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Grab the one of the middle knuckles of one of your fingers firmly with your other hand. Now slide the skin to your fingertip, then down to the base knuckle.
What's that? You can't do that, because the skin is fixed in place? Well, imagine my surprise when I learned penises aren't supposed to be like that.
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.
At Easter, my family had a tradition where Easter Bunny left notes telling us where the next set of eggs were and we'd follow a trail of clues around the house. I thought everyone did it that way
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.
Looking at light or sky when I need to sneeze helps me sneeze quicker.
It's apparently something to do with Photic sneeze reflex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex
Not being able to see anything when closing my eyes and not constantly hearing a voice in my head. I have aphantasia and thought people were always seeking metaphorically about seeing things in their head.
I only more recently learnt that people actually hear things as well as in like an internal monologue. To me, the whole thing sounds exhausting.
What happens when you think? There's not a voice? How about when you read?
In both cases, the words just... go straight from words to comprehension? It's kind of hard to answer that question, because introspection of the process isn't possible. I mean, I just look at words and know what they mean. From experience, I think I read about 3 times faster than most other people, what with not having to wait to hear them spoken by an internal voice. (Subtitles in the same language as the audio are maddening, because I can't not read them, and then have to wait so long for the speech to catch up.)
I have the same experience including the thing with subtitles. What’s the connection between the no-internal-voice and the maddening subtitles?
Very exhausting, especially when your stupid brain makes you roleplay possible future conversations with people in your head all day. Difficult to focus and so exhausting
It is indeed exhausting! Warm regards, Joe(s)
I skateboard mongo and was surprised to learn that I'm basically a mutant and shouldn't be able to interact with others like normal people.
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! 😅
Same. I just posted but opened this thread before you had posted thism I guess I should refresh before posting, heh.
I'm the other way. I always thought "picture an apple" was a metaphor.
Having near constant racing thoughts and always feeling like you have to work on something and if you don't it makes you anxious. I thought my boyfriend was the alien for being able to not think about anything at all and just chill and do nothing.
Ah good ole ADHD. I have a love hate relationship with mine. We're on speaking terms.
I like to describe it as being simultaneously bored and overstimulated (~~tbf that's also how I describe ADHD sex~~)
