, even the big ones like black bears, alligators and panthers. They're not going to mess with you and you'll be lucky to catch a glimpse. Thought that was normal, but even Florida natives are often afraid of gators.
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Abstract math.
The formulas lock together, setting themselves easily in complex patterns that represent something. I have preferred formalism because they have different flavors, even while having the same meaning.
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basic banking literacy. no, you don't cash a check into your account, you deposit it! cash means cash!
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basic life skills. cleaning, cooking, showing up on time, expressing myself, doing my job, etc.
i don't know why so many people struggle with them. but there are a lot of very unhappy people who'd be a lot happier if they could do these things. they they choose not to do them, I will never understand.
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Driving without touching my phone.
Every damn person every damn day. It's a sickness
So close to an upvote until I saw it said phone.
WHAT DID YOU THINK IT WAS???
I genuinely do not know