Stereo vision
Handwriting or drawing ability beyond that of a 6yo
The ability to follow a conversation with more than about 4 people in the room, and for crowd noise not to flip into a gibbering hellscape.
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
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.
Slightly thicker wrists. Skinny wrists ruin the aesthetics of my arms.
I was at a wedding tonight and everyone on the dance floor seemed to know what to do with their hands while dancing. I just can’t seem to figure it out.
Normal vision.
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.
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.
Good relation with family
Holy fuck this.
My parents haven’t seen their only grandchild in like 6 years and it seems like they couldn’t care less.
I wish I had enough rhythm to dance, not like some amazing dancer, I’m talking even just a little bit. I dance like Elaine on Seinfeld.
I went from “no ability to dance” to swing dance instructor in about a year in my 20’s. No one is unteachable - and rhythm can be taught.
That’s very impressive! We had a swing dance club in my high school and they always looked like they were having a good time. I think the closest thing I’ve done to dancing is marching in formation in the Army, which does take rhythm and coordination. But there’s a certain “fluidness” to some people that my body just doesn’t have.
You don’t have it because you haven’t practiced!
I’m actually somewhat sympathetic to your description - half the reason I was able to pick it up as fast as I did was because I was in marching band and could keep time. When you don’t have to to think about keeping time, it’s very easy to focus on what your body and feet are doing. You have a bigger advantage than you think.
It also doesn’t have to be swing :)
I was terrible at swing! I can’t lead in dancing. I can run a bunch of troopies to set up some comms in the bush and no one will ever hear me as us kids were raised “dad works night shifts so be quiet” kind of quiet. But if a game plan while dancing is a learned skill, I never hit proficiency at it and I think it’s just not for me.
Well done, you. You learned a skill I can only envy, and in under a year!
A full set of functioning organs
Same here, I’ll take a fully functioning skeleton while we’re at it.
gonads that produce the correct sex hormones
Energy
Hypothyroid?
Nah fibromyalgia, life is hell
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.
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.
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.
But why? The dairy industry does some truly evil shit.
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.
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.
Me, neither. The peace and quiet is worth more than anything.
I’d settle for a non-shy bladder (a social bladder? An extroverted bladder?)
A body that isn’t rapidly degrading before I’m even 30.
I had a couple more grocery store stops to make tonight but decided to go home instead because my body hurts and i wanted to stop moving for a while.
Granted, I am fat and sedentary
Illness or lifestyle related? The latter can always be changed, it’s never too late to turn things around. A small step every day!
Some lifestyle, with a lot of family history of chronic pain (and a lot of other stuff) that i am about 10 years overdue to actually see a doctor to be on the lookout for.
Yeah, that sounds familiar. While I cannot comment on the history, sounds like you already know a doctor would be a good thing. Best of luck friend.
