An inner voice. My wife and son both talk about options and choices like they’ve discussed things with another person.
I have to go with plan A. There is no second thought.
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!
As someone with diagnosed anexity. Constant repetive intrusive thoughts and obsessive reliving of past trauma, I can’t help but be a little jealous.
Apologies. I’m sure you have your own complementary problems to over come. I just can’t help and admire the how green your grass looks
My husband is like you, and also wishes for the absolute silence of my mind. But you’re right about green grass - I wish I could visualize happy memories or even picture the people I love.
OMG. There’s a name for it? I have ALL THAT OTHER STUFF!!!
I’m so happy you posted, I’m going deep dive tomorrow!
Buckle up. You’ll discover we have some great advantages, but you may feel cheated out of some abilities, too. You can DM me if you have questions.
I’m 63. I’m about as buckled as I’m gonna get.
The thing that gets people to get out of the house and do things with other people.
Not like a vehicle, or transportation but the other thing
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.
Oh I got one of those too i need the thing that gets me out of the house. Like a thing that makes me leave the house to go do
A big fluffy tail.
Executive function.
Private jet?
I don’t think that’s relatively minor to most
Public transport would count for USians, maybe cheap flights for Asians
Pleeeeeeaaasse. It’s just one tiny little private jet and maybe one little tiny pilot to fly me. I hate traveling by air so much. What could be less minor? I think you should reconsider.
you can get private flights to anywhere legal for about 40k dollars
The ability to snap my fingers. I can barely make a sound when doing it.
the trick is long fingers. the longer, the bigger the snap
I feel like long fingers would also help out in other facets of life.
Can confirm, got long fingers, can reach the bottom of most jars.
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
Middle. I’ve never heard of people using any other fiber, so it’s what I use.
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.
Maschendrahtzaun Maschendrahtzaun :(
I wish I didn’t have this giant penis.
Well spit it out
I’m constantly tripping over mine
Normal vision.
was trying to figure out what the stats are on vision impairment, and found this:
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.
that is a fairly blunt assessment. ‘Correction’ is not a binary after all.
After cateracts surgery I’ve got 20/80 vision in my better eye. Technically both eyes.
HOWEVER.
I have no useable depth perception. The retina on my left eye is swiss cheesed with holes and scarring from birth defects. My right retina has a major deflection in it and I ‘won’ the lottery in having it detatch post cateracts surgery (a nominally single digit percentage chance of happening) and thus needed further surgeries to correct.
My eye sight is so bad I can only see 15cm in front of me correctly, and I can’t enlist in the army.
Mine is bad due to my genes, but not that bad. Sorry to hear it.
Hey, I can’t enlist in the army! That’s a good thing!
A very good thing, and one that’s getting better with each election, truly.
A measurable attention span.
the trick is long attention span. the longer, the more you can
I feel like long attention spans would also help out in other facets of life.
Oh but it CAN be measured.
It is simply that value is too short for what you need it to be.
Wait, what were we talking about? /jk
Eat dairy products
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.
But why? The dairy industry does some truly evil shit.
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… 🤢
Man here I thought I had it bad when I ended up waking up on the couch and a brand new bag of barbeque chips was gone.
sleepwalking me needs to stop pigging out.
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.
A full set of functioning organs
Same here, I’ll take a fully functioning skeleton while we’re at it.
A properly functioning neocortex.
People existing in society in good faith. People who just want the world to be a better place to live, and aren’t willing to shove people down below them in order to get an edge.
100% why I stopped engaging in activism.
You make a mistake and people always assume malice. It was too bad.
I hope you have a good weekend, my friend.
The sad reality is that I’m going to be fine. I’m going to survive the turmoil and probably make money in the process, because I’ve been lucky before now. I worry for people that haven’t been lucky. I worry for people that have been lucky but happen to be the “wrong” race. I worry for my gay friends that are looking at fleeing the country as an easier alternative. I worry for my trans friend that already has fled the country.
The US has always had problems, sure, but nothing like this.
Oh look, a mirror
Sorry, should I be donating more than 20% of my paycheck to charity? Should I be volunteering for more than 12 hours/week?
What are you doing for your neighbors, you dumb cunt?
What the fuck?
I’m saying that your situation appears to be just like mine.
What crawled up your ass and died this evening?
I think people are misunderstanding your comment. There’s a saying “look in the mirror” which is used negatively when someone isn’t being self-aware. People are most likely taking your comment as a play of this idiom and it sounds like you are yelling at someone to be self reflective. It’s miscommunication
I’ve used that phrase many times before, and this is the first time I’ve ever gotten such a bizarre reaction.
Being alone.
Everyone’s talking about a loneliness epidemic and I’m here wishing I had fewer people around me.
Most of them I love, for sure, but the freedom and relaxation of not having anyone around is addicting and I haven’t had a good hit since 2020
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.
Me, neither. The peace and quiet is worth more than anything.
There was a solid 18 months where I woke up to a kitty cuddled in my arms and no alarm, no kids, no SO. Just work at some time in a few hours and a purring kitty.
I miss it. Even though I could see my breath in my own bedroom.
Peace is criminally underrated.
