• garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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    I’m very good at remembering people’s birthdays. I stopped “using” it cause I think it creeps people out a bit, but at least with people I like it’s always nice to remember to congratulate them without relying on social media.

    I’m shit with names though.

  • 🎨 Elaine Cortez 🇨🇦 @lemm.ee
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    I have hyperphantasia, which means that I’m able to visualize things in my mind in a way that it looks exactly the same as it would in real life. If I see a puzzle that requires spatial reasoning, I can rotate it and manipulate it in 3D space in my mind.

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    I remember about 80% you tell me about you (if I’m listening) I won’t tell you what I know about you in order to not creep you out.

  • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.works
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    I am reasonably acrobatic. I only get to use it when people are drunk and get the sudden urge to watch someone do a backflip.

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      Much lower level, but I’m over 50 and can do a great cartwheel. Was at a concert and these little kids were sitting in a line, one by one doing a cartwheel, I came and joined their line and when my turn came did the cartwheel they were just delighted, it was so cute.

      Not otherwise acrobatic, a one trick pony. But it has very occasionally been a good trick.

  • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I’m a really good driver. Like rules of the road and all that, sure, but I also have some training in rally cars, am decent on a race track, and am generally a top 5 finisher in whatever Sim race I enter.

    Wish I could afford to enter an IRL series.

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      I did scca auto-x for a few years. Never came close to being the fastest car there, but my car was just a humble 1st gen Dodge Neon. I usually had times in the middle overall, with high performance cars like subaru STI and also cars like miatas coming in ahead of me. I had a lot of fun, but it got boring since you only got 3-4 1 minute runs and spent all day in the hot sun. The cost and time commitment just wasn’t worth it. I’d rather go to a decent gokart track.

  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I know kung fu (wing chun). I am however years out of practice, and also glad its not something i use very often.

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    I know how to do home canning, and making sure it’s safe. I just don’t get to do it often because it’s energy intensive on the me so it’s something I do about twice a year.

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    What I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

    I am able to recite toy commercials and obscure TV theme songs from 90s kids shows with surprising accuracy, many decades past consuming them - Crossfire, Creepy Crawlers, James Bond Jr. Denver the Last Dinosaur… I’m your guy. I don’t watch these things deliberately to learn them and haven’t seen them since organically seeing during childhood, they just start playing in my head on the smallest triggers, music and lyrics, verbatim.

    This is what the inside of my head is like, all the time

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    Unscrambling mixed-up words. I can usually do 5-letter ones on sight, 6-letters might take a minute, or at least a few seconds. Recently while watching Young Sheldon I was surprised to see a closeup of a Jumble that Meemaw was working on - which I’m still not sure was real because one of the words was POINT, which can also be PINTO. The Jumble people are usually careful to avoid words with multiple solutions, because certain letters in each word become the source for a longer final jumble, so having them unambiguously in the correct positions matters.