Growing up using a poop knife.

Some people don’t own their home. They rent it. Took me a while until I realised that we were the abnormal ones for owning homes.

My brother-in-law grew up thinking everyone had three sets of grandparents. His mother’s parents were divorced and each remarried

That not everyone cracked their head open as a kid. I just assumed everyone has had stitches in their forehead until I was in my twenties, everyone I knew had some sort of scar like that.

Taking multiple shits every day, after a friend pointed it out that wasn’t normal I did a lactose test and found out I’ve been lactose intolerant all my life.

Watching porn to get relief.

I – as many other guys in this society – learned to watch porn at a young age. So I wired sexual stimulation as well as the dopamine release after orgasm to porn. For many years of my life, I would not masturbate without it.

I denied my addiction because everyone watches porn, right? Also I thought, being addicted to porn means sitting at home all day fapping and watching more and more perverse stuff. So I can’t be addicted, if I watch porn once a week, right?

Well, it took me a long time to figure all that out. The society having such a positive attitude towards porn did not help. Maybe, we all are addicted. I think it’s super fucked up. If not due to the effect it has on our brains, then at least due to the humiliation of women for capital.

Not everyone has tics they must surpress while in public.

My first long term relationship was with a woman who could orgasm from penetration in less than a minute.

Standing to wipe your ass

When I was much younger: that normal people could see much further than me.

One of my oldest memories is going into a McDonald’s for the first time with glasses; I stopped and read the entire menu, because I couldn’t believe normal people could read it as soon as you walked in. I always had to get up to the counter to make it out.

I got a lot better in school after that!

Reading.

Or rather, how so many people seem fear and avoid it, or can’t do it. Something like 21% of adults in the US are illiterate, and the majority – 54% – read at or below a 6th grade level.

I’ve been a sight reader probably since I was about six years old. I absolutely cannot look at any words legibly written in my native language and not understand them. You couldn’t force me to look at words written in English and not digest them if you held a gun to my head. I fear no wall of text, no matter how tall it is.

It takes some effort to wrap your head around the notion that not only can most people not do this, but statistically speaking most or at least a plurality of people have to struggle or exert conscious effort to read and many of them are loathe to do so. And roughly one in five people simply can’t. This did not sink in for me when I was younger.

I can’t imagine having to live my life that way. You nerds have seen how much bullshit I write in a day; I’d go absolutely bats.

Being able to picture something in my mind, and having that picture be as realistic as real life! I actually found out this wasn’t normal here on Lemmy, so not all that long ago! 😅

Limited joint range. I just thought that’s as far as they went. It still freaks me out slightly when I see people using a normal range, as if they’d just turned their heads through 360° or bent their knees the wrong way.

That democracy would result in truth and national interest instead of Israel/US empire maximal warmongering lies.

That people poo every day or every other day, not once a week.